Melville (surname)
Melville is a surname and a given name. The surname has two different origins: Scottish and Irish. The given name originates from England and Scotland.
Origins
- Surname
In Scotland the name is a habitational name, originally of Norman origin, derived from any of several places called Malleville in Normandy. The place name Malleville is derived from the Latin elements mala meaning "bad", and ville meaning "settlement". In Ireland the surname is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic Ó Maoilmhichíl which means "descendant of Maoilmhichil". The Gaelic personal name Maoilmhichil means "devotee of (Saint) Michael".[1] The surname is sometimes spelled without the terminal "e": Melvill.
- Given name
The given name Melville is of English and Scottish origin. The name is derived from the Scottish surname.[1]
People
Surname
- Alan Melville (writer), English playwright, composer, lyricist, scriptwriter and performer
- Alan Melville (1910–1983), South African cricketer
- Alexander Melville, 5th Earl of Leven, 4th Earl of Melville (died 1754)
- Andy Melville (born 1968), Welsh footballer
- Andrew Melville (1545–1622), Scottish theologian
- Arthur Melville (1858–1904), Scottish painter
- Betty Leslie-Melville (died 2005), American conservationist
- David Melville, 3rd Earl of Leven, 2nd Earl of Melville (1660–1728), Scots aristocrat, politician, and soldier
- David Melville, 6th Earl of Leven, 5th Earl of Melville (1722–1802)
- Frederick John Melville (1882–1940), early British philatelist
- George Melville, 4th Lord Melville (1636–1707), became 1st Earl of Melville in 1690
- George W. Melville (1841–1912), United States admiral
- George Whyte-Melville (1821–1878), Scottish novelist
- Gertrude Melville (1884–1959), Australian politician
- Henry Melville (1798–1871), Anglican priest
- Herman Melville (1819–1891), American author of Moby-Dick
- several people, James Melville
- James Melville of Halhill (1535–1617), Scottish diplomat and memoir writer
- Jean-Pierre Melville (1917–1973), French film director
- Kerry Reid, Australian tennis player Kerry Melville
- Sir Leslie Melville (1902–2002), Australian economist
- Michael Linning Melville, Judge and Lieutenant Governor of Sierra Leone
- Mike Melville (born 1940), test pilot
- Mr Melvill, Latin teacher
- Neil Melville, Australian actor
- Pauline Melville (born 1948), British actress
- Philip Melville (1762–1811), Falmouth philanthropist
- Ronald Melville (1903–1985), English botanist
- Ronald Ruthven Melville, 11th Earl of Leven, 10th Earl of Melville (1835–1906)
- Sam Melville (1934–1971), American bomb setter
- Stephen Melville (1904–1977), South African military man
- Teignmouth Melville (1842–1879), VC
- Thomas Melville (1726–1753), Scottish physicist
- Thomas Melvill (American patriot) (1751–1832), Major in the American Revolution and state legislator
- Ward Melville (1887–1977), American philanthropist
- William Melville (1850–1918), Irish law enforcement officer
Given name
Characters
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