Armstrong is a surname of English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 and Scottish borders

Scottish Borders

The Scottish Borders is one of 32 local government council areas of Scotland. It is bordered by Dumfries and Galloway in the west, South Lanarkshire and West Lothian in the north west, City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian to the north; and the non-metropolitan counties of Northumberland...

 origin. It derives from a Middle English

Middle English

Middle English is the stage in the history of the English language during the High and Late Middle Ages, or roughly during the four centuries between the late 11th and the late 15th century....

 nickname which meant someone with strong arms. In Ireland the name was adopted as an Anglicization

Anglicisation

Anglicisation, or anglicization , is the process of converting verbal or written elements of any other language into a form that is more comprehensible to an English speaker, or, more generally, of altering something such that it becomes English in form or character.The term most often refers to...

 of two Gaelic

Gaels

The Gaels or Goidels are speakers of one of the Goidelic Celtic languages: Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx. Goidelic speech originated in Ireland and subsequently spread to western and northern Scotland and the Isle of Man....

 names from Ulster

Ulster

Ulster is one of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the north of the island. In ancient Ireland, it was one of the fifths ruled by a "king of over-kings" . Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the ancient kingdoms were shired into a number of counties for administrative and judicial...

: Mac Thréinfhir (meaning 'son of the strong man') and Ó Labhradha Tréan (meaning 'strong O'Lavery'). Clan Armstrong

Clan Armstrong

Clan Armstrong is an armigerous clan whose origins lie in Cumberland, south of the frontier between Scotland and England which was officially established in 1237....

 is a clan

Clan

A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, clan members may be organized around a founding member or apical ancestor. The kinship-based bonds may be symbolical, whereby the clan shares a "stipulated" common ancestor that is a...

 from the border area between England and Scotland.

From the name Ó Labhradha Tréan (meaning 'strong O'Lavery' and sometimes written in AngloIrish as "Tréanlámagh") the following surnames survive: "Trainor", Traynor", O'Lavery", "O'Laverty", "McLavery", "McLaverty", MacLavery" and "MacLaverty". Although the name "Armstrong" is quite common in the Glenavy area of County Antrim in Northern Ireland the other names are to be found within the 9 Ulster Counties and Scotland especially along the west coast.

Real people

• The Armstrong wrestling
  Professional wrestling
  Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...
  
   family (real last name James), including:
  • Bob Armstrong
    Bob Armstrong
    Joseph Melton James is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, "Bullet" Bob Armstrong. In the course of his career, which spanned five decades, Armstrong held numerous championships throughout the Southeastern United States...
    
     (born Joseph James, 1939), and his sons:
    • Scott Armstrong (born Joseph James, Jr., 1959)
    • Brad Armstrong (wrestler) (born Bradley James, 1961)
    • Steve Armstrong
      Steve Armstrong
      Steve Armstrong is a professional wrestler and is the son of the legendary "Bullet" Bob Armstrong. He has three brothers that also wrestle: Scott, Brad and Brian.-Professional wrestling career:...
      
       (born Steve James, 1965)
    • Brian Armstrong (born Brian Gerard James
      Brian Gerard James
      Brian Gerard James is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to WWE as an agent and producer. He is best known for his tenure with the World Wrestling Federation as "The Road Dogg" Jesse James or simply Road Dogg...
      
      , 1969)
• Adam Armstrong
  Adam Armstrong
  Adam Alexander Armstrong, OBE, MC was an Australian politician. Born in Deniliquin, New South Wales, he was a grazier before serving in the military 1939-45 . Subsequently he became involved in local politics, serving on Conargo Shire Council...
  
   (1909-1982), Australian politician
• Alexander Armstrong several people, including:
  • Alexander Armstrong (comedian)
    Alexander Armstrong (comedian)
    Alexander Henry Fenwick Armstrong is a British comedian, actor and television presenter.-Early life and career:Armstrong was born in Rothbury, Northumberland, the youngest of three children, to Henry Angus Armstrong and his wife Emma Virginia Peronnet Thompson-McCausland, daughter of Lucius...
    
    , English comedian
• Alun Armstrong (actor)
  Alun Armstrong (actor)
  Alun Armstrong is a prolific British character actor. Armstrong grew up in County Durham in North East England. He first became interested in acting through Shakespeare productions at his grammar school. Since his career began in the early 1970s, he has played, in his words, "the full spectrum of...
  
