Morrison (surname)
Encyclopedia
Morrison is a surname
. In some cases it is derived from a patronymic
form of the personal name
Morris. This personal name is a variant of Maurice, and was quite popular in the Middle Ages
. The surname is common throughout Ireland, but mainly in east Ulster
. In the Irish language
, Morrison is spelt Mac Muiris; Muiris is the usual Irish language form of Maurice.
There are several notable persons each with the names:
Other individuals with the surname Morrison include:
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"...
. In some cases it is derived from 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
Personal name
A personal name is the proper name identifying an individual person, and today usually comprises a given name bestowed at birth or at a young age plus a surname. It is nearly universal for a human to have a name; except in rare cases, for example feral children growing up in isolation, or infants...
Morris. This personal name is a variant of Maurice, and was quite popular in the Middle Ages
Middle Ages
The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...
. The surname is common throughout Ireland, but mainly in east Ulster
Ulster
Ulster is one of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the north of the island. In ancient Ireland, it was one of the fifths ruled by a "king of over-kings" . Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the ancient kingdoms were shired into a number of counties for administrative and judicial...
. In the Irish language
Irish language
Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...
, Morrison is spelt Mac Muiris; Muiris is the usual Irish language form of Maurice.
There are several notable persons each with the names:
- Alan Morrison (disambiguation)
- Alastair Morrison (disambiguation)
- Alexander Morrison (disambiguation)
- Charles Morrison (disambiguation)Charles Morrison (disambiguation)Charles Morrison was a British Conservative politician and MP for Devizes.Charles Morrison may also refer to:*Charles Clayton Morrison , American Disciples of Christ minister and Christian socialist...
- Daniel Morrison (disambiguation)
- David Morrison (disambiguation)
- George Morrison (disambiguation)
- Henry Morrison (disambiguation)
- Hugh Morrison (disambiguation)
- James Morrison (disambiguation)
- John Morrison (disambiguation)
- Joseph Morrison (disambiguation)
- Mark Morrison (disambiguation)Mark Morrison (disambiguation)Mark Morrison may refer to:*Mark Morrison, an R&B singer*Mark Morrison , Canadian*Mark Morrison , Northern Irishman*Mark Coxon Morrison, Scottish Rugby union footballer...
- Michael Morrison (disambiguation)
- Patricia Morrison (disambiguation)Patricia Morrison (disambiguation)Patricia Morrison is the name of* Patricia Morison , American actress* Patricia Morrison , American bass guitarist, singer and songwriter* Patricia Kennealy-Morrison , American author...
- Paul Morrison (disambiguation)
- Phil Morrison (disambiguation)
- Richard Morrison (disambiguation)
- Robert Morrison (disambiguation)Robert Morrison (disambiguation)Robert Morrison may refer to:* Robert Morison , Scottish botanist* Robert Morrison , first Protestant missionary to China in 1807...
- Scott Morrison (disambiguation)
- Sean Morrison (disambiguation)
- Steve Morrison (disambiguation)Steve Morrison (disambiguation)Steve Morrison may refer to:* Steve Morrison , American radio DJ for the Preston and Steve Show on 93.3 FM WMMR* Steve Morrison , Scottish footballer* Steve Morrison , former Indianapolis Colt...
- Terry Morrison (disambiguation)
- Tom Morrison (disambiguation)
- William Morrison (disambiguation)
Other individuals with the surname Morrison include:
- Adam MorrisonAdam MorrisonAdam John Morrison is an American basketball player who is currently free agent after being released from KK Crvena zvezda....
(born 1984), American basketball player - Aileen MorrisonAileen MorrisonAileen Morrison is a professional triathlete from Northern Ireland and a member of the Senior High Performance Squad, being one of the most promising London 2012 Olympics prospects....
, (born 1982), Irish triathlete - Arthur MorrisonArthur MorrisonArthur George Morrison was an English author and journalist known for his realistic novels about London's East End and for his detective stories....
(1863-1945), English author and journalist - Blake MorrisonBlake MorrisonPhilip Blake Morrison is a British poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs And When Did You Last See Your Father? which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. He has also written a...
(born 1950), British poet and author - Father Brian MorrisonFather Brian MorrisonFather Brian Morrison was a Catholic priest who worked for 40 years in providing crisis care for people affected by upheaval caused by natural and man made disasters....
(1933-2009) Charity worker, Priest - Brendan MorrisonBrendan MorrisonBrendan Morrison is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League...
(born 1975), Canadian hockey player - Bret MorrisonBret MorrisonBret Morrison was an American actor best known as the voice of the mysterious crusader for law and order on radio's The Shadow....
(1912-1978), American actor - Brooke MorrisonBrooke MorrisonBrooke Morrison is a retired female field hockey striker from Australia. She made her debut for the Australian women's national team during the 1998 season following an impressive season with the Australian U21 team at the 1997 Junior World Cup...
(born 1979), Australian field hockey player - Bruce MorrisonBruce MorrisonBruce Andrew Morrison is a former Congressman from Connecticut and candidate for Governor of Connecticut. He is a lobbyist and immigration lawyer...
