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Allison is a
family nameA family name is a type of surname and part of a person's name indicating the family to which the person belongs. The use of family names is widespread in cultures around the world...
of English and Scottish origin.
When used as a given name it is traditionally masculine, as opposed to the feminine name
AlisonAlison is a given name for a female. It was originally a medieval Norman nickname for Alice, meaning "truth," "noble," or "noble type." Variations include Allison, Allyson, Alysson, Alyson and Alisson with nicknames Allie, Ali, Ally, Aly and Alli....
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People with this surname
- Bernard Allison
Bernard Allison is a blues guitarist based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. His father, Luther Allison was a Chicago blues legend in both the United States and abroad...
, blues musician
- Bobby Allison
Robert Arthur Allison is a former NASCAR Winston Cup driver and was named one of NASCAR's 50 greatest drivers...
, race car driver
- Davey Allison
David Carl Allison was a NASCAR race car driver, best known as the driver of the Robert Yates Racing #28...
, race car driver
- David Wright Allison
David Wright Allison was a Canadian politician, farmer, manufacturer and speculator. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal in an 1883 by-election representing the riding of Lennox. He was later elected to Lennox as a Liberal in 1891...
, Canadian politician
- Dean Allison
Dean Allison is a Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons from the riding of Niagara West—Glanbrook....
, current Canadian politician
- Donnie Allison
Dunkiny "Donnie" Allison is a former driver on the NASCAR Grand National/Winston Cup circuit, who won ten times during his racing career, which spanned the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. He was part of the "Alabama Gang," and is the brother of 1983 champion Bobby Allison and uncle of Davey Allison...
, race car driver
- Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison is an American writer, speaker, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. She was raised in Greenville, South Carolina, the first child of her 15-year-old, unwed mother. She is legally blind in her right eye....
, American novelist
- Dot Allison
Dot Allison is a Scottish singer and songwriter who has made significant inroads in electronic music circles, most notably as a result of her tenure fronting the band One Dove in the early 1990s....
, Scottish singer/songwriter
- Graham T. Allison
Graham Tillett Allison, Jr. is an American political scientist and professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He is renowned for his contribution in the late 1960s and early 1970s to the bureaucratic analysis of decision making, especially during times of crisis...
, American political scientist
- Hugh Allison
Hugh Allison is an English playwright and theatre director, working on the London Fringe. In 2003, Allison set up The Yellowchair Performance Experience to give new talent their first experiences working on a play in a London Fringe Theatre.-Written works:* Appropriate Attire Hugh Allison is an...
, British theatre director
- Jason Allison
Jason Paul Allison is a professional ice hockey centre who is currently an unrestricted free agent. Allison is most notably known for his former role with the Boston Bruins of the NHL, for which he briefly served as team captain....
, professional ice hockey player
- James Allison
James Allison, Jr. was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.James Allison, Jr. was born near Elkton, Maryland. He moved with his parents to Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1774. At seventeen years of age he enrolled in the school of David Johnson of Beaver,...
, American lawyer and politician from Pennsylvania
- James A. Allison
James Ashbury Allison , born in Marcellus, Michigan, was an American entrepreneur and businessman. He was the inventor of the Allison Perfection Fountain Pen and with Carl G. Fisher a founder of Prest-O-Lite, a manufacturer of automobile headlights. With Carl G. Fisher, Frank H. Wheeler, and Arthur C...
, American businessman and industrialist
- June Allyson
June Allyson was an American film and television actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star. Allyson won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Young to Kiss...
, American film and television actress
- Luther Allison
Luther Allison was an American blues guitarist. He was born in Widener, Arkansas and moved with his family, at age twelve, to Chicago, Illinois in 1951. He had taught himself guitar while in Chicago and began listening to blues extensively. Three years later he began hanging outside blues...
, blues musician
- Lyn Allison
Lynette Fay "Lyn" Allison , is an Australian politician. She was a member of the Australian Senate from 1996 to 2008, representing the state of Victoria. She was the last federal parliamentary leader of the Australian Democrats....
, Australian senator
- Malcolm Allison
Malcolm Alexander Allison is an English former football player and manager. Due to his charismatic and larger than life personality - he was known as 'Big Mal'.-Playing career:...
, English football manager
- Mose Allison
Mose John Allison, Jr. is an American jazz pianist and singer.-Early life:He was born in Tallahatchie County in the Mississippi Delta. He played piano in grammar school and trumpet in high school. He went to college at the University of Mississippi and Louisiana State University. He received a BA...
, American jazz pianist and singer
- William Henry Allison
William Henry Allison was a Canadian politician and school lands commissioner. He was elected as a Conservative to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1878 election in the riding of Hants and re-elected in 1882.Allison was the son of James Whidden Allison, who had served as a member of the...
, Canadian politician
Lists of people with this surname
- David Allison
David Allison may refer to:*Davey Allison , NASCAR race car driver*David Allison , 2000 Canadian Federal Election Communist Party candidate*David Allison , English Premier League soccer official...
- John Allison
John Allison may refer to:* John A. Allison IV , chairman and CEO of BB&T* John Allison , author of the webcomics Bobbins and Scary Go Round...
- Robert Allison
Robert Allison may refer to:* Bob Allison, professional baseball player* Robert Allison , United States Representative from Pennsylvania* Robert Allison , founder of Menno, Pennsylvania* Bobby Allison, American NASCAR driver...
See also
- Allison
Allison is a family name of English and Scottish origin.When used as a given name it is traditionally masculine, as opposed to the feminine name Alison.-People with this surname:*Bernard Allison, blues musician*Bobby Allison, race car driver...
(disambiguation page)
- Alison (name)
Alison is a given name for a female. It was originally a medieval Norman nickname for Alice, meaning "truth," "noble," or "noble type." Variations include Allison, Allyson, Alysson, Alyson and Alisson with nicknames Allie, Ali, Ally, Aly and Alli....
- Allyson
Allyson is a given name and family name, a variant form of Alison.-People with the given name Allyson:* Allyson Araujo Santos , Brazilian football player* Allyson Felix , track and field sprint athlete...
- Alyson (given name)
-People with the given name Alyson:* Alyson , American singer* Alyson Annan , former field hockey player* Alyson Bailes , former English diplomat* Alyson Court , Canadian actress...
- Allison family
Hudson Joshua Creighton Allison , his wife, Bessie Waldo Allison , their daughter Helen Loraine Allison and their son, Hudson Trevor Allison were passengers on board the RMS Titanic, which struck an iceberg and sank on 15 April, 1912...