Fairchild (name)

Fairchild

Other names
Variant form(s)	Fairbairn

Fairchild is a common surname derived from the Old English words for fair or beautiful and the word child. Originally a given name, early records of its use as a surname are found in Oxfordshire, Surrey and Sussex.

List of persons with the surname

• Fairchild family, descendants of Thomas Fairchild (1610–1670), son of William Fairchild (b.1577 in Essex England)
• Barbara Fairchild, American country and gospel singer/songwriter from Knobel, Arkansas
• Benjamin L. Fairchild (1863–1946), five-time New York State Republican Congressman
• Caitlin Fairchild, fictional Gen 13 comic book heroine
• Cassius Fairchild (1829–1868), Wisconsin Democratic Party Leader and Union Army Colonel, U.S. Civil War
• Charles Stebbins Fairchild (1842–1924), New York State Attorney General, 38th United States Secretary of Treasury
• David Grandison Fairchild (1869–1954), pioneering industrial botanist, plant explorer, son-in-law of Alexander Graham Bell
• David Fairchild (California politician) (1791-1866)
• Edward Henry Fairchild (1815–1889), abolishionist educator, first President of Berea College, the first fully integrated southern university
• Edward Thomas Fairchild (1872–1965), jurist, Wisconsin Supreme Court
• Edward Thomson Fairchild (1854–1917), New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (U. of New Hampshire) President
• Frank Fairchild Wesbrook (1868–1918), First University of British Columbia President.
• Fred Rogers Fairchild (1877–1966), educator/economist, holder of Seymour Knox Chair Professor of Mathematical Institutional Economics (Emeritus) Yale University
• George Thompson Fairchild (1838–1901), college educator, President of Michigan State University and Kansas State University
• George Winthrop Fairchild (1854–1924), New York State Senator, Republican National Convention delegate, and co-founder of IBM
• Alexander Graham Bell Fairchild (1906–1994), Harvard-educated entomologist, and grandson of Alexander Graham Bell
• Henry Pratt Fairchild (1880–1956), American sociologist, co-founder of Planned Parenthood
• Herman LeRoy Fairchild (1850–1943), American geologist and college educator, early proponent of theorizing meteorite impact
• Hiram Orlando Fairchild (1845–1925), Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
• James Fairchild (1817–1902), third president of Oberlin College
• Jim Fairchild American singer/songwriter guitarist, Band member of Modest Mouse
• Jairus Cassius Fairchild (1801–1862), first Wisconsin State Treasurer, and first mayor of Madison, Wisconsin
• John Russell Fairchild, Professional basketball player, drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers.
• Karen Fairchild, singer in American Country band, Little Big Town.
• Kelly Fairchild, American ice hockey player
• LeRoy Fairchild, founded the Masonic order, the Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm in 1889
• Lucius Fairchild (1831–1896), Civil War Brigadier General, three-term Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Minister to Spain, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic.
• Lydia Fairchild, one of only 30 known worldwide cases of chimerism
• Megan Fairchild, principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, from Salt Lake City, Utah
• Morgan Fairchild, American actress from Dallas, Texas
• Muir Stephen Fairchild (1894–1950), Four-star General, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
• Robert Fairchild, principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, soloist from Salt Lake City, Utah
• Sherman Mills Fairchild (1896–1971), industrialist inventor, founder of Fairchild Aviation, Fairchild-Strato, Fairchild-Hiller, Fairchild Recording, and Fairchild Camera and Instrument
• Thomas Edward Fairchild (1912–2007), Wisconsin Attorney General, appointed to Wisconsin Supreme Court and U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals after losing the 1952 Wisconsin Senate race to Joseph McCarthy from "McCarthy-ism" fame.