Carruthers

Carruthers is a Scottish surname and clan, originating from the lands of Carruthers in Dumfriesshire. The place name is derived from the Cumbric for "Rhydderch's fort" possibly in reference to Riderch I of Alt Clut.^[1][2]

Notable people with the surname

• Chris Carruthers (born 1983), English footballer
• David Carruthers (born 1957), British businessman
• Sir David Carruthers, New Zealand judge
• Douglas Carruthers (1882–1962), soldier, explorer, and naturalist
• Elizabeth Carruthers (born 1951), Canadian diver
• George Robert Carruthers (born 1939), American physicist and inventor
• Ian Carruthers, British National Health Service manager
• Jimmy Carruthers (1929–1990), Australian world champion boxer
• John Carruthers (footballer) (1900–1959), English footballer
• Kitty Carruthers (born 1961), American pairs figure skater
• Mark Carruthers (born 1965), British talk show host on BBC
• Peter Carruthers (philosopher) (born 1952), British philosopher
• Peter Carruthers (born 1959), American pairs figure skater
• Peter A. Carruthers (1935–1997), American physicist
• Robert Carruthers (1799–1878), Scottish journalist and writer
• Robert L. Caruthers (1800–1882), American politician and judge, governor-elect of Tennessee in 1863
• Samir Carruthers (born 1993), Irish footballer
• Wallace Bruce Matthews Carruthers (1863–1910), Canadian soldier and founder of the Canadian Signal Corps
• William Carruthers (1830–1922), British botanist
• Will Carruthers (born 1967), alternative rock musician

Fictitious entities

• Carruthers, protagonist of Robert Erskine Childers' novel Riddle of the Sands
• Bob Carruthers, a character from the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
• Elizabeth and Peter Carruthers, a married couple; she inherits his trading firm, Carruthers & Co., in the 2016 Discovery Channel/Netflix series Frontier

See also

• Carruthers Field, American military airbase at Benbrook, Texas, near Fort Worth, during World War I

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