Murray (surname)

Murray is a Scottish surname, which is also used as a first name.

Origin and Meaning

The name is derived from the Moray countryside.

Bearers of the name

A

• Alan Murray ( golfer ) ( born 1940 ), Australian golfer
• Alan Murray ( footballer ) ( born 1949 ), British football player, coach and manager
• Alan Erskine - Murray, Lord Elibank 14 ( b. 1923 ), British peer and politician ( Conservative Party )
• Alan Robert Murray, audio engineer
• Albert Murray, Baron Murray of Gravesend (1930-1980), a British manager
• Ambrose S. Murray (1807-1885), American politician
• Andrew Murray ( nobleman ) ( 1298-1338 ), Scottish nobleman and military leader
• Andrew Murray ( biologist ) ( 1812-1878 ), Scottish botanist and zoologist
• Andrew Murray ( writer ) ( 1828-1917 ), Reformed pastor of Scottish descent in South Africa
• Andrew Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin ( 1849-1942 ), Scottish- British lawyer and politician
• Andrew Murray (ice hockey player) ( born 1981 ), Canadian ice hockey player
• Andrew James Marshall Murray ( b. 1947 ), Australian politician (Australian Democrats )
• Andy Murray (* 1987), British tennis player
• Andy Murray (ice hockey coach ) ( b. 1951 ), Canadian ice hockey coach and players
• Ann Murray ( b. 1949 ), Irish singer (mezzo- soprano)
• Anne Murray ( born 1945 ), Canadian country singer
• Archibald Murray (1860-1945), British general
• Augusta Murray (1768-1830), daughter of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore and Lady Charlotte Stewart

B

• Barbara Murray ( born 1929 ), British actress
• Bert Murray ( b. 1942 ), English footballer
• Bill Murray ( born 1950 ), American actor
• Billy Murray (1877-1954), American singer
• Billy Murray (actor ) ( born 1941 ), British actor
• Bob Murray (born 1954 ), Canadian ice hockey player and general manager
• Brian Doyle - Murray ( born 1945 ), American actor
• Brian Murray (1921-1991), Australian Rear Admiral and Governor of Victoria
• Brady Murray ( born 1984 ), American ice hockey player
• Bruce Murray (born 1966 ), American football player
• Bruce C. Murray (1931-2013), American geologist and planetary scientist
• Bryan Murray ( b. 1942 ), Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager

C

• Chad Michael Murray ( born 1981 ), American actor
• Charles Murray ( political scientist ) ( born 1943 ), American political scientist
• Charles Adolphus Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore ( 1841-1907 ), Scottish nobleman
• Charles Augustus Murray (1806-1895), English writer and diplomat
• Chris Murray ( born 1963 ), American musical performer
• Christopher Murray ( born 1957 ), American actor
• Conrad Murray ( born 1953 ), American doctor
• Craig Murray (born 1958 ), British diplomat
• Craig Murray ( footballer ) (* 1994), Scottish football player

D

• Dave Murray ( skier ) ( 1953-1990 ), Canadian alpine skier
• Dave Murray (musician ) ( born 1956 ), British rock musician
• David Murray (entrepreneurs ) ( 1842-1928 ), Scottish entrepreneurs
• David Murray ( painter) ( 1849-1933 ), British painter
• David Murray ( racing driver ) ( 1909-1973 ), Scottish Formula 1 racing driver
• David E. Murray ( born 1951 ), Scottish entrepreneurs
• David Murray (jazz musician ) ( born 1955 ), American jazz musician
• David Murray ( drummer ), American drummer
• Dee Murray (1946-1992), British bassist
• Devon Murray (* 1988), Irish actor
• Diedre Murray, American cellist and composer of the Creative Jazz
• Don Murray ( born 1929 ), American actor and filmmaker
• Don Murray (musician ) ( 1904-1929 ), American musician
• Don Murray (badminton ) ( born 1929 ), Australian badminton players
• Donal Brendan Murray ( born 1940 ), Irish Roman Catholic bishop of Limerick
• Donal Joseph Murray (1918-1999), Irish Roman Catholic Bishop of Makurdi, Nigeria
• Donald Murray ( politician ) ( 1862-1923 ), Scottish politician
• Donald Murray (inventor ) ( 1885-1945 ), New Zealand electrical engineer and inventor
• Donald Murray ( writer ) ( 1923-2006 ), American writer and journalist
• Donald Murray ( Richter) ( b. 1923 ), Northern Irish judge
• Donald Murray, pseudonym of Piero Vivarelli (1927-2010), Italian film director and screenwriter
• Donald Murray ( musician), American jazz musicians and gospel singers
• Donald McGregor Murray ( born 1929 ), Australian badminton players
• Doug Murray (1967-2013), German - Canadian ice hockey player
• Douglas Murray ( born 1980 ), Swedish ice hockey player
• Douglas Murray ( author) ( born 1979 ), English author and journalist

E

• Eddie Murray ( born 1956 ), American baseball player
• Elaine Murray (born 1954 ), Scottish politician
• Eli Houston Murray (1843-1896), American politician
• Elizabeth Murray (artist ) ( 1940-2007 ), American artist
• Elizabeth Murray ( local politician ), Canadian municipal politician and Thetermanagerin
• Elizabeth Murray (health scientist ) (born 1962 ), British health researcher
• Elizabeth Murray (motivation coach ) ( born 1980 ), American motivational trainer and author
• Eric Murray ( b. 1982 ), New Zealand rower
• Euan Murray ( born 1980 ), Scottish rugby player

