Campbell (surname) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Campbell is a Scottish family name

Family name

A family name is a type of surname and part of a person's name indicating the family to which the person belongs. The use of family names is widespread in cultures around the world...

of Gaelic

Goidelic languages

The Goidelic languages or Gaelic languages are one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic languages, the other consisting of the Brythonic languages. Goidelic languages historically formed a dialect continuum stretching from the south of Ireland through the Isle of Man to the north of Scotland...

origins.

The name in some cases derives from the Scottish

Scottish clan

Scottish clans , give a sense of identity and shared descent to people in Scotland and to their relations throughout the world, with a formal structure of Clan Chiefs recognised by the court of the Lord Lyon, King of Arms which acts as an authority concerning matters of heraldry and Coat of Arms...

Clan Campbell

Clan Campbell is a Highland Scottish clan. Historically one of the largest, most powerful and most successful of the Highland clans, their lands were in Argyll and the chief of the clan became the Earl and later Duke of Argyll.-Origins:...

, in other cases from Mac Cathmhaoil meaning son of the battle chieftain.

Campbell is the 47th-most common surname in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

. Within the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, it is ranked as the 46th-most common surname.

Notable persons named Campbell

Several people named Alexander Campbell
Several people named Alistair Campbell
Several people named Andrew Campbell
Several people named Archibald Campbell
Several people named Arthur Campbell
Several people named Bruce Campbell
Bruce Campbell (disambiguation)
Bruce Campbell is an American actor.Bruce Campbell may also refer to:*Bruce Campbell , Edmonton city alderman*Bruce Campbell , American football offensive tackle...
Several people named Carol Campbell
Several people named Charles Campbell
Several people named Colin Campbell
Several people named Daniel Campbell
Several people named Dave Campbell
Several people named David Campbell
Several people named Donald Campbell
Donald Campbell (disambiguation)
Donald Campbell may refer to:* Donald Campbell , British car and motorboat racer* Donald Campbell , Scottish noble and churchman* Donald Campbell , , Roman Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow...
Several people named Duncan Campbell
Duncan Campbell (disambiguation)
Duncan Campbell may refer to:* Duncan Campbell , Scottish musician* Duncan Campbell , current lead singer of UB40...
Several people named Edward Campbell

Several people named George Campbell
Several people named Glen Campbell
Several people named Gordon Campbell
Several people named Graeme Campbell
Several people named Gregory Campbell
Several people named Ian Campbell
Several people named Jack Campbell
Several people named James Campbell
James Campbell (disambiguation)
James Campbell may refer to:* James Campbell , Hawaii industrialist* James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy , Irish Solicitor-General, Attorney-General and Lord Chancellor...
Several people named Jim Campbell
Jim Campbell (disambiguation)
Jim Campbell may refer to:* Jim Campbell , U.S. ice hockey player* Jim Campbell , comic artist and musician* Jim Campbell , MLB catcher...
Several people named Jimmy Campbell
Several people named John Campbell
Several people named Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell (disambiguation)
Joseph Campbell was an American mythologist.Joseph Campbell or Joe Campbell may also refer to:* Joseph Campbell , Irish lyricist* Joseph Campbell , American comptroller general...
Several people named Julia Campbell
Julia Campbell (disambiguation)
Julia Campbell may refer to:*Julia Campbell, American actress*Julia Campbell American journalist*Julia Campbell , New Zealand women's international football player...
Several people named Ken Campbell
Several people named Kevin Campbell

Several people named Mary Campbell
Mary Campbell (disambiguation)
Mary Campbell may refer to:*Mary Campbell , American colonial settler*Mary Katherine Campbell , two-time winner of the Miss America pageant*Mary Baine Campbell, poet and scholar...
Several people named Michael Campbell
Several people named Neil Campbell
Several people named Patrick Campbell
Several people named Phil Campbell
Several people named Philip Campbell
Several people named Robert Campbell
Several people named Roy Campbell
Several people named Samuel Campbell
Several people named Scott Campbell
Scott Campbell (disambiguation)
Scott Campbell may refer to:*Scott Campbell American artist*Scott Campbell , composer and actor...
Several people named Steven Campbell
Several people named Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell (disambiguation)
Thomas Campbell may refer to:* Thomas Campbell , Church of Ireland clergyman and traveller* Thomas Campbell , American religious leader* Thomas Campbell , Scottish poet...
Several people named Timothy Campbell
Timothy Campbell (disambiguation)
Tim or Timothy Campbell may refer to:* Tim Campbell, industry expert who presents the UK's Trucks and publishes Professional Van and Light Truck Magazine* Tim Campbell , Australian actor...
Several people named William Campbell

Military and politics

Aileen Campbell
Aileen Campbell
Aileen Campbell is the Scottish Government Minister for Local Government and Planning and is Scottish National Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for Clydesdale....

