MacMillan, Macmillan, McMillen or McMillan are variants of a Scottish surname. The origin of the name is said to derive from the origin of the Scottish Clan MacMillan. The progenitor of the Clan was said to be Airbertach, Hebridean prince of the old royal house of Moray. Airbertach had a son named Cormac, who was a Bishop, and Cormac's own son Gilchrist or, in Gaelic, Gille Chriosd, the progenitor of the Clann an Mhaoil, was a religious man like his father; and it was because of this that he wore the tonsure which gave him the nickname Maolan or Gillemaol. As a Columban priest, his head would have been shaved over the front of his head in the style of Saint John the Evangelist, rather than at the vertex of head (the dominant style in The Church of Rome). This distinctive tonsure is described in Gaelic as 'Mhaoillan'. The name MacMillan thus literally means, "son of the tonsure".
People having this name include:
Robbie Coltrane (real name Anthony McMillan, born 1950), British actor
Alexander Macmillan (disambiguation), several persons
Angus McMillan (1810–1865), Australian explorer
Archie McMillan (1894–1917), Scottish footballer
Brian McMillan (born 1963), South African Cricketer
Brockway McMillan (1915–2016), American scientist, former Under Secretary of the Air Force and the second Director of the National Reconnaissance Office
Bruce McMillan (disambiguation), several persons
Colin R. McMillan (1935–2003), former Assistant United States Secretary of Defense
Craig McMillan (born 1976), New Zealand Cricketer
Daniel Hunter McMillan (1846–1933), Manitoba politician
Daniel MacMillan (1813–1857), British publisher, brother of Alexander Macmillan (publisher)
Dave MacMillan (1886–1963), American basketball coach
Dave McMillan (racing driver) (born 1944), New Zealand former racing driver
David MacMillan, a Scottish born professor of organic chemistry
David McMillan (footballer) (born 1988), Irish footballer
Donald Baxter MacMillan (1874–1970), American explorer
Duncan MacMillan (disambiguation), several persons
Edwin McMillan (1907–1991), American chemist and Nobel Prize winner
Ethel McMillan (1904–1987), New Zealand politician
Evan McMillan (born 1988), Irish footballer
Frank McMillan (1899–1966), Australian rugby league footballer
Frew McMillan (born 1942), South African tennis player
Gervan McMillan (1904–1951), New Zealand politician
Gordon McMillan (born c. 1927), American ice hockey player
Gordon McMillan (born c. 1953), South African Cricket and Badminton player
Gordon Holmes Alexander MacMillan (1897–1986), British World War II general and Hereditary Chief of the Clan MacMillan
Graham McMillan (born 1936), soccer player
Hammy McMillan (born 1963), Scottish world champion curler
Harold Macmillan (1894–1986), British prime minister
Helen E. McMillan (1909–1984), American politician
Herbert H. McMillan (born 1958), American politician
H. R. MacMillan (1885–1976), Canadian forester
Ian McMillan (born 1956), British poet
J. Douglas MacMillan (1933–1991), Scottish pastor
James McMillan (disambiguation), several persons
John McMillan (disambiguation), several persons
Joseph McMillan (born 1953), U.S. vexillologist and heraldist
Kenneth G. McMillan (born 1942), American politician
Sir Kenneth MacMillan (1929–1992), Scottish-born choreographer
Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1812–1878), Scottish blacksmith who invented the rear-wheel-driven bicycle
Marcia MacMillan (born 1970), Canadian news anchor
Margaret MacMillan (born 1943), Canadian historian
Margaret McMillan (1860–1931), nursery education pioneer
Nate McMillan (born 1964), former NBA player and coach of the Portland Trail Blazers
Norman MacMillan (disambiguation), several persons
Quintin McMillan (1904–1948), South African cricketer
Robert McMillan (disambiguation), several person
Stephen McMillan (born 1976), Scottish former footballer
Thomas S. McMillan (1888–1939), American lawyer, politician, and college baseball coach
William MacMillan (disambiguation), several persons
Whitney MacMillan (born 1929), American businessman
Trillian (character), or Tricia McMillan, character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Ernie Macmillan, character in the Harry Potter book series
Captain MacMillan, SAS sniper in the 2007 video game Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Stewart and Sally McMillan, title roles in the television series McMillan & Wife
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