Bacon (name)

Bacon is a Norman French surname originally from Normandy and England. In early sources, it also appears as "Bachun" and "Bacun".

Etymology

Its etymology is uncertain, with Charnock favoring a derivation from a diminutive of Germanic bach ("little stream, creek") and others from an eponymous seigniory in Normandy or from a corruption of Beacon. It is sometimes folk etymologized from bacon or Germanic bag ("to fight").

List of people

Notable bearers of this surname include:

• Albion Fellows Bacon (1865–1933), American reformer and writer
• Anthony Bacon (1796–1864), British cavalry officer during the Napoleonic wars
• Anthony Bacon (1718–1786), English industrialist
• Augustus Octavius Bacon (1839–1914), American politician
• Benjamin Wisner Bacon (1860–1932), American theologian
• Brady Bacon (born 1990), USAC National Sprint Car driver
• Clara Latimer Bacon (1866–1948), American mathematician
• Charles James Bacon (1885–1968) American athlete
• Charles R. Bacon Late 20th century American geologist
• David Bacon, several people
• Don Bacon (baseball), American baseball manager
• Don Bacon (microbiologist) (1926–2020), New Zealand microbiologist
• Don Bacon, U.S. Air Force brigadier general
• Edmund Bacon (1910–2005), American urban planner
• Edward Denny Bacon (1860–1938), British philatelist and curator (1913–1938) of the Royal Philatelic Collection
• Edward Woolsey Bacon (1843–1887), American Congregational preacher and writer
• Ephraim Bacon, American church minister
• Ernie Bacon (1896–1972), English footballer
• Ernst Bacon (1898–1990), American composer and pianist
• Everett Bacon (1890–1989), American football player from Wesleyan University, in College Football Hall of Fame
• Ezekiel Bacon (1776–1870), American politician
• Faith Bacon (1910 –1956), American dancer and actress
• Francis Bacon (1561–1626), knighted English philosopher, statesman and author
• Francis Bacon (1909–1992), Anglo-Irish painter
• Francis Thomas Bacon (1904–1992), British engineer
• Frank Bacon (1864–1922), American actor-playwright
• Frank L. Bacon (1841–1917), American politician
• Fred E. Bacon (?–1954) British runner
• Frederick James Bacon (1871–1948) American banjoist and banjo manufacturer
• Frederick S. Bacon (1877–1861) American Football coach
• Gaspar G. Bacon (1886–1947), American politician
• George B. Bacon (1836–1876), American Congregational preacher and writer
• Henry Bacon (1866–1924), American architect
• Irving Bacon (1893–1965), American character actor
• Jim Bacon (1950–2004), Premier of Tasmania, Australia
• Jim Bacon (b. 1896), Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer
• John Bacon (c. 1290–1346), better known as John Baconthorpe, learned English Carmelite monk related to the Bacons
• John Bacon (1738–1820), US Representative from Massachusetts
• John Bacon (1740–1799), British sculptor
• John Bacon (1777–1859), British sculptor
• John Henry Frederick Bacon (1865–1914) British painter
• John M. Bacon, nineteenth-century American general
• John Mackenzie Bacon, FRAS (1846–1904), English astronomer, aeronaut, and lecturer
• Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager
• J. S. Bacon (1858–1939), American politician
• Kenneth Bacon (1944–2009), American journalist
• Kevin Bacon (born 1958), American film actor
• Leonard Bacon (1802–1881), American Congregational preacher and writer
• Leonard Woolsey Bacon (1830–1907), American Congregational preacher and writer
• Lise Bacon (born 1934), Canadian politician
• Lloyd Bacon (1889–1955), American actor
• Lucy Bacon (1857–1932), American artist
• Mabel Marks Bacon (1876 –1966), American hotelier
• Mathew Bacon, legal writer
• Max Bacon, lead singer for 1980s arena rock supergroup GTR
• Max Bacon (b. 1941), Missouri jurist and legislator
• Michael Bacon (born 1949), American musician
• Montagu Bacon, English scholar and critic
• Nathaniel Bacon of the Virginia Colony, instigator of Bacon's Rebellion in 1676
• Sir Nathaniel Bacon (d. 1622), lawyer and MP for Norfolk, half-brother of Francis Bacon
• Nathaniel Bacon, Jesuit, secretary of the Society of Jesus from 1674 to 1676
• Nathaniel Bacon (1585–1627), landowner and painter, nephew of Francis Bacon
• Nathaniel Bacon (1593–1660), a Member of Parliament representing Cambridge University and Ipswich, grandson of Nicholas Bacon
• Nicholas Bacon (1510–1579), English politician during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal
• Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave (c. 1540–1624), his son, the first man created a baronet
• Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Gillingham (1623–1666), English lawyer
• Sir Nicholas Bacon, 14th Baronet (born 1953), Premier Baronet of England, lawyer, and Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II
• Nicholas Bacon (1622–1687), MP for Ipswich 1685–1687
• Nick Bacon (1945–2010), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
• Orrin Bacon (1821–1893), American politician
• Peggy Bacon (1895–1987), American artist and author
• Reginald Bacon (1863–1952), Royal Navy admiral
• Richard Bacon (b. 1975), English television and radio presenter
• Richard Bacon, British politician
• Robert Bacon (1860–1919), American diplomat
• Robert L. Bacon (1884–1938), American politician
• Roger Bacon (1214–1295), Franciscan friar, English philosopher
• Ruth E. Bacon (1908–1985), American foreign service officer
• Samuel Bacon (1781–1820), American lawyer, newspaper editor and colonist
• Scott Bacon (b. 1977), Australian politician, son of Jim Bacon
• Sosie Bacon (b. 1992), American film actress
• Thomas Rutherford Bacon (1850–1913), American Congregational preacher, writer, professor of history
• Tim Bacon (1964-2016), British actor and restaurateur
• Virginia Cleaver Bacon (1883–1930), Oregon State Librarian.
• Walter Rathbone Bacon (1845–1917), American tramway executive
• Walter W. Bacon (1879–1962), American accountant and politician, Governor of Delaware
• Winchel Bacon, American politician
• Yehuda Bacon (born 1929), Israeli artist

Further lists

• Francis Bacon (disambiguation)
• Frank Bacon (disambiguation)
• Justice Bacon (disambiguation)
• Bacon baronets, a position in the English peerage held by several Bacons

See also

• Bacon (disambiguation)
• Bacon (cured meat prepared from a pig)

References

Bibliography

• Charnock, Richard Stephen (1868), "Bacon", Ludus Patronymicus; or, The Etymology of Curious Surnames, London: Trübner & Co., p. 4.