Ferguson (name)
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Ferguson is a surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

 and given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

. The surname is a patronymic
Patronymic
A patronym, or patronymic, is a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father, grandfather or an even earlier male ancestor. A component of a name based on the name of one's mother or a female ancestor is a matronymic. Each is a means of conveying lineage.In many areas patronyms...

 form of the personal name Fergus
Fergus (name)
Fergus or Feargus is a popular Irish, Manx and Scottish given name. It is both the Old Irish spelling and the anglicised form of the modern Fearghus or Fearghas, meaning "man-strength" or "virility". The name Fergus was a royal name amongst the Celts in Ireland and the Picts in Scotland...

. The name Fergus is derived from the Gaelic elements fear ("man") and gus ("vigour", "force", or "choice").

Australia

  • Alan Ferguson
    Alan Ferguson
    The Hon. Alan Baird Ferguson , Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since May 1992, representing South Australia. On 14 August 2007 Senator Ferguson became the 22nd President of the Australian Senate, succeeding Senator Paul Calvert of Tasmania...

    , politician
  • Blake Ferguson
    Blake Ferguson
    Blake Ferguson is an Australian professional rugby League footballer for the Canberra Raiders of the NRL. He previously played for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks....

    , footballer
  • Laurie Ferguson
    Laurie Ferguson
    Laurie Donald Thomas Ferguson , Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1990, representing Reid until 2010 and Werriwa thereafter, both in New South Wales. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and grew up in the...

    , politician
  • Mark Ferguson
    Mark Ferguson (television presenter)
    Mark Ferguson is a news presenter.Ferguson is currently presenting the weekend Sydney bulletin for Seven News in Sydney and Seven 4.30 News on Thursday & Friday, due to Samantha Armytage's commitments with Weekend Sunrise....

    , newsreader
  • Martin Ferguson
    Martin Ferguson
    Martin John Ferguson AM , Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Batman, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, the son of Jack Ferguson, who was Deputy Premier of New South Wales from 1976...

    , politician
  • Michael Ferguson, politician
  • Tim Ferguson
    Tim Ferguson
    Timothy Dorcen Langbene "Tim" Ferguson is an Australian comedian and television presenter.- Background :...

    , comedian

Bahamas

  • Dwight Ferguson
    Dwight Ferguson
    Dwight K. Ferguson is a sprint athlete from the Bahamas. He won the silver medal in the men's 100 metres at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games, and competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia....

    , sprint athlete
  • Shonel Ferguson
    Shonel Ferguson
    Shonel Ferguson is a former track and field athlete from the Bahamas, who competed in the women's sprint and long jump events during her career. She is a three-time Olympian . Ferguson was inducted into the Bahamas Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1993.-External links:*...

    , sprint athlete and long jumper

Canada

  • Colin Ferguson (actor)
    Colin Ferguson (actor)
    Colin Ferguson is a Canadian actor. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, and is a graduate of Appleby College in Oakville, Ontario and McGill University in Montreal....

    , current star of Eurєka TV series
  • James Ferguson (politician)
    James Ferguson (politician)
    James Robert Ferguson is a retired politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1969 to 1981 for the riding of Gladstone....

     (born 1925)
  • Matthew Ferguson
    Matthew Ferguson
    Matthew Ferguson is an actor born on 3 April 1973 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He graduated from the Claude Watson School for the Performing Arts.-Performances:...

    , actor
  • Maynard Ferguson
    Maynard Ferguson
    Maynard Ferguson was a Canadian jazz musician and bandleader. He came to prominence playing in Stan Kenton's orchestra, before forming his own band in 1957...

    , jazz trumpet player
  • Rork Scott Ferguson
    Rork Scott Ferguson
    Rork Scott Ferguson was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Peterborough County, Ontario and became a farmer....

     (born 1884), Member of Parliament
  • Scott Ferguson (hockey player), former National Hockey League defenceman

Ireland

  • Harry Ferguson
    Harry Ferguson
    Henry George "Harry" Ferguson was an Irish engineer and inventor who is noted for his role in the development of the modern agricultural tractor, for becoming the first Irishman to build and fly his own aeroplane, and for developing the first four-wheel drive Formula One car, the Ferguson P99...