  , English actor
• Alun Armstrong (footballer)
  Alun Armstrong (footballer)
  Alun Armstrong was an English professional footballer.-Career:Armstrong's first club was Newcastle United, where in October 1993 he came up from their youth team. He left in June 1994 having not played for them, and signed to Stockport County for £50,000. In 200 games for them, he scored 62 goals...
  
  , English player
• Annie Armstrong
  Annie Armstrong
  Annie Armstrong was a lay Southern Baptist denominational leader instrumental in the founding of the Woman's Missionary Union.-Early life:...
  
   (1850 - 1938) American missionary leader
• Anton Armstrong
  Anton Armstrong
  Dr. Anton Armstrong is the conductor of the St. Olaf Choir as well as the Harry R. and Thora H. Tosdal Professor of Music at St. Olaf College of Northfield, Minnesota in the USA. Armstrong became only the fourth director of the St. Olaf Choir in 1990, continuing the tradition begun by the choir's...
  
  , American choral conductor and St. Olaf College professor
• Archibald Armstrong
  Archibald Armstrong
  Archibald Armstrong , court jester, called "Archy," was a native of Scotland or of Cumberland, and according to tradition first distinguished himself as a sheep-stealer; afterwards he entered the service of James VI, with whom he became a favourite.-At court:When the king succeeded to the English...
  
  , (d. March, 1672) court jester to James I
  James I of England
  James VI and I was King of Scots as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the English and Scottish crowns on 24 March 1603...
  
   and Charles I
  Charles I of England
  Charles I was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England, attempting to obtain royal revenue whilst Parliament sought to curb his Royal prerogative which Charles...
  
  
• B. J. Armstrong
  B. J. Armstrong
  Benjamin Roy "B. J." Armstrong, Jr. is a retired American professional basketball player. As a starting point guard, he was an integral part of the NBA's Chicago Bulls dynasty of the 1990s....
  
  , former basketball player, most notably with the Chicago Bulls
• Billie Joe Armstrong
  Billie Joe Armstrong
  Billie Joe Armstrong is an American rock musician and occasional actor, best known as the lead vocalist, main songwriter and lead guitarist for the American punk rock band Green Day...
  
  , American vocalist of Green Day
• Brad Armstrong several people, including:
  • Brad Armstrong (porn star)
    Brad Armstrong (porn star)
    Rodney Hopkins is a Canadian pornographic actor and director, known professionally as Brad Armstrong. He has been known as one of the multi-million-dollar sex industry's most popular leading men, as well as "The King of Porn" and "The Spielberg of Skin Directors". He was once married to Jenna...
    
    , Canadian porn star
• Brian Armstrong (footballer)
  Brian Armstrong (footballer)
  Brian Armstrong is a former New Zealand association football player who represented New Zealand.Armstrong made his full All Whites debut in a 5-1 win over Fiji on 17 February 1973 and he ended his international playing career with 9 A-international caps to his credit, his final cap being a...
  
  , New Zealand international football (soccer) player
• Bruce Armstrong
  Bruce Armstrong
  Bruce Charles Armstrong is a former offensive tackle in the National Football League from 1987 to 2000, playing all fourteen seasons with the New England Patriots...
  
  , American football player
• Campbell Armstrong
  Campbell Armstrong
  -Life:Campbell Armstrong graduated with a degree in Philosophy from the University of Sussex, England He taught creative writing from 1971-74 at the State University of New York; from 1975-78 he taught at Arizona State University.He worked for some years as a fiction editor with various London...
  
  , a Scottish writer
• Charles Armstrong
  Charles Armstrong (disambiguation)
  Charles Armstrong may refer to:*Charles Armstrong , British ethnographer and technologist*Charles Armstrong , American rower who won a medal at the 1904 Summer Olympics...
  
   several people, including:
  • Charles Armstrong (ethnographer), English ethnographer and technologist
  • Charles Armstrong (rower)
    Charles Armstrong (rower)
    Charles Ewing Armstrong was an American rower who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.He was born in Philadelphia.In 1904 he was part of the American boat, which won the gold medal in the eights....
    
