Vaughan (surname)
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Vaughan is a surname, originally Welsh
though also used as a form of the Irish surname McMahon
It derives from the Welsh word "bychan", meaning small. The word mutates to fychan (and pronounced 'vuh-chan'), and so corresponds to the English name Little
. People with the surname Vaughan include:
Welsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
though also used as a form of the Irish surname McMahon
McMahon
McMahon or MacMahon is an Irish surname.- Two Septs:Two septs arose in Ireland with the surname McMahon, one in the Kingdom of Oriel in the province of Ulster, around modern County Monaghan; the second in Thomond, in the province of Munster, in modern County Clare.The sept in County Clare descends...
It derives from the Welsh word "bychan", meaning small. The word mutates to fychan (and pronounced 'vuh-chan'), and so corresponds to the English name Little
Little
Little is a surname in the English language. The name is ultimately derived from the Middle English littel, and the Old English lȳtel, which mean "little". In some cases the name was originally a nickname for a little man. In other cases, the name was used to distinguish the younger of two bearers...
. People with the surname Vaughan include:
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- Adam VaughanAdam VaughanAdam Vaughan is a councillor representing Ward 20 Trinity—Spadina in Toronto, Canada. For about 20 years, Vaughan worked as a political journalist and activist, most recently as the Political Specialist at Citytv/CP24. Before that, for ten years, he reported for CBLT in Toronto as a municipal...
- Anne Vaughan, Countess of CarberyAnne Vaughan, Countess of CarberyAnne Vaughan, Countess of Carbery was a daughter of George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax and his first wife, Lady Dorothy Spencer....
- Arky VaughanArky VaughanJoseph Floyd "Arky" Vaughan was a professional baseball player. He played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball between 1932 and 1948 for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Brooklyn Dodgers, primarily a shortstop...
- Arthur Owen VaughanArthur Owen VaughanLt. Colonel Arthur Owen Vaughan DSO OBE DCM also known by his bardic name Owen Rhoscomyl was an English-born writer, soldier and Welsh nationalist...
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- Benjamin VaughanBenjamin VaughanBenjamin Vaughan MD LLD was a British commissioner whose role was to smooth negotiations between Britain and the United States during the drafting of the Treaty of Paris....
, British politician - Benjamin Vaughan (bishop), Bishop of Swansea and Brecon
- Benji VaughanBenji VaughanBenjamin Vaughan, better known as Benji Vaughan, is a British psychedelic trance musician. He has released music under many names, of which most well known is his solo project, Prometheus, and his collaboration with Twisted Records label colleague, Simon Posford, under the moniker Younger Brother...
- Bernard VaughanBernard VaughanBernard Vaughan was an English Roman Catholic clergyman, brother of Herbert and John Stephen Vaughan. He was born at Herefordshire. He was educated at Stonyhurst, and became a member of the Society of Jesus...
- Brian K. VaughanBrian K. VaughanBrian Keller Vaughan is an American comic book and television writer. He is best known for the comic book series Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways, and Pride of Baghdad, and was one of the principal writers of the television series Lost, during seasons three through five...
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- Henry VaughanHenry VaughanHenry Vaughan was a Welsh physician and metaphysical poet.Vaughan and his twin brother the hermetic philosopher and alchemist Thomas Vaughan, were the sons of Thomas Vaughan and his wife Denise of 'Trenewydd', Newton, in Brecknockshire, Wales...
- Henry Vaughan (1721-1754)Henry Vaughan (1721-1754)Sir Henry Vaughan was a Radnorshire landowner. In March 1754 a warrant was issued for his arrest for committing 'unnatural and repugnant acts'...
- Henry Vaughan (architect)Henry Vaughan (Architect)Henry Vaughan , a prolific and talented church architect, came to America to bring the English Gothic style to the American branch of the Anglican Communion . He was an apprentice under George Frederick Bodley and went on to great success popularizing the Gothic Revival style.-Life:Vaughan was...
