Parker (surname)
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Parker is a family name
of English
origin, derived from Old French
with the meaning "keeper of the park". "Parker" was also a nickname
given to gamekeeper
s in medieval England. It is the 51st-most common surname in the United Kingdom. Within the United States, it is ranked as the 47th-most common surname
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Notable persons with the name include:
Family name
A family name is a type of surname and part of a person's name indicating the family to which the person belongs. The use of family names is widespread in cultures around the world...
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...
origin, derived from Old French
Old French
Old French was the Romance dialect continuum spoken in territories that span roughly the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium and Switzerland from the 9th century to the 14th century...
with the meaning "keeper of the park". "Parker" was also a nickname
Nickname
A nickname is "a usually familiar or humorous but sometimes pointed or cruel name given to a person or place, as a supposedly appropriate replacement for or addition to the proper name.", or a name similar in origin and pronunciation from the original name....
given to gamekeeper
Gamekeeper
A gamekeeper is a person who manages an area of countryside to make sure there is enough game for shooting, or fish for angling, and who actively manages areas of woodland, moorland, waterway or farmland for the benefit of game birds, deer, fish and wildlife in general.Typically, a gamekeeper is...
s in medieval England. It is the 51st-most common surname in the United Kingdom. Within the United States, it is ranked as the 47th-most common surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
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Notable persons with the name include:
- Parker (Hampshire cricketer)Parker (Hampshire cricketer)Parker was an English professional cricketer.-Career:He was mainly associated with Hampshire and he made 3 known appearances in first-class matches from 1803 to 1806 .-External sources:*...
, English cricketer playing 1803-1806 - Alan ParkerAlan ParkerSir Alan William Parker, CBE is an English film director, producer, writer and actor. He has been active in both the British cinema and American cinema and was a founding member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain.-Life and career:...
, English film director - Alton B. ParkerAlton B. ParkerAlton Brooks Parker was an American lawyer, judge and the Democratic nominee for U.S. president in the 1904 elections.-Life:...
- Arthur C. ParkerArthur C. ParkerArthur Caswell Parker was an American archaeologist, historian, folklorist, museologist and noted authority on American Indian culture. Of Seneca and Scots-English descent, he was director of the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences from 1924 to 1945, when he developed its holdings and research...
- Anthony ParkerAnthony ParkerAnthony Michael Parker is an American professional basketball player who last played with the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association . After graduating from Bradley University with a major in liberal arts, he entered the 1997 NBA Draft and played briefly in the NBA before...
, American basketball player, currently with the Toronto Raptors - Bonnie Parker of Bonnie and ClydeBonnie and ClydeBonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow were well-known outlaws, robbers, and criminals who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression. Their exploits captured the attention of the American public during the "public enemy era" between 1931 and 1934...
- Camilla Parker Bowles (now Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall)
- Cameron ParkerCameron ParkerCameron Holdsworth Parker OBE BSc is a former Scottish businessman and a former Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire. Parker has been chairman and served on the board of many engineering companies, including British Shipbuilders and was a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights in the...
- Candace ParkerCandace ParkerCandace Nicole Parker is an All-American basketball player for the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks and is also the younger sister of NBA player Anthony Parker. She was drafted to the team from Tennessee in 2008...
, American basketball player (and younger sister of Anthony), currently with the Los Angeles Sparks - Charles Parker (numerous people share this name)
- Charlie ParkerCharlie ParkerCharles Parker, Jr. , famously called Bird or Yardbird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer....
, American jazz musician - Claire Parker (see Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire ParkerAlexandre Alexeieff and Claire ParkerAlexandre Alexandrovitch Alexeieff was a Russian-born artist, filmmaker and illustrator who lived and worked mainly in Paris...
) - Clifton ParkerClifton ParkerClifton Parker was an English composer, particularly noted for his film scores. During his career, he composed scores for over 50 feature films, as well as numerous documentary shorts, radio and television scores, over 100 songs and music for ballet and theatre.- Life :Edward John Clifton Parker...
- Colonel Tom ParkerColonel Tom Parker"Colonel" Thomas Andrew "Tom" Parker born Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk, was a Dutch-born entertainment impresario known best as the manager of Elvis Presley...
