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Contemporary Notables of the name Girling (post 1700) +

  • Mary Anne Girling (1827-1886), English religious leader, the founder of the sect called "The People of God", also known as New Forest Shakers 3
  • Brigadier Francis Edward Buller Girling (1897-1949), British general in World War II 4
  • William Girling OBE, British chairman of the Metropolitan Water Board, eponym of the William Girling Reservoir in London
  • Laura Girling, Canadian actress, known for The Successor (1996), Othello (2001) and Random Quest (2006)
  • Barry Girling (1857-1905), Welsh international rugby union player, Cardiff RFC Captain (1881-1882)
  • Russ Girling, Canadian President and CEO of TransCanada Corporation (2010-)
  • William James Girling CBE (1882-1973), New Zealand Reform Party Member of Parliament for Wairau (1922-1928), awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal in 1935
  • Julie McCulloch Girling MEP (b. 1956), British Conservative politician, Member of the European Parliament for South West England (2009-)
  • Richard Girling, British journalist, feature writer for The Sunday Times


  1. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  2. New Zealand Yesteryears Passenger Lists 1800 to 1900 (Retrieved 26th March 2019). Retrieved from http://www.yesteryears.co.nz/shipping/passlist.html
  3. Wikisource contributors. "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900." Wikisource . Wikisource , 4 Jun. 2018. Web. 30 June 2020
  4. Generals of World War II. (Retrieved 2011, October 5) Francis Girling. Retrieved from http://generals.dk/general/Girling/Francis_Edward_Buller/Great_Britain.html


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