Russell (surname)
Russell also Rossell is a British name some writers claim to be derived from the Anglo-Norman nickname rus[s]el (Modern Norman surname Roussel).[2]
| Language(s) | Anglo-Norman |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Region of origin | Normandy |
| Other names | |
| Variant form(s) | Russel |
| Frequency Comparisons:[1] | |
The name may also refer to Clan Russell, a Scottish armigerous clan. Historian William Anderson has written that Scottish Russells from Aberdeenshire can trace their ancestry through local parish records, back to a baron Rosel who purchased estates at Aden in Aberdeenshire in 1333.
The first appearance of the Russell form of the name on any official record was William Russell, son of a Ralph de Rosel whose name appears in the Winton Domesday Book of (1107-1128). The Lenton Register named William Russell as Ralph de Rosel's son. (J.H. Wiffen, The Time of the Norman Conquest). The ancestor of the family may originate from le Rozel (Normandy, Cotentin, le Rosel in 1135, de Rosel in 1187[3]).
The last recorded use of the de Rosel form of the name in England in any official document was in a charter by Alain Russell, who held the fief of the church of Donnington in Lincolnshire from his father Robert Russell. In 1258 Alain Russell made a charter bestowing the church of St. Stephen at le Plessis-Grimoult in Normandy to the local parish, in which he named himself Alain de Rosel, showing that he continued to use the older de Rosel form of the name when in France. (J.H. Wiffen, The Time of the Norman Conquest) The Subsidy Roll carried out in 1327 lists 22 land owners named Russell with estates large enough to be taxed, but no one named de Rosel, showing that by 1327 the older de Rosel form of the name was no longer widely used in England.
List of people with the surname Russell
Disambiguation pages
- Arthur Russell (disambiguation)
- Charles Russell (disambiguation)
- Charlie Russell (disambiguation)
- Craig Russell (disambiguation)
- Darrell Russell (disambiguation)
- David Russell (disambiguation)
- Francis Russell (disambiguation)
- George Russell (disambiguation)
- Jack Russell (disambiguation)
- James Russell (disambiguation) (includes Jim)
- John Russell (disambiguation)
- Jonathan Russell (disambiguation)
- Kate Russell (disambiguation)
- Katherine Russell (disambiguation) (includes Catherine)
- Michael Russell (disambiguation) (includes Micho, Mike)
- Richard Russell (disambiguation)
- Robert Russell (disambiguation) (includes Bob)
- Rusty Russell (disambiguation)
- Samuel Russell (disambiguation)
- Thomas Russell (disambiguation)
- William Russell (disambiguation) (includes Bill, Billy, and Willy)
History and philosophy
- Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), historian, philosopher, logician
- Jeffrey Burton Russell (born 1934), historian and religious scholar
Art and literature
- Alexei Maxim Russell, Canadian writer
- Conrad Russell (1878–1947), English letter writer
- Ethan Russell (born 1945), American photographer and author
- Craig Russell (British author)
- Eric Frank Russell (1905–1978), British author
- Mary Doria Russell (born 1950), American author
- P. Craig Russell (born 1951), American comic book writer, artist, and illustrator
- Sean Russell (author) (born 1952), Canadian fantasy author
- Shirley Ximena Hopper Russell (1886–1985), American artist
- Ted Russell (Canadian politician) (1904–1977), Newfoundland and Labrador writer
- Walter Russell (1871–1963), American artist and author
Drama, radio, television, and film
- Anna Russell (1911–2006), English–Canadian singer and comedian
- Austin Lee Russell (born 1982), American television personality and businessman known as Chumlee
- Betsy Russell (born 1963), American actress
- Bing Russell (1926–2003), American actor
- Chuck Russell (born 1958), American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor
- David O. Russell (born 1958), American film director
- Erica Russell (born 1951), New Zealand-born film animator
- Evangeline Russell (1902-1966), American actress
- Gail Russell (1924–1961), American actress
- Harold Russell (1914–2002), American World War II veteran, amputee, and actor
- Jane Russell (1921–2011), American actress
- Ken Russell (1927–2011), British film director