, SNP Member of the Scottish Parliament for Clydesdale and Minister for Local Government and Planning
Alastair Campbell
Alastair Campbell
Alastair John Campbell is a British journalist, broadcaster, political aide and author, best known for his work as Director of Communications and Strategy for Prime Minister Tony Blair between 1997 and 2003, having first started working for Blair in 1994...

, British political editor and spokesman
Albert Ralph Campbell
Albert Ralph Campbell
Albert Ralph Campbell was an American Private serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Boxer Rebellion who received the Medal of Honor for bravery.-Biography:...

, American Medal of Honor recipient
Colonel Alexander Campbell of Possil
Colonel Alexander Campbell of Possil
Colonel Alexander Campbell of Possil entered the army as an Ensign in the 42nd Regiment in April 1769, and obtained a Lieutenancy in the 2nd Battalion Royals the following year in Minorca...

, Scottish soldier
Andrew J. Campbell
Andrew J. Campbell
-Life:Born in Newark, New Jersey, Campbell worked in government as a deputy tax commissioner, clerk of a judicial court and in public works. He was also a merchant in New York City. In 1856, he was elected to the New York City Council and in 1875 was elected to the New York Assembly serving one...

, American poliitician
General Sir Archibald Campbell of Inverneill
Archibald Campbell (British Army officer)
General Sir Archibald Campbell KB served as Governor of Jamaica and Madras. He was a major Scottish landowner, Heritable Usher of the White Rod for Scotland and a Member of Parliament for the Stirling Burghs.-Birth:...

, Scottish Soldier
General Sir James Campbell of Inverneill
James Campbell of Inverneill
Lt.-General Sir James Campbell G.C.H., 1st and last Bt., of Inverneill; 3rd of Inverneill House was a Scottish soldier, politician and colonial administrator. He was Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Ionian Islands, Adjutant-General to the British Forces and Heritable Usher of the White Rod...

, Scottish Soldier
Bill Campbell (California politician)
Bill Campbell (California politician)
William J. Campbell is a Republican politician from California. A former California State Assembly Republican Leader, he has served on the Orange County Board of Supervisors since 2003 and has served as Chairman of the Board since January 11, 2011 .Born in Los Angeles, Campbell grew up in...

, American politician
Bruce Campbell (Alberta politician)
Bruce Campbell (Alberta politician)
Bruce Campbell was a Canadian politician, commercial contractor, carpenter, and Rotarian. He was born in Cadomin, Alberta, and resided in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, for most of his life....

, Edmonton city alderman 1986—1995
Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde
Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde
Field Marshal Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde GCB, KSI was a British Army officer from Scotland who led the Highland Brigade in the Crimea and was in command of the ‘Thin red line’ at the battle of Balaclava...

, British soldier
Colin Campbell (Scottish politician)
Colin Campbell (Scottish politician)
Colin Campbell is a Scottish politician. He was a Scottish National Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for West of Scotland region from 1999 to 2003.-Biography:...

, SNP Member of the Scottish Parliament for West of Scotland
Daniel J. Campbell
Daniel Campbell (Medal of Honor)
Daniel J. Campbell was a private serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Spanish–American War who received the Medal of Honor for bravery.-Biography:...

, American Spanish-American War Medal of Honor recipient
Epsy Campbell Barr
Epsy Campbell Barr
Epsy Campbell Barr is a Costa Rican politician and economist. One of the Founders of the Citizens' Action Party , she has announced her intention of becoming the next candidate of her party, for the Costa Rica national elections in 2010...

, Presidential Candidate in Costa Rica
Frank Campbell
Frank Campbell
Frank Campbell was an American banker and politician.-Life:He was the son of Lt. Gov. Robert Campbell and Frances Fowler Campbell. He was educated at Haverling Academy and at Trenton, New Jersey.In 1879, he married Mary Louise Willson , and their son was Willson R...

, NYS Comptroller 1892-1893
Col. Duncan Carter-Campbell of Possil
Duncan Carter-Campbell of Possil
, son of Major-General George Tupper Campbell Carter-Campbell C.B., D.S.O, was a British Army Colonel during the 1950s.-Military career:...

, Scottish soldier
General George Carter-Campbell
George Carter-Campbell
Major-General George Tupper Campbell Carter-Campbell CB, DSO , was commissioned in October 1889 as second-lieutenant in the Cameronians 2nd Scottish Rifles and served in the Second Boer War as adjutant of that battalion, being promoted Brevet Major and twice mentioned in despatches.On the outbreak...

