Russell (surname)
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Russell also Rossell is a Scottish
, English
or Irish
name derived from the Anglo-Norman
French nickname Rousel. The nickname was a diminutive of the Old French
Rous, meaning 'red.' The nickname, with the -el added, likely originated to denote "the little red-haired one."
The name may also refer to Clan Russell, a Scottish armigerous clan
.
Scottish people
The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...
, English
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
or Irish
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
name derived from the Anglo-Norman
Anglo-Norman
The Anglo-Normans were mainly the descendants of the Normans who ruled England following the Norman conquest by William the Conqueror in 1066. A small number of Normans were already settled in England prior to the conquest...
French nickname Rousel. The nickname was a diminutive of the 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...
Rous, meaning 'red.' The nickname, with the -el added, likely originated to denote "the little red-haired one."
The name may also refer to Clan Russell, a Scottish armigerous clan
Armigerous clan
An armigerous clan is a Scottish clan, family or name which is registered with the Court of the Lord Lyon and once had a chief who bore undifferenced arms, but does not have a chief currently recognized as such by Lyon Court...
.
Disambiguation pages
- Arthur Russell (disambiguation)
- Charles Russell (disambiguation)
- Charlie Russell (disambiguation)Charlie Russell (disambiguation)Charlie Russell is a Canadian naturalist.Charlie Russell may also refer to:* Charlie L. Russell , writer* Charlie Russell , country music DJ* Charles Marion Russell, artist-See also:* Charles Russell...
- Craig Russell (disambiguation)
- Darrell Russell (disambiguation)
- David Russell (disambiguation)
- Francis Russell (disambiguation)
- George Russell (disambiguation)
- Jack Russell (disambiguation)
- James Russell (disambiguation)James Russell (disambiguation)-Politicians:*James McPherson Russell , U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania* James Russell * James Russell * James Russell -Others:*James Russell , American inventor...
(includes Jim) - John Russell (disambiguation)
- Jonathan Russell (disambiguation)Jonathan Russell (disambiguation)Jonathan Russell may refer to:* Jonathan Russell, , U.S. Representative from Massachusetts* Jonathan "Jazz" Russell , American jazz violinist*Jon Russell , fictional character in the soap opera...
- Michael Russell (disambiguation)Michael Russell (disambiguation)Michael Russell or Mike Russell may refer to:* Michael Russell - Episcopalian Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway...
(includes Micho, Mike) - Richard Russell (disambiguation)
- Robert Russell (disambiguation) (includes Bob)
- William Russell (disambiguation) (includes Bill, Billy, and Willy)
History and Philosophy
- Bertrand RussellBertrand RussellBertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things...
, historian, philosopher, logician - Jeffrey Burton RussellJeffrey Burton RussellJeffrey Burton Russell is an American historian and religious studies scholar who received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1955 and his PhD from Emory University in 1960. He is now Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara...
, historian and religious scholar
Art and literature
- Craig Russell (British author)Craig Russell (British author)Craig Russell is a British-born novelist and short story writer. His Hamburg-set thriller series featuring detective Jan Fabel has been translated into 23 languages. Russell speaks fluent German and has a special interest in post-war German history...
- Eric Frank RussellEric Frank RussellEric Frank Russell was a British author best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. Much of his work was first published in the United States, in John W. Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction and other pulp magazines. Russell also wrote horror fiction for Weird Tales, and...
, British author - Mary Doria RussellMary Doria RussellMary Doria Russell is an American novelist. -Biography:Russell was born in the suburbs of Chicago. Her parents were both in the military: her father was a Marine Corps drill instructor, and her mother was a Navy nurse. She graduated from Glenbard East High School and later she earned a Ph.D in...
, American author - P. Craig RussellP. Craig RussellPhilip Craig Russell , also known as P. Craig Russell, is an American comic book writer, artist, and illustrator. His work has won multiple Harvey and Eisner Awards...
, American comic book writer, artist, and illustrator - Sean Russell (author)Sean Russell (author)Sean Russell is a Canadian author of fantasy & historical naval literature. Also writes under his full name Sean Thomas Russell.- Life :...
, Canadian fantasy author - Shirley Ximena Hopper RussellShirley Ximena Hopper RussellShirley Ximena Hopper Russell , also known as Shirley Marie Russell, was an American artist best known for her paintings of Hawaii and her still lifes of Hawaiian flowers. She was born Shirley Ximena Hopper in Del Rey, California, in 1886. She graduated in 1907 from Stanford University, where she...
