Fleming

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A Fleming is an inhabitant of Flanders, see Flemings.

"Fleming" is a quite common surname in English-speaking countries. Having it indicates that the ancestors of a person so named may have at some past time immigrated from Flanders - though it might have happened long enough in the past that no memory of it, except for the name, is retained in the family concerned. (There were extensive ties between England and Flanders already in the Middle Ages, with numerous Flemings arriving in England as merchants or mercenaries and some staying on.) Fleming is also the name of a Swedish noble family of Finnish origin.

Fleming is also a neighbourhood in Alexandria, Egypt, named after Alexander Fleming

and a Biomedical Sciences Research Center at Vari, Athens, Greece, The Alexander Fleming BSRC

Among the persons so named may be mentioned:

• Alexander Fleming (1881-1955), Scottish scientist to whom the "discovery" of penicillin was attributed
• Anne Fleming, American actress and model
• Anne Fleming, Canadian author
• Antony le Fleming, English composer
• Art Fleming (1924-1995), American television personality
• Arthur Fleming, namesake of Caltech's Fleming House
• Bob Fleming, fictional character on The Fast Show
• Charles Alexander Fleming (1916-1987), New Zealand ornithologist
• Chummy Fleming (1863-1950), Australian unionist
• Craig Fleming (1971- ), English footballer
• Damien Fleming (1970- ), Australian cricketeer
• David Pinkerton Fleming (1877-1944), Scottish politician
• Don Fleming (1937-1963), American football safety
• Donald Fleming (1905-1987), Canadian parliamentarian
• Elaine Fleming, Minnesota politician
• Erik Fleming (1965- ), Mississippi politician
• Erin Fleming (1941-2003), Canadian actress
• Francis P. Fleming (1841-1908), Florida politician
• Ian Fleming (1908-1964), British author of the James Bond novels
• Jaqueline Fleming (1977- ), Danish-American actress
• James Phillip Fleming (1943- ), American military pilot
• John Ambrose Fleming (1849-1945), British engineer
• John Fleming, Scottish writer and television producer
• Klaus Fleming (1535-1597), Swedish admiral and nobleman
• Klas Fleming, other people named Klas, Clas, Claes or Klaus
• Lancelot Fleming, fictional character on Monarch of the Glen
• Lucy Fleming (1947- ), British actress
• Mack Fleming, founder of Charleston Tea Plantation
• Marcus Fleming (?-1976), an economist
• Michael Fleming (?-1940), British captain
• Michael Anthony Fleming (1792-1850), Newfoundland Roman Catholic Bishop
• Mike Fleming, conservative radio talk show host
• Nancy Fleming, 1961 Miss America
• Osbourne Fleming (1940- ), Anguillan politician
• Peggy Fleming (1948- ), American figure skater
• Peter Fleming (1907-1971), writer
• Peter Fleming (1955- ), tennis player
• Major General Raymond H. Fleming, chief of National Guard Bureau from August 14, 1951 to February 15, 1953
• Renée Fleming (1959), an American soprano
• Richard E. Fleming (1917-1942), American hero of World War II
• Richard Fleming (c.1360-1431), Bishop of Lincoln
• Rhonda Fleming (1923- ), American actress
• Robert Fleming (1845-1933), Scottish banker
• Robert Fleming (1921-1976), A Canadian Composer
• Robert John Fleming (1907-1984), Governor of Panama Canal Zone
• Sandford Fleming (1827-1915), Canadian engineer, namesake of Fleming College
• Seán Fleming (1958- ), Irish politician
• Sharona Fleming, fictional character in Monk
• Shaun Fleming (1987- ), American actor
• Stephen Fleming (1973- ), New Zealand cricket captain
• Thomas Fleming:
  • Thomas Fleming, American writer and editor
  • Thomas Fleming (1554-1613), English judge
• Victor Fleming (1889-1949), American film director (Gone With the Wind)
• Williamina Fleming (1857-1911), Scottish astronomer

Fleming is also the name of several Swedish noble families, some of which have been historically significant.

[edit] See also

• The Fläming is a large area south of Berlin, in the districts of Teltow-Fläming and Potsdam-Mittelmark
• Flemming

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