Armstrong (surname)

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Armstrong
Origin
MeaningSon of a strong man
Region of originNorth East England, Scotland, Ireland

Armstrong is a surname of

Dumfries & Galloway, and Northern Ireland, and in the US it is well represented in the Deep South, and other southern states
.

From the name Ó Labhraidh Tréan (meaning "strong O'Lavery" and sometimes written in

Anglo-Irish
as "Tréanlámagh") the following surnames survive: "Trainor", Traynor", O'Lavery", "McLavery", and "MacLavery". Although the name "Armstrong" is quite common in the Aghagallon and Glenavy area of County Antrim in Northern Ireland, the other names are to be found within the nine Ulster Counties and Scotland, especially along the west coast.

Real people

Disambiguation of common names with this surname

Arts and letters

Politics and government

Religion

Science and technology

Sports

Other

  • James I and Charles I
  • Bigoe Armstrong (1717–1794), British Army general
  • Dwight Armstrong (1951–2010), American domestic terrorist
  • Elizabeth Armstrong (settler) (1798–1857), American settler who took part in the Black Hawk War
  • Eugene Armstrong
    (died 2004), American construction contractor who was beheaded in Iraq
  • Frank A. Armstrong (1902–1969), United States Air Force General
  • Frederick C. Armstrong (1895–1918), Canadian flight commander and flying ace
  • Herbert Rowse Armstrong (1870–1922), British murderer – the "Hay poisoner"
  • J. Scott Armstrong (born 1937), Wharton Business School professor
  • Rebekka Armstrong (born 1967), American bodybuilder, former Playboy model and AIDS activist
  • Sally Ward Lawrence Hunt Armstrong Downs
    , also known as Sallie Ward, (1827–1896), American socialite
  • Harrison Armstrong
    , also known as Aitch, (born 1999), British rapper

Fictional people

  • The Armstrong family, victims of a crime in Murder on the Orient Express
  • The Armstrong family, protagonists of Lisa: The Painful and its related games. Notably, Marty Armstrong, Bradley Armstrong, Lisa Armstrong, and Buddy Armstrong.
  • Alex Louis Armstrong, the state alchemist from Fullmetal Alchemist
  • Olivier Mira Armstrong, the Briggs general from Fullmetal Alchemist
  • Catherine Elle Armstrong, the youngest daughter of Armstrong Family from Fullmetal Alchemist
  • Chuck Armstrong
    , a character from the Cars film series
  • Coach Armstrong
    , a character from Degrassi: The Next Generation.
  • Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, radio series character on the show of the same name (1933–1951)
  • Seth Armstrong - a character from Emmerdale
  • Steven Armstrong
    , the main antagonist from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
  • Stretch Armstrong, action figure first introduced in the 1970s
  • Sue Ellen Armstrong
    - a character from the fictional show Arthur
  • Tina Armstrong and her father, Bass, two characters from the Dead or Alive video game series

References

  1. ^ "Dictionary of American Family Names". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2011-06-17.
  2. OCLC 52732092
    , retrieved 1 Jan 2012
    Additional OCLC records exist for same book.
  3. OCLC 674415725
    , retrieved 1 Jan 2012
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