Garrison (name)
Garrison is both a surname and a given name derived from "son of Gerard".[1] Notable people with the name include:
Surname
- Carol Garrison (born 1952), President of the University of Alabama at Birmingham from 2002 to 2012
- C. K. Garrison, entrepreneur and Mayor of San Francisco (1853–54)
- Don Garrison (1925-2018), American lawyer and politician
- Eve Garrison, (1903–2003), American artist
- Fielding Hudson Garrison (1870–1935), American scholar of the history of medicine
- Ford Garrison (1915–2001), Major League Baseball outfielder
- Gary Garrison (born 1944), American professional football player
- Harry Harrison (writer) (1925–2012), American science fiction author
- Jason Garrison (born 1984), Canadian professional ice hockey player
- Jennifer Garrison (born 1962), American politician from Ohio
- Jim Garrison (1921–1992), Louisiana district attorney, investigator of John F. Kennedy assassination
- Jimmy Garrison (1933–1976), American jazz double bassist
- Matthew Garrison (born 1970), American jazz electric bassist
- Lane Garrison (born 1980), American actor
- Len Garrison (1943–2003), Black British educationalist and historian
- Lindley Miller Garrison (1864–1932), US Secretary of War under President Woodrow Wilson
- Orestes Garrison (1813-1874), American politician
- Roger Garrison (born 1944), American economist
- Sean Garrison (born 1937), American actor
- Sidney Clarence Garrison (1885-1945), American educator and psychologist.
- T. Ed Garrison, Jr. (1922–2013), American farmer and politician
- Walt Garrison (born 1944), former National Football League player
- Wendell Phillips Garrison (1840–1907), American editor and author.
- William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879), American abolitionist leader
- William F. Garrison, United States Army major general
- William Garrison (geographer) (1924–2015), American civil engineer and geographer
- Zina Garrison (born 1963), former professional tennis player
Given name
- Garrison Hearst (born 1971), American football running back
- Garrison Keillor (born 1942), American author and radio host of A Prairie Home Companion
- Garrison Sanborn (born 1985), American football long snapper
Fictional characters
- C.J. Garrison, on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful
- Clarke Garrison, on The Bold and the Beautiful
- Herbert Garrison, aka Mr./Mrs. Garrison, teacher from the television program South Park
- Garrison Kane, in the Marvel Comics universe
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References
- Bardsley, Charles Wareing Endell (1901). A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. H. Frowde. p. 310.
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