Darby (name)

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Darby (pronounced: DAHR-bee) is an [[English people}English]] locational surname, and a masculine given name. Its prefix derives from the Old Norse djur ("deer"), and the suffix byr ("farm"/"settlement"). The oldest recorded surname dates to the period of 1160 - 1182 in Lincolnshire. Darby was a common pre-1800 alternative spelling of Derby, a city in England.^[1] People with the name or its variants include:

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• Abraham Darby I (1678–1717), British ironmaster & pioneer of coke-fired smelting
• Abraham Darby II (1711–1763), British ironmaster, son of Abraham I
• Abraham Darby III (1750–1791), British ironmaster, builder of the world's first iron bridge
• Adrian Darby OBE (born 1937), British environmentalist
• Christopher Darby-Griffith, British Member of Parliament, 1857–1868
• Francis Darby (1783–1850), eldest son of Abraham Darby III, art lover & correspondent of John Constable
• George Darby (c1720–1790), Vice-Admiral, British Navy
• George Darby, MP, Member of Parliament for East Sussex 1837–1841
• George Andrew Darby, engineer and inventor
• Harry Darby, American politician
• Henry D'Esterre Darby, (1750–1823), Admiral, British Navy
• Henry Darby-Griffith CB, general, British Army
• John Darby, NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race director
• John M. Darby, American botanist & academic
• John Nelson Darby, leader of the Plymouth Brethren, founder of the Darbyites and translator of the Darby Bible
• Joseph Darby, American military policeman
• Josie D'Arby, British actress
• Kim Darby, American actress
• Larry Darby, American politician
• Marshall E. Darby (1918–1941), U.S. Navy officer
• Mary Darby, British poet Mary Robinson
• Matthew Darby, British landscape designer & publisher
• Matthew Darby-Griffith (1772–1823), general, British Army
• Newman Darby, American inventor
• Rhys Darby, New Zealand comedian
• Séamus Darby, Irish Gaelic footballer
• Terence Trent D'Arby, American singer-songwriter, also known as Sananda Maitreya
• William J. Darby (1913–2001), American nutritional biochemist and historian
• William Orlando Darby, U.S. Army officer

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• Darby Crash from the band The Germs
• Darby Conley cartoonist creator of Get Fuzzy
• Darby Darl, musician

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