Peterson (name)
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Peterson is a common English language
patronymic
surname
, meaning "son of Peter". There are over 700 variant spellings of the surname. The form Peterson may also have arisen from Danish
Petersen with a change of spelling commonly applied by Danish immigrants to English-speaking
countries. Peterson may refer to:
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
patronymic
Patronymic
A patronym, or patronymic, is a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father, grandfather or an even earlier male ancestor. A component of a name based on the name of one's mother or a female ancestor is a matronymic. Each is a means of conveying lineage.In many areas patronyms...
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"...
, meaning "son of Peter". There are over 700 variant spellings of the surname. The form Peterson may also have arisen from Danish
Danish language
Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...
Petersen with a change of spelling commonly applied by Danish immigrants to English-speaking
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
countries. Peterson may refer to:
- Adrian Peterson (b. 1985), American football running back, NFL, Minnesota Vikings
- Adrian N. Peterson (b. 1979), American football running back, NFL, Chicago Bears
- Amanda PetersonAmanda PetersonAmanda Peterson is an American actress. Peterson gained fame during the late 1980s when she portrayed Cindy Mancini, a Tucson, Arizona high-school student, in the movie Can't Buy Me Love.-Career:...
(b. 1971), American actress - Brian PetersonBrian PetersonBrian Peterson is a South African former professional footballer. He spent six years at Blackpool in the 1950s and 1960s, making over 100 Football League appearances for the club...
, South African footballer - Carla Peterson (actress)Carla Peterson (actress)Carla Constanza Peterson is an Argentine actress. She was born in Cordoba. She began her career in stage plays. Among others she appeared in Quien es Janet? with Claudia Fontan and Mariana Prömmel. She first appeared on television in 1992 telenovella "Dance Party"...
(b.1974), Argentinian actress - Cassandra PetersonCassandra PetersonCassandra Peterson is an American actress best known for her on-screen horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. She gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ wearing a black, gothic, cleavage-enhancing gown as host of Movie Macabre, a weekly horror movie presentation...
(b. 1951), American actress best known for her screen persona "Elvira" - Charles Gilbert PetersonCharles Gilbert PetersonCharles Gilbert Peterson , was an American contractor from Lockport, New York. He was an associate in Peterson & Sons with his father, Gilbert Peterson and brother, Jesse Peterson. The company executed such contracts as the waterworks of Toledo, Ohio and Grand Rapids, Michigan along with a...
(1848–1918), American Contractor and Mayor former of Lockport, NYLockport (city), New YorkLockport is a city in Niagara County, New York, United States. The population was 21,165 at the 2010 census. The name is derived from a set of Erie canal locks within the city. Lockport is the county seat of Niagara County and is surrounded by the town of Lockport... - Clark PetersonClark PetersonClark Peterson is an American film producer and entertainment executive.-Biography:A graduate of Stanford University, Peterson began his career working in development and production for producer Roger Corman, where he was involved in a number of independent productions...
,(b.1966), film producer - Chip PetersonChip PetersonCharles Bowne Peterson is an American swimmer who specializes is long-distance freestyle swimming, especially open water swimming, in which he is a world champion.-Career:...
(b. 1987), American swimmer - Collin PetersonCollin PetersonCollin Clark Peterson , is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1991, and the ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee. He is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and is the dean of the Minnesota congressional delegation.The district, Minnesota's largest and most rural...
(b. 1944), American politician, congressman from Minnesota - Dan PetersonDan PetersonDan Peterson is a former American professional basketball head coach. He resigned his most recent position as the head coach of Olimpia Milano in the Italian Serie A1 after the team was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 2011 Italian league playoffs. The team has announced that he will assume...
(b. 1936), American basketball coach - Daniel PetersonDaniel Peterson (physician)Daniel Peterson is an American physician in private practice in the state of Nevada, and has been described as a "pioneer" in the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome . He graduated from the University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, New York, in 1976 and was an intern and resident at...
, American physician in private practice in the state of Nevada - Daniel C. PetersonDaniel C. PetersonDaniel C. Peterson is a professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University and currently serves as editor-in-chief of BYU's Middle Eastern Texts Initiative. He is a member of the executive council of the Neal A...
, Professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University - David PetersonDavid PetersonDavid Robert Peterson, PC, O.Ont was the 20th Premier of the Province of Ontario, Canada, from June 26, 1985 to October 1, 1990. He was the first Liberal premier of Ontario in 42 years....
(b. 1943, Canadian politician, twentieth premier of Ontario - Dean Peterson (ice hockey)Dean Peterson (ice hockey)Dean Peterson is an Australian semi-professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Adelaide Adrenaline in the Australian Ice Hockey League.-Playing career:...
, Australian ice hockey player - Debbi PetersonDebbi PetersonDeborah Mary 'Debbi' Peterson is the younger sister of Vicki Peterson, and the drummer of the all-girl group, The Bangles...
(b. 1961), American singer - Denis PetersonDenis PetersonDenis Peterson is an American hyperrealist painter. He is a hyperrealist painter whose photorealist works have been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Butler Institute of American Art, Tate Modern, Springville Museum of Art, Corcoran MPA and Max Hutchinson Gallery...
, American painter - Donald H. PetersonDonald H. PetersonDonald Herod Peterson is a retired United States Air Force officer and a former USAF and NASA astronaut. He was born in Winona, Mississippi, on October 22, 1933...
(b. 1933), former American NASA astronaut - Drew PetersonDrew PetersonDrew Walter Peterson is a former Bolingbrook, Illinois, police sergeant who is suspected of killing his third and fourth wives. The story has received national media attention in the United States. Peterson has repeatedly denied involvement in both cases...
(b. 1954), American, former Illinois police sergeant and suspect in two murders - Elly M. PetersonElly M. PetersonElly M. Peterson , also known as Mrs. W. Merritt Peterson, was an American politician from Charlotte, Eaton County, Michigan. She was married to the late Colonel W. M. Peterson and was an overseas Red Cross volunteer in World War II...
(b. 1914), American, Michigan politician - Eric PetersonEric PetersonEric Neal Peterson, C.M. is a Canadian stage and television actor, known for his roles in three major Canadian series – Street Legal, Corner Gas and This is Wonderland.-Personal life:...
(b. 1946), Canadian actor - Eric Peterson (musician)Eric Peterson (musician)Eric Peterson is an American guitarist. He is best known as the only constant member of the US thrash metal band Testament. Eric has also formed a side-project black metal band called Dragonlord, in which he plays guitar and also sings. In Testament, Eric was originally a rhythm guitarist while...
(b. 1964), American guitarist - Esther PetersonEsther PetersonEsther Eggertsen Peterson was a lifelong consumer and women's advocate.-Background:The daughter of Danish immigrants, Esther Eggertsen grew up in a Mormon family in Provo, Utah. She graduated from Brigham Young University in 1927 with a degree in physical education. She moved to New York City...
(1906–1997), American, Assistant Secretary of Labor - Frederick Peterson (neurologist)Frederick Peterson (neurologist)Frederick Peterson was an American neurologist and poet. Peterson was at the forefront of psychoanalysis in the United States, publishing one of the first articles of Freud and Jung's theories of Free Association in 1909....
(1859–1938), American neurologist, psychiatrist, and poet - Gilbert PetersonGilbert PetersonGilbert Peterson , was an American contractor from Lockport, New York. He was the founder and President of Peterson & Sons, which he ran with his two sons, Charles Gilbert Peterson and Jesse Peterson...
(1824–1890), American Contractor - Gilles PetersonGilles PetersonGilles Peterson , is a DJ, record collector and record label owner from London, UK. Through his labels Acid Jazz, Talkin' Loud, and latterly Brownswood Recordings, he has been associated with the careers of well-known artists of the 1990s such as Erykah Badu, Roni Size and Jamiroquai...
(b. ca. 1964), English DJ - Gordon PetersonGordon PetersonGordon Peterson is an American broadcast journalist and Washington, D.C.-based television news anchor. He is the 6 p.m. co-anchor for ABC affiliate WJLA-TV and is also moderator and producer of Inside Washington, a political roundtable discussion about current political events going on in Washington...
, American broadcast journalist - Gordon Peterson, the Canadian musician Indio (music)Indio (music)Indio is a Canadian singer-songwriter whose name is Gordon Peterson. Indio released one album, 1989's Big Harvest.-History:Peterson grew up in Dundas, Ontario....
