Fairchild (name)

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Fairchild is a common surname derived from the Old English words for fair or beautiful and the word child. Originally a given name, early records of its use as a surname are found in Oxfordshire, Surrey and Sussex.

List of persons with the surname

Fairchild family, descendants of Thomas Fairchild (1610–1670), son of William Fairchild (b.1577 in Essex England)

Barbara Fairchild, American country and gospel singer/songwriter from Knobel, Arkansas

Benjamin L. Fairchild (1863–1946), five-time New York State Republican Congressman

Caitlin Fairchild, fictional Gen 13 comic book heroine

Cassius Fairchild (1829–1868), Wisconsin Democratic Party Leader and Union Army Colonel, U.S. Civil War

Charles Stebbins Fairchild (1842–1924), New York State Attorney General, 38th United States Secretary of Treasury

David Grandison Fairchild (1869–1954), pioneering industrial botanist, plant explorer, son-in-law of Alexander Graham Bell

David Fairchild (California politician) (1791-1866)

Edward Henry Fairchild (1815–1889), abolishionist educator, first President of Berea College, the first fully integrated southern university

Edward Thomas Fairchild (1872–1965), jurist, Wisconsin Supreme Court

Edward Thomson Fairchild (1854–1917), New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (U. of New Hampshire) President

Frank Fairchild Wesbrook (1868–1918), First University of British Columbia President.

Fred Rogers Fairchild (1877–1966), educator/economist, holder of Seymour Knox Chair Professor of Mathematical Institutional Economics (Emeritus) Yale University

George Thompson Fairchild (1838–1901), college educator, President of Michigan State University and Kansas State University

George Winthrop Fairchild (1854–1924), New York State Senator, Republican National Convention delegate, and co-founder of IBM

Alexander Graham Bell Fairchild (1906–1994), Harvard-educated entomologist, and grandson of Alexander Graham Bell

Henry Pratt Fairchild (1880–1956), American sociologist, co-founder of Planned Parenthood

Herman LeRoy Fairchild (1850–1943), American geologist and college educator, early proponent of theorizing meteorite impact

Hiram Orlando Fairchild (1845–1925), Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly

Jim Fairchild American singer/songwriter guitarist, Band member of Modest Mouse

Jairus Cassius Fairchild (1801–1862), first Wisconsin State Treasurer, and first mayor of Madison, Wisconsin

John Russell Fairchild, Professional basketball player, drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers.

Karen Fairchild, singer in American Country band, Little Big Town.

Kelly Fairchild, American ice hockey player

LeRoy Fairchild, founded the Masonic order, the Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm in 1889

Lucius Fairchild (1831–1896), Civil War Brigadier General, three-term Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Minister to Spain, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic.

Lydia Fairchild, one of only 30 known worldwide cases of chimerism

Megan Fairchild, principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, from Salt Lake City, Utah

Morgan Fairchild, American actress from Dallas, Texas

Muir Stephen Fairchild (1894–1950), Four-star General, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force

Robert Fairchild, principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, soloist from Salt Lake City, Utah

Sherman Mills Fairchild (1896–1971), industrialist inventor, founder of Fairchild Aviation, Fairchild-Strato, Fairchild-Hiller, Fairchild Recording, and Fairchild Camera and Instrument

Thomas Edward Fairchild (1912–2007), Wisconsin Attorney General, appointed to Wisconsin Supreme Court and U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals after losing the 1952 Wisconsin Senate race to Joseph McCarthy from "McCarthy-ism" fame.

References

Fairchild (name) Wikipedia

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