Duff (surname)

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Duff is a surname of Gaelic origin meaning "black", and may refer to

• Alan Duff, New Zealand writer
• Alexander Duff, founder of Scottish Church College, Calcutta
• Andrew Duff, Everyday Australian who has yet to do anything really interesting
• Andrew Duff, British politician
• Anne-Marie Duff, British actress
• Anthony Duff, past head of MI5
• Cara Leland Duff, later Lady Fairhaven
• Cosmo Duff Gordon, Scottish landowner
• Damien Duff, footballer with Newcastle United F.C and Ireland
• Dick Duff, Canadian ice hockey player
• Elmyra Duff, fictional character from Tiny Toon Adventures
• Captain George Duff of the Royal Navy who commanded HMS Mars at the Battle of Trafalgar
• Professor Sir Gordon William Duff
• Haylie Duff, American actress, Hilary's sister,
• Hilary Duff, American pop singer and actress, Haylie's sister
• Howard Duff, American actor
• James Duff, one of several people including:
  • James Duff Duff, also known as J D Duff or J. D. Duff (1860-1940), classicist, latinist and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, an editor of Pharsalia by Lucanus translated by Sir Edward Ridley
  • James Duff (writer), American writer
  • James Fitzgerald Duff, British educationalist
  • James Grant Duff, soldier for the British East India Company
  • James H. Duff, American politician
• Jason Duff, Australian field hockey player
• Karen Duffy, an actress, model, and former MTV VJ once known as "Duff"
• Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, fashion designer
• Lyman Poore Duff, Canadian Chief Justice
• Michael Duff, physicist and string theorist
• Michael Duff (footballer), Northern Ireland footballer
• Sir Michael Duff, 3rd Baronet, socialite
• Mickey Duff, British boxing promoter
• Norwich Duff, British admiral
• Peggy Duff, British activist
• Peter Duff, Scottish law professor
• Reggie Duff, Australian cricketer
• Rick Duff, Canadian boxer
• Robert Duff, one of several people, including
  • Robert Duff (politician), Scottish politician
  • Robert Duff (governor), governor of Newfoundland
• Sheila Grant Duff
• Tom Duff, Canadian computer scientist
• Warren B. Duff, film and television writer and producer
• William E. Duff, American writer on counterespionage

As a family name of Scottish aristocrats:

• William Duff, 1st Earl Fife (c. 1696-1763)
• James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife (1729-1809)
• Alexander Duff, 3rd Earl Fife (1731-1811)
• James Duff, 4th Earl Fife (1776-1857)
• James Duff, 5th Earl Fife (1814-1879)
• Alexander Duff, 6th Earl Fife (1849-1912) (became Duke of Fife in 1887)
• Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife (1849-1912)
• Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife (1849-1912)
• Sir Benjamin Duff, 5th Baronet (1808-1897)
• Sir George Duff-Sutherland-Dunbar, 6th Baronet (1878-1962)
• Sir George Cospatrick Duff-Sutherland-Dunbar, 7th Baronet (1906-1953)

In the British Royal Family:

• Alexandra Victoria Alberta Edwina Louise Duff, Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife
• Maud Alexandra Victoria Georgina Bertha Duff, Princess Maud of Fife

[edit] See also

• Clan MacDuff
• Duff
• MacDuff, Macduff
• Figgy Duff, Canadian folk-rock group
• Huff-Duff, direction-finding