Fitzpatrick (disambiguation)
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The name Fitzpatrick is an anglicisation of the ancient Irish surname Mac Giolla Phádraig, and may refer to several different people or places or things:
People
- Fitzpatrick (name), a surname of Irish origin
- Alfred FitzpatrickAlfred FitzpatrickAlfred Fitzpatrick was born in Pictou County, Nova Scotia in 1862. He attended Pictou Academy. He founded Frontier College in 1899, the oldest adult education institution in Canada.-Career:...
, founder of the Frontier CollegeFrontier CollegeFrontier College is a Canadian literacy organization established in 1899 by Alfred Fitzpatrick. Founded as the Reading Camp Association, Frontier College aims to combat illiteracy in Canada by providing non-formal education to those that seek assistance with their learning and have been overlooked... - Brian Mac Giolla PhádraigBrian Mac Giolla PhádraigBrian Mac Giolla Phádraig was a scholar and poet of noble descent from Ossory. Only a handful of his poems are still extant. A cry of despair against the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, and its consequences for the world and class which he belonged to, his Faisean Chláir Éibhir bears a striking...
(1585-c.1652), scholar, poet and priest who was executed by the CromwelliansOliver CromwellOliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader who overthrew the English monarchy and temporarily turned England into a republican Commonwealth, and served as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland....
in 1652 - Benjamin FitzpatrickBenjamin FitzpatrickBenjamin Fitzpatrick was an American politician, who served as the 11th Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama and as United States Senator from Alabama as a Democrat....
(1802-1869), American politician - Brad FitzpatrickBrad FitzpatrickBradley Joseph "Brad" Fitzpatrick , is an American programmer. He is best known as the creator of LiveJournal and is the author of a variety of free software projects such as memcached....
(born 1980), computer programmer - Brian Fitzpatrick (Canadian politician)Brian Fitzpatrick (Canadian politician)Brian Fitzpatrick is a Canadian politician.After serving as a board of education trustee in Nipawin, Saskatchewan, Fitzpatrick ran in the Canadian federal election, 2000 for the Canadian Alliance...
(born 1945), Canadian politician - Brian Fitzpatrick (Scottish politician)Brian Fitzpatrick (Scottish politician)Brian Fitzpatrick is a Scottish Labour Party politician. He attended St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic school in Glasgow before studying law at Glasgow University...
(born 1961), Scottish politician - Sir Charles FitzpatrickCharles FitzpatrickSir Charles Fitzpatrick, PC, GCMG was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was born in Quebec City, Canada East, to John Fitzpatrick and Mary Connolly....
(1853-1942), Canadian politician - Colleen FitzpatrickVitamin C (artist)Colleen Ann Fitzpatrick is an American pop music singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress better known by her stage name, Vitamin C. Her singles include "Graduation ", "As Long As You're Loving Me", "The Itch", and her most successful hit the Top 20 Gold certified "Smile"...
(born 1969), aka Vitamic C, American singer - Colleen FitzpatrickColleen Fitzpatrick (forensic genealogist)Colleen Fitzpatrick, Ph.D, FSPIE is an American forensic genealogist for major military and civilian organizations....
(born 1955), forensic genealogist - Denny FitzpatrickDenny FitzpatrickDenny Fitzpatrick is a retired American basketball player. He was Most Valuable Player and leading scorer for the 1959 NCAA champion California Golden Bears.Fitzpatrick was a 6'0" multi-sport star for Newport Harbor High School in Orange County, California...
, basketball player - Francis FitzpatrickFrancis FitzpatrickFrancis Fitzpatrick VC , born in Tullycorbet, County Monaghan was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Military Career:He was about 20 years old, and a Private...
(1859-1933), soldier - James A. FitzpatrickJames A. FitzpatrickJames A. Fitzpatrick was a movie producer, director, writer, and narrator, best remembered for making indian documentaries. After completing training in dramatic arts, he worked, for a while, as a journalist...
(1894-1980), American movie producer and narrator - Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick - 24 July 1862 - 24 January 1931, South African politician and author (Jock of the BushveldJock of the BushveldJock of the Bushveld is a true story by South African author Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick. The book tells of Fitzpatrick's travels with his dog, Jock, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, during the 1880s, when he worked as a storeman, prospector's assistant, journalist and ox-wagon transport-rider in the...
). - Jim Fitzpatrick (artist)Jim Fitzpatrick (artist)Jim Fitzpatrick is an Irish artist famous for Irish Celtic Art. Perhaps his most famous piece is his iconic two-tone portrait of Che Guevara created in 1968 and based on a photo by Alberto Korda....
, artist - Jim Fitzpatrick (politician)Jim Fitzpatrick (politician)James Fitzpatrick is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Poplar and Limehouse since the 2010 General Election. From 1997 to the 2010 election he was the member for Poplar and Canning Town...
(born 1952), British politician - Joe FitzPatrickJoe FitzPatrickJoe FitzPatrick is a Scottish politician, and member for the Scottish National Party for Dundee West in the Scottish Parliament since May 2007, succeeding retiring Labour MSP Kate Maclean.-Life and career:...
(born 1967), Scottish politician - John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper OssoryJohn FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper OssoryJohn FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory lived in County Cork in Ireland.He married Lady Evelyn Leveson-Gower, daughter of the 1st Earl Gower, on 29 June 1744. They had four children:...
