Prescott (surname)
Prescott is a surname of English origin; habitational name from any of the places so called, in southwestern Lancashire (now Merseyside), Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, and Devon, all of which are named from Old English preost ‘priest’ + cot ‘cottage’, ‘dwelling’. The surname is most common in Lancashire, and so it seems likely that the first of these places is the most frequent source. It is also present in Ireland, being recorded there first in the 15th century.[1] Notable people with the surname include:
- Abel Prescott
- Abel Prescott, Jr.
- Abraham Prescott, 19th century New England luthier
- Alan Prescott, English rugby league footballer
- Albert Benjamin Prescott
- Benjamin F. Prescott
- Breidis Prescott, boxer
- Charles John Prescott (1857–1946), Australian Methodist minister and educationist
- Charles Young Prescott (born 1938), American physicist
- Dak Prescott (born 1993), American football player
- Edward Prescott a.k.a. Ted Wood, film actor (see Letter to Brezhnev) and warehouse cat
- Edward C. Prescott, Nobel prize-winning economist
- H. F. M. Prescott, author, academic and historian
- Henry Prescott
- Jacquelyn Prescott
- James W. Prescott, psychologist
- Jim Prescott, fictional character in TV series 24
- John Prescott, The Noble Lord Baron Prescott, of Kingston upon Hull, British Labour politician and former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- John Robert Victor Prescott, Australian geographer
- Katherine Prescott
- Michael Prescott (born 1994) Chef
- Norm Prescott
- Paul Prescott, English professional rugby league footballer
- Peter Prescott (disambiguation)
- Rebecca Minot Prescott
- Richard Prescott, British general who was captured twice during the American Revolution
- Robert Prescott
- Robert Prescott (actor)
- Samuel Prescott, American who completed Paul Revere's midnight ride
- Samuel Cate Prescott, MIT dean and pioneer food technologist
- Sidney Prescott, fictional character in the Scream trilogy of movies
- Stef Prescott, Filipina actress
- William Prescott, American revolutionary commander
- William H. Prescott, American historian
- W. W. Prescott (William Warren Prescott, 1855-1944), educator and administrator in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
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