Fairchild (name)

Fairchild
Family name
Related names	Fairbairn, Armstrong

Fairchild is a common surname of Anglo-Saxon, Dane origin^[1], first recorded in Oxfordshire where the family held a seat from the Dark Ages before the Norman Conquest with the arrival of William the Conqueror at Hastings in 1066.^[2]. The name is derived from the Old English words for fair or beautiful and the word child.

List of persons with the surname

Fairchild family, descendants of Thomas Fairchild (1610–1670), son of William Fairchild (b.1577 in Essex England)
Barbara Fairchild, American country and gospel singer/songwriter from Knobel, Arkansas
Benjamin L. Fairchild (1863–1946), five-time New York State Republican Congressman
Caitlin Fairchild, fictional Gen 13 comic book heroine
Cassius Fairchild (1829–1868), Wisconsin Democrat Party Leader and Union Army Colonel, U.S. Civil War
Charles Stebbins Fairchild (1842–1924), New York State Attorney General, 38th United States Secretary of Treasury
David Grandison Fairchild (1869–1954), pioneering industrial botanist, plant explorer, son-in-law of Alexander Graham Bell
Edward Henry Fairchild (1815–1889), abolishionist educator, first President of Berea College, the first fully integrated southern university
Edward Thomas Fairchild (1872–1965), jurist, Wisconsin Supreme Court
Edward Thomson Fairchild (1854–1917), New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (U. of New Hampshire) President
Frank Fairchild Wesbrook (1868–1918), First University of British Columbia President.
Fred Rogers Fairchild (1877–1966), educator/economist, holder of Seymour Knox Chair Professor of Mathematical Institutional Economics (Emeritus) Yale University
George Thompson Fairchild (1838–1901), college educator, President of Michigan State University and Kansas State University
George Winthrop Fairchild (1854–1924), New York State Senator, Republican National Convention delegate, and co-founder of IBM
Alexander Graham Bell Fairchild (1906–1994), Harvard educated entomologist, and grandson of Alexander Graham Bell
Henry Pratt Fairchild (1880–1956), American sociologist, co-founder of Planned Parenthood
Herman LeRoy Fairchild (1850–1943), American geologist and college educator, early proponent of theorizing meteorite impact
Hiram Orlando Fairchild (1845–1925), Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Jim Fairchild (born 1973), American singer/songwriter guitarist, Band member of Modest Mouse
Jairus Cassius Fairchild (1801–1862), first Wisconsin State Treasurer, and first mayor of Madison, Wisconsin
John Russell Fairchild, Professional basketball player, drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers.
LeRoy Fairchild, founded the Masonic order, the Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm in 1889
Lucius Fairchild (1831–1896), Civil War Brigadier General, three-term Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Minister to Spain, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Lydia Fairchild, one of only 30 known worldwide cases of chimerism
Megan Fairchild, principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, from Salt Lake City, Utah
Morgan Fairchild, American actress from Dallas, Texas
Muir Stephen Fairchild (1894–1950), Four-star General, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
Robert Fairchild, principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, soloist from Salt Lake City, Utah
Sherman Mills Fairchild (1896–1971), industrialist inventor, founder of Fairchild Aviation, Fairchild-Strato, Fairchild-Hiller, Fairchild Recording, and Fairchild Camera and Instrument
Thomas Edward Fairchild (1912–2007), Wisconsin Attorney General, appointed to Wisconsin Supreme Court and U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals after losing the 1952 Wisconsin Senate race to Joseph McCarthy from "McCarthy-ism" fame.

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