Gordon

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Contents 1 People 1.1 As a surname 1.2 Nobility 1.3 As a given name (in Surname order) 2 Fictional characters 3 Places 3.1 Australia 3.2 Scotland 3.3 United States 4 Other uses 5 See also

Gordon may refer to any of the following:

[edit] People

Gordon is a traditional Scottish clan name (see Clan Gordon) and it is now a common given name and a less common surname. It is thought to be Celtic for "great hill" from the Celtic words "gor" which means "great" and "dun" which means "hill".

It is also a fairly common surname of some Eastern European Jews (Hebrew: גורדון‎ Russian: Гордон); its origin in this usage may derive from Grodno.

[edit] As a surname

• Adoniram Judson Gordon, pastor in Boston, Massachusetts, and founder of Gordon College
• Gordon Cooper, American astronaut
• A. D. Gordon (Aaron David Gordon)
• Archibald Ronald McDonald Gordon, former Bishop of Portsmouth
• Bart Gordon, American congressman
• Ben Gordon, American basketball player
• Charles George Gordon, British general known as "Chinese Gordon" and "Gordon of Khartoum"
• Charles Gordon (disambiguation)
• Rabbi Eliezer Gordon, a Lithuanian Rosh Yeshiva
• Elye Gordon, Soviet Yiddish writer
• Gavin Gordon, English footballer
• George William Gordon, Jamaican religious leader and revolutionary
• Jay Gordon, musician
• Jeff Gordon, American NASCAR driver
• Joe Gordon, American baseball player and manager
• John Gordon (disambiguation)
• Judah Leib Gordon, Hebrew poet
• Juliette Gordon Low, Founder of the Girl Scouts of America
• Karl Gordon, British DJ and producer
• Kim Gordon, American musician, member of Sonic Youth
• Marjory Gordon, American nurse
• M. G. Gordon, American businessman, inventor and social theorist
• Michael Gordon (disambiguation)
• Mikalah Gordon, (b. 1988), American Idol 4 contestant
• Noah Gordon, (b. 1926), American novelist
• Paige Gordon (b. 1973), Canadian diver
• Patrick Gordon (1635 – 1699) general of the Imperial Russian army, of Scottish origin.
• Richard F. Gordon, Jr. (b. 1929), American astronaut
• Robby Gordon, NASCAR driver
• Sue Gordon, magistrate
• Stuart Gordon, American director
• Thomas Gordon (psychologist), an American psychologist
• Tom Gordon (b. 1967), American baseball pitcher
• Wayne Gordon (b. 1963), Canadian boxer
• Willy Gordon, Swedish sculptor

[edit] Nobility

• Duke of Gordon, created once in the Peerage of Scotland, and again in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
• George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly
• George Gordon, 5th Earl of Huntly
• George Gordon, 1st Marquess and 6th Earl of Huntly

[edit] As a given name (in Surname order)

• Gordon Allport, an American psychologist
• Gordon Banks, an English football player
• Gordon Brown, a Scottish politician, the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• Gordon Campbell (disambiguation)
• Gordon Cooper, an American astronaut
• Gordon R. Dickson, an American science fiction author
• Gordon Frickers, an English marine, aviation and landscape artist
• Gordon Getty, the fourth child of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty
• Gordon Gould, an American physicist
• Cornelis Willem Gordon Heuckeroth, better known under his artist name Gordon, a Dutch singer and radio- and television presentor.
• Gordon B. Hinckley, the 15th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• G. Gordon Liddy, jointly organised the first break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate scandal
• Gordon Lightfoot, a Canadian singer and songwriter
• Gordon Lish, an American writer
• Gordon Matta-Clark, an American artist
• Gordon Moore, an American businessman
• Gordon Murray, a South African designer of Formula One race cars
• Gordon Parks, an American photographer and film director
• Gordon Pask, an English cybernetician and psychologist
• Gordon Ramsay, a Scottish celebrity chef
• Gordon Smiley, an auto racer, died in an accident in 1982.
• Gordon Smith (disambiguation)
• Gordon Strachan, a Scottish football player and manager
• Gordon Sumner, the given name of pop singer and The Police frontman Sting
• R. Gordon Wasson, an American psychedelic writer

[edit] Fictional characters

• Commissioner Gordon, the commissioner of Gotham City in Batman
• Flash Gordon, the lead character of a comic book series by the same name, and the movie and cartoon series based on it.
• Gordon, a foot in Rocko's Modern Life
• Gordon, the first archer to appear in the series Fire Emblem
• Gordon the Gopher, a puppet character from various British children's TV programmes
• Gordon, the pet devil of Ackman in Akira Toriyama's manga series Go Go Ackman and its video game adaptation
• Gordon the Big Engine, a fictional anthropomorphic tender locomotive in The Railway Series books by Rev. W. Awdry
  • Gordon the Big Engine, engine number 4 in the Thomas the Tank Engine series
• Barbara Gordon, the first Batgirl, now the information broker known as Oracle
• David Gordon in Lizzie McGuire
• Gordon Deitrich, a character in V for Vendetta (film)
• Gordon Freeman, the main character in the Half Life series
• Gordon Quid, the character from Catscratch
• Gordon Robinson, from the popular children's educational television program Sesame Street
• Gordon Shumway (aka Alf Tanner), an alien from Melmak, and the title character of the sitcom ALF (TV series)
• Gordon Tracy, fictional character from Thunderbirds
• Gordon Walker, a hunter in the television series Supernatural
• Lawrence Gordon, the fictional character in the first of the Saw franchise
• Tony Gordon

[edit] Places

[edit] Australia

• Gordon, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra
• Gordon, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
• Gordon, Victoria, a rural town
• Gordon River, a major river of Tasmania

[edit] Scotland

• Gordon (district), an area of Aberdeenshire, forming a local government district from 1975 to 1996
• Gordon, Scottish Borders, village in Berwickshire, where the Clan Gordon originated
• Gordon (Scottish Parliament constituency), a constituency of the Scottish Parliament
• Gordon (UK Parliament constituency), a constituency of the House of Commons
• Gordon, a presbytery of the Church of Scotland, see List of Church of Scotland synods and presbyteries
• Gordon Castle, Moray

[edit] United States

• Gordon, Alabama
• Gordon, Georgia
• Gordon, Nebraska
• Gordon, Ohio
• Gordon, Pennsylvania
• Gordon, Texas
• Gordon, Ashland County, Wisconsin
• Gordon, Douglas County, Wisconsin
• Gordon County, Georgia
• Gordon Heights, New York
• Gordon Township, Minnesota

[edit] Other uses

• Gordon (album), the first album by the Canadian pop band Barenaked Ladies
• Gordon College (Georgia), a state-run public school in Barnesville, Georgia
• Gordon College (Massachusetts), a private Christian liberal arts college in Wenham, Massachusetts
• Gordon College (Rawalpindi), a Christian college in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
• Gordon model, a stock valuation model by Myron Gordon
• Hurricane Gordon (disambiguation), an Atlantic hurricane name:
  • Hurricane Gordon (1994)
  • Hurricane Gordon (2000)
  • Hurricane Gordon (2006)
• The Gordon Highlanders, a former regiment of the British Army

[edit] See also

• Gordon Riots, London, 1780
• Gordon Setter, a breed of dog
• Gordon's Gin
• Gordonstoun, a private school in Moray, Scotland
• Gordonsville, Virginia
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• Klein-Gordon equation, used to describe spinless particles