, Scottish soldier
Gordon Campbell (Canadian politician), Premier of British Columbia
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman GCB was a British Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and Leader of the Liberal Party from 1899 to 1908. He also served as Secretary of State for War twice, in the Cabinets of Gladstone and Rosebery...

, Prime Minister
Jack M. Campbell
Jack M. Campbell
John "Jack" M. Campbell was the 21st Governor of New Mexico, from January 1, 1963 until January 1, 1967.Campbell was born in Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas, and educated at Washburn University, where he received an undergraduate degree in 1938 and an LL.B degree in 1940.During World War II,...

, Governor of New Mexico
James W. Campbell
James W. Campbell
James William Campbell , was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, District 42.-Background:James W. Campbell was first elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1979. He served until 2003. He was defeated in the 2002 general election when District 42 was redrawn. The newly redrawn...

, former member of Maryland House of Delegates
Maryland House of Delegates
The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland, and is composed of 141 Delegates elected from 47 districts. The House chamber is located in the state capitol building on State Circle in Annapolis...
Jane L. Campbell
Jane L. Campbell
Jane Louise Campbell, is an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as the 56th and first female mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from January 1, 2002 to January 1, 2006.-Personal details:...

, first female mayor of Cleveland, Ohio
John Campbell (of Strachur), well-known Commander-in-Chief
John B. T. Campbell III, American politician
Kim Campbell
Kim Campbell
Avril Phædra Douglas "Kim" Campbell, is a Canadian politician, lawyer, university professor, diplomat, and writer. She served as the 19th Prime Minister of Canada, serving from June 25, 1993, to November 4, 1993...

, first female Prime Minister of Canada
Kim Campbell (pilot)
Kim Campbell (pilot)
Major Kim Reed-Campbell is an officer and Senior Pilot in the U.S. Air Force. She was decorated for piloting her A-10 Thunderbolt II back to base in southern Iraq after taking heavy anti-aircraft artillery damage in aerial combat over Baghdad during Operation Iraqi Freedom.Daughter of the mayor...

, US Air Force A-10 pilot
Menzies Campbell
Menzies Campbell
Sir Walter Menzies "Ming" Campbell, CBE, QC, MP is a British Liberal Democrat politician and advocate, and a retired sprinter. He is the Member of Parliament for North East Fife, and was the Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2 March 2006 until 15 October 2007.Campbell held the British record...

, former British Liberal Democrat leader
Samuel Campbell (American politician), Congressional Representative from New York
William Campbell (general)
William Campbell (general)
William Campbell was a Virginia farmer, pioneer, and soldier. One of the thirteen signers of the earliest statement of armed resistance to the British Crown in the American Colonies, the Fincastle Resolutions, Campbell represented Hanover County in the Virginia House of Delegates...

, militia leader at the Battle of King's Mountain and at the Battle of Guilford Court House
William B. Campbell
William B. Campbell
William Bowen Campbell was governor of Tennessee from 1851 to 1853.-Biography:Campbell was born in Sumner County, Tennessee, later leaving to study law in Virginia. He returned to Tennessee in 1829 in order to establish a law practice at Carthage, in Smith County...

, governor of Tennessee

Sports

Alec Campbell
Alec Campbell (footballer)
Alistair Kenyon Campbell was a professional footballer who played nearly 200 games for Southampton in the first quarter of the twentieth century, before briefly becoming manager at Chesterfield....

, English footballer
Andy Campbell
Andy Campbell
Andrew Paul "Andy" Campbell is an English footballer, who plays for Whitby Town.-Career:Born in Middlesbrough, Campbell started his career with his hometown team Middlesbrough, whom he left for Cardiff City for £1m...

, English footballer
Bill Campbell (baseball player)
Bill Campbell (baseball player)
William Richard Campbell is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played from 1973 to 1987. He played for the Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers all of the American League and the Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, St...

, relief pitcher
Brian Campbell
Brian Campbell
Brian Wesley Campbell is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman, an alternate captain for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League...

, Canadian hockey player
Cassie Campbell
Cassie Campbell
Cassie Campbell-Pascall is a former Canadian female ice hockey player. She was the captain of the Canadian ice hockey team during the 2002 Winter Olympics and led the team to a gold medal...

, Canadian former ice hockey player
Clarence Campbell
Clarence Campbell
Clarence Sutherland Campbell OBE, QC was the third president of the National Hockey League from 1946 to 1977.-Early life and career:...

, president of the National Hockey League
Colin Campbell (ice hockey), National Hockey League player and current NHL executive
DJ Campbell, English footballer (soccer player)
Darren Campbell
Darren Campbell
Darren Andrew Campbell MBE is a former English sprint athlete. He competed in the 100 metres and 200 metres, as well as the 4 × 100 metres relay...

