Tweedie
Tweedie is a surname of Scottish origin. The name is a habitational name from Tweedie, located in the parish of Stonehouse, south of Glasgow. The origin and meaning of the name is unknown.[1][2] Notable people with the surname include:
- Andrew Tweedie, South African cricketer
- Sir David Tweedie, chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board
- Ethel Brilliana Tweedie, 19th-century British author and early feminist
- Frederick Tweedie, Canadian politician
- Admiral Sir Hugh Tweedie, Royal Naval Officer
- Irina Tweedie, Russian Sufi
- Jill Tweedie, feminist and writer
- John Tweedie, President of Fort Solonga Association 2014-2015[3]
- Lemuel John Tweedie, Canadian politician and father of Frederick Tweedie
- Maurice Tweedie, British medical physicist and statistician
- Michael Tweedie, naturalist and archaeologist
- Rob Tweedie, American musician
- Stephen Tweedie, Scottish software developer
- Thomas Tweedie, Canadian politician and Chief Justice
- William Menzies Tweedie (1826–1878), Scottish portrait painter
See also
- Clan Tweedie, a Scottish clan, or historical family in Scotland
- Tweedie distribution, any of a certain parameterized family of probability distributions
- Tweedy, a variant of name Tweedie[2]
References
- ↑ Tweedie Name Meaning and History Retrieved on 2012-07-13
- 1 2 Hanks, Patrick; Hodges, Flavia (1988), A Dictionary of Surnames, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-211592-8
- ↑ http://fortsalonga.org/about-the-association/officers/
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