Douglas (given name)

Douglas is a male first name.

Origin and Meaning

The surname is common in the English -speaking world. In women, the name is occasionally found as a second first name use, similar to the use of the first name Maria as a second first name of men in the German language area.

The name is derived from the Scottish Gaelic Dubhglais / Dubhghlais and means as much as " dark ( Gaelic dubh ) river (Gaelic: Glais ) " and originally referred to a river, later a Scottish clan.

Variants

Bearers of the name

  • Douglas Adams (1952-2001), British writer
  • Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian ( 1889-1977 ), British neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize winner
  • Ray Douglas Bradbury (1920-2012), American writer
  • Douglas Bragg (1928-1973), American country and rockabilly musician
  • Douglas Clifford ( born 1945 ), American drummer
  • Douglas Costa de Souza (* 1990), Brazilian footballer
  • Douglas Coupland ( born 1961 ), Canadian writer
  • Douglas Eggers ( born 1930 ), U.S. American football player
  • Douglas C. Engelbart (1925-2013), American computer scientist
  • Douglas Fairbanks senior (1883-1939) and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1909-2000), American film actor
  • Douglas Franco Teixeira ( * 1988), Dutch footballer
  • Douglas J. Futuyma ( b. 1942 ), American biologist
  • Douglas Hyde (1860-1949), Irish poet
  • Douglas James Jardine (1888-1946), British colonial governor
  • Douglas Lenat ( born 1950 ), American researchers ( Artificial Intelligence )
  • Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001), New Zealand composer
  • Douglas Lindsay ( b. 1964 ), Scottish author
  • Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), American general
  • Douglas Mawson (1882-1958), Australian geologist
  • Douglas McGregor (1906-1964), American professor of economics
  • Douglas D. Osheroff ( born 1945 ), American physicist and Nobel laureate
  • Douglas Purviance ( born 1952 ), American jazz musician
  • Douglas Preston ( born 1956 ), American writer
  • Douglas Sequeira ( b. 1977 ), Costa Rican football player
  • Douglas Sirk (1897-1987), American film director
  • Sir Ian Douglas Smith (1919-2007), Rhodesian President
  • Douglas Swan (1930-2000), American painter

Fictional people

  • Doug, hero of the animated series of the same name
  • Douglas Steven Heffernan, one of the main characters of the TV series King of Queens, played by Kevin James.
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