Fitch (surname)
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 Fitch family coat of arms |
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| Pronunciation | Fitch |
| Region of origin | Norman |
| Related names | Fytche, Ffytche, Fitche, Fitcher, Fittje, and Fitchy |
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Fitch is a family name of Anglo-Norman origin. It is the name of various well-known people, and many places have also been named after people bearing the name. It is a common surname in the British Isles.
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[edit] People
- Alan Fitch (1915–1985), British Labour Party politician
- Albert Fitch Bellows (1829–1883), American landscape painter
- Alfred Fitch, American Olympian
- Alison Fitch, New Zealand Olympian
- Alva Revista Fitch, U.S. Army Lieutenant General
- Anne Fitch, illustrator of New Belgium Brewery's beer labels
- Ashbel P. Fitch (1848–1904), New York politician
- Aubrey Fitch, U.S. Naval Admiral
- Asa Fitch, American entomologist
- Asa Fitch (Representative) (1765–1843), U.S. congress representative
- Brian T. Fitch, French-Canadian nonfiction author
- Charles Fitch, American preacher
- Chauncey Fitch Cleveland (1799–1887), US politician
- Clyde Fitch, American playwright
- Dennis E. Fitch, NASA safety consultant
- Ed Fitch (born 1937), occult author and Wiccan High Priest
- Ezra Fitch, New York lawyer and cofounder of Abercrombie & Fitch, a clothing company
- Frederic Brenton Fitch, American logician and inventor of Fitch-style calculus
- Frederick W. Fitch, American barber and creator of Fitch's Dandruff Remover Shampoo
- George Ashmore Fitch, YMCA Administrative Director
- George B. Fitch, American businessman, politician, and Olympic organizer
- George Helgesen Fitch (1877–1915), American author, humorist, and journalist
- Gerald Fitch, U.S. basketball player
- Graham Fitch, Pianist
- Graham N. Fitch, United States Representative and Senator
- Hannah Fitch (Shaw), cofounder, Kappa Alpha Theta
- Henry D. Fitch (1767–1849), early settler of San Diego, California
- Henry Sheldon Fitch, American herpetologist
- Horatio Fitch, American olympian
- Jabez W. Fitch, Democratic lieutenant-governor of Ohio from 1878 to 1880
- James Marston Fitch, historic preservationist
- James P. Fitch, notable in the early history of the Boy Scouts of America
- Janet Fitch, American author
- John Fitch (computer scientist), computer scientist, mathematician and composer
- John Fitch (inventor), early American inventor, built the first steamboat in the United States in 1786
- John Fitch (settler), Massachusetts settler for whom Fitchburg, Massachusetts is named
- John Fitch, historical gang member of New York City during a period from 1825 to 1920, a subject of Herbert Asbury's The Gangs of New York
- John Fitch (driver), racetrack driver and inventor of innovative safety devices such as the Fitch Barrier
- John A. Fitch, writer and professor of labor relations
- John Knowles Fitch, founder of Fitch Ratings, Ltd.
- John Nugent Fitch (1840–1927), botanical illustrator and lithographer
- Jon Fitch, American mixed martial arts fighter
- Joshua Girling Fitch (1824–1903), English educationalist
- Joyce Fitch, Australian tennis player
- LeRoy Fitch, officer during the American Civil War
- Lucy Fitch Perkins, (1865–1937), US children's author
- Nancy Fitch, Professor of History, Cal State/Fullerton
- Nathaniel Fitch (born 1958), former heavyweight boxer
- Noël Riley Fitch, author
- Pierre Fitch, Canadian gay pornographic actor
- Ralph Fitch, British merchant-explorer of India and Burma
- Ralph Bruce Fitch, New Brunswick politician
- Sheree Fitch, Canadian children's author
- Thomas Fitch (governor), Governor of the Connecticut Colony 1754–1766
- Thomas Fitch (politician), Nevada politician
- Val Logsdon Fitch, Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist
- W. Tecumseh Fitch, evolutionary psychologist
- Walter M. Fitch (born 1929), American evolutionary biologist
- Walter Hood Fitch (1817–1892), Scottish botanical artist
- William Fitch Allen, Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
- Zarnell Fitch (born 1983), American footballer
- Fitch family, founders of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
[edit] See also
- Fitch (disambiguation page)
Taylor Fitch: Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2010 Barry Fitch: founder of Progressive Physical therapy and revolutionary spinal therapy
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Fitch Family History and Genealogy
- History of the Fitch Family 1400-1930
- Fitch Family History in the UK
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