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Fytche, Ffytche, Fitche, Fitcher, Fittje, and Fitchy |
Fitch is a family name of Old French origin. Like most ancient surnames, there are a number of possible origins to the name. It may originate from the Old French word fissell meaning "an iron-pointed implement". It may also derive from William de Gernon who inherited the barony of Stansted Mountfitchet in Essex, England and took the surname "de Montifitchet". His ancestors eventually shortened the name first to "Fitche" and then to "Fitch".
Related names include Fitchet, Fitchell, Fitchen and Fitchett, as well as others. Earliest records show the name and derivatives occurring from the 12th century onwards. It may also have been used as a personal name.
Brian T. Fitch, French-Canadian nonfiction author
Clyde Fitch, American playwright
George Helgesen Fitch (1877–1915), American author, humorist, and journalist
Janet Fitch, American author
Lucy Fitch Perkins, (1865–1937), American children's author
Noël Riley Fitch, author
Sheree Fitch, Canadian children's author
Albert Fitch Bellows (1829–1883), American landscape painter
Alice Underwood Fitch (1862-1936), American painter
Graham Fitch, pianist
John Fitch (computer scientist) (born 1945), computer scientist, mathematician and composer
Rodney Fitch, English designer
Benjamin Franklin Fitch (1877-1956), author of the concept of containers in the US before the Second World War
Ezra Fitch, New York lawyer and cofounder of Abercrombie & Fitch, a clothing company
George Ashmore Fitch, YMCA Administrative Director
George B. Fitch, American businessman, politician, and Olympic organizer
John Fitch (inventor) (1743–1798), early American inventor, built the first steamboat in the United States in 1786
John Knowles Fitch (1880–1943), founder of Fitch Ratings, Ltd
Ralph Fitch, British merchant-explorer of India and Burma
Alva Revista Fitch, U.S. Army Lieutenant General
Ashbel P. Fitch (1848–1904), New York politician
Aubrey Fitch, U.S. Navy admiral
Asa Fitch (Representative) (1765–1843), US Congress representative
Chauncey Fitch Cleveland (1799–1887), US politician
George B. Fitch, American businessman, politician, and Olympic organizer
Graham N. Fitch, US Representative and Senator
Jabez W. Fitch, Democratic lieutenant-governor of Ohio from 1878 to 1880
LeRoy Fitch, officer during the American Civil War
Thomas Fitch (governor) (IV) (1699–1774), governor of the Connecticut Colony
Thomas Fitch, V (1725–1795), representative from Norwalk to the Connecticut House of Representatives, traditionally believed to be the original "Yankee Doodle Dandy."
Thomas Fitch (politician), United States Representative from Nevada
Zarnell Fitch, a US sailor lost on the U.S.S. Arizona on December 7, 1941
Alan Fitch (1915–1985), British Labour Party politician
Ralph Bruce Fitch, New Brunswick, Canada politician
In science and academia
Asa Fitch, American entomologist
Frederic Brenton Fitch, American logician and inventor of Fitch-style calculus
Henry Sheldon Fitch, American herpetologist
James Marston Fitch, historic preservationist
John Fitch (computer scientist) (born 1945), computer scientist, mathematician and composer
John A. Fitch (1881–1959), writer and professor of labor relations
John Nugent Fitch (1840–1927), botanical illustrator
Joshua Girling Fitch (1824–1903), English educationalist
Marc Fitch, English historian and philanthropist
Val Logsdon Fitch, Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist
W. Tecumseh Fitch, evolutionary psychologist
Walter M. Fitch (1929–2011), American evolutionary biologist
Walter Hood Fitch (1817–1892), Scottish botanical artist
Alfred Fitch, American Olympian
Alison Fitch, New Zealand Olympian
Bill Fitch, American college and professional basketball coach
Gerald Fitch, U.S. basketball player
Horatio Fitch, American Olympian
John Fitch (racing driver) (1917–2012), racing driver, inventor of innovative safety devices and descendent of John Fitch (inventor)
Jon Fitch, American mixed martial arts fighter
Joyce Fitch, Australian tennis player
Nathaniel Fitch (born 1958), former heavyweight boxer
Zarnell Fitch (born 1983), American football player
Charles Fitch, American preacher
Dennis E. Fitch, American commercial airline pilot
Ed Fitch (born 1937), occult author and Wiccan High Priest
Henry D. Fitch (1767–1849), early settler of San Diego, California
James P. Fitch, notable in the early history of the Boy Scouts of America
John Fitch, Massachusetts settler for whom Fitchburg, Massachusetts is named
John Fitch (racing driver) (1917–2012), racing driver, inventor of innovative safety devices and descendent of John Fitch (inventor)
John H. Fitch, namesake of YMCA Camp Fitch in Springfield, Pennsylvania
Ralph Fitch, British merchant-explorer of India and Burma
Thomas Fitch (settler) (I) (1612–1704), founding settler of Norwalk, Connecticut
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