Moffat (surname)
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Moffat or Moffatt is a surname, of Scottish origin (see Clan Moffat
). It may refer to:
Clan Moffat
-Origins of the clan:The Moffats are an ancient Borders family who were influential and powerful as far back as the time of Sir William Wallace. The ancestor of the Moffats most likely gave their name to the town of Moffat in Dumfriesshire. The origin of the name itself is thought to be Norse...
). It may refer to:
People with the surname
- Aidan MoffatAidan MoffatAidan John Moffat is a Scottish vocalist and musician, best known for his work with Malcolm Middleton in Arab Strap.-Early life:...
, ScottishScotlandScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
vocalist and musicianMusicianA musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
of Arab Strap (band)Arab Strap (band)Arab Strap were an indie rock band from Scotland that consisted of core members Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton. The band were signed to independent record label Chemikal Underground, and split in 2006... - Alfred Edward MoffatAlfred Edward MoffatAlfred Edward Moffat was a Scottish musician, composer and collector of music. He was born in Edinburgh on 4th December 1863. His father was John Moffat, a photographer, and his mother was Sophia Maria Knott. He was educated at Edinburgh Collegiate School in 27-28 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh....
(1863-1950), a Scottish musician, composer and collector of music. - Alfred MoffattAlfred MoffattAlfred Augustine Moffatt was an Australian sportsman and later civil servant. He played cricket for Western Australia, and Australian rules football for the West Perth Football Club in the West Australian Football Association...
(1870–1956), Australian sportsman and administrator - Allan MoffatAllan MoffatAllan George Moffat, OBE is an Australian racing driver known for his four wins in the Australian Touring Car Championship, six wins in the Sandown 500 and his four wins in the Bathurst 1000...
, (b. 1939) Canadian-Australian racing driver - Anne MoffatAnne MoffatAnne Moffat, Mrs. Picking is a Scottish Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for East Lothian from 2001 to 2010...
, (b. 1958) Scottish politician - Ariane MoffattAriane MoffattAriane Moffatt is a Canadian francophone singer-songwriter based in Quebec. She has won Félix and Juno Awards and has performed and collaborated with many artists such as Daniel Bélanger and Marc Déry.-Career:...
, Québécois singer and musician - Bernard MoffattBernard MoffattBernard Moffatt was born in Peel, Isle of Man in April 1946. Both his mother and father were Manx. He was educated at Peel Clothworkers School, a stroke of luck for someone who would become a leading figure in the Nationalist movement, because at that time schools which promoted Manx cultural...
, Manx political campaigner and trade unionist - Dave MoffattDave MoffattDavid Michael William Moffatt is a Canadian actor and singer.-Early life:Moffatt was born March 8, 1984, in Vancouver, British Columbia to Frank and Darlana Moffatt. Moffatt is a fraternal triplet, while his brothers Bob and Clint, who were born on the same date, are identical twins.-Singing...
, Canadian musician - David MoffatDavid MoffatDavid Halliday Moffat was an American financier and industrialist.Moffat was one of Denver's most important financiers and industrialists in late 19th and early 20th century Colorado, and he was responsible for the development of the Middle Park area. He served as president, treasurer and as a...
, (1839-1911) American financier and industrialis - Donald MoffatDonald MoffatDonald Moffat is an English-born actor, now a naturalized American citizen.-Early life:Moffat was born in Plymouth, Devon, the only child of Kathleen Mary and Walter George Moffat, who was an insurance agent. His parents ran a boarding house in Totnes...
, (b. 1930) American actor - George Moffat (1810-1878), New Brunswick businessman and Conservative politician
- George Moffatt (1787-1865), Canadian businessman
- George Moffat, Jr.George Moffat, Jr.George Moffat was a New Brunswick businessman and political figure. He represented Restigouche in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative member from 1887 to 1891....
(1848-1918), New Brunswick Conservative politician - George B. Moffat, Jr.George B. Moffat, Jr.George B. Moffat, Jr is an author, twice world champion glider pilot, and a member of the U.S. Soaring Hall of Fame. He began flying airplanes in 1953, gliders in 1959, entered his first national soaring competition in 1962, and was still an active competition pilot as of 2008...
, American glider pilot - George Moffatt (English politician)George Moffatt (English politician)George Moffatt was a British Liberal Party politician.He was Member of Parliament for Dartmouth 1845–1852, Ashburton 1852–1859, for Honiton 1860–1865, and for Southampton 1865–1868. He was also the owner of Goodrich Court, a neo-gothic castle in Herefordshire.- External...
(d. 1878) - Graham MoffatGraham MoffatWilliam Graham Moffat was a Scottish actor, director and playwright. He is best known for his 1910 comedy Bunty Pulls the Strings....
, Scottish playwright - Graham MoffattGraham MoffattGraham Moffatt was a British character actor and comedian.Born in Hammersmith, London, he is best known for a number of films where he appeared with Will Hay and Moore Marriott as 'Albert': an insolent, overweight, overgrown-schoolboy type character, loosely reminiscent of Billy Bunter.His first...
, British actor - Howard Unwin MoffatHoward Unwin MoffatHoward Unwin Moffat served as second premier of Southern Rhodesia, from 1927 to 1933. Born in the Kuruman mission station in Bechuanaland , Moffat was the son of the missionary John Smith Moffat and grandson of the missionary Robert Moffat, who was the friend of King Mzilikazi and the...
(1869-1951) Rhodesian politician - James MoffatJames MoffatJames Moffat , was an author who wrote under several pen names.He produced many pulp novels for the United Kingdom publishing house New English Library during the 1970s. Moffat's pen names included Richard Allen, Etienne Aubin and Trudi Maxwell...