(1886–1985), American artist - Ted RussellTed RussellTed Russell was a Newfoundland and Labrador writer.Russell was born in Coley's Point, Conception Bay, Newfoundland. He started work as a teacher immediately after completing high school at the age of 16...
, Newfoundland and Labrador writer
Drama, radio, television, and film
- Anna RussellAnna RussellAnna Russell, née Anna Claudia Russell-Brown was an English–Canadian singer and comedienne. She gave many concerts in which she sang and played comic musical sketches on the piano...
, British/Canadian comedienne - Betsy RussellBetsy RussellBetsy Russell is an American actress who is best known for her role in Private School, and as Jill Tuck, the ex-wife of the Jigsaw Killer in the Saw film series.-Early life:...
, American actress - Bing RussellBing RussellBing Russell was an American actor and baseball club owner, and was the father of Golden Globe-nominated actor Kurt Russell.-Personal life:...
, American actor - David O. RussellDavid O. RussellDavid Owen Russell is an American film director and screenwriter. He has been praised for the loose, comic energy that characterizes his work, and is notorious for his explosive confrontations with cast members.-Early life:...
, American film director - Gail RussellGail RussellGail Russell was an American film and television actress.-Career:She was born Elizabeth L. Russell to George and Gladys Russell in Chicago, Illinois, and then moved to the Los Angeles, California, area when she was a teenager. Russell's extraordinary beauty brought her to the attention of...
, American actress - Jane RussellJane RussellJane Russell was an American film actress and was one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s....
(1921-2011), American actress - Ken RussellKen RussellHenry Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Russell was an English film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style. He attracted criticism as being obsessed with sexuality and the church...
, British film director - Keri RussellKeri RussellKeri Lynn Russell is an American actress and dancer. After appearing in a number of made-for-television films and series during the mid-1990s, she came to fame for portraying the title role of Felicity Porter on the series Felicity, which ran from 1998 to 2002, and for which she won a Golden Globe...
, American actress - Kurt RussellKurt RussellKurt Vogel Russell is an American television and film actor. His first acting roles were as a child in television series, including a lead role in the Western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters...
, American actor - Lillian RussellLillian RussellLillian Russell was an American actress and singer. She became one of the most famous actresses and singers of the late 19th century and early 20th century, known for her beauty and style, as well as for her voice and stage presence.Russell was born in Iowa but raised in Chicago...
, American vaudeville actress and singer (stage name of Helen Louise Leonard) - Lynne RussellLynne RussellLynne Russell was a radio host on the Toronto AM radio station 1010 AM CFRB News Radio, part of the Astral Media...
, radio host and former CNN news anchorwoman - Mark RussellMark RussellMark Russell is an American political satirist/comedian. He also sings and plays the piano.-Biography:...
, American comedian - Nipsey RussellNipsey RussellJulius "Nipsey" Russell was an American comedian, best known today for his appearances as a guest panelist on game shows from the 1960s through the 1990s, especially Match Game, Password, Hollywood Squares, To Tell the Truth and Pyramid...
, American comedian - Rosalind RussellRosalind RussellRosalind Russell was an American actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as the role of Mame Dennis in the film Auntie Mame...
, American actress - Theresa RussellTheresa RussellTheresa Russell is an American actress.-Biography:Russell was born Theresa Paup in San Diego, California, the daughter of Carole Platt and Jerry Russell Paup. She attended Burbank High School, but did not graduate. She married English film director Nicolas Roeg , in 1982...
, American actress
Music
- Calvin Russell (musician)Calvin Russell (musician)Calvin Russell was an American blues rock/roots rock singer-songwriter and guitarist.Born Calvert Russell Kosler, at the age of twelve he started to learn guitar and at thirteen joined a band called 'The Cavemen'. In 1989 he met Patrick Mathe of the French record label New Rose...
, American singer-songwriter and guitarist - Kevin RussellKevin RussellKevin Richard Russell is one of the three founding members of the German rock band Böhse Onkelz...
, German singer (Böhse Onkelz) - Leon RussellLeon RussellClaude Russell Bridges , known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American musician and songwriter, who has recorded as a session musician, sideman, and maintained a solo career in music....
