Carruthers
Carruthers is a Scottish surname and clan, originating from the lands of Carruthers in Dumfriesshire.
The place name is derived from the Cumbric for "Rhydderch's fort" possibly in reference to Riderch I of Alt Clut.[1][2]
Notable people with the surname
- Chris Carruthers (born 1983), English footballer
- David Carruthers (born 1957), British businessman
- Sir David Carruthers, New Zealand judge
- Douglas Carruthers (1882–1962), soldier, explorer, and naturalist
- Elizabeth Carruthers (born 1951), Canadian diver
- George Robert Carruthers (born 1939), American physicist and inventor
- Ian Carruthers, British National Health Service manager
- Jimmy Carruthers (1929–1990), Australian world champion boxer
- John Carruthers (footballer) (1900–1959), English footballer
- Kitty Carruthers (born 1961), American pairs figure skater
- Mark Carruthers (born 1965), British talk show host on BBC
- Pamela Carruthers (1916–2009), British showjumping course designer
- Peter Carruthers (philosopher) (born 1952), British philosopher
- Peter Carruthers (figure skater) (born 1959), American pairs figure skater
- Peter A. Carruthers (1935–1997), American physicist
- Robert Carruthers (1799–1878), Scottish journalist and writer
- Robert L. Caruthers (1800–1882), American politician and judge, governor-elect of Tennessee in 1863
- Samir Carruthers (born 1993), Irish footballer
- Steffi Carruthers (born 1993), Samoan tennis player
- Wallace Bruce Matthews Carruthers (1863–1910), Canadian soldier and founder of the Canadian Signal Corps
- William Carruthers (1830–1922), British botanist
- Will Carruthers (born 1967), alternative rock musician
Fictional characters
- Carruthers, protagonist of Robert Erskine Childers' novel Riddle of the Sands
- Bob Carruthers, a character from the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
- Elizabeth and Peter Carruthers, a married couple; she inherits his trading firm, Carruthers & Co., in the 2016 Discovery Channel/Netflix series Frontier
See also
- Carruthers Field, American military airbase at Benbrook, Texas, near Fort Worth, during World War I
References
- ↑ Basil Cottle, ed. (1978). The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames (second ed.). Penguin. p. 84.
- ↑ Black, George F. (1946). The Surnames of Scotland. The New York Public Library. p. 138. ISBN 1-874744-07-6.
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