Masson (surname)

Masson is a French and Scottish surname, which is an example of convergent etymology in that the French Masson may derive from marsh dweller and the Scottish from MacMhathain (clan of the bear) (variants include Maçon, Mâcon, Mason), and may refer to:

• André Masson (1896–1987), a French artist
• André Masson (economist), a French economist
• Angela Masson (born 1951), an American pilot and artist
• Antoine Masson (1636–1700), a French engraver
• David Masson (1822–1907), a Scottish writer
• David I. Masson (1917–2007), a Scottish science-fiction writer and librarian, grandson of David Orme Masson
• David Orme Masson (1858–1937), an Australian chemist, son of David Masson
• David Parkes Masson (1847-1915), a wealthy banker in India and distinguished philatelist
• Didier Masson (?–1950), a French pilot
• Diego Masson (born 1935), a French conductor, composer and percussionist
• Édouard Masson (1826–1875), a Canadian businessman and political figure
• Forbes Masson (born 1963), a British actor
• Francis Masson (1741–1805), a Scottish botanist and gardener
• Frédéric Masson (1847–1923), a French historian
• Gérard Masson (born 1936), a French composer
• Jean Papire Masson (1544–1611), a French scholar
• Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (born 1941), a writer on Freudian psychoanalysis
• Joseph Masson (1791–1847), a Canadian businessman
• Laetitia Masson (born 1966), a French film director and screenwriter
• Maxime Masson (priest) (1867-1960), pastor for 52 years at the Catholic parish of Sainte-Thècle, Quebec, Canada
• Paul-Marie Masson (1882–1954), French composer and musicologist
• Paul Masson (1859–1940), a pioneer of California viticulture
• Paul Masson (cyclist) (1874–1945), a French cyclist and 1896 Summer Olympian
• Robert le Masson, a supporter of Joan of Arc
• Rodrigue Masson (1833–1903), a Canadian politician
• Sophie Masson (born 1959), a French-Australian author
• Thomas Masson (born 1866), an American editor and author