Ramsay (surname)
Ramsay is a Scottish surname.[1] Notable people with the surname include:
- Ramsay family in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Alexander Ramsay (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ali Ramsay, Scottish cricketer
- Alison Ramsay (born 1959), Scottish hockey international
- Allan Ramsay (artist) (1713–1784), Scottish painter
- Allan Ramsay (poet) (1686–1758), Scottish poet
- Allan Ramsay (portrait painter born 1959), Scottish painter
- Sir Andrew Ramsay, Lord Abbotshall (1619–1688), Privy Counsellor, first Lord Provost of Edinburgh
- Andrew Michael Ramsay (1686–1743), the 'Chevalier Ramsay', Jacobite
- Captain Archibald Maule Ramsay (1894–1955), British Army officer and politician
- Bertram Ramsay (1883–1945), British admiral
- David Ramsay (congressman) (1749–1815), American physician, congressman, and historian
- David Ramsay (Upper Canada) (c. 1740 – c. 1810), controversial sailor, courier, translator and fur and alcohol trader in early Canadian history
- Edward Pierson Ramsay (1842–1916), Australian zoologist
- Edward Bannerman Ramsay (1793–1872), Scottish episcopalian clergyman and dean
- Fox Maule Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie (1801–1874), British political leader
- Francis Dennis Ramsay (1925–2009), Scottish painter
- Francis Munroe Ramsay (1835–1914), US Navy Officer and Chief of Bureau of Navigation
- George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie (1770–1838), Canadian political leader
- George Ramsay (1855–1935), secretary/manager, Aston Villa Football Club (George Burrell Ramsay)
- Gordon Ramsay (born 1966), British chef and television personality
- Heath Ramsay (born 1981), Australian butterfly swimmer
- Henrik Ramsay (1886–1951), Finnish politician and minister of foreign affairs
- Henry Ramsay (NY engineer), NYS Engineer and Surveyor 1853
- Ian Ramsay (born 1958), Australian Law Professor and Director of the Center for Corporate Law & Securities Regulation, University of Melbourne
- Jack Ramsay (1925-2014), American college basketball coach
- James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (1812–1860), British colonial leader
- James Garden Ramsay (1827–1890), industrialist and politician in South Australia.
- James Ramsay (governor) (1916–1986), Governor of Queensland (Commodore Sir James Maxwell Ramsay)
- James Ramsay (abolitionist) (1733–1789), Anglican minister and abolitionist
- James Ramsay (bishop) (c. 1624 – 1696), Bishop of Dunblane, Bishop of Ross
- James Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- John Ramsay, 1st Earl of Holderness (c. 1580 – 1626), Scottish courtier
- John William Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie (1847–1887), Scottish politician
- Josh Ramsay (born 1985), Canadian musician
- Meta Ramsay (born 1936), Labour Life Peer
- Michèle Ramsay, South Africa geneticist
- Morton Ramsay (born 1926), Scottish footballer
- Paul Ramsay AO , an Australian businessman and philanthropist.
- Peter de Ramsay (died 1256), Bishop of Aberdeen
- Richie Ramsay (born 1983), Scottish golf international
- Robert George Wardlaw Ramsay (1852–1921), Army officer and ornithologist
- Scott Ramsay (English footballer) (born 1980), English footballer
- Shyam Ramsay (born 1952), Bollywood film director
- Silas Alexander Ramsay (1850–1942), mayor of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Tulsi Ramsay (born 1944), film director
- Walter C. Ramsay (1878-1928), American politician and newspaper editor
- Wilhelm Ramsay (1865–1928), Finnish geologist
- Sir William Ramsay (1852–1916), Nobel laureate chemist
- William Ramsay (manufacturer) (1868–1914), the manufacturer of Kiwi boot polish
- Sir William Mitchell Ramsay (1851–1939), Scottish archaeologist and Bible scholar
See also
References
- Sims, Clifford Stanley (1862). The Origin and Signification of Scottish Surnames. With a Vocabulary of Christian Names. Albany, New York: J. Munsell. p. 87. OCLC 1060940902 – via Internet Archive.
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