, English sprint athlete and Olympian
Dave Campbell, baseball announcer and former player
Don Campbell
Don Campbell (ice hockey)
Donald William Campbell is a retired ice hockey center that played for the Chicago Black Hawks.-Career statistics:-External links:...

, retired Canadian ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

player
Donald Campbell
Donald Campbell
Donald Malcolm Campbell, CBE was a British speed record breaker who broke eight world speed records in the 1950s and 1960s...

, British car and motorboat racer
Earl Campbell
Earl Campbell
Earl Christian Campbell , nicknamed The Tyler Rose, is a former professional American Football running back. He, Paul Hornung and O.J Simpson are the only people to have won the Heisman Trophy , were first overall National Football League draft picks and are in both the Pro Football Hall of Fame...

, NFL running back
Edward Fitzhardinge Campbell
Edward Fitzhardinge Campbell
Edward Fitzhardinge Campbell was an Irish rugby international. He won four caps between 1899 and 1900.-References:* at Scrum.com*...

, Irish rugby international
Elden Campbell
Elden Campbell
Elden Jerome Campbell is a retired American professional basketball player who played center in the National Basketball Association .-Playing Career:...

, NBA player
Fraizer Campbell
Fraizer Campbell
Fraizer Lee Campbell is an English footballer who plays for Sunderland as a striker. He previously played for Manchester United, Royal Antwerp, Hull City and Tottenham Hotspur....

, English footballer (soccer player)
Greg Campbell
Greg Campbell
Gregory Dale Campbell is a former Australian cricketer who played in 4 Tests and 12 ODIs from 1989 to 1990. Campbell was a right arm fast bowler, and batted as a right-handed tail ender. He is the uncle of former Australian captain Ricky Ponting...

, Australian cricketer
Hugh Campbell (baseball), Irish baseball player
Jason Campbell
Jason Campbell
Jason Campbell is an American football quarterback for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Washington Redskins in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft...

, NFL quarterback
Jim Campbell (baseball executive)
Jim Campbell (baseball executive)
James A. "Jim" Campbell was an American baseball executive in Major League Baseball. He served 43 seasons with the Detroit Tigers organization, 27 of them as either general manager or president....

, baseball executive
Julia Campbell (footballer)
Julia Campbell (footballer)
Julia Petryce Campbell is a former New Zealand association football player who represented her country.Campbell made her Football Ferns debut in a 3–0 win over a Hawaii XI on 12 December 1987 and ended her international career with 29 caps and 3 goals to her credit.Campbell represented New Zealand...

, New Zealand women's international football player
Kevin Campbell (footballer)
Kevin Campbell (footballer)
Kevin Joseph Campbell is an English former football player who played as a striker.-Playing career:Campbell began his career as a trainee with Arsenal, joining the club on schoolboy forms in 1985...

, English footballer
Malcolm Campbell
Malcolm Campbell
Sir Malcolm Campbell was an English racing motorist and motoring journalist. He gained the world speed record on land and on water at various times during the 1920s and 1930s using vehicles called Blue Bird...

, British holder of world land and water speed records
Michael Campbell
Michael Campbell
Michael Shane Campbell, CNZM is a New Zealand golfer who is best known for having won the 2005 U.S. Open and the richest prize in golf, the £1,000,000 HSBC World Match Play Championship, in the same year. He is a member of the European Tour.Ethnically, he is predominantly Māori, from the Ngati...

(born 1969), New Zealand golfer
Michael Campbell
Michael Campbell (athlete)
Michael Campbell is a retired male track and field sprinter from Jamaica, who specialized in the 200 metres and the 400 metres during his career. His personal best time in the men's 200 metres was 21.07 seconds, achieved on May 30, 2004 in Sacramento, California...

(born 1978), Jamaican track and field sprinter
Mike Campbell (first baseman), 19th century Irish baseball player
Mike Campbell (pitcher), 20th century baseball player
Nate Campbell
Nate Campbell
Nathaniel Campbell , more commonly known as Nate Campbell, is an American retired professional boxer. He is a former unified WBA, IBF and WBO lightweight champion.-Amateur career:...

, current WBA, IBF and WBO lightweight boxing champion
Preston Campbell
Preston Campbell
Preston Campbell, is an Indigenous Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Gold Coast Titans of the National Rugby League...

, Australian rugby league player
Randy Campbell
Randy Campbell
Thomas Randolph "Randy" Campbell is an American football quarterback who played for Auburn University, a NCAA Division 1-A school; is a speaker and wealth management and life insurance professional....

