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Origin Displayed: Danish

Origins Available: Danish, German, Scottish, Swedish

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(From www.HouseOfNames.com Archives copyright © 2000 - 2009)



Suggested Readings for the name Anderson
"The Andersons of Rowlett's Creek" by W. Clytes Anderson Cullar and Jerry M. Flook, "Descendants of Capt. Henry Anderson, Sr., of Newberry County, South Carolina" by Lucien L. McNees.

Some noteworthy people of the name Anderson
  • Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941), American writer who had a profound influence on American fiction
  • Robert Anderson (1917-2009), American Academy Award–nominated playwright and screenwriter, best known for his work "Tea and Sympathy"
  • Philip Warren Anderson (b. 1923), American scientist who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems
  • Gillian Anderson (b. 1968), actress best known for her role as Dana Scully in the television series "The X-Files."
  • Michael P Anderson (1959-2003), astronaut on board the Space Shuttle Columbia when it broke up during re-entry
  • Leroy Anderson (1908-1975), American composer
  • Hunk Anderson (1898-1978), American football player
  • George Anderson (b. 1934), original name of Sparky Anderson
  • John August Anderson (1876-1959), American physicist and astronomer
  • Marian Anderson (b. 1902), American concert and opera singer
  • Mary Anderson (1859-1940), American actress
  • Beauford T Anderson (1922-1996), American soldier, who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1945 for heroism in WWII
  • Richard Beatty Anderson (1921-1944), American WWII private, who was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1944
  • Major Rudolf Anderson Jr. (1927-1962), the first recipient of the Air Force Cross. He was shot down over Cuba on October 27, 1962, while flying a U-2 spy plane
  • Dave Anderson (b. 1929), American sportswriter who won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
  • Nick Anderson, American editorial cartoonist awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
  • Carl David Anderson (1905-1991), American physicist awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics
  • Loni Kaye Anderson (b. 1945), American actress best known for her role as Jennifer Marlowe on the television sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati
  • Michael Anderson (b. 1920), British film director
  • Malcolm Anderson (b. 1935), top-ranking Australian tennis player from the middle 1950s to the early 1970s
  • Roberta Joan Anderson (b. 1943), original name of Canadian Joni Mitchell
  • Gerry Anderson MBE (b. 1929), British producer, director and writer
  • James Norman Dalrymple Anderson (b. 1908), English scholar
  • John Anderson (1893-1962), Australian philosopher
  • Dame Judith Anderson AC, DBE (1897-1992), Australian actress generally regarded by theater critics as the greatest classical actress produced by Australia
  • General Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson KCB, MC (1891-1959), British Army officer in both the First and Second World Wars
  • Thomas Anderson (1819-1874), Scottish organic chemist
  • Lieutenant Colonel Charles Groves Wright Anderson (1897-1988), Australian soldier awarded the Victoria Cross during WWII
  • Eric Anderson (1915-1943), British medic awarded the Victoria Cross during WWII
  • Major John Thompson McKellar Anderson (1918-1943), British soldier awarded the Victoria Cross during WWII
  • Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917), English, first female medical doctor in Britain

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