Carruthers is a Scottish surname and clan, originating from the lands of Carruthers in Dumfriesshire. The place name is derived from the Cumbric for "Rhydderch's fort" possibly in reference to Riderch I of Alt Clut.
Chris Carruthers (born 1983), English footballer
David Carruthers (born 1957), British businessman
Sir David Carruthers, New Zealand judge
Douglas Carruthers (1882–1962), soldier, explorer, and naturalist
Elizabeth Carruthers (born 1951), Canadian diver
George Robert Carruthers (born 1939), American physicist and inventor
Ian Carruthers, British National Health Service manager
Jimmy Carruthers (1929–1990), Australian world champion boxer
John Carruthers (footballer) (1900–1959), English footballer
Kitty Carruthers (born 1961), American pairs figure skater
Mark Carruthers (born 1965), British talk show host on BBC
Peter Carruthers (philosopher) (born 1952), British philosopher
Peter Carruthers (born 1959), American pairs figure skater
Peter A. Carruthers (1935–1997), American physicist
Robert Carruthers (1799–1878), Scottish journalist and writer
Robert L. Caruthers (1800–1882), American politician and judge, governor-elect of Tennessee in 1863
Samir Carruthers (born 1993), Irish footballer
Wallace Bruce Matthews Carruthers (1863–1910), Canadian soldier and founder of the Canadian Signal Corps
William Carruthers (1830–1922), British botanist
Will Carruthers (born 1967), alternative rock musician
Carruthers, protagonist of Robert Erskine Childers' novel Riddle of the Sands
Bob Carruthers, a character from the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
Elizabeth and Peter Carruthers, a married couple; she inherits his trading firm, Carruthers & Co., in the 2016 Discovery Channel/Netflix series Frontier
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