Macpherson

MacPherson or Macpherson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

In sports

• Archie Macpherson, Scottish football commentator
• Bruce MacPherson (field hockey), Canadian field hockey player
• Bryden Macpherson, Australian amateur golfer
• Duncan MacPherson, ice hockey player
• Gus MacPherson, Scottish footballer
• Jeff MacPherson, driver in the CART Championship Car series
• Michelle MacPherson, Canadian swimmer

In politics

• Ben Macpherson (politician), Scottish politician
• C. B. Macpherson, Canadian academic
• Hector Macpherson, Sr. (1875–1970), Canadian-American agricultural economics professor and politician
• Hector Macpherson, Jr. (1918–2015), American farmer and politician
• James Ian Macpherson, British lawyer and politician
• John Alexander MacPherson, Australian politician
• John MacPherson (governor of India), Scottish administrator in India
• John Thomas Macpherson (1872–1921), English politician
• Murdoch MacPherson, Canadian politician
• Niall Macpherson, 1st Baron Drumalbyn, Scottish politician
• Nicholas Macpherson, British civil servant
• Thomas Macpherson, 1st Baron Macpherson of Drumochter (1888–1965), Scottish politician

In music

• Ben Macpherson, Australian musician
• Christina Macpherson, Australian behind Waltzing Matilda
• Fraser MacPherson, Canadian jazz musician
• Greg MacPherson, Canadian singer-songwriter
• Jim Macpherson, United States percussionist
• Linda Lizotte-MacPherson, Canadian public servant
• Norman MacPherson, Champion Piper of Canada, Won Gold Medal at Oban

In literature

• James Macpherson, Scottish poet
• Jay Macpherson, Canadian poet

In show business and news

• Daniel MacPherson, Australian actor and television presenter
• Don Macpherson, Canadian journalist
• Duncan Macpherson, Canadian editorial cartoonist
• Elle Macpherson, Australian supermodel and actress
• Gordon Macpherson, Founder of Macpherson Menswear - Palmerston North, New Zealand.
• Hector Macpherson (1851–1924), Scottish journalist and writer
• Myra MacPherson, American journalist and author
• Richard MacPherson, American actor

Others

• Alexander Macpherson, English architect
• Cluny MacPherson, Newfoundland medical doctor and inventor of the gas mask
• Lt-Col Donald Macpherson, Canadian Soldier
• Earl S. MacPherson, the Ford engineer who developed the MacPherson strut in the 1940s
• Ewen MacPherson of Cluny, Scottish Jacobite
• Hector Macpherson (astronomer) (1888-1956), Scottish clergyman and astronomer, son of Hector C. Macpherson
• Jamie Macpherson, Scottish outlaw, famed for his lament
• Sir Macpherson Robertson, Australian philanthropist and entrepreneur
• Malcom MacPherson, Composed "The Lament for Cluny MacPherson" for the death of Cluny, 1885
• Robert Macpherson (disambiguation), multiple people
• Colonel Tommy Macpherson, British army officer
• Sir William Macpherson, High Court Judge in England

Fictional characters

• Anya MacPherson, fictional character in Degrassi: The Next Generation

See also

• Clan Macpherson, a Scottish clan
• The Macpherson Report, into the death of Black British teenage Stephen Lawrence
• MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co.
• MacPherson strut, a car suspension system
• MacPherson, Singapore
• Macpherson Stadium (disambiguation)
• McPherson (disambiguation)