Duncan (surname)
Duncan is a surname. For the etymology of the surname Duncan this web page cites: Dictionary of American Family Names. Another opinion is that the Gaelic Donnchadh is composed of the elements donn, meaning "brown"; and chadh, meaning "chief" or "noble".[1] In some cases when the surname originates in (Sligo) Ireland it is an Anglicised form of the Gaelic Ó Duinnchinn, meaning "descendant of Donncheann". The Gaelic Donncheann is a byname composed of the elements donn, meaning "brown-haired man" or "chieftain"; and ceann, meaning "head".[2] The surname Duncan is represented in Scottish Gaelic as MacDhonnchaidh.
Armed forces
- Adam Duncan, British admiral
- Donald B. Duncan (1896-1975), American vice-admiral
- Donald W. Duncan (b. 1930), American soldier and anti-war activist
- Henry Duncan, British naval officer
- W. G. G. Duncan Smith, World War II air ace
Sports
- Alex Duncan (1900-1984), former Australian rules footballer with Carlton (1921-1924, 1926-1930)
- Andy Duncan (basketball) (1922-2006), American basketball player
- Chris Duncan (born 1981), American baseball player
- Dave Duncan (baseball) (born 1945), Major League Baseball player and pitching coach - father of Chris Duncan and Shelley Duncan
- Darryl Duncan, Australian rugby league footballer
- Ian Duncan (born 1961), Kenyan rally driver
- Jeff Duncan (baseball) (born 1978), American baseball player and coach
- John Duncan (footballer) (born 1949), Scottish footballer who notably played for Dundee and Tottenham Hotspur
- Johnny Duncan (footballer) (1896-1966), Scottish international footballer and manager, who was most notably with Leicester City
- Ken Duncan (American football) (born 1946), American football player
- Mariano Duncan, (born 1963)Dominican baseball player
- Ross Duncan (born 1944), Australian cricketer
- Scott Duncan (footballer) (1888–1976), former Scottish football player and manager
- Shelley Duncan, American baseball player
- Tim Duncan (born 1976), American basketball player
- Vern Duncan (1890–1954), American baseball player
Acting
- Carmen Duncan (born 1942), Australian actress
- Lindsay Duncan (born 1950), British actress
- Michael Clarke Duncan (1957-2012), American actor
- Sandy Duncan (born 1946), American actress
Politics
- Alan Duncan (born 1957), British politician
- Arne Duncan (born 1964), U.S. Secretary of Education (2009-); politician
- Charles William Duncan, Jr., former U.S. Secretary of Energy
- Jimmy Duncan, American politician
- Ken Duncan (born 1945), former Louisiana state treasurer
- Leslie Samuel Duncan (1880–1952), newspaper editor and politician in South Australia
- Mike Duncan, Former chairman of the Republican National Committee in the United States
- Peter Duncan (British politician), Scottish conservative
- Peter Duncan (Australian politician), Labor representative in South Australian and federal parliaments
- Walter Leslie Duncan (1883–1947) Australian Senator for New South Wales
- Sir Walter Gordon Duncan (1885–1963) South Australian pastoralist and MLC
- Walter Hughes Duncan (1848–1906) South Australian pastoralist and MHA for Burra
- William A. Duncan, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
Music
- Lesley Duncan, English singer and songwriter
- Tim Duncan (singer), Southern Gospel singer
- Trevor Duncan, English composer
Other fields
- Alasdair Duncan, Australian writer
- Dan Duncan (1933-2010), American businessman
- Dave Duncan (writer), Canadian writer
- David Duncan, government witness in Enron scandal
- David F. Duncan epidemiologist and drug policy adviser to President Bill Clinton
- Donald F. Duncan, Sr., American entrepreneur and inventor, who is most commonly associated with Yo-yos
- George Smith Duncan, a tramway and mining engineer
- Glen Duncan (born 1965), British author
- Helen Duncan (1897–1956), Scottish medium
- Henry Duncan (1774–1846), founder of the first Trustee Savings Bank
- Iain Duncan Smith, British politician
- Isadora Duncan, American dancer
- Jane Duncan (1910–1976), pseudonym of Scottish writer Elizabeth Jane Cameron
- Jane Duncan (architect) (born 1953), British architect
- Joseph E. Duncan III, Notorious American murderer and sexual predator
- Ken Duncan (photographer) (born 1954), Australian photographer
- Ken Duncan (animator), American animator
- Leslie Samuel Duncan (1880–1952), newspaper editor and politician in South Australia
- Mike Duncan (podcaster), U.S. history podcaster and writer
- Robert Duncan (poet), U.S. beat poet
- Scott Duncan (businessman), American billionaire
- Stephen Duncan (1787-1867), American plantation owner in the Antebellum South
- Thomas Eric Duncan (1972-2014), first Ebola Zaire victim of the 2014 West African outbreak to develop symptoms while in the United States, first death in the United States in this outbreak. See also 2014 United States Ebola virus outbreak
- Walter Duncan (1848-1932), British painter
- Walter Jack Duncan (1881–1941) war artist for the US Army during World War I
- Warren W. Duncan (1857-1938), American jurist
See also
References
- ↑ Hanks, Patrick; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Hardcastle, Kate, ed. Oxford Dictionary of Names (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 81, 402. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1.
- ↑ "Duncan Name Meaning and History". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 9 August 2009. For the etymology of the surname Duncan this web page cites: Dictionary of American Family Names.
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