Tweedie
Tweedie is a surname of Scottish origin. The name is a habitational name from Tweeddale. The origin and meaning of the name is unknown.[1][2] Notable people with the surname include:
- Andrew Tweedie, South African cricketer
- Sir David Tweedie, chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board
- Ethel Brilliana Tweedie, 19th century British author and early feminist
- Frederick Tweedie, Canadian politician
- Irina Tweedie, Russian Sufi
- LaShaun Tweedie, American musician and composer
- Jill Tweedie, feminist and writer
- Lemuel John Tweedie, Canadian politician and father to Frederick Tweedie
- Michael Tweedie, naturalist and archaeologist
- Rob Tweedie, American musician
- Stephen Tweedie, Scottish software developer
- Thomas Tweedie, Canadian politician and Chief Justice
- Admiral Sir Hugh Tweedie,Royal Naval Officer
- David Tweedie, Author of David Rizzio and Mary Queen of Scots: Murder at Holyrood
- MCK Tweedie, British medical physicist and statistician
See also
- Clan Tweedie, a Scottish clan, or historical family in Scotland
- Tweedie distribution, any of a certain parameterized family of probability distributions
- Tweedy, a variant of name Tweedie[2]
References
- ↑ Tweedie Name Meaning and History Retrieved on 2012-07-13
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hanks, Patrick; Hodges, Flavia (1988), A Dictionary of Surnames, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-211592-8