, Dutch-American impresario most famous as the manager of Elvis Presley - Corey Parker (Rugby League professional; Brisbane Broncos, Queensland and Australia)
- Cynthia Ann ParkerCynthia Ann ParkerCynthia Ann Parker, or Naduah , was an American woman of old colonial stock of Scots-Irish descent who was captured and kidnapped at the age of nine by a American Indian band which massacred her family and...
- Dave ParkerDave ParkerDavid Gene "The Cobra" Parker is an American former player in Major League Baseball. He was the 1978 National League MVP and a two-time batting champion. Parker was the first professional athlete to earn an average of one million dollars per year, having signed a 5-year, $5 million dollar contract...
, American baseball player - Dave ParkerDave Parker (rock musician)Dave Parker is an American musician, producer and writer. He was born in 15 July 1978 in Savannah, Georgia.- Bleed Theory and Divest :Bleed Theory began as a studio project, more or less, by Dave Parker, Nate Kelley and Kurt Brown in the fall of 1997. Nate asked Morgan Evans to come down and...
, American musician - Dave ParkerDave Parker (rugby league)G. David "Dave" Parker is a former professional rugby league footballer of the 1960s who at representative level has played for Great Britain, and at club level for Oldham, playing at /, i.e. number 13, during the era of contested scrums....
, English rugby league player - Dawaun ParkerDawaun ParkerDawaun Parker is a Grammy Award winning, multi-platinum musician, record producer and rap artist.Dawaun Parker is a staff songwriter and producer for Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment label...
, a hip hop producer - Donald C. ParkerDonald C. ParkerDonald C. Parker, also known as Don Parker, is an American retired physician and amateur astronomer, specializing in the research of the Solar System and planetary photography...
, American physician and amateur astronomer - Dorothy ParkerDorothy ParkerDorothy Parker was an American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles....
(born Dorothy Rothschild), American writer - Edna ParkerEdna ParkerEdna Ruth Parker was an American supercentenarian and, until her death, was recognized as the oldest person in the world following the death of Yone Minagawa of Japan on August 13, 2007. She assumed the title at age 114 years 115 days...
- Ernest Tilden ParkerE. T. ParkerErnest Tilden Parker is a professor emeritus from Ohio State University. He is notable for his breakthrough work along with R. C. Bose and S. S. Shrikhande in their disproof of the famous conjecture made by Leonhard Euler dated 1782 that there do not exist two mutually orthogonal latin squares of...
, professor emeritus from Ohio State University - Edwin Wallace ParkerEdwin Wallace ParkerEdwin Wallace Parker was an American Methodist Episcopal missionary bishop, born at St. Johnsbury, Vt. He was educated at the St. Johnsbury Academy and at the General Biblical Institute at Concord, N. H., joining the Vermont Conference of his denomination in 1857. In 1859 he sailed for India and...
, a Methodist bishop - Eleanor ParkerEleanor ParkerEleanor Jean Parker is an American screen actress. Her versatility led to her being dubbed Woman of a Thousand Faces, the title of her biography by Doug McClelland.- Early life :...
- Ellis Parker ButlerEllis Parker ButlerEllis Parker Butler was an American author.Butler was born in Muscatine, Iowa. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays and is most famous for his short story "Pigs is Pigs", in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a...
- Ely S. ParkerEly S. ParkerEly Samuel Parker , was a Seneca attorney, engineer, and tribal diplomat. He was commissioned a lieutenant colonel during the American Civil War, when he served as adjutant to General Ulysses S. Grant. He wrote the final draft of the Confederate surrender terms at Appomattox...
- Eugene ParkerEugene ParkerEugene N. Parker is an American solar astrophysicist who received his B.S. degree in physics from Michigan State University in 1948 and Ph.D. from Caltech in 1951. In the mid 1950s Parker developed the theory on the supersonic solar wind and predicted the Parker spiral shape of the solar magnetic...
, astrophysicist - Evan ParkerEvan ParkerEvan Shaw Parker is a British free-improvising saxophone player from the European free jazz scene.Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free jazz and free improvisation, and has pioneered or substantially expanded...