(born 1944), American politician - Bruce Morrison (cricketer)Bruce Morrison (cricketer)Bruce Donald Morrison is a former New Zealand cricketer.-Career highlights:Morrison, who bowled right arm medium pace but was a left-handed tail-end Batsman first appeared for his local side, Hutt Valley, in an away game at Nelson in the Hawke Cup .Aged 20, he made his first class debut for...
(born 1933), New Zealand cricketer - Cameron Morrison (1869-1953), American politician
- Clinton MorrisonClinton MorrisonClinton Hubert Morrison is an English-born professional footballer who plays for Milton Keynes Dons, on loan from Sheffield Wednesday...
(born 1979), Irish footballer - Craig MorrisonCraig MorrisonCraig Morrison is the British video game designer and director who works on massively multiplayer online role-playing game titles for Norwegian company Funcom. He is currently game director and producer for Age of Conan after Gaute Godager left the company...
(born 1975), British video game designer - DeLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison, Sr., (1912-1964), Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana 1946-1961
- DeLesseps Story "Toni" Morrison, Jr.DeLesseps Morrison, Jr.deLesseps Story "Toni" Morrison, Jr. , the older son of four-term New Orleans Mayor DeLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison, Sr. , was an American attorney and international business consultant who was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1974–1980...
, (1944-1996), Louisiana politician and son of DeLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison - Dorilus MorrisonDorilus MorrisonDorilus Morrison was a banker, businessman, and politician who lived in the U.S. state of Minnesota. He was the first and third mayor of Minneapolis. Morrison was born in Livermore, Maine, and was a lumber merchant in Bangor, Maine before moving to Minnesota. He was the cousin of William D...
(1814-1898), American politician - Francis MorysonFrancis MorysonFrancis Moryson was an English soldier and Virginia colonial official. A Royalist in the English Civil War, Moryson emigrated to Virginia in 1649, surviving a shipwreck en route. He served as Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1656, and was on Governor Sir William Berkeley's Council...
(bef. 1628-c.1681), Virginia colonial politician - Frank Morrison (1905-2004), American politician
- Fynes MorysonFynes MorysonFynes Moryson spent most of the decade of the 1590s travelling on the European continent and the eastern Mediterranean lands...
(1566-1630), English traveller and writer - Grant MorrisonGrant MorrisonGrant Morrison is a Scottish comic book writer, playwright and occultist. He is known for his nonlinear narratives and counter-cultural leanings, as well as his successful runs on titles like Animal Man, Doom Patrol, JLA, The Invisibles, New X-Men, Fantastic Four, All-Star Superman, and...
(born 1960), Scottish comic book writer and artist - Greg MorrisonGreg MorrisonGreg Morrison is an Tony Award–winning and Drama Desk Award–winning Canadian writer and composer best known for his work on the music and lyrics of The Drowsy Chaperone, which he wrote with Lisa Lambert. He also has extensive credits directing and musical directing shows across the United States,...
(born 1965), Canadian writer and composer - Herbert MorrisonHerbert MorrisonHerbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth, CH, PC was a British Labour politician; he held a various number of senior positions in the Cabinet, including Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister.-Early life:Morrison was the son of a police constable and was born in...
(1888-1965), British politician - Howard MorrisonHoward MorrisonSir Howard Leslie Morrison, OBE, was a New Zealand entertainer. From 1964 until his death in 2009 he was one of New Zealand's leading television and concert performers.-Early life:...
(1935-2009), New Zealand singer - Ian MorrisonIan MorrisonIan Ernest McLeavy Morrison was an Australian journalist and war correspondent for The Times. He was one of the first journalists to be killed in the Korean War...
(1913-1950), Australian journalist - Jennifer MorrisonJennifer MorrisonJennifer Marie Morrison is an American actress, model and film producer. She is best known for her role as Dr. Allison Cameron in House, whom she played for five-and-a-half years, and also as Zoey Pierson in the sixth season of How I Met Your Mother...
(born 1979), American actress - Julián MorrisonJulián MorrisonJulián Morrison Gales is a former discus thrower from Cuba. He competed for his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal, Canada, where he did not reach the final in the men's discus throw event. He won the gold medal at the 1974 Central American and Caribbean Games.-References:*...
(born 1951), Cuban discus thrower - Keith MorrisonKeith MorrisonKeith Morrison is a Canadian, veteran broadcast journalist. Since 1995, he has been a correspondent for Dateline NBC.-Career:...
(born 1944), Canadian journalist - Kenny MorrisonKenny MorrisonKenny Morrison is an American actor who was born in Los Angeles, California on December 31, 1974. He is of Spanish, Filipino, and Irish descent. He has a brother, Kai, and step sister, Alexandra. His father is Quinn, and mother, Kip....
(born 1974), American actor - Kirk MorrisonKirk MorrisonKirk David Morrison is an American football linebacker for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft...
