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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