,(Quarterback) Auburn University
Ryan Campbell
Ryan Campbell
Ryan John Campbell is a former Australian cricketer who currently plays for ICL's Ahmedabad Rockets. Known as Cambo, he played for the Western Warriors as a wicket-keeper and as a quick-scoring right-handed batsman, often as an opener...

, Australian cricketer
Sol Campbell
Sol Campbell
Sulzeer Jeremiah "Sol" Campbell is an English footballer who is currently a free agent. A central defender, Campbell has played for Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal, Portsmouth, Notts County and Newcastle United, as well as the English national team.Born in East London to Jamaican parents, Campbell's...

, English footballer (soccer player)
Tara Campbell
Tara Campbell
Tara Campbell is a Canadian water polo player. She is a member of the Women's National Team that claimed the bronze medal at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montréal, Québec, and the silver medal at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome, Italy...

, Canadian water polo player
Terry Campbell
Terry Campbell
Terry Campbell is a Canadian-born German professional ice hockey player who is currently playing with EC Pfaffenhofen in the Bayernliga....

, Canadian-born German ice hockey player
Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican sprinter
William C. Campbell
William C. Campbell
William Cammack Campbell , often known as Bill Campbell or William C. Campbell, is an American amateur golfer and two-time President of the United States Golf Association . He was inducted to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1990.Campbell was born in Huntington, West Virginia. He served in the U.S...

, amateur golfer and former USGA president

Television and film

Bruce Campbell
Bruce Campbell
Bruce Lorne Campbell is an American film and television actor. As a cult movie actor, Campbell starred as Ashley J. "Ash" Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series of films and he has starred in many low-budget cult films such as Crimewave, Maniac Cop, Bubba Ho-tep, Escape From L.A. and Sundown:...

, American actor of Scottish descent
Carol Campbell (actress)
Carol Campbell (actress)
Carol Campbell is an Afro-German actress, model and presenter.-Biography:She is the daughter of a African-American Jazz musician from New York and a German casting agent and make-up artist. She studied acting, dance, singing and presenting in Berlin and Los Angeles...

, German actress
Christian Campbell
Christian Campbell
Christian Bethune Campbell is a Canadian stage and screen actor. He is married to actress America Olivo.-Personal life:Campbell was born in Toronto, Ontario. Campbell's mother, Marnie , is a yoga instructor and psychologist from Amsterdam, Netherlands...

, Canadian actor and brother of Neve Campbell
Conchita Campbell
Conchita Campbell
Conchita Elizabeth Campbell is a Canadian actress.-Biography:Campbell was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is known for her role as Maia Skouris on the hit USA channel miniseries and show The 4400, on which she portrays a child who's been missing for decades and returns unaged and with...

, Canadian actress
Graeme Campbell
Graeme Campbell (director)
Graeme Neil Campbell is an award-winning film director, writer and editor.- Life and career :Campbell was born in Montreal, Quebec to William and Thelma Campbell. His body of work lies mostly in films made for television as well as mini-series', although he has transitioned into episodic...

, Canadian film director
John Campbell (broadcaster)
John Campbell (broadcaster)
John Campbell is the presenter of Campbell Live, a primetime 7.00pm current affairs programme on TV3 in New Zealand.-Early career:...

, New Zealand current events television presenter on "Campbell Live"
Julia Campbell
Julia Campbell
Julia Campbell , is an American actress, who is best known for her role as the "mean girl," Christie Masters-Christianson in the feature film Romy and Michele's High School Reunion.-Career:...

, American actress
Ken Hudson Campbell
Ken Hudson Campbell
Ken Hudson Campbell is an American television and voice actor.Campbell played "Animal" on the experimental Fox TV series Herman's Head, as well as Buckman in the movie Down Periscope. He appeared in the Seinfeld episode "The Seven", where he played Ken, the husband of Susan's first cousin, Carrie...

, American actor
Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell is a British model. Scouted at the age of 15, she established herself among the top three most recognisable and in-demand models of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and she was one of six models of her generation declared "supermodels" by the fashion world...

(born 1970), British supermodel, actress and singer
Neve Campbell
Neve Campbell
Neve Adrianne Campbell is a Canadian actress. After beginning her career on stage, and on numerous commercials, she starred on the Canadian television series Catwalk. She then rose to international fame on the Golden Globe-winning 1990s television series Party of Five, playing the role of teenager...

, Canadian actress
Nicky Campbell
Nicky Campbell
Nicholas Andrew Argyll "Nicky" Campbell is a Scottish radio and television presenter and journalist. He is known for his time presenting on programmes such as the consumer affairs programme Watchdog...