    , American Olympic gold medalist in rowing
  • Charles Armstrong (physician)
    Charles Armstrong (physician)
    Charles Armstrong was an American physician in the U.S. Public Health Service. He coined the name Lymphocytic choriomeningitis in 1934 after isolating the hitherto completely unknown virus...
    
    , American virologist in the US Public Health Service
• Chris Armstrong several people, including:
  • Chris Armstrong (footballer born 1971)
    Chris Armstrong (footballer born 1971)
    Christopher Peter "Chris" Armstrong is an English former England B international footballer who has played as a striker for Wrexham , Millwall, Crystal Palace, Tottenham Hotspur and Bolton Wanderers between 1989 and 2005.-Crystal Palace:After short spells with Wrexham and Millwall, Armstrong found...
    
    , English player
  • Chris Armstrong (footballer born 1982)
    Chris Armstrong (footballer born 1982)
    Christopher "Chris" Armstrong is a retired professional footballer, who most recently played for Reading in the Football League Championship.He retired due to being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis...
    
    , English player
  • Chris Armstrong (ice hockey), Canadian player
• Colby Armstrong
  Colby Armstrong
  Colby Joseph Armstrong is a Canadian professional ice hockey player, who is an alternate captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs.-Early life:...
  
  , Canadian hockey player
• Craig Armstrong several people, including:
  • Craig Armstrong (composer), Scottish
  • Craig Armstrong (footballer)
    Craig Armstrong (footballer)
    Steven Craig Armstrong, is an English professional footballer who is currently player-coach at Hucknall Town and is formerly the joint manager of Eastwood Town...
    
    , English player
• Curtis Armstrong
  Curtis Armstrong
  Curtis Armstrong is an American actor best known for his portrayal as Booger in the Revenge of the Nerds movies, as Herbert Viola on Moonlighting, and as famed record producer Ahmet Ertegün in the film Ray.-Early life:...
  
  , American actor
• Darrell Armstrong
  Darrell Armstrong
  Darrell Eugene Armstrong is a former American professional basketball player, who played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association...
  
  , American professional basketball player
• Davey Armstrong
  Davey Armstrong
  Davey Lee Armstrong is a retired boxer from the United States.-Amateur career:Armstrong began boxing at the Tacoma Boys Club, along with future world champions Rocky Lockridge and Johnny Bumphus, as well as 1972 Olympic Gold Medalist Sugar Ray Seales.Armstrong represented the USA at the 1972...
  
  , American boxer
• David Armstrong several people, including:
  • David L. Armstrong
    David L. Armstrong
    David L. Armstrong was mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from 1999 to 2003.Armstrong was born in Hope, Arkansas. Prior to becoming mayor, he had served as Jefferson County Judge/Executive since 1989. He was raised in Madison, Indiana...
    
    , mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, Jefferson County Judge-Executive and Attorney General of Kentucky
  • David Malet Armstrong
    David Malet Armstrong
    David Malet Armstrong , often D. M. Armstrong, is an Australian philosopher. He is well-known for his work on metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, and for his defence of a factualist ontology, a functionalist theory of the mind, an externalist epistemology, and a necessitarian conception of the...
    
    , an Australian philosopher
• Debbie Armstrong
  Debbie Armstrong
  Deborah Rae Armstrong is a former alpine ski racer from Seattle. She was the first gold medalist from the U.S...
  
  , Olympic gold medalist in the area of Alpine skiing
• Dido (singer)
  Dido (singer)
  Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong , known as Dido, is an English singer-songwriter.Dido shot to worldwide success with her debut album, No Angel...
  
  , aka Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong, British pop singer
• Dwight Armstrong
  Dwight Armstrong
  Dwight Alan Armstrong was an American anti-Vietnam War activist who was one of four persons involved in the August 24, 1970, Sterling Hall bombing on the campus University of Wisconsin–Madison, in an act of political protest against the University's research efforts on behalf of the United States...
  
  , American domestic terrorist
• Edwin Armstrong, full name Edwin Howard Armstrong, (1890-1954), American electrical engineer and inventor of FM radio
• Edward Armstrong several people, including:
  • Edward R. Armstrong, a Canadian-born, American inventor
• Elizabeth Armstrong
  Elizabeth Armstrong
  Elizabeth Armstrong is a female water polo goalkeeper from the United States, who won the gold medal with the United States women's national water polo team at the 2007 Pan American Games. She made her debut for the national team in 2006...
  