- Keri Russell (born 1976), American actress
- Kurt Russell (born 1951), American actor
- Lewis Russell (1889–1961), American actor
- Lillian Russell (Helen Louise Leonard, 1860/1861–1922), American vaudeville actress and singer
- Lucy Russell (born 1972), British actress
- Lynne Russell (born 1946), radio host and former CNN news anchorwoman
- Mark Russell (born 1932), American comedian
- Nipsey Russell (1918–2005), American comedian
- Rosalind Russell (1907–1976), American actress
- Theresa Russell (born 1957), American actress
- Wyatt Russell (born 1986), American actor and former ice hockey player
Music
- Calvin Russell (musician) (1948–2011), American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- George Russell (composer) (1923–2009), American jazz pianist, composer, arranger and theorist
- Kevin Russell (born 1964), German singer (Böhse Onkelz)
- Larry Russell (1913–1954), American motion picture composer
- Larry Russell (bassist) (born 1950), American rock musician
- Leon Russell (1942–2016), American musician and songwriter
- Leroy "Junior" Russell, known as Tommy Lee Sparta (born 1987), Jamaican dancehall musician
- Luis Russell (1902–1963), Panamanian jazz pianist
- Pee Wee Russell (1906–1969), American jazz musician
- Welford Russell (1900–1975), Canadian composer
- Tom Russell (born 1949), American singer-songwriter
Military and politics
- Addie Jenne Russell, New York State assemblywoman
- Daniel Lindsay Russell (1845–1908), American politician
- Dudley Russell (1896–1978), British Indian Army general in World War II
- Ebenezer Russell (1747–1836), New York politician
- Henry P. Russell (1878–1956), American Medal of Honor recipient
- Jeremiah Russell (1786–1867), American politician
- Jeremiah Russell (Minnesota) (1809–1885), American territorial legislator
- Keith Russell (politician) (1975-), Canadian politician
- Lee M. Russell (1875–1943), Mississippi politician
- Martha M. Russell (1867-1961), American nurse in World War I
- Newton Russell (1927–2013), California politician
- Samuel Russell (1789–1862), American trader in China
- Seán Russell (1893–1940), Irish republican
English Whig family
- John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (c.1485–1555), Tudor statesman
- Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford (c.1527–1585)
- Anne Russell, Countess of Warwick (1548 or 1549–1604), a daughter of the 2nd Earl
- Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford (1572–1627)
- Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford (1580–1627), wife of the 3rd Earl
- Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford (1593–1641)
- William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford (1613–1700), formerly 5th Earl of Bedford
- William Russell, Lord Russell (1638–1683), son of the 1st Duke and father of the 2nd; executed for treason for his involvement in the Rye House Plot
- Rachel Russell, Lady Russell otherwise Lady Rachel Wriothesley (c.1636–1723), wife of William Russell, Lord Russell
- Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford (1653–1727), a grandson of the 4th Earl of Bedford; First Lord of the Admiralty under King William
- Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford (1680–1711)
- Wriothesley Russell, 3rd Duke of Bedford (1708–1732)
- John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford (1710–1771)
- Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock (1739–1767), son of the 4th Duke and father of the 5th and 6th Dukes
- Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (1765–1802)
- John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford (1766–1839), popular English politician under his earlier title, Lord John Russell
- Lord William Russell (1767–1840), posthumous son of Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock, and brother of the 5th and 6th Dukes of Bedford; murdered by his valet
- Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford (1788–1861)
- Lord George Russell (1790–1846), son of the 6th Duke of Bedford and father of the 9th; English soldier and diplomat
- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878), English Whig and Liberal politician; Prime Minister
- Lady William Russell otherwise Elizabeth Rawdon (1793–1874), wife of Lord George Russell
- William Russell, 8th Duke of Bedford (1809–1872)