- Herbert Vaughan, cardinal
- Horace Worth VaughanHorace Worth VaughanHorace Worth Vaughan was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician.-Early life:Vaughan was born to George T...
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- James Vaughan (footballer born 1986)James Vaughan (footballer born 1986)James Vaughan is also the name of a player on the books at Norwich City F.C.James Vaughan is an English footballer who plays for Droylsden as a right-back. He has also played at left-back.-Career:...
- James Vaughan (footballer born 1988)
- James David VaughanJames David VaughanJames David Vaughan was a music teacher, composer, song book publisher, the founder of the Vaughan Conservatory of Music and the James D. Vaughan Publishing Company.-Biography:...
(1864–1941), founder of gospel music - Jimmie VaughanJimmie VaughanJames Lawrence "Jimmie" Vaughan is an American blues rock guitarist and singer from Dallas, Texas, United States. He is the older brother of the late Stevie Ray Vaughan....
(born 1951), singer - Jodi VaughanJodi VaughanJodi Vaughn is a female musician, a country singer, songwriter, recording artist and television performer, and an actor from Hamilton, New Zealand.-New Zealand Number 1 Hit single:...
(born 1950), musician - John Vaughan (disambiguation), several people including:
- John Griffith VaughanJohn Griffith VaughanJohn Griffith Vaughan was a Welsh food scientist. He was an expert in seed science, whose work linked the fields of botany and nutrition....
(1926–2005), botanist - John Stephen VaughanJohn Stephen VaughanJohn Stephen Vaughan was an English Roman Catholic bishop, brother of Bernard, Roger, and Herbert Vaughan.He was son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Francis Vaughan, of an old recusant family, the Vaughans of Courtfield, Herefordshire. His mother, Eliza Rolls from The Hendre, Monmouthshire, was a...
(born 1853), bishop - John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of CarberyJohn Vaughan, 3rd Earl of CarberySir John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery KB, FRS , styled Lord Vaughan from 1643 to 1686, was Governor of Jamaica between 1675–1678....
(1639–1713), governor of Jamaica
- John Griffith Vaughan
- Johnny VaughanJohnny VaughanJonathan Randall Vaughan is an English broadcaster and journalist. Vaughan has become well known as a television and radio personality and has also built a reputation as a film critic. He co-presented Capital Breakfast alongside Lisa Snowdon on 95.8 Capital FM between 2004 and 2011...
(born 1966), journalist - Justin VaughanJustin VaughanJustin Thomas Caldwell Vaughan played 6 Tests and 18 One Day Internationals and is a doctor of medicine. In April 2007 he was appointed to the position of Chief Executive of New Zealand Cricket and commenced in that position on 5 June 2007, taking over from Martin Snedden...
(born 1967), New Zealand Cricket executive
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- Peter VaughanPeter VaughanPeter Vaughan is an English character actor, known for many supporting roles in a variety of British film and television productions. He has worked extensively on the stage, becoming known for roles such as police inspectors, Soviet agents and similar parts...
- Peter Vaughan-ClarkePeter Vaughan-ClarkePeter Vaughan-Clarke is a British actor, born in Wandsworth, London on 11 June 1957.Vaughan-Clarke is best known for his portrayal of Stephen Jameson in the TV series The Tomorrow People in the 1970s, a character he returned to later in life in the audio continuation of the series by Big Finish...
- Philip VaughanPhilip VaughanPhilip Vaughan was a Welsh inventor and ironmaster who patented the first design for a ball bearing in Carmarthen in 1794. His design ran along a track in an axle assembly, known as a ball race, thus originating the modern ball bearing design.-References:...
- inventor of ball bearingBall bearingA ball bearing is a type of rolling-element bearing that uses balls to maintain the separation between the bearing races.The purpose of a ball bearing is to reduce rotational friction and support radial and axial loads. It achieves this by using at least two races to contain the balls and transmit...