    , tractor designer and industrialist
  • Samuel Ferguson
    Samuel Ferguson
    Sir Samuel Ferguson was an Irish poet, barrister, antiquarian, artist and public servant. Perhaps the most important Ulster-Scot poet of the 19th century, because of his interest in Irish mythology and early Irish history he can be seen as a forerunner of William Butler Yeats and the other poets...

    , poet and antiquarian

United Kingdom

  • Sarah, Duchess of York
    Sarah, Duchess of York
    Sarah, Duchess of York is a British charity patron, spokesperson, writer, film producer, television personality and former member of the British Royal Family. She is the former wife of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, whom she married from 1986 to 1996...

     (Sarah Margaret Mountbatten-Windsor, née Ferguson), former member of the British Royal Family
  • Adam Ferguson
    Adam Ferguson
    Adam Ferguson FRSE, also known as Ferguson of Raith was a Scottish philosopher, social scientist and historian of the Scottish Enlightenment...

    , philosopher and historian
  • Alex Ferguson
    Alex Ferguson
    Sir Alexander Chapman "Alex" Ferguson, CBE is a Scottish association football manager and former player, currently managing Manchester United, where he has been in charge since 1986...

    , football manager
  • Barry Ferguson
    Barry Ferguson
    Barry Ferguson MBE is a Scottish footballer who plays as a midfielder for Blackpool.Ferguson has made 82 appearances in European competitions, all for Rangers, which makes him the record European appearance holder at the club. He was also inducted into the Rangers F.C. Hall of Fame...

    , football player, Scotland captain
  • Danny Ferguson
    Danny Ferguson
    Daniel Ferguson was a Welsh footballer. His regular position was as a forward. He was born in Flint. He played for Rhyl Athletic, Manchester United, Reading, Accrington Stanley, Chester, Halifax Town, Stockport County and Macclesfield Town in the 1920s and 1930s.-External links:*...

    , Welsh football player
  • Danny Ferguson (Scottish footballer)
    Danny Ferguson (Scottish footballer)
    Danny Ferguson was a Scottish footballer, who played for Hamilton, Hearts, Durban United, Morton and Cowdenbeath.- External links :*, Neil Brown...

  • Darren Ferguson
    Darren Ferguson
    Darren Ferguson is a Scottish football manager and former player, currently in his second spell as the manager of Peterborough United...

    , football manager
  • David Ferguson, murderer
  • Derek Ferguson
    Derek Ferguson
    Derek Ferguson is a Scottish football manager and former player.A creative midfielder, he is best remembered for his time with Rangers and Heart of Midlothian and made two appearances for the Scottish national side. He is the elder brother of current Birmingham City midfielder Barry Ferguson...

    , football player
  • Duncan Ferguson (footballer)
  • George Ferguson (architect)
    George Ferguson (architect)
    George Robin Paget Ferguson, CBE, PPRIBA, RWA is a British architect, who has made a significant contribution to architecture, town planning and design in the South West of England and Europe....

    , architect
  • Hughie Ferguson
    Hughie Ferguson
    Hugh "Hughie" Ferguson was a Scottish footballer. He is only one of seven men in the entire history of the Football and Scottish Football Leagues to have scored 350 League goals...

    , football player
  • Iain Ferguson
    Iain Ferguson
    Iain Ferguson is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a striker for numerous Scottish clubs during the 1980s and 90s.-Career:...

    , football player
  • Ian Ferguson (footballer born 1967), football player
  • Ian Ferguson (footballer born 1968)
    Ian Ferguson (footballer born 1968)
    Ian Ferguson is a Scottish former professional footballer. He played for ten clubs in a seventeen-year career.-Career:Ferguson began his career at junior club Lochgelly Albert in the 1980s...

    , football player
  • James Ferguson (1710-1776)
    James Ferguson (1710-1776)
    James Ferguson was a Scottish astronomer and instrument maker.-Biography:Ferguson was born near Rothiemay in Banffshire of humble parents. Acoording to his autobiography, he learnt to read by hearing his father teach his elder brother, and with the help of an old woman was able to read quite well...

    , clockmaker and astronomer (See also US James, astronomer)
  • Lynn Ferguson
    Lynn Ferguson
    Lynn Ferguson is a Scottish writer, actress, comedienne and presenter. She is the sister of comedian Craig Ferguson and is known for voicing the character of Mac in the animated film, Chicken Run.-Early life:...