- Fess ParkerFess ParkerFess Elisha Parker, Jr. was an American film and television actor best known for his portrayals of Davy Crockett in the Walt Disney 1955-56 TV mini-series and as TV's Daniel Boone from 1964-70...
, American actor - Francis Parker YockeyFrancis Parker YockeyFrancis Parker Yockey was an American political thinker and polemicist best known for his neo-Spenglerian book Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics, published under the pen name Ulick Varange in 1948. This 600-page book argues for a culture-based, totalitarian path for the...
- Garry ParkerGarry ParkerGarry Parker is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder for Luton Town, Hull City, Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa and Leicester City, mostly in the top division of English football, in the 1980s and 1990s. He was capped by his country at under-21 and B international level...
, English footballer - Geoff ParkerGeoff ParkerProfessor Geoffrey Alan Parker FRS is a Derby professor of biology at the University of Liverpool.He has a particular interest in behavioural ecology and evolutionary biology, and is most noted for introducing the concept of sperm competition in 1970.Much of his work from the 1970s onwards has...
- Geoffrey Parker (historian)Geoffrey Parker (historian)Noel Geoffrey Parker is a leading hispanist and expert on military history. His best known book is Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800, first published by Cambridge University Press in 1988. A fellow of the British Academy, he holds his BA, MA, Ph.D. and...
- George Parker (numerous people share this name), including:
- George Parker, 2nd Earl of MacclesfieldGeorge Parker, 2nd Earl of MacclesfieldGeorge Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, FRS was an English peer and astronomer.Styled Viscount Parker from 1721 to 1732, he was Member of Parliament for Wallingford from 1722 to 1727, but his interests were not in politics...
- Georgie ParkerGeorgie ParkerGeorgina "Georgie" Parker is an Australian television actress. She grew up in the suburb of St. Ives.-Personal life:...
- George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield
- Gloria ParkerGloria ParkerGlorious Gloria Parker is an American entertainer and female icon during the big band or swing era, as an all girl bandleader. The Gloria Parker Show aired nightly from 1950 to 1957, coast to coast on WABC Radio and Parker entertained her audience playing the marimba, organ and the singing glasses...
, actress and musician - Graham ParkerGraham ParkerGraham Parker is a British rock singer and songwriter, who is best known as the lead singer of the popular British band Graham Parker & the Rumour.-Early career :...
- Hampton Wildman ParkerHampton Wildman ParkerHampton Wildman Parker was an English zoologist.Parker was Keeper of Zoology at the Natural History Museum from 1947 to 1957. He is the author of a works on snakes and frogs: Parker discovered the Vesey-Fitzgerald's Burrowing Skink on the Seychelles which he named after entomologist Leslie Desmond...
, zoologist and author - Horatio ParkerHoratio ParkerHoratio William Parker was an American composer, organist and teacher. He was a central figure in musical life in New Haven, Connecticut in the late 19th century, and is best remembered as the teacher of Charles Ives....
(1863–1919), American composer - Isaac ParkerIsaac ParkerIsaac Charles Parker served as a U.S. District Judge presiding over the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas for 21 years and also one-time politician. He served in that capacity during the most dangerous time for law enforcement during the western expansion...
, U.S. Judge for the Indian Territory - Ivan ParkerIvan Parker-Musical career:Ivan Parker was raised in Sanford, North Carolina, where his father was a pastor in a Pentecostal church. In 1982, Parker joined the Singing Americans, and in 1983 he became lead vocalist of the Dove Award-winning group the Gold City Quartet...
, gospel singer - Jack Parker (numerous people share this name)
- Jamie ParkerJamie ParkerJamie Parker is an English actor and singer.-Biography:He trained in acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art , from which he graduated in 2002.Parker originated the role of Scripps in Alan Bennett's play The History Boys...
, English actor - Jamie Parker (politician)Jamie Parker (politician)Jamie Thomas Parker MP, an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Balmain for the Greens since 2011...