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- Ralph Vaughan WilliamsRalph Vaughan WilliamsRalph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song: this activity both influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, beginning in 1904, in which he included many...
, English composer - R. M. VaughanR. M. VaughanRichard Murray Vaughan is a Canadian poet, novelist and playwright.A graduate of the creative writing program at the University of New Brunswick, Vaughan currently lives in Toronto. He was playwright-in-residence at Buddies in Bad Times in 1994-95, and has published numerous works, including...
- Richard Vaughan (disambiguation), several people
- Robert Vaughan (disambiguation), several people
- Roger VaughanRoger VaughanRoger William Bede Vaughan was an English Benedictine monk of Downside Abbey, and the second Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney from 1877 to 1883.-Early life:...
- Roger William Bede Vaughan
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- Sarah VaughanSarah VaughanSarah Lois Vaughan was an American jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century."...
, jazz singer - Stephen Vaughan (disambiguation)
- Stevie Ray VaughanStevie Ray VaughanStephen Ray "Stevie Ray" Vaughan was an American electric blues guitarist and singer. He was the younger brother of Jimmie Vaughan and frontman for Double Trouble, a band that included bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Chris Layton. Born in Dallas, Vaughan moved to Austin at the age of 17 and...
- Stoll VaughanStoll VaughanStoll Vaughan is a singer-songwriter from Lexington, Kentucky. He is the great-nephew of United States Senator John Sherman Cooper. Vaughan began his professional music career as guitar player for the Indiana band Chamberlain. He was also a banjo and guitar player in the Rosalin Family Gospel Band...
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- Thomas Vaughan (soldier)Thomas Vaughan (soldier)Sir Thomas Vaughan was a Welsh medieval soldier and diplomat, an adherent of Jasper Tudor and King Henry VI of England. Despite this, he was a Yorkist by inclination, as were so many Welshmen of the time, and became ambassador to the courts of Burgundy and France on behalf of the Yorkist King...
(c. 1410-1483), Welsh soldier, diplomat, and chamberlain to the eldest son of King Edward IV - Thomas Vaughan (philosopher)Thomas Vaughan (philosopher)Thomas Vaughan was a Welsh philosopher.A Royalist clergyman from Brecon, Wales, Thomas was the twin brother of the poet Henry Vaughan, both being born at Newton, in the parish of St. Briget's, in 1621. Vaughan entered Jesus College, Oxford, in 1638, and remained there for a decade during the...
(1621–1666), Welsh
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- William Vaughan (Welsh writer and colonial investor)
- William Vaughan (philanthropist)William Vaughan (philanthropist)William Vaughan was an English landowner, farmer and philanthropist who lived in the mid-16th century in the Dartford and Erith area of north-west Kent...
, 16th century - William Wirt VaughanWilliam Wirt VaughanWilliam Wirt Vaughan was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 8th congressional district of Tennessee. He was born on July 2, 1831 in LaGuardo , Tennessee in Wilson County. He attended the common schools and graduated from Cumberland University...
, 19th century member of the United States House of RepresentativesUnited States House of RepresentativesThe United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution... - W. Harry VaughanW. Harry VaughanWilliam Harry Vaughan, Jr. was a professor of ceramic engineering at the Georgia School of Technology and the founder and first director of what is now the Georgia Tech Research Institute.-Education:...
, founder and first director of the Georgia Tech Research InstituteGeorgia Tech Research InstituteThe Georgia Tech Research Institute is the nonprofit applied research arm of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, United States... - William E. VaughanWilliam E. VaughanWilliam E. Vaughan was an American columnist and author. Born in Saint Louis, Missouri, he wrote a syndicated column for the Kansas City Star from 1946 until his death in 1977. He was published in Reader's Digest and Better Homes and Gardens under the pseudonym Burton Hillis. He attended...
, American columnist and author