Gordon

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Contents 1 People 1.1 As a surname 1.2 Nobility 1.3 As a given name 2 Fictional characters 3 Places 3.1 Scotland 3.2 Australia 3.3 United States 4 Other uses 5 See also 6 External links

Gordon may refer to any of the following:

[edit] People

Gordon is a traditional Scottish clan name (see Clan Gordon) and it is now a common given name and a less common surname. It is thought to be Celtic for "great hill" from the Celtic words "gor" which means "great" and "dun" which means "hill".

It is also a fairly common surname of some Eastern European Jews (Hebrew: גורדון‎ Russian: Гордон); its origin in this usage means "a person or pedigree from Grodno". Variations are Gordin, Gordan, Grodner, etc.

[edit] As a surname

• Aharon David Gordon (Aaron David Gordon)
• Ben Gordon, American basketball player
• Charles George Gordon, British General known as "Chinese Gordon" and "Gordon of Khartoum"
• Charles Gordon (disambiguation page)
• Rabbi Eliezer Gordon, a Lithuanian Rosh Yeshiva
• Elye Gordon, Soviet Yiddish writer.
• Jacob Gordon, see Jacob Gordin
• Jay Gordon, musician
• Jeff Gordon, American NASCAR driver
• Joe Gordon, American baseball player and manager
• John Gordon (disambiguation page)
• Karl Gordon, British DJ and producer
• Kim Gordon, American musician and member of No Wave band Sonic Youth
• Marina Gordon, a Sovier Yiddish singer
• Marjory Gordon, an American nurse
• Michael Gordon (disambiguation page)
• Mikalah Gordon, (b. 1988), American Idol 4 contestant
• Mikhl Gordon - Jewish folklorist and songwriter.
• Robby Gordon, NASCAR driver
• Shmuel Gordon (1908-1998) an Soviet Yiddish writer.
• Shmuel Leib Gordon, (1865-1933) an Jewish educator, poet and Bible translator.
• Stuart Gordon, an American director
• Tom Gordon (b. 1967), an American baseball pitcher
• Wayne Gordon (b. 1963), a Canadian boxer
• William Jonathon Gordon 3rd Esq. (b. 1986), a high profile Canadian gay rights activist, an active participant in student government at Trent University and prominent figure in the musical landscape of Midland Ontario.
• Willy Gordon, Swedish sculptor
• Yehuda Leib Gordon, (1830-1892) - an Jewish writer and educator.

[edit] Nobility

• George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly
• George Gordon, 5th Earl of Huntly
• George Gordon, 1st Marquess and 6th Earl of Huntly

[edit] As a given name

• Gordon Bennett, any of one of five prominent people; also a common British English expression or exclamation
• Gordon Brown, British Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Gordon Brown (rugby player)
• Gordon Gano, lead singer of the Violent Femmes
• Gordon Gould (July 17, 1920 – September 16, 2005), American physicist and credited inventor of the laser.
• Gordon B. Hinckley, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• Gordon Howe, Detroit Red Wings right wing.
• Gordon Jackson (actor) (1923–1990)
• G. Gordon Liddy, Radio talk show host, and chief operative for President Richard Nixon's White House Plumbers unit.
• Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian folk singer
• Gordon Moakes, bassist of English band Bloc Party
• Gordon Park, convicted murderer
• Gordon Pirie, a middle distance runner and orienteerer
• Gordon Ramsay, a British celebrity chef, and best known in the United States as the host of FOX's Hell's Kitchen.
• Gordon Solie, Professional Wrestling announcer
• Gordon Sumner, better known as Sting
• Gordon Wu, Chairman of Hopewell Holdings Ltd.
• Gordon J.H. CHEN, Chinese

[edit] Fictional characters

• Flash Gordon, the lead character of a comic book series by the same name, and the movie and cartoon series based on it.
• Gordon, a foot in Rocko's Modern Life.
• Commissioner Gordon, the commissioner of Gotham City in Batman
• Barbara Gordon, the first Batgirl, now the information broker known as Oracle.
• Gordon, artist name for Cornelis Willem Gordon Heuckeroth, Dutch singer and television presentor
• Gordon the Big Engine is engine number 4 in the Thomas the Tank Engine series
• Gordon Freeman, the main character in the Half Life series.
• Gordon Robinson, from the popular children's educational television program Sesame Street
• Gordon Shumway (aka Alf Tanner), an alien from Melmak, the title character of the sitcom ALF
• Gordon, the pet devil of Ackman in Akira Toriyama's manga series Go Go Ackman and its video game adaptation
• Gordon, the first archer to appear in the series Fire Emblem.
• Gordon Deitrich, a character in the film V for Venedetta.
• Gordon Tracey, a character in the TV series 'Thunderbirds'
• Gordon the Gopher, a puppet character from various British children's TV programmes.

[edit] Places

[edit] Scotland

• Gordon, Village in Berwickshire, where the House of Gordon originated
• Gordonstoun, a private school in Moray
• Gordon, Scotland, a local government district from 1975 to 1996
• Gordon (UK Parliament constituency), a parliamentary constituency of the House of Commons
• Gordon (Scottish Parliament constituency), a constituency of the Scottish Parliament
• Presbytery of Gordon, one of the Church of Scotland presbyteries, an administrative district

[edit] Australia

• Gordon, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
• Gordon, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra
• Gordon, Victoria, a rural town
• Gordon River, a major river of Tasmania

[edit] United States

• Gordon, Alabama
• Gordon, Georgia
• Gordon, Nebraska
• Gordon, Ohio
• Gordon, Pennsylvania
• Gordon, Texas
• Gordon, Ashland County, Wisconsin
• Gordon, Douglas County, Wisconsin
• Gordon County, Georgia
• Gordon Township, Minnesota
• Gordon Heights, New York
• Gordonsville, Virginia

[edit] Other uses

• Gordon, the first album by the Canadian pop band Barenaked Ladies
• Gordon's Gin
• Hurricane Gordon, an Atlantic hurricane name which was used in 1994, 2000, and 2006.
• The Gordon Highlanders, a former regiment of the British Army
• Gordon model, a stock valuation model by Myron Gordon
• Gordon Quid, the character from Catscratch.

[edit] See also

• Gorden
• Grod, Grad, Garden
• Gordan (Paul Gordan), Gordin, Gradner/Grodner (Annetta Grodner, Israel Grodner)
• Onomastics in Judaism, List of Jewish surnames

[edit] External links

• http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_g.htm
• http://www.thegordondnaproject.com
• http://www.gordonquest.com