  , an American water polo goalkeeper
• Elizabeth Armstrong (settler)
  Elizabeth Armstrong (settler)
  Elizabeth Armstrong was a settler at the site of the Apple River Fort in present-day Elizabeth, Illinois. She was praised for her bravery during the Battle of Apple River Fort in the 1832 Black Hawk War.-Early life:...
  
  , an American settler who took part in the Black Hawk War
• Ernest Armstrong
  Ernest Armstrong
  Ernest Armstrong was a British Labour Party politician.Armstrong was educated at Wolsingham Grammar School and City of Leeds Teacher Training College, and ultimately became a headmaster...
  
   (1915–1996), a British Labour Party politician.
• Eugene Armstrong, American construction contractor who was beheaded in Iraq
• Frank A. Armstrong
  Frank A. Armstrong
  Frank Alton Armstrong, Jr. was a brigadier general in the United States Army Air Forces and the inspiration for the main character in the novel and subsequent film, Twelve O'Clock High. After the war he became a lieutenant general in the United States Air Force.Armstrong was born in Hamilton,...
  
  , a United States Air Force General
• Frankie Armstrong
  Frankie Armstrong
  Frankie Armstrong is a singer and voice teacher.She has worked as a singer in the folk scene and the women's movement and as a trainer in social and youth work...
  
  , English vocalist
• Garner Ted Armstrong
  Garner Ted Armstrong
  Garner Ted Armstrong was an American evangelist and the son of Herbert W. Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God, at the time a Sabbatarian organization that taught strict observance of seventh-day Sabbath, holy days typically associated with the Jewish faith, and other observances...
  
   (1930-2003), American evangelist, son of Herbert W. Armstrong
• Gary Armstrong
  Gary Armstrong
  Gary Armstrong is a former Scottish rugby union player who played scrum-half. He played for Jed-Forest RFC, Newcastle Falcons, The Borders and represented Scotland and the British Lions. His nickname is the Border Terrier...
  
  , Scottish rugby player
• Gary Armstrong (footballer)
  Gary Armstrong (footballer)
  Gary Stephen Armstrong is an English former professional association football player. His clubs included Wimbledon, Crewe Alexandra and Gillingham.-References:...
  
  
• George Armstrong several people, including:
  • George Armstrong (actor)
    George Armstrong (actor)
    George Armstrong is a former actor. His first role was as Hubert Lane in Just William in 1977....
    
    , English actor
  • George Armstrong (footballer)
    George Armstrong (footballer)
    George "Geordie" Armstrong was an English football player and coach, primarily associated with Arsenal.Born in Hebburn, County Durham, Armstrong had trained as an electrician while playing in youth football, and was rejected by both Newcastle United and Grimsby Town. Nevertheless, he succeeded in...
    
    , English football player
  • George Armstrong (ice hockey), Canadian hockey player
• Gillian Armstrong
  Gillian Armstrong
  Gillian May Armstrong is an award-winning Australian director of feature films and documentaries.- Career :Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Gillian Armstrong grew up in the eastern suburb of Mitcham. She graduated from Swinburne Technical College in 1968 where she studied theatrical costume design and...
  
  , Australian film director
• Heather Armstrong
  Heather Armstrong
  Heather B. Armstrong is an American blogger who resides in Salt Lake City, Utah. She writes under the pseudonym of Dooce...
  
  , aka Dooce, American writer
• Harry Armstrong or Henry Armstrong several people including
  • Henry Armstrong
    Henry Armstrong
    Henry Jackson Jr. was a world boxing champion who fought under the name Henry Armstrong. He is universally regarded as one of the greatest fighters of all time by many boxing critics and fellow professionals.Henry Jr...
    
    , American boxer
• Herbert Rowse Armstrong
  Herbert Rowse Armstrong
  Herbert Rowse Armstrong TD. MA. was an English solicitor and convicted murderer, the only solicitor in the history of the United Kingdom to have been hanged for murder...
  
   (1870-1922), British murderer - the "Hay poisoner",
• Herbert W. Armstrong
  Herbert W. Armstrong
  Herbert W. Armstrong founded the Worldwide Church of God in the late 1930s, as well as Ambassador College in 1946, and was an early pioneer of radio and tele-evangelism, originally taking to the airwaves in the 1930s from Eugene, Oregon...
  