, Australian Greens politician - Jeff Parker (wrestler), Canadian professional wrestler, better known as Jagged and Scott Parker
- John Parker HaleJohn P. HaleJohn Parker Hale was an American politician and lawyer from New Hampshire. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1843 to 1845 and in the United States Senate from 1847 to 1853 and again from 1855 to 1865. He was the first senator to make a stand against slavery...
- John Parker (numerous people share this name)
- Johnny Parker (jazz pianist)Johnny Parker (jazz pianist)Johnny Parker was a British jazz pianist.- Early life :Parker was born in Beckenham, Kent. In 1940, his family moved to Wiltshire where Parker was exposed to American Forces Network broadcasts, and first heard boogie-woogie piano at a US Air Force base...
, jazz pianist - Keigan ParkerKeigan ParkerKeigan Parker is a Scottish footballer who plays for non-league A.F.C. Fylde.-St. Johnstone:Parker, a striker, started his career with Scottish club St. Johnstone, where he made a promising start to his career and was being tipped by many to have a big future. While at St. Johnstone, he gained...
, Scottish footballer - Kevin Parker (politician) (New York State Senator)
- Keith Parker WilliamsKeith P. WilliamsKeith Parker Williams was a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's fourteenth House district, including constituents in Onslow county. A real estate broker and developer from Hubert, North Carolina, Williams is currently serving in his first term in the...
- K.J. Parker
- Lionel Dyke "Pete" ParkerPete ParkerLionel Dyke "Pete" Parker A.K.A Spiderman. was a Canadian radio announcer. He was one of the first persons to ever broadcast ice hockey. He served overseas in World War I from 1916 to 1919.-March 14, 1923 broadcast:...
- Maceo ParkerMaceo ParkerMaceo Parker is an American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s, as well as Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970s. Parker was a prominent soloist on many of Brown's hit recordings, and a key part of his band, playing alto, tenor and baritone saxophones...
- Mary-Louise ParkerMary-Louise ParkerMary-Louise Parker is an American actress, known for her current lead role on Showtime's television series Weeds portraying Nancy Botwin, for which she has received several nominations and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 2006...
- Matthew ParkerMatthew ParkerMatthew Parker was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1559 until his death in 1575. He was also an influential theologian and arguably the co-founder of Anglican theological thought....
- Maurice S. ParkerMaurice S. ParkerMaurice S. Parker is a United States diplomat and career foreign service officer of the State Department. , he is the United States Ambassador to Swaziland. President Bush nominated him as ambassador on April 30, 2007...
, United States diplomat - Melvin ParkerMelvin ParkerMelvin Parker is a drummer, brother of saxophonist Maceo Parker and was an important member of James Brown's band. Parker's drumming style was a major ingredient in James Brown's funk music innovations in the late 1960s...
- Nicole ParkerNicole ParkerNicole Frances Parker is an Emmy Award-winning actress and singer best known for her work on Fox's sketch comedy show MADtv. In July 2009, she concluded her run as Elphaba in the Broadway production of Wicked...
, American actress - Paul Parker, various people called Paul Parker
- Pauline ParkerPauline ParkerPauline Yvonne Parker is a woman from Christchurch, New Zealand who, together with her friend Juliet Hulme , murdered her mother, Honora Rieper, on 22 June 1954...
of the Parker-Hulme murder - Peter ParkerPeter Parker (disambiguation)Spider-Man, a Marvel comic book superhero, is the secret identity of Peter Parker.Peter Parker may also refer to:*Peter Parker , chairman of the British Railways Board 1976-1983...
(numerous people share this name; also the alter ego of Spider-ManSpider-ManSpider-Man is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko. He first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15...
) - Pomeroy ParkerPomeroy ParkerPomeroy Parker was a private serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Spanish–American War who received the Medal of Honor for bravery.-Biography:...
, American Medal of Honor recipient - Quanah ParkerQuanah ParkerQuanah Parker was a Comanche chief, a leader in the Native American Church, and the last leader of the powerful Quahadi band before they surrendered their battle of the Great Plains and went to a reservation in Indian Territory...
- Ray Parker, Jr.Ray Parker, Jr.Ray Erskine Parker, Jr. , is an American guitarist, songwriter, producer and recording artist. Parker is known for writing and performing the theme song to the motion picture Ghostbusters, for his solo hits, and performing with his band Raydio as well as the late Barry White.-Early life and...
