Gregg (surname)

Gregg and Greg are surnames of English or Scottish origin. In England, they are variant forms of the surname Gregory.[1] The surnames are first recorded as Gregge in 1234, within the Liber feodorum, a document compiled in the reign of Henry II of England. Another early instance of the name is Gregge, recorded in 1306, within the Feet of Fines (for Essex); and as Greggez in 1504, within the Register of the Freemen of the City of York.[2]

Gregg as a Scottish surname, a variant of the Scottish Clan MacGregor.

People with the surname Gregg
  • Alan Gregg (physician) (1890–1957), American physician and Rockefeller Foundation officer
  • Alan Gregg (musician), New Zealand musician
  • Alexander W. Gregg (1855–1919), U.S Representative from Texas
  • Allan Gregg (born 1952), Canadian political advisor and pundit
  • Andrew Gregg (1755–1835), U.S. Representative and Senator from Pennsylvania
  • Clark Gregg (born 1962), film and television actor and writer
  • David Gregg (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Donald Gregg (born 1927), U.S. Ambassador to South Korea (1989–1993)
  • Eric Gregg (1951-2006), Major League Baseball umpire (1975–1999)
  • Forrest Gregg (1933–2019), American football player and coach
  • Harry Gregg (1932–2020), former professional football player who played for Northern Ireland and Manchester United, and is a survivor of the Munich air disaster.
  • Hugh Gregg (1917–2003), governor from New Hampshire
  • James M. Gregg (1806–1869), U.S. Representative from Indiana
  • John Gregg (1828–1864), American Civil War Confederate general
  • John Irvin Gregg (1826–1892), American Civil War Union commander, cousin of David Gregg
  • John Robert Gregg (1867–1948), the creator of the eponymous shorthand system Gregg Shorthand
  • Judd Gregg (born 1947), governor and U.S. Senator from New Hampshire
  • Julie Gregg (1937–2016), American actress
  • Maxcy Gregg (1814–1862), American Civil War Confederate general
  • Milton Fowler Gregg (1892–1978), Canadian First World War Victoria Cross recipient and Member of Canadian Parliamenter
  • Paul Gregg (born 1941), English multi-millionaire businessman
  • Randy Gregg (ice hockey) (born 1956), former Canadian ice hockey player
  • Randy Gregg (musician) (born 1969), American hard rock musician
  • Richard Bartlett Gregg (1885–1974), American philosopher, pacifist, and friend of Mahatma Gandhi
  • Richard Glenn Gregg II (born 1970), Business Owner, Inventor, Politician
  • Tommy Gregg (born 1963), Major League Baseball player
  • Troy Leon Gregg (1947-1980), convicted murderer, first death sentence to be upheld by Supreme Court after Furman v. Georgia and first inmate to successfully escape Georgia's death row
  • William Gregg (industrialist) (1800–1867), Founder of the pioneer Graniteville, South Carolina textile mill
  • William Gregg (soldier) (1890–1962), British First World War Victoria Cross recipient

People with the surname Greg

References
  1. "What's in a name?". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
  2. Reaney, Percy Hilde; Wilson, Richard Middlewood (2006). A Dictionary of English Surnames (3rd ed.). London: Routledge. p. 1413. ISBN 0-203-99355-1.
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