- Jeret PetersonJeret PetersonJeret "Speedy" Peterson was an American World Cup aerial skier from Boise, Idaho, skiing out of Bogus Basin. A three-time Olympian, he won the silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Peterson was found dead in Lambs Canyon, Utah on July 25, 2011...
(1981-2011), American aerial skier - Jesse PetersonJesse PetersonJesse Peterson , was an American industrialist from Lockport, New York. He was the President of the United Indurated Fibre Company, President of the Buffalo Warehouse & Distributing Company, Owner of the Cascade Pulp Mills, Director and Vice President of the Lockport Water & Electric Company and an...
(1850–1921), American Industrialist and Presidential Elector - Jim PetersonJim PetersonJames Scott "Jim" Peterson, PC is a retired Canadian politician and former Minister of International Trade.Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he has a DCL from McGill University, a Master of Laws from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Western Ontario...
(b. 1941), Canadian politician - John Peterson (disambiguation), multiple people
- Karl Ernst Peterson (1868–1958), Estonian politician and writer
- Keith PetersonKeith PetersonAlan Keith Peterson was born in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada and lives in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. He is currently the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Cambridge Bay having won the seat in the 2004 Nunavut election....
(b. 1956), Canadian politician - Kristjan Jaak PetersonKristjan Jaak PetersonKristjan Jaak Peterson also known as Christian Jacob Petersohn, was an Estonian poet, commonly regarded as a herald of Estonian national literature and the founder of modern Estonian poetry. His literary career was cut short by the tuberculosis that killed him at the age of 21. His birthday on...
(1801–1822), Estonian poet - Laci PetersonLaci PetersonLaci Denise Peterson was an American woman who was the subject of a highly discussed murder case after she went missing while seven and a half months pregnant with her first child. Peterson was reportedly last seen alive on December 24, 2002...
(1975–2002), American, murdered wife of Scott Peterson - Lynn PetersonLynn PetersonLynn Peterson was elected as the second woman to become mayor of the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario on November 10, 2003.Prior to becoming mayor, Peterson served three years as a member of Thunder Bay City Council, and had nearly 20 years of community service...
(b. ?), Canadian, mayor of Thunder Bay, Ontario - Mark PetersonMark PetersonMark Peterson was an American soccer forward who played professionally in the North American Soccer League, Major Indoor Soccer League and Western Soccer Alliance. He also earned six caps, scoring one goal, with the United States men's national soccer team.-Youth:Peterson was born and raised in...
(b. 1960), American soccer player - Maurice PetersonMaurice PetersonSir Maurice Drummond Peterson GCMG was a British diplomatist.Peterson entered the foreign service in 1913 and served from 1921 to 1922 as private secretary to Arthur Balfour during the Washington Naval Conference...
(1889–1952), British diplomat - Michael Peterson (disambiguation)
- Morris PetersonMorris PetersonMorris Peterson, Jr. is an American professional basketball player who is currently a free agent.- College career :...
(b. 1977), American basketball player - Norm PetersonNorm PetersonHillary Norman "Norm" Peterson is a character on the American television show Cheers, portrayed by George Wendt. Norm's real first name was revealed to be Hillary, named after his grandfather....
, fictional character on the American television show Cheers - Norm Peterson (Australian politician)Norm Peterson (Australian politician)Norm Peterson is a former Australian Labor Party turned independent Australian politician who held the seat of Semaphore in the South Australian House of Assembly from the 1979 to the 1993 elections, before failing in a bid to be elected to the Legislative Council in 1993.-External links:*...
- Oscar PetersonOscar PetersonOscar Emmanuel Peterson was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends. He released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, and received other numerous awards and honours over the course of his career...
(1925–2007), Canadian jazz pianist and composer - Oscar V. PetersonOscar V. Peterson-External links:* * *...
(1899–1942), American seaman in the US Navy - Pete PetersonPete PetersonDouglas Brian "Pete" Peterson was a U.S. Air Force pilot who spent over six years as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese Army after his plane was shot down during the Vietnam War. He returned to Hanoi in 1997 as the first United States Ambassador to Vietnam...
