Johnstone (surname)

Johnstone is a surname. It is a variant of the similar surname Johnston which in most cases is a habitational surname derived from several places in Scotland.^[1][2]

Etymology

1. The habitational surname Johnstone / Johnston is in most cases derived from the name of Johnstone located in Annandale, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. This surname is derived from the genitive case of the given name John and tone or toun ("settlement" in Middle English; tun in Old English), literally meaning "John's town". There are several similar place names in Scotland, including the city of Perth, which was once known as St. John's Toun. This and other similarly named locations may also be sources for the habitational surnames Johnstone / Johnston.^[2]

List of persons with the surname

• Alex Johnstone (born 1961), politician
• Archibald Johnstone (born 1924), Canadian businessman and retired Senator
• Bobby Johnstone (1929–2001), Scottish football player
• Campbell Johnstone (born 1980), All Black, New Zealand Rugby Player
• Charles Johnstone (1719?-1800), novelist
• Colin Johnstone, New Zealander rower
• Davey Johnstone (born 1951), rock guitarist and vocalist
• Derek Johnstone (born 1953), Scottish former professional footballer
• Ed Johnstone (born 1954), Canadian ice hockey player
• Edward Johnstone (British Army officer) (1791-1850), British army officer
• Edward Huggins Johnstone (born 1922), American federal judge
• Eve Johnstone, Scottish Head of the Division of Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh
• Gavin Wildridge Johnstone (1941–1987), Australian ornithologist
• George Johnstone (Royal Navy officer) (1730–1787), British naval officer and Member of Parliament
• Graeme Johnstone, Australian state coroner for Victoria
• Jay Johnstone (born 1945), former Major League Baseball player
• James Johnstone (disambiguation)
• John Johnstone (mayor) (1700s), American mayor of New York City 1714-1719
• John Johnstone (baseball) (born 1968), former Major League Baseball player
• Keith Johnstone (born 1933), American drama instructor
• Lance Johnstone (born 1973), American football player
• Parker Johnstone (born 1961), American race car driver
• Paul Neil Milne Johnstone (1952-2004), British poet
• Peter Johnstone (born 1944), governor of Anguilla 2000–2004
• Peter Tennant Johnstone, British mathematician
• Ralph Johnstone (1886–1910), American aviator who died in an aircrash
• Samuel Luke "Sam" Johnstone (born 1993), English goalkeeper for Manchester United
• Sandy Johnstone (1916–2000), British Air Marshal
• Travis Johnstone (born 1980), Australian rules footballer
• William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale (1600s-1721), Scottish nobleman
• William Johnstone (VC) (1823–1857), British soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Bruce Johnstone (racing driver) (born 1937), South African Formula One race car driver
• William W. Johnstone (1938–2004), American author of novels about the Old West

Scottish clan

• Clan Johnstone, a Scottish clan, whose chief has the noble title Earl of Annandale and Hartfell

People with a variant form of the surname

• William Johnstone Milne (1892–1917), Canadian World War I soldier
• William Johnstone Ritchie (1813 – 92), Chief Justice of the Canadian Supreme Court
• George Johnstone Stoney (1826–1911), Irish physicist; introduced the term "electron"
• Richard Johnstone-Scott, illustrator and author

Fictional people with the surname

• Paul Johstone, alter-ego of the anti-hero Shadowhawk

See also

• Johnston (surname)

References

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