    , actress and writer
  • Niall Ferguson
    Niall Ferguson
    Niall Campbell Douglas Ferguson is a British historian. His specialty is financial and economic history, particularly hyperinflation and the bond markets, as well as the history of colonialism.....

     (born 1964), historian of British imperialism and international finance
  • Patrick Ferguson
    Patrick Ferguson
    Major Patrick Ferguson was a Scottish officer in the British Army, early advocate of light infantry and designer of the Ferguson rifle. He is best known for his service in the 1780 military campaign of Charles Cornwallis, in which he aggressively recruited Loyalists and harshly treated Patriot...

    , inventor of the breech-loading Ferguson Rifle
    Ferguson rifle
    The Ferguson rifle was one of the first breech loading rifles to be widely tested by the British military. Other breech loaders were experimented with in various commands, including earlier versions of the Ordnance rifle by Patrick Ferguson when he was in the "Fever Islands" . It was often...

  • Rebecca Ferguson
    Rebecca Ferguson (singer)
    Rebecca Ferguson is an English singer-songwriter born in Liverpool, who became notable as the runner-up of the seventh series of The X Factor to Matt Cardle in 2010. She released her debut single "Nothing Real but Love" on 20 November 2011...

    , singer
  • Robert Ferguson (minister), Scottish polemicist and conspirator
  • Robert Ferguson (politician)
    Robert Ferguson (politician)
    Robert Ferguson was an Ontario merchant and political figure. He represented Kent East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1885 to 1901 as a Liberal member....

  • Robert Ferguson (footballer)
    Robert Ferguson (footballer)
    Robert Ferguson was a Scottish footballer who played for Liverpool during the early part of the 20th century.-Life and playing career:...

  • Robert Ferguson (MP)
    Robert Ferguson (MP)
    Robert Ferguson was an English mill-owner from Cumberland, antiquarian and Liberal politician, who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1886.-Biography:...

     (1817-1898) Member of Parliament for Carlisle

United States of America

  • Abbie Park Ferguson
    Abbie Park Ferguson
    Abbie Park Ferguson was founder and president of Huguenot College.She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1856...

     (1837–1919), founder of Huguenot College
  • Alex Ferguson (baseball)
    Alex Ferguson (baseball)
    James Alexander Ferguson was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for five different teams between and . Listed at 6' 0", 180 lb., Ferguson batted and threw right-handed...

     (1897-1976), baseball player
  • Amy Ferguson
    Amy Ferguson
    Amy Ferguson is an actress who appeared briefly as a character called Dana in a scene from the 2004 movie Garden State. The movie was written, directed and starred by Zach Braff, it also featured Natalie Portman. Ferguson is currently working on other projects. She was in the 2007 film Weapons and...

    , actress
  • Benjamin Ferguson
    Benjamin Ferguson
    Benjamin Franklin Ferguson was an American lumber merchant and philanthropist whose 1905 $1 million charitable trust gift funded seventeen of the most notable public monuments and sculptures in Chicago, Illinois, United States...

  • Bob Ferguson (infielder) (1845-1894), baseball player, manager, executive and umpire
  • Bob Ferguson (music)
    Bob Ferguson (music)
    Robert Bruce "Bob" Ferguson Sr was an American songwriter, record producer who was instrumental in establishing Nashville, Tennessee as a center of country music; movie producer, and Choctaw Indian historian. Ferguson wrote the bestselling songs "On the Wings of a Dove" and "The Carroll County...

    , song writer
  • Charles A. Ferguson
    Charles A. Ferguson
    Charles Albert Ferguson was a U.S. linguist who taught at Stanford University. He was one the founders of sociolinguistics and is best known for his work on diglossia. The TOEFL test was created under his leadership at the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington, DC...

    , sociolinguist
  • Chris Ferguson
    Chris Ferguson
    Christopher Philip Ferguson is an American professional poker player. He has won five World Series of Poker events, including the 2000 WSOP Main Event, and the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. On September 20, 2011, the U.S...

    , professional poker player
  • Christopher Ferguson
    Christopher Ferguson
    Christopher J. Ferguson is a United States Navy captain and a NASA astronaut. He was the pilot of Space Shuttle Atlantis on his first mission to space, STS-115, which launched on September 9, 2006 and returned to Earth on September 21, 2006...

