Ballantine (surname)
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Ballantine is a
Ballanden, and Ballentine.[citation needed
]
Origin of the name
In his book The Clans, Septs, and Regiments of the Scottish Highlands (1908), Sir
Earl of Argyll, the latter reservation made so that the Chief of the Bannatynes could fulfill the conditions of a bond of manrent give to the Early of Argyll, dated 14 April 1538.[citation needed
]
The etymology, given in William Arthur's An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names with an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857), derives the name from Bal, the name of a deity, and teine, meaning fire, and relating to a place where
Celts.[1]
Notable people
- Arthur A. Ballantine, American IRS solicitor and Treasury undersecretary in Hoover Administration
- Betty Ballantine, American publisher
- Carl Ballantine (1917–2009), American magician and actor
- Cristina Ballantine, Romanian-American mathematician
- Gilbert Ballantine, Surinamese-Dutch kickboxer
- Ian Ballantine, American publisher
- James Ballantine, Scottish novelist
- Patrick J. Ballantine, American politician
- Nathan Ballentine, American politician
- Pamela Ballantine, Northern Irish television presenter
- Peter Ballantine, American brewer
- William Ballantine, British lawyer
- Julian Ballantine, a fictional character in the TV series Kyle XY
- Morley Cowles Ballantine, American newspaper editor, The Durango Herald
- Richard Ballantine (1940–2013), American writer
- Durango Herald
- Sophie Ballantine Hawkins (born 1967), American musician
See also
- Balindean, the spelling used by the Ogilvy-Wedderburn baronets
- Ballandean, Queensland, a rural town in Australia
- Ballantine (disambiguation)
- Ballantyne (disambiguation)
- Ballenden, a surname
- Ballentine (disambiguation)
- Bannatyne (name)
- Bellenden, a surname
- George Balanchine
References
- ^ "Ballantyne FYI". Archived from the original on 23 October 2008. Retrieved 5 November 2008.
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