, American rock musician - Luis RussellLuis RussellLuis Russell was a jazz pianist and bandleader.Luis Carl Russell was born on Careening Cay, near Bocas del Toro, Panama, in a family of Afro-Caribbean ancestry. His father was a music teacher, and young Luis learned to play violin, guitar, trombone, and piano...
, Panamanian jazz pianist - Pee Wee RussellPee Wee RussellCharles Ellsworth Russell, much better known by his nickname Pee Wee Russell, was a jazz musician. Early in his career he played clarinet and saxophones, but eventually focused solely on clarinet....
, American jazz musician - Welford RussellWelford RussellWelford Russell was a Canadian composer who is particularly remembered for his output of choral works.Born in Neepawa, Manitoba, Russell made a living as a surgeon and was notably a medical missionary in India from 1925-1941. He pursued musical activities in his spare time...
, Canadian composer
Military and politics
- Addie Jenne RussellAddie Jenne RussellAddie Jenne Russell is the New York State Democratic Assemblywoman for the 118th district, known as "The River District". One of five siblings, her family has lived in New York State's North Country for seven generations; her father was a mechanic. She was a member of the Jefferson County Board of...
, New York State assemblywoman - Daniel Lindsay RussellDaniel Lindsay RussellDaniel Lindsay Russell, Jr. was the 49th Governor of North Carolina from 1897 to 1901, an attorney and judge, and a politician. Although he fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, he and his father were both Unionists...
, American politician - Dudley RussellDudley RussellLieutenant-General Sir Dudley Russell KBE, CB, DSO, MC was an officer in the British and Indian Armies during World War I and World War II.-Early career:...
, British Indian Army general in World War II - Henry P. RussellHenry P. RussellHenry Peter Russell was a landsman serving in the United States Navy during the Spanish–American War who received the Medal of Honor for bravery.-Biography:...
, American Medal of Honor recipient - Lee M. RussellLee M. RussellLee Maurice Russell – May 5, 1943, Jackson, Mississippi) was a Mississippi politician.-Biography:...
, Mississippi politician - Samuel RussellSamuel RussellSamuel Wadsworth Russell, born in Middletown, Connecticut , was an American entrepreneur and trader, and founder of Russell & Company, the largest and most important American trading house in China from 1842 to its closing in 1891.- Early life :Orphaned at the age of 12, Russell did not receive any...
, American trader in China - Seán RussellSeán RussellSeán Russell was an Irish republican who held senior positions in the IRA until the end of the Irish War of Independence...
, Irish republican
English Whig family
- John Russell, 1st Earl of BedfordJohn Russell, 1st Earl of BedfordJohn Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, KG, PC, JP was an English royal minister in the Tudor era. He served variously as Lord High Admiral and Lord Privy Seal....
, Tudor statesman - Anne Russell, Countess of WarwickAnne Russell, Countess of WarwickAnne Dudley , Countess of Warwick was an English noblewoman, and a lady-in-waiting and close friend of Elizabeth I. She was the third wife of Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick.-Family and marriage:...
, one of his daughters - Edward Russell, 1st Earl of OrfordEdward Russell, 1st Earl of OrfordAdmiral of the Fleet Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford, PC was the First Lord of the Admiralty under King William III.-Naval career:...
, First Lord of the Admiralty under King William - John Russell, 1st Earl RussellJohn Russell, 1st Earl RussellJohn Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC , known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was an English Whig and Liberal politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century....
, English Whig and Liberal politician - Bertrand RussellBertrand RussellBertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things...
, British mathematician and philosopher (Russell's paradox) - John Russell, 4th Earl RussellJohn Russell, 4th Earl RussellJohn Conrad Russell, 4th Earl Russell was the eldest son of the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell and his second wife, Dora Black...
- Conrad Russell, 5th Earl RussellConrad Russell, 5th Earl RussellConrad Sebastian Robert Russell, 5th Earl Russell was a British historian and politician. His parents were the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell and Patricia Russell...
- Lucy Russell, Countess of BedfordLucy Russell, Countess of BedfordLucy Russell, Countess of Bedford was a major aristocratic patron of the arts and literature in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras...
Science and technology
- Sir Arthur Russell, 6th BaronetSir Arthur Russell, 6th BaronetSir Arthur Edward Ian Montagu Russell, 6th Baronet, MBE, FRS , was a British mineralogist of the 20th century. He was a collector and a collector of collections....
, mineralogist - Gerald RussellGerald RussellProfessor Gerald Francis Morris Russell is a British psychiatrist. In 1979 he published the first description of bulimia nervosa, and Russell's sign has been named after him.-Early life:...