    , astronaut
  • Clarence Clyde Ferguson, Jr., ambassador and professor of law
  • Colin Ferguson, convicted murderer
  • Craig Ferguson
    Craig Ferguson
    Craig Ferguson is a Scottish American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, and producer. He is the host of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, an Emmy Award-nominated, Peabody Award-winning late-night talk show that airs on CBS...

    , actor and host of The Late Late Show (CBS)
    The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
    The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is a Peabody Award-winning American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish American comedian Craig Ferguson. Ferguson, the third regular host of the Late Late Show franchise, follows Late Show with David Letterman in the CBS late-night lineup...

  • D'Brickashaw Ferguson
    D'Brickashaw Ferguson
    -New York Jets:Ferguson finally reached the NFL when the New York Jets drafted him with the 4th pick overall after Vince Young was chosen by the Titans. On July 26, 2006, Ferguson signed a five-year deal with the Jets that was similar to the $35 million deal that 2005’s No. 4 pick, Cedric Benson,...

    , American football player
  • David Ferguson
    David Ferguson (impresario)
    David Ferguson is an international outsider-culture impresario, activist, music producer and concert promoter. Over his career – most of which has been spent on the West Coast—he has worked with musical acts such as The Avengers, John Lydon David Ferguson is an international outsider-culture...

    , impresario
  • David R. Ferguson
    David R. Ferguson
    David R. "Fergie" Ferguson began in the mid-1980s engineering Country Music recordings for "Cowboy" Jack Clement, at Clement's Cowboy Arms Hotel and Recording Spa, in Nashville, Tennessee...

    , audio engineer
  • Elsie Ferguson
    Elsie Ferguson
    Elsie Louise Ferguson was an American stage and film actress.-Early life:Born in New York City, Elsie Ferguson was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Benson Ferguson, a successful attorney...

    , stage and film actress
  • Helaman Ferguson
    Helaman Ferguson
    Helaman Rolfe Pratt Ferguson is an American sculptor and a digital artist, specifically an algorist.Ferguson's mother died when he was about three and his father went off to serve in the Second World War. He was adopted and raised in New York. He was a graduate of Hamilton College and received a...

    , sculptor
  • James Ferguson (astronomer)
    James Ferguson (astronomer)
    James Ferguson was an American astronomer and engineer born in Scotland who made the first discovery of an asteroid from North America . Starting in 1847, he worked at the U.S...

     (1797–1867) (See also Scottish James, astronomer)
  • James Ferguson (water polo)
    James Ferguson (water polo)
    James Michael Ferguson is a retired water polo player from the United States. He played on UCLA's team from which included the in which he received All-American honors....

    , water polo player
  • James E. Ferguson
    James E. Ferguson
    James Edward "Pa" Ferguson, Jr. , was a Democratic politician from the state of Texas.- Early life :Ferguson was born to the Reverend James Ferguson, Sr., and Fannie Ferguson near Salado in south Bell County, Texas. He entered Salado College at age twelve but was eventually expelled for...

     (1871–1944), Governor of Texas
  • Jason Ferguson
    Jason Ferguson
    Jason O. Ferguson is a former American football defensive tackle who played thirteen seasons in the National Football League, for the New York Jets—who originally selected in the seventh round of the 1997 NFL Draft—, Dallas Cowboys, and Miami Dolphins...

    , American football player
  • Jesse Tyler Ferguson
    Jesse Tyler Ferguson
    Jesse Tyler Ferguson is an American actor who portrays Mitchell Pritchett on the ABC sitcom Modern Family. Previously he played the role of Richie Velch in the CBS sitcom The Class. He is openly gay.-Life and career:...

    , actor
  • Jim Ferguson
    Jim Ferguson
    Jim Ferguson is an American guitarist, composer, music educator, author, and music journalist/editor.Born in Dayton, Ohio, Jim Ferguson began his early music education playing the trombone at age 7, and then after eight years of study, switched to the guitar at age 15...

     (born 1948), American guitarist/composer
  • Keith Ferguson
    Keith Ferguson
    Keith James Ferguson is an American voice actor, well known as the voice of Blooregard Q. Kazoo on the Cartoon Network animated series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends...