, Irish royalty - J. R. FitzpatrickJ. R. FitzpatrickJohn Ryan Fitzpatrick is a Canadian stock car driver. He is currently the youngest driver to win the CASCAR Super Series championship...
, Canadian Nascar Driver - Ken FitzpatrickKen FitzpatrickKen Fitzpatrick is a retired breaststroke swimmer from Canada.Fitzpatrick competed for his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California...
(born 1963), Canadian breaststroke swimmer - Marc FitzpatrickMarc FitzpatrickMarc Fitzpatrick is a Scottish professional footballer currently playing for Ross County in the Scottish First Division. Fitzpatrick had spent the majority of his career at Motherwell...
(born 1986), Scottish footballer - Mike FitzpatrickMike FitzpatrickMichael G. "Mike" Fitzpatrick is the U.S. Representative for . He is a member of the Republican Party. He was reelected to Congress in 2010, and previously represented the district from 2005 to 2007, but lost to Patrick Murphy in 2006....
(born 1963), American politician - Richie FitzpatrickRichie FitzpatrickRichard "Richie" Fitzpatrick was a top gunman in the Monk Eastman gang, as well as a former member of the Five Points Gang, during the late 1890s until his death in 1904...
(1880-1905), American gangster - Rory FitzpatrickRory FitzpatrickRory B. Fitzpatrick is a former American professional ice hockey defenseman who played 10 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens, St. Louis Blues, Nashville Predators, Buffalo Sabres, Vancouver Canucks and Philadelphia Flyers...
(born 1975), NHL defenseman - Ryan FitzpatrickRyan FitzpatrickRyan Joseph Fitzpatrick is an American football quarterback for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the seventh round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Harvard....
(born 1982), NFL Quarterback - Sheila FitzpatrickSheila FitzpatrickSheila Fitzpatrick is an Australian-American historian. She teaches Soviet History at the University of Chicago.-Biography:Sheila Fitzpatrick attended the University of Melbourne and received her DPhil from St...
, American historian - Sean FitzpatrickSean FitzpatrickSean Fitzpatrick MNZM is a former rugby union footballer who represented New Zealand, and is widely regarded as one of the finest players ever to come from that country. He is also the son of former player Brian Fitzpatrick....
(born 1963), New Zealand rugby union player - Thomas Benjamin FitzpatrickThomas Benjamin FitzpatrickThomas Benjamin Fitzpatrick was a United States Navy Commander and the 26th Governor of American Samoa for a brief time from January 15, 1936 to January 20, 1936. During World War II, Fitzpatrick commanded the USS Zeilin, which landed troops and sustained damage during the Battle of...
(1896-1974), 26th Governor of American Samoa - Thomas J. Fitzpatrick (Cavan politician)Thomas J. Fitzpatrick (Cavan politician)Thomas J. "Tom" Fitzpatrick was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 1982 to 1987.Fitzpatrick was born at Scotshouse, Clones, County Monaghan in 1918. He was educated at St...
(born 1918), Irish Fine Gael politician and Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann - Thomas J. Fitzpatrick (Dublin politician)Thomas J. Fitzpatrick (Dublin politician)"Tom" Fitzpatrick is a retired Irish Fianna Fáil party politician who was elected six times as Teachta Dála for Dublin South Central and Dublin Central....
(born 1926), Irish Fianna Fáil politician - Tony Fitzpatrick (born 1958), American artist
- William FitzpatrickWilliam FitzpatrickWilliam Fitzpatrick , American violinist and conductor, is currently the director of ChamberArtsFest, an annual international chamber music festival...
(born 1949), violinist, conductor. - William P. Fitzpatrick, politician in Rhode Island
Fictive Persons
- Issac Prophet Fitzpatrick-a fictive character in the science fictionScience fictionScience fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
novelNovelA novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
Fitzpatrick's WarFitzpatrick's WarFitzpatrick's War is a work of post-apocalyptic fiction by Theodore Judson. It was first published by Daw Books in 2004.-Plot introduction:... - Maddie Fitzpatrick - a fictive person at Disney ChannelDisney ChannelDisney Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company. It is under the direction of Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney. The channel's headquarters is located on West Alameda Ave. in...
's series The Suite Life of Zack and Cody - acted by Ashley TisdaleAshley TisdaleAshley Michelle Tisdale is an American actress and singer who rose to prominence portraying the candy-counter girl Maddie Fitzpatrick in Disney Channel's The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and the female antagonist Sharpay Evans in the High School Musical film series... - Richard FitzpatrickRichard FitzPatrickGeneral Richard FitzPatrick , styled The Honourable from birth, was an Anglo-Irish soldier, wit, poet, Whig politician and ‘sworn brother’ of the illustrious statesman of Charles James Fox...
- a fictive person at Comedy CentralComedy CentralComedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel that carries comedy programming, both original and syndicated....
's series Call Me FitzCall Me FitzCall Me Fitz is a Canadian television series produced by E1 Entertainment, Amaze Film & Television, and Big Motion Pictures. The half-hour comedy stars Jason Priestley as Richard "Fitz" Fitzpatrick, a morally bankrupt used-car salesman whose consequence-free life is complicated by the arrival of...
- acted by Jason PriestleyJason PriestleyJason Bradford Priestley is a Canadian-American actor and director. He is best known as the virtuous Brandon Walsh on the television series Beverly Hills, 90210, a role which catapulted him to recognition in the early 1990s....
Places
- James A. Fitzpatrick Nuclear Generating Station, a BWR nuclear power plant operated by Entergy located near Oswego, New York, United States