(born 1982), American football linebacker - Kirk Morrison (poker player)Kirk Morrison (poker player)Kirk Morrison is a professional poker player originally from Wichita, Kansas, United States, but who has lived in New Zealand for a part of his life between 1999 and 2006....
(fl. since 1994), American poker player - Marion Morrison (1907-1979), birth name of John WayneJohn WayneMarion Mitchell Morrison , better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. He epitomized rugged masculinity and became an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height...
, American actor - Matthew MorrisonMatthew MorrisonMatthew James "Matt" Morrison is an American actor, director, musician, and singer-songwriter. He is best known for starring in multiple Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, including his portrayal of Link Larkin in Hairspray on Broadway, and most notably for his Emmy and Golden Globe nominated...
(born 1978), American actor - Norman MorrisonNorman MorrisonNorman Morrison , born in Erie, Pennsylvania, was a Baltimore Quaker best known for committing suicide at age 31 in an act of self-immolation to protest United States involvement in the Vietnam War....
(1933-1965), American Vietnam War protester - Piercy MorrisonPiercy MorrisonPiercy Henderson "Dolly" Morrison was an English rugby union three-quarter who played club rugby for Northern and Cambridge University and played international rugby for England.-Personal history:...
(1868-1936), English rugby union player - Rodger MorrisonRodger MorrisonRodger Morrison, Jr. is an American author, researcher, professor, and businessman.A researcher in several fields, including human-to-computer interaction and trust in technology-mediated communication environments, Morrison has published and presented numerous articles in journals and at academic...
(born 1964), American author, researcher, professor, and businessman. - Ronald Hugh MorriesonRonald Hugh MorriesonRonald Hugh Morrieson of Hawera, Taranaki was a novelist and short story writer in the New Zealand vernacular. He earned his living as a...
(1922-1972), New Zealand writer - Samuel Eliot MorisonSamuel Eliot MorisonSamuel Eliot Morison, Rear Admiral, United States Naval Reserve was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history that were both authoritative and highly readable. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1912, and taught history at the university for 40 years...
(1887-1976), American historian - Shelley MorrisonShelley MorrisonShelley Morrison is an American actress. Early in her career, she was sometimes credited as Rachel Domínguez. Morrison has been a theater and television actress since the early 1960s, predominantly as a character actress in ethnic roles...
(born 1936), American actress - Sterling MorrisonSterling MorrisonHolmes Sterling Morrison, Jr. was one of the founding members of the rock group The Velvet Underground, usually playing electric guitar, occasionally bass guitar, and singing backing vocals.-Biography:...
(1942-1995), American musician - Temuera MorrisonTemuera MorrisonTemuera Derek Morrison is a New Zealand-born actor. He has become one of the country's most famous stars for his roles as the abusive Jake "the Muss" Heke in 1994's Once Were Warriors and as bounty hunter Jango Fett and the Clone Troopers in the Star Wars series...
(born 1960), New Zealand actor - Theodore Nevin MorrisonTheodore Nevin MorrisonTheodore Nevin Morrison was a 20th century bishop in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. He was Bishop of Iowa from 1898 to 1929.-Early life & Ministry:...
(1850 - 1929), Episcopal Bishop in the United States - Toni MorrisonToni MorrisonToni Morrison is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved...
(born 1931), American author, Nobel Prize winner - Van MorrisonVan MorrisonVan Morrison, OBE is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are regarded as transcendental and inspired; while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are widely...
(born 1945), Northern Irish singer/songwriter - Walter Frederick MorrisonWalter Frederick MorrisonWalter Fredrick "Fred" Morrison was an American inventor and entrepreneur, best known as the inventor of the Frisbee. He was born in Richfield, Utah....
(born 1920), American inventor of the frisbeeFrisbeeA flying disc is a disc-shaped glider that is generally plastic and roughly in diameter, with a lip. The shape of the disc, an airfoil in cross-section, allows it to fly by generating lift as it moves through the air while rotating....
See also
- MorisonMorisonMorison is a surname found in the English-speaking world. It is a variant form of Morrison.-People with this surname:* James Cotter Morison , English writer* Robert Morison , Scottish botanist...
(surname) - Baron MorrisonBaron MorrisonBaron Morrison, of Tottenham in the County of Middlesex, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 16 November 1945 for the Labour politician Robert Morrison...
, a title in the United Kingdom Peerage - Morrison-Bell BaronetsMorrison-Bell BaronetsThere have been two Baronetcies created for members of the Morrison-Bell family, both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.The Morrison-Bell Baronetcy, of Otterburn Hall in Elsdon in the County of Northumberland, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 18 December 1905 for Charles...
, a Baronetage of the United Kingdom - Clan MorrisonClan MorrisonClan Morrison is a Scottish clan. There are numerous Scottish clans, both Highland and Lowland, which use the surname Morrison. In 1965, the Lord Lyon King of Arms decided to recognise one man as chief of all Morrisons, whether their clans were related or not.-Morrisons of mainland Scotland:The...
, a Scottish Highland clan