(1922-1993) English author - James MoffattJames MoffattJames Moffatt was a theologian and graduate of Glasgow University.Moffatt trained at the Free Church College, Glasgow, and was a practising minister before becoming Professor of Greek and New Testament Exegesis at Mansfield College, Oxford in 1911. He returned to Glasgow in 1915 as Professor of...
, theologian and Bible translator - Jay Pierrepont MoffatJay Pierrepont MoffatJay Pierrepont Moffat was an American diplomat, historian and statesman who, between 1917 and 1943, served the State Department in a variety of posts, including that of Ambassador to Canada during the first year of U.S...
(1896-1943) American diplomat - Jerry MoffatJerry MoffatJerry Moffatt is a rock climber from Leicestershire, England.He came into the spotlight in the early 1980s with important ascents such as the 2nd asc...
(b. 1963) British climber - John Moffat (mining pioneer)John Moffat (mining pioneer)John Moffat was a Scottish-born entrepreneur who developed a mining and industrial empire around Loudoun Mill and Irvinebank in North Queensland which drove the development of north-eastern Australia....
- John Moffat (physicist)
- John Moffat (pilot)John Moffat (pilot)John William Charlton Moffat was a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm pilot, famous for crippling the German battleship Bismarck during its Atlantic sortie, codenamed Operation Rheinübung on 26 May 1941, whilst flying a Fairey Swordfish biplane....
who flew the aircraft which torpedoed the German Battleship BismarckGerman battleship BismarckBismarck was the first of two s built for the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. Named after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the primary force behind the German unification in 1871, the ship was laid down at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg in July 1936 and launched nearly three years later...
leading to her later destruction - John Moffatt (actor)John Moffatt (actor)John Moffatt is an English actor and playwright, perhaps best known for his portrayal of Hercule Poirot on BBC Radio....
- John Moffatt (producer)
- John Smith MoffatJohn Smith MoffatReverend John Smith Moffat was a British missionary and imperial agent in southern Africa, the son of missionary Robert Moffat and brother-in-law of missionary explorer David Livingstone....
, (1835-1918) British missionary - Laura MoffattLaura MoffattLaura Jean Moffatt is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Crawley from 1997 until 2010.-Early life:...
, British politician - Martin MoffatMartin MoffatMartin Joseph Moffat VC was born in Sligo and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
, (1884-1946) Irish soldier - Nicholas de MoffatNicholas de MoffatNicholas de Moffat was a 13th century cleric who was twice bishop-elect of Glasgow. He had been archdeacon of Teviotdale, and was elected to the bishopric of Glasgow on the first occasion in early 1259...
, (d. 1270) Scottish cleric - Peter MoffatPeter MoffatPeter Moffat is a British playwright and screenwriter. His first play was called Fine and Private Place and was broadcast on BBC Radio in 1997. His best-known plays are Nabokov's Gloves and Iona Rain....
, British playwright and screenwriter - Peter MoffattPeter MoffattPeter Moffatt was a British television director.His work includes Crane , All Creatures Great and Small and The Gentle Touch...
, (1922-2007) British television director - Robert MoffatRobert MoffatRobert Moffat was a Scottish Congregationalist missionary to Africa, and father in law of David Livingstone....
, (1795-1883) Scottish (Congregationalist) missionary to Africa - Robert MoffatRobert Moffat (politician)Robert Moffat was a New Brunswick businessman and political figure. He represented Restigouche in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative member from 1883 to 1887....
, (1844-1887) New Brunswick businessman and political figure - Sarah MoffatSarah MoffatSarah Moffat , also known as Sarah Delice and Clémence Dumas, is a fictional character in the ITV drama Upstairs, Downstairs and its spin-off Thomas & Sarah...
, fictional television character from Upstairs, DownstairsUpstairs, DownstairsUpstairs, Downstairs is a British drama television series originally produced by London Weekend Television and revived by the BBC. It ran on ITV in 68 episodes divided into five series from 1971 to 1975, and a sixth series shown on the BBC on three consecutive nights, 26–28 December 2010.Set in a... - Scott MoffattScott MoffattScott Andrew Moffatt was born on March 30, 1983 in Whitehorse, Yukon to Frank and Darlana Moffatt. Within a year after his birth, he became big brother to triplets Clint, Bob and Dave...
, U.S. musician of Canadian originin - Seth C. MoffattSeth C. MoffattSeth Crittenden Moffatt was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Moffatt was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, attended the common schools, and graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1863. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Traverse...
, U.S. politician from Michigan - Siue MoffatSiue MoffatSiue Moffat is a chocolatier, cookbook author, filmmaker, zine maker, video activist and film archivist. She was very involved in the punk community - doing volunteer administrative work on the "Book Your Own Fucking Life" site - a free online resource for independent artists and promoters, once...
, (b. 1973) writer and activist - Steven MoffatSteven MoffatSteven Moffat is a Scottish television writer and producer.Moffat's first television work was the teen drama series Press Gang. His first sitcom, Joking Apart, was inspired by the breakdown of his first marriage; conversely, his later sitcom Coupling was based upon the development of his...
, (b. 1961) Scottish television writer and producer - Tracey MoffattTracey MoffattTracey Moffatt is an Australian artist who primarily uses photography and video.Born in Brisbane in 1960, she holds a degree in visual communications from the Queensland College of Art, graduating in 1982....
, (b. 1960) Australian photographic artist - William Bonython MoffattWilliam Bonython MoffattWilliam Bonython Moffatt was an architect, who for many years was a partner with Sir George Gilbert Scott at Spring Gardens, London.Moffatt was the son of a small builder and pupil of James Edmeston...
, (1812–87) British architect