   (1892-1986), American evangelist, father of Garner Ted Armstrong
• Hilary Armstrong
  Hilary Armstrong
  Hilary Jane Armstrong, Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for North West Durham from 1987 to 2010.-Early life:...
  
  , British politician
• Hilton Armstrong
  Hilton Armstrong
  Hilton A. Armstrong, Jr. is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for ASVEL Basket. He played forward/center for the University of Connecticut Huskies...
  
  , American basketball player
• Tim Armstrong, (1875-1942) New Zealand politician
• J. Scott Armstrong
  J. Scott Armstrong
  J. Scott Armstrong is an author, forecasting and marketing expert, and a professor of Marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania....
  
  , Wharton Business School professor
• James Armstrong several people, including:
  • James Armstrong (Pennsylvania)
    James Armstrong (Pennsylvania)
    James Armstrong was an American physician and politician.Armstrong was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the son of Brigadier General John Armstrong and the brother of John Armstrong, Jr., who became the U.S. Secretary of War...
    
    , US Congressman from Pennsylvania
  • James Armstrong (footballer)
    James Armstrong (footballer)
    James Armstrong, –1966) is a former professional footballer who played as a centre forward.-References:...
    
    , former professional footballer
• Jeannette Armstrong
  Jeannette Armstrong
  Jeannette Armstrong is an Okanagan Canadian author, educator, artist, and activist. She was born and grew up on the Penticton Indian reserve in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley...
  
  , Canadian writer
• Jerome Armstrong
  Jerome Armstrong
  Jerome Armstrong is an American political strategist and blogger. He is credited as one of the architects of Howard Dean's '04 grassroots Presidential campaign, and one of the leading web strategists in the world...
  
  , American journalist
• Joe Armstrong several people, including:
  • Joe Armstrong (football scout)
  • Joe Armstrong (actor)
    Joe Armstrong (actor)
    Joe Armstrong is an English actor. He played Allan A Dale in the BBC series Robin Hood. He plays Hotspur in the forthcoming BBC production of Henry IV, Part 1 and he will appear in the film Closer to the Moon by Nae Caranfil...
    
    
  • Joe E. Armstrong
    Joe E. Armstrong
    Joe E. Armstrong is an American politician and a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for the 15th district, which encompasses part of Knox County...
    
    
• John Armstrong
  John Armstrong (disambiguation)
  John Armstrong may refer to:*John Armstrong , Scottish journalist and poet*John Armstrong , English physician*John Alexander Macdonald Armstrong , Canadian politician...
  
   several people, including:
  • John Armstrong of Langholm and Staplegorton
    Johnnie Armstrong
    Johnnie Armstrong or Johnie Armstrong is a Child ballad number 169 and relates to the story of Scottish raider and folk-hero Johnnie Armstrong of Gilnockie, who was captured and hanged by King James V in 1530.-History:...
    
    , called Johnnie Armstrong of Gilnockie (d. 1530), notorious outlaw of the Anglo-Scottish border
  • John Armstrong, Sr. (1717–1795), American general and Continental Congressman
  • John Armstrong, Jr.
    John Armstrong, Jr.
    John Armstrong, Jr. was an American soldier and statesman who was a delegate to the Continental Congress, U.S. Senator from New York, and Secretary of War.-Early life and Revolutionary War:...
    
     (1758-1843), American soldier and statesman, United States Senator, U.S. Secretary of War and U.S. Minister to France
  • John Armstrong (footballer born 1936)
    John Armstrong (footballer born 1936)
    John Armstrong, born September 5, 1936 in Airdrie is a former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.-References:...
    
    , former professional footballer
  • John Armstrong (poet)
    John Armstrong (poet)
    Dr. John Armstrong was a poet. He was the son of the minister of Castleton, Roxburghshire, Scotland and studied medicine, which he practised in London....
    
     (1709-1779) Scottish poet.
  • John Alexander Macdonald Armstrong
    John Alexander Macdonald Armstrong
    John Alexander Macdonald Armstrong was a Canadian politician, conveyancer and real estate agent. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1911 election as a Member of the historical Conservative Party and re-elected in 1917 as a Unionist...
    