, critical Scottish TV journalist and presenter
Norman Campbell
Norman Campbell
Norman Kenneth Campbell, was a Canadian composer, television producer, and television director best known for co-writing Anne of Green Gables - The Musical....

, Canadian composer, director and Officer of the Order of Canada
Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy
Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy
Patrick Gordon Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy , known as Patrick Campbell, was an Irish journalist, humorist and television personality....

, Irish-born British journalist, humorist and television personality
Tisha Campbell-Martin
Tisha Campbell-Martin
Tisha Michelle Campbell-Martin is an American actress and singer, known for her starring roles in television series Martin and My Wife and Kids and now is starring in the new television series The Protector...

, American actress
Tim Campbell (actor), ex-Home And Away
Home and Away
Home and Away is an Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney since July 1987 and is airing on the Seven Network since 17 January 1988. It is the second-longest-running drama and most popular soap opera on Australian television...

star and host of Million Dollar Wheel of Fortune
Vernon Campbell
Vernon Campbell
Vernon Campbell is an American film actor. His thick set, stocky build and bald head has seen him play almost entirely police detectives or bodyguards....

, American actor
William Campbell (film actor)
William Campbell (film actor)
William Campbell was an American actor who appeared in supporting roles in major film productions and also starred in several low-budget B-movies, including two cult horror films.-Career:...

, American actor

Music, art, and literature

Alex Campbell
Alex Campbell (singer)
Alex Campbell was a Scottish folk singer. Described by Colin Harper as a "melancholic, hard-travelling Glaswegian", he was influential in the British folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s and was one of the first folk singers to tour the UK and Europe...

, Scottish folk singer
Ali Campbell
Ali Campbell
Ali Campbell, , is a British singer, solo artist and songwriter and was the lead singer and founding member of UB40. As part of UB40, Campbell sold over 70 million records world wide and toured the globe for 30 years. In 2008 Campbell left UB40 and embarked on a successful solo career.-Personal...

, singer-songwriter of the reggae band UB40
Brun Campbell
Brun Campbell
Brun Campbell was an American composer and pianist. Born Sanford Brunson Campbell in Oberlin, Kansas, he ran away to Oklahoma City when he was fifteen and met Scott Joplin. For the next decade, he made his living as a traveling pianist in the Midwestern and Southern United States...

, ragtime composer and pianist
Cecil Bustamente Campbell, better known as Prince Buster
Prince Buster
Cecil Bustamente Campbell, O.D. , better known as Prince Buster, and also known by his Muslim name Muhammed Yusef Ali, is a musician from Kingston, Jamaica. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of ska and rocksteady music...

, musician from Kingston, Jamaica
Eddie Campbell
Eddie Campbell
Eddie Campbell is a Scottish comics artist and cartoonist who now lives in Australia. Probably best known as the illustrator and publisher of From Hell , Campbell is also the creator of the semi-autobiographical Alec stories collected in Alec: The Years Have Pants, and Bacchus , a wry adventure...

, graphic novelist, artist
Glen Campbell
Glen Campbell
Glen Travis Campbell is an American country music singer, guitarist, television host and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television.During his 50 years in show...

, country music artist
Glenn Ross Campbell
Glenn Ross Campbell
Glenn Ross Campbell born in 1946, is a child prodigy steel guitarist, most noted for being lead guitarist of cult band, The Misunderstood. The Misunderstood were a psychedelic rock band originating from Riverside, California in the mid-1960s...

, rock guitarist
Isobel Campbell
Isobel Campbell
Isobel Campbell is a Scottish singer, cellist and composer in the indie and rock genres.-History:Campbell was a member of Belle & Sebastian from their formation in Glasgow in 1996 until 2002, when she departed the band for personal reasons. She played cello and keyboards with the band, and sang...

, musician
J. Scott Campbell
J. Scott Campbell
Jeffrey Scott Campbell is an American comic book artist. He has had several pen names, including "Jeff Scott", but is best known as J. Scott Campbell...

, comic book artist
Jimmy Campbell (musician)
Jimmy Campbell (musician)
Jimmy Campbell was a musician and songwriter from Liverpool. He was a member of Merseybeat groups The Kirkbys, The 23rd Turnoff, Rockin' Horse as well as releasing three solo albums.-Career:...

, singer-songwriter from Liverpool
John Francis Campbell
John Francis Campbell
John Francis Campbell , Celtic scholar, educated at Eton and Edinburgh, was afterwards Secretary to the Lighthouse Commission...