(b. 1936), American Air Force pilot - Peter George PetersonPeter George PetersonPeter G. Peterson is an American businessman, investment banker, fiscal conservative, author, and politician whose most prominent political position was as United States Secretary of Commerce from February 29, 1972, to February 1, 1973 under Richard Nixon. He is most well known currently as...
, American banker and philanthropist, former United States Secretary of Commerce - Ray PetersonRay PetersonRay Peterson was an American pop music singer who was best remembered for singing "Tell Laura I Love Her" and "Corrine, Corrina" in the 1960s.-Career:...
(d. 2005), American pop music singer - Roger Peterson (musician)Roger Peterson (musician)Roger Francis Peterson is an Aruban-Dutch musician. He is known as the lead vocalist for the former rock band Intwine, which disbanded in October 2010. He also was a competitor on the first season of Dutch talent show Idols....
, Aruban-Dutch musician - Roger Peterson (pilot)Roger Peterson (pilot)Roger Arthur Peterson was a 21-year-old pilot of the aircraft whose crash took the lives of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson as well as himself...
, pilot of the plane that crashed killing Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and Jiles Perry Richardson - Roger Tory PetersonRoger Tory PetersonRoger Tory Peterson , was an American naturalist, ornithologist, artist, and educator, and held to be one of the founding inspirations for the 20th century environmental movement.-Background:...
(1908–1996), American naturalist, ornithologist, artist, and educator - Ronnie PetersonRonnie PetersonBengt Ronnie Peterson was a Swedish racing driver. He was a two-time runner-up in the FIA Formula One World Drivers' Championship.Peterson began his motor racing career in kart racing, traditionally the discipline where the majority of race drivers begin their careers in open-wheel racing...
(1944–1978), Swedish racing driver - Russell W. PetersonRussell W. PetersonRussell Wilbur "Russ" Peterson was an American scientist and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. He served as Governor of Delaware as a member of the Republican Party...
(b. 1916), American engineer and politician, governor of Delaware - Scott PetersonScott PetersonScott Lee Peterson , an American, was convicted of murdering his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn child in Modesto, California, in 2002. Peterson's arrest and subsequent trial dominated the American news media until 2005, when he was sentenced to death by lethal injection...
(b. 1972), American convicted murderer - Shelley PetersonShelley PetersonShelley Peterson is a Canadian television and film actress, best known as the star of the 1987 Canadian sitcom Not My Department. Peterson is also a author of many books, her most known book being Dancer....
(b. ?), Canadian actress - Thomas Mundy PetersonThomas Mundy PetersonThomas Mundy Peterson of Perth Amboy, New Jersey was the first African-American to vote in an election under the just-enacted provisions of the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution...
(1824–1904), first African-American to vote in an election - Todd Peterson (place kicker) (b. 1970), American football player
- Trudy Huskamp PetersonTrudy Huskamp PetersonTrudy Huskamp Peterson was the Acting Archivist of the United States from March 25, 1993 to May 29, 1995.She earned her B.S. in English and history from Iowa State University in 1967, and a Ph.D...
(b. 1945), American historian, former acting Archivist of the United States - Val PetersonVal PetersonFrederick Valdemar Erastus Peterson , also known as Val Peterson, was an American politician who served as the 26th Governor of Nebraska from 1947 to 1953; as director of the Federal Civil Defense Administration from 1953–1957; as U.S. ambassador to Denmark 1957–1961; and as U.S...
(1903–1983), American, governor of Nebraska - Vicki PetersonVicki PetersonVicki Peterson is an American rock musician ....
(b. 1958), American pop musician - W. Wesley PetersonW. Wesley PetersonWilliam Wesley Peterson was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He was best known for inventing the Cyclic Redundancy Check , for which research he was awarded the Japan Prize in 1999....
(b. 1924), American mathematician and computer scientist
See also
- PetersenPetersenPetersen is a common Scandinavian patronymic surname, meaning "son of Peter". There are other spellings. Petersen may refer to:* Ted Petersen, American football player* Adolf Dahm-Petersen, Norwegian voice specialist...
- PedersenPedersenPedersen , is a Danish patronymic surname, literally meaning "son of Peder". It is the fourth most common surname in Denmark, shared by about 3,4% of the population...
- Pederson (disambiguation)