    , Canadian politician
• Joseph Armstrong several people, including:
  • Joseph G. Armstrong
    Joseph G. Armstrong
    Joseph G. Armstrong was born in what is today the Northside neighborhood of the U.S. city of Pittsburgh. He became a glassmaker and eventually participated in the glass union and labor movement. From his labor connections he was elected to City Council and then ran successfully for County Coroner...
    
    , Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Karen Armstrong
  Karen Armstrong
  Karen Armstrong FRSL , is a British author and commentator who is the author of twelve books on comparative religion. A former Roman Catholic nun, she went from a conservative to a more liberal and mystical faith...
  
  , English author
• KC Armstrong, American radio personality and comedian
• Kelley Armstrong
  Kelley Armstrong
  Kelley Armstrong is a Canadian author, primarily of fantasy works.She has published sixteen fantasy novels , set in the world of the Women of the Otherworld and the Darkest Powers series, also two crime novels in 2007 and 2009...
  
  , Canadian author
• Ken Armstrong (footballer born 1924), an England and New Zealand dual-international footballer
• Ken Armstrong (footballer born 1959)
  Ken Armstrong (footballer born 1959)
  Kenneth Charles "Ken" Armstrong is a former professional footballer who played as a centre half. Of Scottish parentage, Armstrong was born in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, while his father was working in the area...
  
  , an English-born footballer
• Kerry Armstrong
  Kerry Armstrong
  Kerry Michelle Armstrong is an Australian actress on film, television, and stage. She is one of only two actresses to win two Australian Film Institute Awards in the same year...
  
  , Australian actress
• Kevin Armstrong
  Kevin Armstrong
  Kevin Armstrong was a renowned dual player who excelled at football and hurling for his local club O’Connell’s and for the Antrim senior inter-county teams in both codes from the 1940s until the 1960s....
  
  , Antrim GAA great
• Kristin Armstrong
  Kristin Armstrong
  Kristin Armstrong is a professional road bicycle racer and Olympic gold medalist, the winner of the Women's Time Trial at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Before temporarily retiring to start a family in 2009, she rode for in women's elite professional events on the National Racing Calendar ...
  
  , professional road bicycle racer and Olympic gold medalist
• Lance Armstrong
  Lance Armstrong
  Lance Edward Armstrong is an American former professional road racing cyclist who won the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times, after having survived testicular cancer. He is also the founder and chairman of the Lance Armstrong Foundation for cancer research and support...
  
  , American cyclist and record 7 time Tour de France winner
• Lee Armstrong
  Lee Armstrong
  Lee Armstrong is an American actress. She starred in two movies in 1995, Magic Island and Leprechaun 3. She had an uncredited role in the 40 minute family short "Classic Stories for Children" in 1992. According to IMDB she appeared in a commercial for Ocean Spray. She also served as an intern on...
  
  , American actress
• Louis Armstrong
  Louis Armstrong
  Louis Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana....
  
   (1901-1971), American jazz musician
• Mark Armstrong (astronomer), British amateur astronomer
• Mark Armstrong (equestrian)
  Mark Armstrong (equestrian)
  Mark Armstrong is a British international show jumper.Armstrong gained a silver medal at the 1993 European Championships, and came second in the H&H Foxhunter category in the following year's British Horse of the Year Show. He competed in the 2002 World Championships in Leipzig and has been a...
  
  , British international representative show-jumper
• Mark Armstrong (footballer)
  Mark Armstrong (footballer)
  Mark Armstrong is a former association football player who represented New Zealand at international level.Armstrong made his full All Whites debut in a 1-1 draw with Fiji on 18 February 1980 and ended his international playing career with seven A-international caps and three goals to his credit,...
  
  , New Zealand international football (soccer) player
• Mick Armstrong
  Mick Armstrong
  Mick Armstrong is a socialist activist and author based in Melbourne, Australia. He is one of the founding members of the Trotskyist organisation Socialist Alternative and was also one of the Austudy Five....
  
  , Australian socialist and author
• Neil Armstrong
  Neil Armstrong
  Neil Alden Armstrong is an American former astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor, United States Naval Aviator, and the first person to set foot upon the Moon....
  
   (born 1930), American astronaut, first person on Moon
• Neil Armstrong (ice hockey)
  Neil Armstrong (ice hockey)
  Neil P. Armstrong is a former professional ice hockey linesman, and is an Honoured Member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.- Career :...
  