- Francis Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford (1819–1891)
- Odo Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill (1829–1884), British diplomat
- John Russell, Viscount Amberley (1842–1876), eldest son of John Russell, 1st Earl Russell; father of Bertrand Russell
- George Russell, 10th Duke of Bedford (1852–1893)
- Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford (1858–1940)
- Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell (1865–1931)
- Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), British mathematician and philosopher (Russell's paradox); 3rd Earl Russell
- Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford (1888–1953), pacifist
- Ian Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford (1917–2002)
- John Russell, 4th Earl Russell (1921–1987)
- Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell (1937–2004)
- Robin Russell, 14th Duke of Bedford (1940–2003)
- Andrew Russell, 15th Duke of Bedford (born 1962)
- Nicholas Russell, 6th Earl Russell (1968–2014)
- John Russell, 7th Earl Russell (born 1971)
Science and technology
- Sir Arthur Russell, 6th Baronet (1878–1964), British mineralogist
- Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), British historian, philosopher, logician
- Edward Stuart Russell (1887–1954), Scottish biologist and philosopher of biology
- Findlay E. Russell (1919–2011), American physician and toxicologist
- Gerald Russell (born 1928), British psychiatrist who described first bulimia nervosa
- Harry Luman Russell (1866–1954), American bacteriologist
- Henry Norris Russell (1877–1957), American astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram also called HR diagram)[4]
- John Scott Russell (1808–1882), Scottish naval engineer credited with discovering the theory of waves
- Katheryn Russell-Brown (born 1961), American criminologist
- Liane Russell (1923–2019), American geneticist
- Patrick Russell (1726–1805), Scottish herpetologist
- Steve Russell (computer scientist) (born 1937), American computer scientist famous for creating Spacewar!
- Stuart J. Russell (born 1962), British computer scientist
Sports and recreation
- Andre Russell (born 1988), West Indies cricketer
- Barry Russell, Australian rugby league footballer
- Bill Russell (born 1934), NBA player
- Calvin Russell (American football) (born 1983), NFL player
- Cam Russell (born 1969), NHL player
- Carolyn Russell (born 1974), Canadian squash player
- Chapelle Russell (born 1997), American football player
- Chris Russell (born 1989), English cricketer
- Clarence W. Russell, American college sports coach
- D'Angelo Russell (born 1996), NBA player
- Damien Russell (born 1970), American football player
- Dontavius Russell (born 1995), American football player
- Erk Russell (1926–2006), American athlete and coach
- Jack Russell (cricketer, born 1963)
- JaMarcus Russell (born 1985), NFL player
- Jeff Russell (born 1961), MLB player and manager
- Jimmy Russell (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s
- Jordan Russell (born 1986), Australian rules footballer
- Kane Russell (born 1992), New Zealand field hockey player
- Kris Russell (born 1987), Canadian ice hockey player
- Lloyd Russell (1913–1968), American athlete and college sports coach
- Mickey Russell, American football player
- Moses Russell (1888–1946), Welsh international footballer
- Reb Russell (1889–1973), MLB player
- Rip Russell (1915–1976), MLB player
- Simon Russell (footballer) (born 1985), English footballer
- Vaughan Russell, Scottish footballer
Other
- Bourn Russell (1794-1880), British/Australian mariner, pastoralist, businessman and politician
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See also
- Russell (disambiguation)
- Russell (given name)
- Roussel (surname)
- Lord Russell (disambiguation)
- Lady Russell (disambiguation)
References
- "Russell Surname Meaning and Geographic Distribution". forebears.co.uk. Retrieved 19 January 2014
- The Russell Surname, Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4, ancestry.com
- François de Beaurepaire, Les Noms des communes et anciennes paroisses de la Manche, editions Picard 1985, p. 185
- "About Scientist Henry Norris Russell". What is USA News. 29 March 2014. Retrieved 2013-10-19.
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