Fox (surname)

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Fox is a surname originating in England and Ireland. The derivation is from the Middle English "fox", itself coming from the Old English pre 7th century "fox". The surname first appears on record in the latter part of the 13th century, with the first recorded spelling in 1273 to be that of John Fox in the "Hundred Rolls of Yorkshire", England.[2] In Ireland, Fox is mainly a translation of the Old Gaelic "Mac a'tSionnaigh" (son of the Fox).[2]

Variants include Foxe and Foxx.

Some families with this name

  • Fox sisters (19th century), American sisters credited as the creators of Spiritualism
  • Robin Fox family of English actors, including Edward, James, Emilia, Laurence and Lydia Fox
  • Fox-Strangways (originally Fox), family name of the Earls of Ilchester
  • Lane Fox, a double-barrelled English surname

Notable persons with this surname

Actors

Arts (other)

Military

  • Cecil H. Fox (1873–1963), British naval officer
  • Charley Fox (1920–2008), Royal Canadian Air Force officer in World War II
  • David G. Fox, U.S. Army officer
  • Francis John Fox (1857–1902), New Zealand soldier and farmer
  • Francis Lane Fox (1899–1989), British Army officer and Yorkshire landowner
  • George Malcolm Fox (1843–1918), Inspector General of Gymnasia for the British Army at Aldershot
  • Gustavus Fox (1821–1883), American naval officer in the Civil War
  • Josiah Fox (1763–1847), Cornish-American naval architect
  • Myles C. Fox
    (1918–1942), United States Marine Corps officer and Navy Cross recipient
  • Paddy Fox (1933–2016), British recruiting sergeant and Chelsea Pensioner
  • Wesley L. Fox (1931–2017), American US Marine, awarded the Medal of Honor

Politics and peerage

Religion

  • Edward Fox (bishop)
    (1496–1538), English churchman, Bishop of Hereford
  • Emmet Fox (1886–1951), Irish spiritual leader of the early 20th century
  • Francis Fox (divine) (1675–1738), English divine
  • George Fox (1624–1691), English Dissenter and the founder of the Religious Society of Friends
  • Joseph John Fox (1855–1915), American Roman Catholic bishop
  • Matthew Fox (priest) (born 1940), American priest and theologian
  • Peter Fox (bishop) (born 1952), British Anglican vicar and former bishop
  • Richard Foxe (Prince Bishop, 1448–1528), English churchman, founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
  • Tom Fox (Quaker) (1951–2006), Quaker peacemaker executed by insurgents in Iraq
  • William Johnson Fox (1786–1864), English religious and political orator

Science, technology, engineering, mathematics

Sports

Other

Fictional characters

  • Aaron Fox (Nexo Knights)
    , a character in Nexo Knights
  • Beth Fox, a character in the American sitcom television series Coach

See also

References

  1. ^ "Fox Surname Meaning and Distribution". forebears.co.uk. Retrieved 21 January 2014
  2. ^ a b Surnamedb/Fox