  
• Neill Armstrong
  Neill Armstrong
  Neill Ford Armstrong is a former American football player and coach whose career spanned more than 40 years at both the collegiate and professional levels....
  
  , American football player
• Otis Armstrong
  Otis Armstrong
  Otis Armstrong was a running back in the NFL. He played for the Denver Broncos for his entire career from 1973-1980. Before his NFL career, Armstrong played for Purdue University becoming the school's all-time leading rusher...
  
  , American football player
• Paige Armstrong
  Paige Armstrong
  Paige Armstong is an American Christian rock musician. She is currently signed to Whiplash Records and has released one album, titled Wake Up, under that label. Armstrong is best known for her feature on a Bath & Body Works holiday compilation album sponsored by the Make-A-Wish Foundation...
  
  , American Christian singer-songwriter
• Paul Armstrong
  Paul Armstrong
  Paul Armstrong is an Irish footballer. His most natural position is in the centre of midfield, although he has played as a defender...
  
  , Irish international football (soccer) player
• Peter Armstrong
  Peter Armstrong (poet)
  This page is about the UK poet Peter Armstrong. For his namesake the Canadian journalist, see Peter Armstrong . For other namesakes, see below.Peter Armstrong is a poet and psychotherapist.-Life:...
  
  , (born 1957), English poet
• Rebekka Armstrong
  Rebekka Armstrong
  Rebekka Lynn Armstrong is a Playboy Playmate, whose announcement in 1994 that she was HIV-positive made international headlines.-Biography:...
  
  , bodybuilder, former Playboy model and AIDS activist
• Richard Armstrong several people, including:
  • Richard Lee Armstrong
    Richard Lee Armstrong
    Richard Lee “Dick” Armstrong was an American/Canadian scientist who was an expert in the fields of radiogenic isotope geochemistry and geochronology, geochemical evolution of the earth, geology of the American Cordillera, and large-magnitude crustal extension...
    
     (1937-1991), American/Canadian professor, geochemist
• Robert Armstrong several people, including:
  • Robert Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster
    Robert Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster
    Robert Temple Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster GCB, CVO , son of the musician Sir Thomas Armstrong, is a British life peer and former civil servant.-Life:...
    
    
• Ron Armstrong
  Ron Armstrong
  Ronald W Armstrong is a former New Zealand association football player who represented New Zealand.Armstrong made his full All Whites debut in a 2-4 loss to New Caledonia on 18 July 1971 and he ended his international playing career with 25 A-international caps to his credit, his final cap being in...
  
  , a New Zealand international footballer
• Samaire Armstrong
  Samaire Armstrong
  Samaire Rhys Armstrong is an American actress, fashion designer and model. She is best known for her roles in Stay Alive, The O.C. and It's a Boy Girl Thing. Her best known role to date is portraying the role of Juliet Darling in the ABC television series Dirty Sexy Money...
  
  , American actress
• Samuel Armstrong several people, including:
  • Samuel C. Armstrong
    Samuel C. Armstrong
    Samuel Chapman Armstrong was an American educator and a commissioned officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War...
    
     (1839-1893), American educator
  • Samuel Turell Armstrong
    Samuel Turell Armstrong
    Samuel Turell Armstrong was a U.S. political figure. Born in 1784 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, he was a bookseller in Boston, and among other works published a stereotype edition of Scott's family Bible, which was widely circulated.Orphaned at the age of thirteen, Samuel Armstrong attended public...
    
     (1874-1850), American politician
• The Armstrong Twins
  The Armstrong Twins
  The Armstrong Twins were a bluegrass and country duo consisting of the twins Floyd and Lloyd Armstrong. They were born on January 24, 1930 in De Witt, Arkansas to a musical family, and active mostly in the 1940s and '50s....
  
  , bluegrass and country music act in the 1940s and '50s
• Thomas Armstrong
  Thomas Armstrong (disambiguation)
  Thomas, Tom or Tommy Armstrong may refer to:* Sir Thomas Armstrong , English organist, conductor, educationalist and adjudicator* Thomas Armstrong , English cricketer for Nottinghamshire...
  