, American musician - Robert Parker (numerous people share this name)
- Sarah ParkerSarah ParkerSarah Parker is an American judge, currently the Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.-Education and career:...
- Sarah Jessica ParkerSarah Jessica ParkerSarah Jessica Parker is an American film, television, and theater actress and producer.She is best known for her leading role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City , for which she won four Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Emmy Awards...
, American actress - Scott ParkerScott Parker (footballer)Scott Matthew Parker is an English footballer who plays for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the England national team. He is the FWA Footballer of the Year for the 2010–11 season. He has represented England at every level from under-16 to senior. Uniquely, he won his first four England...
, English footballer - Shane ParkerShane A. ParkerShane A. Parker was a British-born museum curator and ornithologist, who emigrated to Australia in 1967 after participating in the second Harold Hall Australian ornithological collecting expedition in 1964...
, Australian ornithologist - Sidney ParkerSidney Parker (anarchist)Sidney Parker, also known as S. E. Parker, is a British egoist individualist anarchist who wrote articles and edited anarchist journals from 1963-1993.- External links :...
, British individual anarchist - Sonny Parker (numerous people share this name)
- Stuart ParkerStuart ParkerStuart Parker was leader of the Green Party in British Columbia, Canada, from 1993 to 2000. In 2009, during the Ontario by-election to replace MPP Michael Byrant, he unsuccessfully sought the Ontario New Democratic Party nomination for the St...
- Suzy ParkerSuzy ParkerSuzy Parker was an American model and actress active from 1947 into the early 1960s. Her modeling career reached its zenith during the 1950s when she appeared on the cover of dozens of magazines, advertisements, and in movie and television roles.She appeared in several Revlon advertisements, but...
- Theodore ParkerTheodore ParkerTheodore Parker was an American Transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church...
, Unitarian minister - Theodore A. Parker IIITheodore A. Parker IIITheodore A. "Ted" Parker III was an American ornithologist who specialized in the Neotropics. He "was widely considered the finest field birder / ornithologist that the world had ever seen." .-Biography:...
, ornithologist - Theodore W. ParkerTheodore W. ParkerTheodore William Parker was a United States Army four star general who served as Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe from 1963 to 1969-Military career:...
, United States Army General - Thomas Parker (numerous people share this name), including:
- Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of MacclesfieldThomas Parker, 1st Earl of MacclesfieldThomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield PC, FRS was an English Whig politician.-Youth and early career:He was born in Staffordshire, the son of Thomas Parker, an attorney at Leek. He was educated at Adams' Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge...
- Thomas Parker (engineer)Thomas Parker (engineer)Thomas Parker was chief mechanical engineer of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway from 1886-1893.He was Carriage and Wagon Superintendent at the railway's Gorton works from 1858 and then replaced Charles Reboul Sacre who resigned in 1886...
British locomotive engineer
- Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield
- Timothy Britten "Toby" ParkerTimothy Britten ParkerTimothy Britten Parker , also known as Toby, is an American stage, film, and television actor.-Background:Parker was born in Iowa City, Iowa and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. He moved to New York City with his family in 1977 as he began pursuing his professional career. Toby is one of eight children...
, American actor - Timothy Parker (puzzle designer), crossword puzzle creator
- Tom Parker (numerous people share this name)
- Tony ParkerTony ParkerWilliam Anthony "Tony" Parker is a French professional basketball player who currently plays for the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA....
, French professional basketball player - Trey ParkerTrey ParkerTrey Parker is an American animator, screenwriter, director, producer, voice artist, musician and actor, best known for being the co-creator of the television series South Park along with his creative partner and best friend Matt Stone.Parker started his film career in 1992, making a holiday short...
, American animator and filmmaker best known as co-creator of South ParkSouth ParkSouth Park is an American animated television series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central television network. Intended for mature audiences, the show has become famous for its crude language, surreal, satirical, and dark humor that lampoons a wide range of topics... - Walter Richard ParkerWalter Richard ParkerWalter Richard Parker VC was an English 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....
- William Parker (numerous people share this name)