, (1822–1885) Celtic scholar
John W. Campbell
John W. Campbell
John Wood Campbell, Jr. was an influential figure in American science fiction. As editor of Astounding Science Fiction , from late 1937 until his death, he is generally credited with shaping the so-called Golden Age of Science Fiction.Isaac Asimov called Campbell "the most powerful force in...

, editor of science fiction magazine Astounding Stories
Julia Campbell (journalist)
Julia Campbell (journalist)
Julia Campbell was an American journalist. She disappeared on April 8, 2007 while working as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines.-Death:...

, American journalist
Ken Campbell
Ken Campbell
Ken Campbell was an English writer, actor, director and comedian.Ken Campbell may also refer to:* Ken Campbell , Canadian evangelist* Ken Campbell , former Scotland international goalkeeper...

, (1941–2008), British writer, actor, director and comedian
Kurtis Campbell
DJ Kambel
Kurtis Campbell, better known as DJ Kambel, is a British electronic music DJ. While DJing in the UK happy hardcore scene, he composed many works for the mega-hit compilation Dancemanias Speed series, which made him one of the most frequently appearing artists on the series along with the likes of...

, British DJ
Phil Campbell (musician)
Phil Campbell (musician)
Philip Anthony Campbell has been the lead guitarist of the British heavy metal band Motörhead since 1984. He is also the former guitarist of Persian Risk.-Early life and career:...

, guitarist of the heavy metal band Motörhead
Ramsey Campbell
Ramsey Campbell
John Ramsey Campbell is an English horror fiction author.Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field: T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today", while S. T...

, British horror writer
Reginald Campbell
Reginald Campbell
Reginald Campbell was a British writer. His novel Poo Lorn of the Elephants was filmed by Alejandro Jodorowsky in 1980 under the name Tusk. Another novel, Tiger Valley, was filmed in 1936 by Howard Bretherton as The Girl from Mandalay...

, British writer
Roy Campbell (musician), jazz trumpeter
Roy Campbell (poet)
Roy Campbell (poet)
Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell, better known as Roy Campbell, was an Anglo-African poet and satirist. He was considered by T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and Edith Sitwell to have been one of the best poets of the period between the First and Second World Wars...

, South African poet and critic
Tevin Campbell
Tevin Campbell
Tevin Jermod Campbell is an American R&B singer-songwriter and actor. He scored a string of R&B chart hits as a teenager in the early to mid-1990s.-Music career:...

, music artist
Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet
Beck
Beck
Beck Hansen is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known by the stage name Beck...

(born Bek Campbell), musician
Steve Campbell (artist), British artist
Michael Campbell
Michael Campbell
Michael Shane Campbell, CNZM is a New Zealand golfer who is best known for having won the 2005 U.S. Open and the richest prize in golf, the £1,000,000 HSBC World Match Play Championship, in the same year. He is a member of the European Tour.Ethnically, he is predominantly Māori, from the Ngati...

, ex-singer for Canadian punk band Polictically Incorrect

Science and education

Archibald George Campbell
Archibald George Campbell
Archibald George Campbell was an Australian orchardist and amateur ornithologist. He was the son of Archibald James Campbell. With his father, he was a founding member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union and was President of the organisation 1934-1935. He was elected a Fellow of the...

(1880–1954), Australian ornithologist
Archibald James Campbell
Archibald James Campbell
Archibald James Campbell was an Australian civil servant in the Victorian, later the Australian federal, customs service, as well as an amateur ornithologist. He was one of the principal founders of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union in 1901 and served as its President in 1909 and 1928...

(1853–1929), Australian ornithologist
Colen Campbell
Colen Campbell
Colen Campbell was a pioneering Scottish architect who spent most of his career in England, and is credited as a founder of the Georgian style...

, Scottish neo-Palladian architect
Colin Campbell (geologist)
Colin Campbell (geologist)
Colin J. Campbell, PhD Oxford, is a retired British petroleum geologist who predicted that oil production would peak by 2007. The consequences of this are uncertain but drastic, due to the world's dependency on fossil fuels for the vast majority of its energy...

, oil industry analyst
Colin Campbell (academic)
Colin Campbell (academic)
Sir Colin Campbell, DL, FRSA, an academic lawyer, was the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, England and served until 2006 as Her Majesty's First Commissioner of Judicial Appointments....

, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham
Donald T. Campbell
Donald T. Campbell
Donald Thomas Campbell was an American social scientist. He is noted for his work in methodology. He coined the term "evolutionary epistemology" and developed a selectionist theory of human creativity.- Biography :...

, American professor of psychology and education
George Ashley Campbell
George Ashley Campbell
George Ashley Campbell was a pioneer in developing and applying quantitative mathematical methods to the problems of long-distance telegraphy and telephony. His most important contributions were to the theory and implementation of the use of loading coils and the first wave filters designed to...