     (born 1972), American voice actor
  • Keith Ferguson (football player)
    Keith Ferguson (football player)
    Keith Ferguson is a former American football defensive end who played in the National Football League from 1981 through 1990.-External links:*Now works in as a High School Teacher/Football Coach in Houston, Texas...

     (born 1959), former American professional football player
  • Keith Ferguson (musician)
    Keith Ferguson (musician)
    Keith Ferguson was a bass guitarist, best remembered as a member of the blues rock band, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, based in Austin, Texas...

     (1946–1997), guitarist
  • Kent Ferguson
    Kent Ferguson
    Kent M. Ferguson is a retired diver from the United States. He competed for his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics, finishing in fifth place in the Men's 3m Springboard event....

     (born 1963), diver
  • Kevin Ferguson (Kimbo Slice
    Kimbo Slice
    Kevin Ferguson , better known as Kimbo Slice, is a Bahamian-American boxer, mixed martial artist and occasional actor...

    ), mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
  • Manie Payne Ferguson
    Manie Payne Ferguson
    Manie Payne Ferguson was a pioneer leader in the American Holiness Movement, a Christian evangelist and social worker who co-founded the Peniel Mission, and the author of several hymns, most notably "Blessed Quietness".- Early life :...

    , founder of the Peniel Mission
    Peniel Mission
    The Peniel Mission was an interdenominational holiness rescue mission that was started in Los Angeles, California on 11 November 1886 by Theodore Pollock Ferguson and Manie Payne Ferguson...

     and a hymn-writer
  • Mike Ferguson (New Jersey politician), New Jersey politician
  • Miriam A. Ferguson
    Miriam A. Ferguson
    Miriam Amanda Wallace "Ma" Ferguson was the first female Governor of Texas in 1925. She held office until 1927, later winning another term in 1933 and serving until 1935.-Early life:...

     (1875–1961), Governor of Texas
  • Robert Ferguson (American football)
  • Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
    Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
    Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. is an American economist, who was Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1999 to 2006 and is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association - College Retirement Equities Fund...

    , former vice chair, Federal Reserve
  • Ronald Ferguson (economist)
    Ronald Ferguson (economist)
    Ronald F. Ferguson is an economist who researches factors that affect educational achievement. Major themes in his work include the race-related achievement gap in the United States and how to improve schools and identify effective teachers....

    , studies racial achievement gap in the United States
  • Samuel W. Ferguson
    Samuel W. Ferguson
    Samuel Wragg Ferguson was a career United States Army officer, a cavalryman, and a graduate of West Point. He is best known as being a Confederate brigadier general during the Civil War.-Early life and career:...

    , Confederate general in the American Civil War
  • Sheila Ferguson
    Sheila Ferguson
    Sheila Ferguson is an American singer, and was one of the longest serving singers of 1970s American female soul music group The Three Degrees.Ferguson settled in the UK after marrying an Englishman...

    , lead singer of the group Three Degrees
  • Stacy Ferguson, singer-songwriter
  • Timothy R. Ferguson
    Timothy R. Ferguson
    Timothy Ferguson was a Republican State Senator in Maryland.-Background:In 1994, Timothy Ferguson was first elected to the Maryland State Senate to represent District 4, which covers parts of Carroll and Frederick Counties...

    , Maryland politician

Given name

  • Ferguson Jenkins
    Ferguson Jenkins
    Ferguson Arthur "Fergie" Jenkins, CM, is a Canadian former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He was a three-time All-Star and the 1971 NL Cy Young Award winner. In 1991, Jenkins was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. During a 19-year career, he pitched for four different teams,...

     (b. 1943), Canadian MLB baseball player
  • Ferguson John
    Ferguson John
    Theophilus Ferguson John is a Saint Lucian politician. From 1997 until 2006 he was the parliamentary representative for Choiseul and Saltibus and the Minister for Physical Development, Environment and Housing of Saint Lucia. He is also the vice chairman of the Saint Lucia Labour Party.-References:...

     (b. ?), Caribbean politician
  • Ferguson Darling, fictional character on Clarissa Explains It All
    Clarissa Explains It All
    Clarissa Explains It All is an American teen sitcom that aired on Nickelodeon. Created by Mitchell Kriegman, it aired for five seasons for a total of 65 episodes from March 23, 1991, to December 3, 1994, and then went into reruns....

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