  , several people, including
  • Sir Thomas Armstrong
    Sir Thomas Armstrong
    Sir Thomas Armstrong was an army officer and MP executed for Treason.During the Interregnum he was a supporter of Charles II, participating in the plot to seize Chester Castle in 1655, and carrying funds from Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford to Charles in exile. He was possibly imprisoned for a...
    
    , (c. 1633-1684), English Army officer and Member of Parliament executed for treason
  • Sir Thomas Armstrong (conductor) (1898-1994), organist and conductor
• Thomas H. Armstrong
  Thomas H. Armstrong
  Thomas Henry Armstrong was a Minnesota banker, lawyer, legislator, and the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota. Born in Milan, Ohio, moved to Minnesota, and became Lieutenant Governor under Governor William Rainey Marshall from January 8, 1866 to January 7, 1870...
  
  
• Tim Armstrong
  Tim Armstrong
  Timothy Lockwood Armstrong is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known for his work with punk rock bands Rancid, Operation Ivy, Downfall, and the Transplants. He is also the owner and operator of Hellcat Records.-Personal life:Armstrong was born November 25, 1965 and was...
  
  , American punk rock musician
• Tom Armstrong (cartoonist)
• Tommy G. Armstrong
  Tommy Armstrong (Louisiana politician)
  Tommy Gene Armstrong is a businessman from Shreveport, Louisiana, who served as a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1991-1992. He filled the unexpired term of the Democrat, Robert P. "Bobby" Waddell, who resigned to become a state district court judge...
  
  , Louisiana businessman and politician
• Trace Armstrong
  Trace Armstrong
  Raymond Lester "Trace" Armstrong, III is a former American college and professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League for fifteen seasons from the late 1980s to the early 2000s...
  
  , American football player
• Vaughn Armstrong
  Vaughn Armstrong
  Vaughn Dale Armstrong is an American actor.-Prior to acting:Armstrong served in the United States military and saw action in the Vietnam War.-Star Trek:...
  
  , American actor
• Ward Armstrong
  Ward Armstrong
  Ward Lynn Armstrong is an American trial lawyer and politician. He has been a Democratic member of the Virginia House of Delegates since 1992. He currently serves as the Minority leader.-Early life:...
  
  , American politician from Virginia
• Warwick Armstrong
  Warwick Armstrong
  Warwick Windridge Armstrong was an Australian cricketer who played 50 Test matches between 1902 and 1921. An all-rounder, he captained Australia in ten Test matches between 1920 and 1921 and was undefeated, winning eight Tests and drawing two...
  
  , Australian Test cricketer
• William Armstrong several people, including:
  • William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong
    William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong
    William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong CB, FRS was an effective Tyneside industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing empire.-Early life:...
    
     (1810-1900), English industrialist
  • William H. Armstrong
    William H. Armstrong
    William H. Armstrong was an American children's author and educator, best known for his 1969 Newbery Medal-winning novel, Sounder....
    
    , American author
  • William L. Armstrong
    William L. Armstrong
    William Lester "Bill" Armstrong is an American businessman and politician. He is member of the Republican party and was a United States Representative and Senator from Colorado. Armstrong was born in Fremont, Nebraska...
    
    , American politician
  • William Ward Armstrong
    William Ward Armstrong
    William Ward Armstrong is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1966 and is most known as the originator Armstrong's axioms of dependency in a Relational database.-Works:...
    
    , Canadian mathematician and computer scientist

Fictional people

• Alex Louis Armstrong, the state alchemist from Fullmetal Alchemist
  Fullmetal Alchemist
  , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa. The world of Fullmetal Alchemist is styled after the European Industrial Revolution...
  
  
• Coach Armstrong, character in Degrassi: The Next Generation.
• Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy
  Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy
  Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy was a radio adventure series which maintained its popularity from 1933 to 1951. The program originated at WBBM in Chicago on July 31, 1933, and was later carried on CBS, then NBC and finally ABC....
  
  , radio series character on the show of the same name (1933-51)
• Stretch Armstrong
  Stretch Armstrong
  Stretch Armstrong was a large, gel-filled action figure first introduced in 1976 by Kenner.-History:Stretch Armstrong was in the shape of a well-muscled blonde man wearing a pair of swimming trunks. Its most notable feature was that the doll could be stretched from its original size to four or...
  
  , action figure first introduced in the 1970s
• Tina Armstrong and her father, Bass, people from the Dead or Alive video game series