Bacon (name)

Bacon is a Norman French surname originally from Normandy and England. In early sources, it also appears as "Bachun" and "Bacun".

Etymology

Its etymology is uncertain, with Charnock favoring a derivation from a diminutive of Germanic bach ("little stream, creek")[1][2] and others from an eponymous seigniory in Normandy or from a corruption of Beacon.[1] It is sometimes folk etymologized from bacon or Germanic bag ("to fight").[3]

List

Notable bearers of this surname include:

• Albion Fellows Bacon (1865–1933), American reformer and writer
• Anthony Bacon (1796–1864), British cavalry officer during the Napoleonic wars
• Anthony Bacon (1718–1786), English industrialist
• Augustus Octavius Bacon (1839–1914), American politician
• Benjamin Wisner Bacon (1860–1932), American theologian
• Brady Bacon (born 1990), USAC National Sprint Car driver
• Clara Latimer Bacon (1866–1948), American mathematician
• Charles James Bacon (1885–1968) American athlete
• Charles R. Bacon Late 20th century American geologist
• David Bacon, several people
• Don Bacon (baseball), American baseball manager
• Don Bacon, U.S. Air Force brigadier general
• Edmund Bacon (1910–2005), American urban planner
• Edward Denny Bacon (1860–1938), British philatelist and curator (1913–1938) of the Royal Philatelic Collection
• Edward Woolsey Bacon (1843–1887), American Congregational preacher and writer
• Ephraim Bacon, American church minister
• Ernie Bacon (1896–1972), English footballer
• Ernst Bacon (1898–1990), American composer and pianist
• Everett Bacon (1890–1989), American football player from Wesleyan University, in College Football Hall of Fame
• Ezekiel Bacon (1776–1870), American politician
• Faith Bacon (1910 –1956), American dancer and actress
• Francis Bacon (1561–1626), knighted English philosopher, statesman and author
• Francis Bacon (1909–1992), Anglo-Irish painter
• Francis Thomas Bacon (1904–1992), British engineer
• Frank Bacon (1864–1922), American actor-playwright
• Frank L. Bacon (1841–1917), American politician
• Fred E. Bacon (?–1954) British runner
• Frederick James Bacon (1871–1948) American banjoist and banjo manufacturer
• Frederick S. Bacon (1877–1861) American Football coach
• Gaspar G. Bacon (1886–1947), American politician
• George B. Bacon (1836–1876), American Congregational preacher and writer
• Henry Bacon (1866–1924), American architect
• Irving Bacon (1893–1965), American character actor
• Jim Bacon (1950–2004), Premier of Tasmania, Australia
• Jim Bacon (b. 1896), Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer
• John Bacon (c. 1290–1346), better known as John Baconthorpe, learned English Carmelite monk related to the Bacons
• John Bacon (1738–1820), US Representative from Massachusetts
• John Bacon (1740–1799), British sculptor
• John Bacon (1777–1859), British sculptor
• John Henry Frederick Bacon (1865–1914) British painter
• John M. Bacon, nineteenth-century American general
• John Mackenzie Bacon, FRAS (1846–1904), English astronomer, aeronaut, and lecturer
• Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager
• J. S. Bacon (1858–1939), American politician
• Justice Bacon, several people
• Kenneth Bacon (1944–2009), American journalist
• Kevin Bacon (born 1958), American film actor
• Leonard Bacon (1802–1881), American Congregational preacher and writer
• Leonard Woolsey Bacon (1830–1907), American Congregational preacher and writer
• Lise Bacon (born 1934), Canadian politician
• Lloyd Bacon (1889–1955), American actor
• Lucy Bacon (1857–1932), American artist
• Mabel Marks Bacon (1876 –1966), American hotelier
• Mathew Bacon, legal writer
• Max Bacon, lead singer for 1980s arena rock supergroup GTR
• Max Bacon (b. 1941), Missouri jurist and legislator
• Michael Bacon (born 1949), American musician
• Montagu Bacon, English scholar and critic
• Nathaniel Bacon of the Virginia Colony, instigator of Bacon's Rebellion in 1676
• Sir Nathaniel Bacon (d. 1622), lawyer and MP for Norfolk, half-brother of Francis Bacon
• Nathaniel Bacon, Jesuit, secretary of the Society of Jesus from 1674 to 1676
• Nathaniel Bacon (1585–1627), landowner and painter, nephew of Francis Bacon
• Nathaniel Bacon (1593–1660), a Member of Parliament representing Cambridge University and Ipswich, grandson of Nicholas Bacon
• Nicholas Bacon (1510–1579), English politician during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal
• Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave (c. 1540–1624), his son, the first man created a baronet
• Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Gillingham (1623–1666), English lawyer
• Sir Nicholas Bacon, 14th Baronet (born 1953), Premier Baronet of England, lawyer, and Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II
• Nicholas Bacon (1622–1687), MP for Ipswich 1685–1687
• Nick Bacon (1945–2010), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
• Orrin Bacon (1821–1893), American politician
• Peggy Bacon (1895–1987), American artist and author
• Reginald Bacon (1863–1952), Royal Navy admiral
• Richard Bacon (b. 1975), English television and radio presenter
• Richard Bacon, British politician
• Robert Bacon (1860–1919), American diplomat
• Robert L. Bacon (1884–1938), American politician
• Roger Bacon (1214–1295), Franciscan friar, English philosopher
• Ruth E. Bacon (1908–1985), American foreign service officer
• Samuel Bacon (1781–1820), American lawyer, newspaper editor and colonist
• Scott Bacon (b. 1977), Australian politician, son of Jim Bacon
• Sosie Bacon (b. 1992), American film actress
• Thomas Rutherford Bacon (1850–1913), American Congregational preacher, writer, professor of history
• Tim Bacon (1964-2016), British actor and restaurateur
• Virginia Cleaver Bacon (1883–1930), Oregon State Librarian.
• Walter Rathbone Bacon (1845–1917), American tramway executive
• Walter W. Bacon (1879–1962), American accountant and politician, Governor of Delaware
• Winchel Bacon, American politician
• Yehuda Bacon (born 1929), Israeli artist

See also

• Bacon & Bacon (disambiguation)
• Bacon baronets, a position in the English peerage held by several Bacons

References

Citations

1. Charnock (1868).
2. Cognate with Old Norse bekkr which gave its name to Bec Abbey in Normandy.
3. "Bacon", Internet Surname Database.

Bibliography

• Charnock, Richard Stephen (1868), "Bacon", Ludus Patronymicus; or, The Etymology of Curious Surnames, London: Trübner & Co., p. 4.