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Sturgis (surname)

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Sturgis is a surname of Norman origin, shortened form of FitzTurgis "son of" (see Fitz) "Turgis" (former first name, now still common as a Norman surname, together with "Tourgis") from the Old Norse Þórgísl or Old Danish Thorgisl ( the name of the god Thor, and -gísl "hostage, pledge" or ON geisli "ray, pole (part of a weapon)" or OW. Norse geisl "staff", cf. Old Icelandic geisli "sun-shaft, sun beam"). It corresponds to the Nordic patronymic Þórgilsson (f. e. Ari Þorgilsson).

People with the name

  • Amy H. Sturgis (born 1971), American author
  • Caleb Sturgis (born 1989), American football player
  • Ellen Sturgis Hooper (1812–1848), American Transcendentalist poet, daughter of William F. Sturgis
  • Frank Sturgis (1924–1993), American covert operative and Watergate burglar
  • Henry Parkman Sturgis (1847–1929), American-born banker in the UK and UK politician
  • Howard Sturgis (1855–1920), English-born author
  • John Hubbard Sturgis (1834–1888), an American architect and son of the younger Russell Sturgis (1805–1887)
  • John Sturgis, journalist on The Sun, one of those arrested in Operation Elveden in February 2012
  • Julian Sturgis (1848–1904), American-British author
  • Nathan Sturgis (born 1987), American soccer player
  • Richard Clipston Sturgis (1860–1951), AKA R. Clipston Sturgis, an American architect and nephew of John Hubbard Sturgis
  • Richard Clipston Sturgis Jr. (1880–1910), an American architect and son of Richard Clipston Sturgis
  • Russell Sturgis (1836–1909), an American architect
  • Russell Sturgis (1750–1826), an American merchant and grandfather of the younger Russell Sturgis (1805–1887)
  • Russell Sturgis (1805–1887), an American-English merchant and banker
  • Samuel D. Sturgis (1822–1889), a Union general in the American Civil War
  • Samuel D. Sturgis, Jr. (1897–1964), Major General in the U.S. Army and grandson of Union general Samuel D. Sturgis
  • Scott Sturgis, American music producer
  • Simon Sturgis, first Sturgis immigrant in America, Jamestown, 1618, investor in the Kent Island Project, which became Maryland
  • William Codman Sturgis (1862–1942), American mycologist
  • William F. Sturgis (1782–1863), American merchant

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