, psychiatrist who described first bulimia nervosa - Henry Norris RussellHenry Norris RussellHenry Norris Russell was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram . In 1923, working with Frederick Saunders, he developed Russell–Saunders coupling which is also known as LS coupling.-Biography:Russell was born in 1877 in Oyster Bay, New...
, American astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram) - John Scott RussellJohn Scott RussellJohn Scott Russell was a Scottish naval engineer who built the Great Eastern in collaboration with Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and made the discovery that gave birth to the modern study of solitons.-Personal life:John Scott Russell was born John Russell on 9 May 1808 in Parkhead, Glasgow, the son of...
, Scottish naval engineer credited with discovering the theory of waves - Katheryn Russell-Brown, criminologist
- Steve RussellSteve RussellSteve "Slug" Russell is a programmer and computer scientist most famous for creating Spacewar!, one of the earliest videogames, in 1961 with the fellow members of the Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT working on a DEC Digital PDP-1...
, computer scientist: Spacewar! and LISP - Stuart J. RussellStuart J. RussellStuart Russell is a computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence.Stuart Russell was born in Portsmouth, England. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree with first-class honours in Physics from Wadham College, Oxford in 1982, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from...
, computer scientist - Walter RussellWalter RussellWalter Bowman Russell was an American artist and mystic known for his achievements as a painter, sculptor, author and builder and less well known as a natural philosopher and for his unified theory in physics and cosmogony. He posited that the universe was founded on a unifying principle of...
, scientist, artist, and author
Sports and recreation
- Barry RussellBarry Russell (Cronulla)Barry Russell is an Australian retired professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s. He played in the halves for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks club of the NSWRL Premiership with whom he won the Rothmans Medal in 1988....
, Australian rugby league footballer - Bill RussellBill RussellWilliam Felton "Bill" Russell is a retired American professional basketball player who played center for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association...
, NBA player - Calvin Russell (American football)Calvin Russell (American football)Calvin Leon Russell is an American football wide receiver for the Virginia Destroyers of the United Football League. He was signed by the Green Bay Packers as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He played college football at Tuskegee.Russell has also played for the Columbus Destroyers, Florida...
, NFL player - Carolyn RussellCarolyn RussellCarolyn Russell is a retired Canadian professional female squash player. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No...
, Canadian squash player - Chris Russell, English cricketer
- Jack RussellJack Russell (cricketer and artist)Robert Charles "Jack" Russell MBE is a retired English international cricketer, now known for his abilities as an artist, as a cricket wicketkeeping coach and football goalkeeping coach.-Biography:...
, English cricketer - JaMarcus RussellJaMarcus RussellJaMarcus Trenell Russell is an American football quarterback who is currently a free agent. Russell played college football for the LSU Tigers where he finished 21–4 as a starter and was named MVP of the 2007 Sugar Bowl. The Oakland Raiders selected Russell with the first overall pick of the 2007...
, NFL player - Jeff RussellJeff RussellJeffrey Lee Russell is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played 14 years from 1983 to 1996. Russell played for the Cincinnati Reds of the National League and the Texas Rangers, Oakland A's, Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians, all of the American League...
, MLB player and manager - Jordan RussellJordan RussellJordan Russell is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Russell was recruited as the number 9 draft pick in the 2004 AFL Draft from West Adelaide. He made his AFL debut for the Carlton Football Club in Round 15, 2005 against St. Kilda, his only match for the year...
, Australian rules footballer - Moses RussellMoses RussellMoses Richard Russell was a Welsh international footballer, who played most of his career with Plymouth Argyle. A full back, he attained 23 caps for the Wales national football team.-Early career:...
(1888-1946), Welsh international footballer - Reb RussellReb RussellEwell Albert "Reb" Russell was a Major League Baseball player for the Chicago White Sox and the Pittsburgh Pirates....
, MLB player - Rip RussellRip RussellGlen David Russell was an infielder/outfielder in Major League Baseball, playing mainly as a first baseman for two different teams between the and seasons. Listed at 6' 1", 180 lb., Russell batted and threw right-handed...
, MLB player - Simon RussellSimon RussellSimon Craig Russell is an English footballer who plays for Lincoln City as a midfielder. He previously played for Hull City, Kidderminster Harriers, York City, Tamworth and Cambridge United.-Career:...
, English footballer