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Duncan (surname)

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Duncan is a surname. For the etymology of the surname Duncan this web page cites: Dictionary of American Family Names. Another opinion is that the Gaelic Donnchadh is composed of the elements donn, meaning "brown"; and chadh, meaning "chief" or "noble". In some cases when the surname originates in (Sligo) Ireland it is an Anglicised form of the Gaelic Ó Duinnchinn, meaning "descendant of Donncheann". The Gaelic Donncheann is a byname composed of the elements donn, meaning "brown-haired man" or "chieftain"; and ceann, meaning "head". The surname Duncan is represented in Scottish Gaelic as MacDhonnchaidh.

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Armed forces

  • Adam Duncan, British admiral
  • Donald B. Duncan (1896-1975), American vice-admiral
  • Donald W. Duncan (b. 1930), American soldier and anti-war activist
  • Henry Duncan, British naval officer
  • W. G. G. Duncan Smith, World War II air ace

    • Sports

  • Alex Duncan (1900-1984), former Australian rules footballer with Carlton (1921-1924, 1926-1930)
  • Andy Duncan (basketball) (1922-2006), American basketball player
  • Chris Duncan (born 1981), American baseball player
  • Dave Duncan (baseball) (born 1945), Major League Baseball player and pitching coach - father of Chris Duncan and Shelley Duncan
  • Darryl Duncan, Australian rugby league footballer
  • Ian Duncan (born 1961), Kenyan rally driver
  • Jeff Duncan (baseball) (born 1978), American baseball player and coach
  • John Duncan (footballer) (born 1949), Scottish footballer who notably played for Dundee and Tottenham Hotspur
  • Johnny Duncan (footballer) (1896-1966), Scottish international footballer and manager, who was most notably with Leicester City
  • Ken Duncan (American football) (born 1946), American football player
  • Mariano Duncan, (born 1963)Dominican baseball player
  • Ross Duncan (born 1944), Australian cricketer
  • Scott Duncan (footballer) (1888–1976), former Scottish football player and manager
  • Shelley Duncan, American baseball player
  • Tim Duncan (born 1976), American basketball player
  • Vern Duncan (1890–1954), American baseball player

    • Acting

  • Carmen Duncan (born 1942), Australian actress
  • Lindsay Duncan (born 1950), British actress
  • Michael Clarke Duncan (1957-2012), American actor
  • Sandy Duncan (born 1946), American actress

    • Politics

  • Alan Duncan (born 1957), British politician
  • Arne Duncan (born 1964), U.S. Secretary of Education (2009-); politician
  • Charles William Duncan, Jr., former U.S. Secretary of Energy
  • Jimmy Duncan, American politician
  • Ken Duncan (born 1945), former Louisiana state treasurer
  • Leslie Samuel Duncan (1880–1952), newspaper editor and politician in South Australia
  • Mike Duncan, Former chairman of the Republican National Committee in the United States
  • Peter Duncan (British politician), Scottish conservative
  • Peter Duncan (Australian politician), Labor representative in South Australian and federal parliaments
  • Walter Leslie Duncan (1883–1947) Australian Senator for New South Wales
  • Sir Walter Gordon Duncan (1885–1963) South Australian pastoralist and MLC
  • Walter Hughes Duncan (1848–1906) South Australian pastoralist and MHA for Burra
  • William A. Duncan, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania

    • Music

  • Lesley Duncan, English singer and songwriter
  • Tim Duncan (singer), Southern Gospel singer
  • Trevor Duncan, English composer

    • Other fields

  • Alasdair Duncan, Australian writer
  • Dan Duncan (1933-2010), American businessman
  • Dave Duncan (writer), Canadian writer
  • David Duncan, government witness in the Enron scandal
  • David F. Duncan, epidemiologist and drug policy adviser to former US president Bill Clinton
  • Donald F. Duncan, Sr., American entrepreneur and inventor, most commonly associated with Yo-yos
  • George Smith Duncan, a tramway and mining engineer
  • Glen Duncan (born 1965), British author
  • Graham Duncan (botanist), botanist at Kirstenbosch Botanic Garden, South Africa
  • Helen Duncan (1897–1956), Scottish medium
  • Henry Duncan (1774–1846), founder of the first Trustee Savings Bank
  • Iain Duncan Smith, British politician
  • Isadora Duncan, American dancer
  • Jane Duncan (1910–1976), pseudonym of Scottish writer Elizabeth Jane Cameron
  • Jane Duncan (architect) (born 1953), British architect
  • Joseph E. Duncan III, notorious American murderer and sexual predator
  • Ken Duncan (photographer) (born 1954), Australian photographer
  • Leslie Samuel Duncan (1880–1952), newspaper editor and politician in South Australia
  • Lois Duncan (1934–2016), American writer of children's books
  • Mike Duncan (podcaster), U.S. history podcaster and writer
  • Robert Duncan (poet), U.S. beat poet
  • Scott Duncan (businessman), American billionaire
  • Stephen Duncan (1787-1867), American plantation owner in the Antebellum South
  • Thomas Eric Duncan (1972-2014), first Ebola victim of the 2014 West African outbreak to develop symptoms while in the US
  • Walter Duncan (1848-1932), British painter
  • Walter Jack Duncan (1881–1941), war artist for the US Army during World War I
  • Warren W. Duncan (1857-1938), American jurist

    • References

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