Thurston (name)
| Thurston | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Origin | |
| Word/name |
Old Norse; or Old Norse and Old English |
| Meaning |
Thor's stone; or Thurston, Suffolk |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Dustin, Thorstein, Thorsten, Thurstan, Torstein, Torsten |
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Thurston is an English-language surname. The name has several origins. In some cases it can have originated from the Old Norse personal name Þórsteinn. This name is derived from the Old Norse elements Þórr ("Thor", the Scandinavian thunder god) and steinn ("stone", "rock"). In other cases the name can have originated from the name of Thurston, located in Suffolk, England.[1] This place name is derived from the Old Norse personal name Þóri and the Old English element tūn ("enclosure", "settlement").[1][2]
People with this surname
- Asa Thurston (1787–1868), Hawaiian missionary
- Baratunde Thurston (born 1977), American comedian
- Darren Thurston, Canadian animal rights activist
- David Thurston (1819-1889) U.S. Consul to Toronto,Montreal, Quebec [3]
- David Thurston (born 1918), American aircraft designer
- Ernest Temple Thurston (1879–1933), Irish author
- Fred Thurston (1933-2014), American football player
- Howard Thurston (1869–1936), American magician
- John Thurston (basketball coach)
- Johnathan Thurston (born 1983), Australian rugby league footballer
- John Mellen Thurston (1847–1916), American politician
- John Bates Thurston (1836–1897), British governor of Fiji
- Katherine Cecil Thurston (1875–1911), Irish author
- Lorrin A. Thurston (1857–1931), American lawyer and leader of the 1893 Hawaiian revolution
- Lucy Goodale Thurston (1795–1876), Hawaiian missionary and author
- Robert Thurston, American author
- Robert Henry Thurston (1839–1903), American engineer
- Samuel Thurston (1815–1851), American politician
- Scott Thurston (born 1952), American musician
- William Thurston (1946–2012), American mathematician
Fictional characters
- Renton Thurston, protagonist of Eureka Seven
- Sid "The Snitch" Thurston, character played by Peter Jurasik on Hill Street Blues and its spin-off, Beverly Hills Buntz
- Francis Wayland Thurston, narrator of The Call of Cthulhu
- King Thurston in the medieval romance King Horn
People with this given name
- Thurston Clarke (born 1946), American historian, author and journalist
- Thurston Daniels (1859–26), Populist politician from the U.S. state of Washington
- Thurston Dart (1921–71), British musicologist, conductor, and keyboard player
- Thurston Hall (1882–1958), American film actor
- Thurston Harris (1931–90), American singer
- Thurston Howe (born 1983), lead guituarist of heavy metal band Flayed Disciple
- Thurston Hunt (executed 1601), English Roman Catholic priest
- Thurston Moore (born 1958), American musician in Sonic Youth
- Thurston Rostron (1863–91), English footballer
- Thurston Twigg-Smith (born 1921), businessman and philanthropist from Hawaii
Fictional characters
- Thurston Howell III, one of the seven castaways, credited as "The Millionaire," portrayed by actor Jim Backus in the 1960s sitcom Gilligan's Island
See also
- Thurston (disambiguation)
- Thorstein
- Thurstan
- Louis Leon Thurstone (1887–1955), American pioneer in psychometrics and psychophysics
References
- 1 2 Thurston Family History, Ancestry.com, retrieved 19 February 2012. This webpage cited: Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4.
- ↑ Thurston, Encyclopedia.com, retrieved 19 February 2012. This webpage cited: Mills, A. D. (2003), A Dictionary of British Place-Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4.
- ↑ http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/thurston_david_11E.html
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