Tait (surname)
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Tait is a Scottish
surname
that most likely originated in Norway
, Scotland
. The origins of the name can be traced back as far as 1100. Tait is derived from the word for cheerful.
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
surname
Surname
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that most likely originated in Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
. The origins of the name can be traced back as far as 1100. Tait is derived from the word for cheerful.
People
- Adam Tait, motoring journalist
- Alan TaitAlan TaitAlan V. Tait is a Scottish rugby footballer and coach. He is currently head coach at Newcastle Falcons and a former rugby league and rugby union footballer who played outside centre for Scotland and the British and Irish Lions...
, Scottish rugby player - Alex Tait, New Zealand cricketer
- Alex TaitAlex Tait (rugby player)Alex Tait is a rugby union player for Newcastle Falcons in the Aviva Premiership. Tait's usual position is fullback but he can also cover at centre. He made his first team début for Newcastle against Cetransa El Salvador in November 2007.He is the younger brother of England international Mathew...
, English rugby player - Angus TaitAngus TaitSir Angus Tait, KNZM, OBE was a New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman.Angus Tait had a childhood fascination for electronics and during and after high school at Waitaki Boys' High School, he worked in a friend's radio store...
, New Zealand businessman - Archibald Campbell TaitArchibald Campbell TaitArchibald Campbell Tait was a priest in the Church of England and an Archbishop of Canterbury.-Life:Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Tait was educated at the Royal High School and at the Edinburgh Academy, where he was twice elected dux. His parents were Presbyterian but he early turned towards the...
, archbishop of CanterburyArchbishop of CanterburyThe Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group... - Arthur Fitzwilliam TaitArthur Fitzwilliam TaitArthur Fitzwilliam Tait was an American artist who is known mostly for his paintings of wildlife. During most of his career, he was associated with the New York City art scene.-Biography:...
, American artist - Blyth TaitBlyth TaitBlyth Tait is a New Zealand equestrian. Tait has competed at four Olympics and has won four medals, one of only four New Zealanders to do so....
, New Zealand Olympic equestrian - Brian Tait, Omaha, Ne. U.S.A. Artist
- Charles TaitCharles TaitCharles Tait was an American politician. A Democratic Republican, he served as a United States Senator from Georgia and later as a United States federal judge.-Early life:...
, American politician - Charles Tait (film director)Charles Tait (film director)Charles Tait , together with two of his brothers, was an Australian concert, film and theatrical entrepreneur, but his most notable achievement was as the director and writer of The Story of the Kelly Gang, an Australian film, regarded as the world's first feature length film...
, early Australian film director - David M. TaitDavid M. TaitDavid Martin Tait OBE is a Scottish-born commercial airline executive, brand/marketing consultant and syndicated travel columnist best known for his work as the architect of the Virgin Atlantic Airways business plan and the company’s first employee in North America...
OBE, Airline executive, Laker Airways, Virgin Atlantic, Air Canada - David TaitDavid TaitDavid Tait is a rugby union player for Sale Sharks in the Guinness Premiership. Tait plays as a Number 8, although he can also operate as a Flanker....
, English rugby union player - Edward Tait, former SEC Director and Federal Trade Commissioner
- Gregor TaitGregor TaitGregor Tait is a Scottish swimmer. He was the Commonwealth Games 200 m backstroke and 200 m individual medley champion at the 2006 games in Melbourne....
, Scottish swimmer - James Brian "Willie" TaitJames Brian TaitGroup Captain James Brian Tait DSO and three bars, DFC and bar was an officer in the Royal Air Force during and after World War II. He conducted 101 bombing missions during the war, including those which finally sank the German battleship Tirpitz in 1944...
, Second world war bomber pilot - James Edward TaitJames Edward TaitJames Edward Tait VC MC , was a Scottish/Canadian 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.-Biography:Tait was born on 27 May 1886 to James Bryden Tait and Mary Johnstone...
, Canadian recipient of the Victoria CrossVictoria CrossThe Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories.... - James Tait, Royal Incorporation of British Architects Silver Medal Winner 2008
- Jason TaitJason TaitJason Tait is a Canadian musician. He is the drummer for the Canadian indie rock band The Weakerthans, and has also been a contributing member of Broken Social Scene and The FemBots. He also played drums for the Painted Thin album Small Acts of Love and Rebellion, released in 1995...
, Canadian drummer - Joe TaitJoe TaitJoseph "Joe" Tait is an American sports broadcaster, who called the radio play by play for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA. With the exception of two seasons in the early 1980s and illness in 2010-11, he has been the Cavaliers' radio announcer since the team's inception in 1970...