, American pioneer in the theory of electronic filters
George Campbell Jr.
George Campbell Jr.
Dr. George Campbell Jr. was the eleventh President of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, ending his tenure in July 2011.-Education:...

, President of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Jonathan A. Campbell
Jonathan A. Campbell
Jonathan A. Campbell is an American herpetologist.He is currently professor of Biology and Chair of the Department of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas.- Books :...

, American herpetologist
John Edward Campbell
John Edward Campbell
John Edward Campbell was a mathematician, best known for his contribution to the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula.-Biography:...

, mathematician known for the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff
John Francis Campbell
John Francis Campbell
John Francis Campbell , Celtic scholar, educated at Eton and Edinburgh, was afterwards Secretary to the Lighthouse Commission...

, Celtic scholar
Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbell was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience...

, mythologist
Lyle Campbell
Lyle Campbell
Lyle Richard Campbell is a linguist and leading expert on indigenous American languages—especially those of Mesoamerica—and on historical linguistics in general. He also has expertise in Uralic languages. He is presently Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.-Life and...

, linguist
Mary Schmidt Campbell
Mary Schmidt Campbell
Mary Schmidt Campbell, B.A., M.A., PH.D.; HON.: D.F.A., PH.D., Dean, Tisch School of the Arts; Associate Provost for the ArtsMary Schmidt Campbell was appointed Dean of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 1991 and Associate Provost for the Arts in December 2004.Campbell is also...

, Dean of Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Murray Campbell
Murray Campbell
Murray Campbell is a Canadian computer scientist.He is a Senior Manager in the Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, USA...

, computer scientist
Neil Campbell (scientist)
Neil Campbell (scientist)
Neil A. Campbell was an American scientist known best for his textbook Biology. First published in 1987, the text is currently in its 9th edition and co-authored by Jane Reece...

, American Scientist and Textbook Author
Reginald Campbell Thompson
Reginald Campbell Thompson
Reginald Campbell Thompson was a British archaeologist, assyriologist, and cuneiformist. He excavated at Nineveh, Ur, Nebo and Carchemish among many other sites.He was born in Kensington, and educated at Colet Court, St...

, British archaeologist
Samuel Campbell (doctor)
Samuel Campbell (doctor)
Samuel Campbell was ship's surgeon of HMS Plumper from 1857 to 1861. He is the namesake of Campbell Island, the location of the community of Balla Bella, and of the Campbell River on Vancouver Island, which is itself the namesake of the City of Campbell River.-References:...

, ship's surgeon on board the HMS Plummper 1857-1861 and the namesake of the city Campbell River, British Columbia and of Campbell Island

Other

Alexander Campbell
Alexander Campbell (Restoration movement)
Alexander Campbell was an early leader in the Second Great Awakening of the religious movement that has been referred to as the Restoration Movement, or Stone-Campbell Movement...

, American religious figure and a leader of the Restoration Movement
Restoration Movement
The Restoration Movement is a Christian movement that began on the American frontier during the Second Great Awakening of the early 19th century...
Ffyona Campbell
Ffyona Campbell
Ffyona Campbell is a British long-distance walker who was the first woman to walk around the world. She covered over 11 years and raised £180,000 for charity. She wrote about her experience in a series of three books.-Early life:...

, British woman who was the first woman to walk around the world
Patrick Campbell (INLA member)
Thomas Lopton Campbell Jr.
Thomas Lopton Campbell Jr.
Thomas Lopton Campbell, Jr. was a nineteenth-century American pioneer and Texas Ranger. Campbell pioneered the American frontier in New York, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Texas, Kansas, and Oklahoma. He fought in the Black Hawk War and served as a Texas Ranger from 1839 until the secession of Texas...

, 19th century American pioneer and Texas Ranger
Texas Ranger Division
The Texas Ranger Division, commonly called the Texas Rangers, is a law enforcement agency with statewide jurisdiction in Texas, and is based in Austin, Texas...
William D. Campbell
William D. Campbell
William Durant "Bill" Campbell was an early Boy Scouts of America Scouting notable.Campbell was born in Flint, Michigan. He graduated from Princeton University in 1929 and first went into banking. After a few years, he became a field associate of the American Museum of Natural History and led...

, awardee of the Bronze Wolf in 1939
Maria Campbell
Maria Campbell
Maria Campbell OC is a Métis author, playwright, broadcaster, filmmaker, and Elder. Campbell is a fluent speaker of four languages: Cree, Michif, Saulteaux, and English....

, Native American author of Canadian descent
Charles Rodman Campbell Convicted murderer hanged in Washington state in 1994