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 is also a Scottish surname, a shorthand variant of the Highland Clan Gregor or MacGregor.

• 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
• Avani Gregg (born 2002), American internet celebrity, actor, and make-up artist
• Clark Gregg (born 1962), film and television actor and writer
• David Gregg (disambiguation), multiple people
• Donald P. Gregg (born 1927), U.S. Ambassador to South Korea (1989–1993)
• Donald Gregg (cricketer) (1924–2012), Australian cricketer
• Eric Gregg (1951–2006), Major League Baseball umpire (1975–1999)
• Forrest Gregg (1933–2019), American football player and coach
• Gail Gregg (1951- ), American artist, photographer, and journalist
• Harry Gregg (1932–2020), 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 (Texas politician) (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
• Tommy Gregg (born 1963), Major League Baseball player
• Troy Leon Gregg (1948–1980), 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
  • Gregg v. Georgia
• Virginia Gregg (1916–1986), American film and television actress
• William Gregg (industrialist) (1800–1867), Founder of the pioneer Graniteville, South Carolina textile mill
• William Gregg (VC) (1890–1962), British First World War Victoria Cross recipient

• Percy Greg (1836–1889), English writer, son of William Rathbone Greg
• Robert Hyde Greg (1795–1875), English industrialist and economist
• Samuel Greg (1758–1834), English entrepreneur
• Samuel Greg (junior) (1804–1876), English industrialist and philanthropist, son of Samuel Greg
• W. W. Greg (1875–1959), English bibliographer and Shakespeare scholar
• Robert Greg (1876–1953), British diplomat
• William Rathbone Greg (1809–1881), English essayist

• Bentley Gregg, from Bachelor Father

• Greg (disambiguation)
• Gregg (disambiguation)

Surname list

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