, American radio sports broadcaster - John Tait (disambiguation), one of several people including
- John TaitJohn Tait (athlete)John Tait was a Canadian athlete. Known as Canada's "Boy Wonder", he competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He was born in Toronto, Ontario.In 1908, at just 19 years of age, Tait won his first round heat of the 1500 metres with a time of 4:12.2...
, Canadian athlete - John TaitJohn Tait (football)John Bernard Tait is a former American football offensive lineman, who played for both the Kansas City Chiefs, and the Chicago Bears of the National Football League...
, American football player - John TaitJohn Tait (rugby)John Noel Tait is a former Canadian rugby player.He played 37 games for Canada. His brother is Luke Tait, who also plays on the Canadian national rugby team.- External links :*...
, Canadian rugby player - John Tait (egyptologist), Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and PhilologyEdwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and PhilologyThe Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology is a university professorial chair held at University College London.-History:The Chair was founded on the death of Amelia Edwards of the Egyptian Exploration Fund in 1892, who bequeathing her collection of Egyptian antiquities to...
at University College LondonUniversity College LondonUniversity College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
- John Tait
- John Guthrie TaitJohn Guthrie TaitJohn "Jack" Guthrie Tait was a Scottish educator who became principal of the Central College of Bangalore prioir to the First World War. In his early adulthood, Tait was a notable sportsman playing rugby union as a forward for Cambridge University and represented the Scotland international team...
, Scottish educator and international rugby player - Katharine Tait, British writer Katharine Russell, daughter of Bertrand RussellBertrand RussellBertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things...
- Lawson Tait, Scottish gynecologist
- Margaret TaitMargaret TaitMargaret Caroline Tait was a Scottish film maker and poet.-Life:Tait was born and raised in Kirkwall on Orkney, an island off the coast of Scotland.Tait died in Kirkwall in 1999.-Training and career:...
, Scottish film maker and poet - Mathew TaitMathew TaitMathew Tait is an English rugby union footballer. He is an outside centre, a fullback or wing...
, English rugby union player - Merepeka Raukawa-TaitMerepeka Raukawa-TaitMerepeka Raukawa-Tait is a former chief executive of the Women's Refuge organisation of New Zealand. She also stood as a candidate for Parliament, serving briefly as deputy leader of the small Christian Heritage Party.-Early life:...
, chief executive of the Women's Refuge organisation of New ZealandNew ZealandNew Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga... - Michael TaitMichael TaitMichael DeWayne Tait is a Contemporary Christian Music artist. Michael Tait met Toby McKeehan and Kevin Max while attending Liberty University in the late 1980s, and formed four-time grammy winning band DC Talk, with whom he released 5 acclaimed studio albums...
, American musician - Peter Guthrie TaitPeter Guthrie TaitPeter Guthrie Tait FRSE was a Scottish mathematical physicist, best known for the seminal energy physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, which contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical...
, Scottish mathematical physicist - Richard TaitRichard TaitProfessor Richard Tait CBE, is Director of the Centre for Journalism Studies at Cardiff University and a member of the BBC Trust, the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation....
, BBCBBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
Governor - Robin TaitRobin TaitRobin Douglas Tait was a discus thrower, who represented New Zealand at two Summer Olympics: 1968 and 1972....
(1940–1984), New Zealand discus thrower - Shaun TaitShaun TaitShaun William Tait is a professional Australian cricketer, who currently plays only in the Twenty20 format. Tait plays domestic cricket for South Australia and is also a representative for Australia at Twenty20 International level; he has also represented his country in One Day Internationals and...
, Australian cricketer - Thomas S. TaitThomas S. TaitThomas Smith Tait was a prominent Scottish Modernist architect. He designed a number of buildings around the world in Art Deco and Streamline Moderne styles, notably St...
, Scottish architect - Thomas J. TaitThomas James TaitSir Thomas James Tait was a Canadian-born rail executive.Born in Melbourne, Quebec, the son of Melbourne McTaggart Tait, Tait entered the service of the Grand Trunk Railway in 1880, and by 1903 he was manager of transportation with Canadian Pacific Railway company.In March 1903 Tait was appointed...
, Canadian railwayman, VictorianRail transport in VictoriaRail transport in Victoria, Australia, is provided by a number of railway operators who operate over the government-owned railway lines. Victorian lines use broad gauge, with the exception of a number of standard gauge freight and interstate lines, a few experimental narrow gauge lines, and...
railway commissionerVictorian RailwaysThe Victorian Railways operated railways in the Australian state of Victoria from 1859 to 1983. The first railways in Victoria were private companies, but when these companies failed or defaulted, the Victorian Railways was established to take over their operations... - Timothy Tait, Canadian/American physicist