F

• Feg Murray (1894-1973), American track and field athlete
• Francis J. Murray (1911-1996), American mathematician
• Freya Murray ( b. 1983 ), British long-distance runner

G

• GL Murray (* 1880), English badminton player
• Garth Murray ( b. 1982 ), Canadian ice hockey player
• George Murray (1694-1760), Scottish Jakobitengeneral
• George Murray (1741-1797), British Vice Admiral
• George Murray (1759-1819), British Vice Admiral
• George Murray (General ) ( 1772-1846 ), British general and politician
• George Murray ( bishop) ( 1784-1860 ), Bishop of Rochester
• George Murray (musician ), American bass guitarist
• George Murray ( poet ) (born 1971 ), Canadian poet
• George Henry Murray (1861-1929), Canadian politician
• George Robert Milne Murray (1858-1911), Scottish botanist
• George W. Murray (1853-1926), American politician
• Gilbert Murray (1866-1957), British classical scholar
• Gilbert Elliot - Murray - Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto ( 1751-1814 ), British politician and diplomat
• Gilbert Elliot - Murray - Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto ( 1845-1914 ), British colonial administrator, Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India
• Glen Murray (born 1972 ), Canadian ice hockey player
• Glen Murray ( politician ) ( born 1957 ), Canadian politician
• Glenn Murray ( b. 1983 ), English footballer
• Gordon Murray ( born 1946 ), South African engineer, designer of racing cars in Formula 1
• Gordon Murray ( musician), Canadian harpsichordist, organist, clavichord and fortepiano player
• Grant Murray ( born 1975 ), Scottish football player

B

• Hannah Murray (* 1989), British actress
• Harold James Ruthven Murray (1868-1955), British chess historian
• Henry Murray (1893-1988), American psychologist
• Herman Murray (* 1909), Canadian ice hockey player

I

• Ian Murray ( born 1981 ), Scottish football player
• Ian Murray ( bishop) ( born 1932 ), former bishop of Argyll and the Isles
• Iain Murray (born 1958 ), Australian sailors
• Iris Murray (born 1978 ), Austrian show jumper

J

• Jaime Murray ( born 1977 ), British actress
• James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl ( 1690-1764 ), British politician
• James Murray ( governor) ( 1721-1794 ), Scottish soldier and politician
• James Murray - Pulteney, 7th Baronet ( 1755-1811 ), Scottish nobleman and politician
• James Murray, 1st Baron Glenlyon ( 1782-1837 ), British army officer and politician
• James Murray ( lexicographer ) ( 1837-1915 ), British lexicographer and philologist
• James Murray (General ) ( 1853-1919 ), British General
• James Murray (actor, USA) ( 1901-1936 ), American actor
• James Murray ( boxer ) ( 1969-1995 ), Scottish boxer
• James Murray ( filmmaker ), screenwriter, director, producer and actor
• James Murray (actor ) ( born 1975 ), British actor
• James Murray, known as Jamie Murray ( born 1986 ), Scottish tennis player
• James A. Murray, naturalist
• James Albert Murray ( born 1932 ), American clergyman, Bishop of Kalamazoo
• James Alexander Murray (1864-1960), Canadian politician
• James Arthur Murray (1880-1933), Scottish football player
• James Augustus Henry Murray (1837-1915), British lexicographer and philologist, see James Murray ( lexicographer )
• James C. Murray (1917-1999), American politician (Illinois )
• James D. Murray ( born 1931 ), Scottish mathematician
• James Donald Murray ( born 1946 ), American luger
• James Edward Murray (1876-1961), American politician (Montana)
• Robert James Murray (1935-2008), English footballer
• Jamie Murray ( born 1986 ), Scottish tennis player
• Jimmy Murray ( footballer 1880) ( 1880-1933 ), Scottish football player
• Jimmy Murray ( footballer ) ( 1917-2007 ), Irish Gaelic football player
• Jimmy Murray ( footballer, 1933) ( born 1933), Scottish football player
• Jimmy Murray ( footballer 1935) ( 1935-2008 ), English footballer
• Joanna Murray -Smith (born 1962 ), Australian writer
• Joe Murray ( born 1961 ), American animator
• Joel Murray ( born 1963 ), American actor
• Johan Andreas Murray (1740-1791), Swedish botanist and physician
• Jonathan Murray ( born 1955 ), American television producer
• John Murray (1745-1793), British publisher
• John Murray ( congressman ) ( 1768-1834 ), American politician
• John Murray ( researcher) ( 1775-1807 ), British captain Lieutenant and Australia - explorer
• John Murray (1778-1843), British publisher
• John Murray (1808-1892), British publisher
• John Murray ( oceanographer ) ( 1841-1914 ), Canadian oceanographer
• John Murray ( theologian ) ( 1898-1975 ), Scottish -American theologian
• John Murray ( theologian, 1741), founding father of the Universalist Church of America
• John Murray ( playwright ) ( 1906-1984 ), American playwright
• John Murray (actor ) ( born 1959 ), American actor
• John Murray ( filmmaker ) ( b. 1964 ), Irish film director, journalist and photographer
• John Murray ( boxer ) ( born 1984 ), English boxer
• John Murray ( ice hockey player ) (* 1987), American ice hockey player
• John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore ( 1730-1809 ), British colonial governor
• John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl ( 1929-2012 ), South African Hereditary peer of the Peerage of Scotland
• John B. Murray, British astronomer
• John L. Murray ( politician ) ( 1806-1842 ), American politician
• John L. Murray ( lawyer) ( born 1943 ), Irish barrister
• John William Murray (1862 - ) American businessman ( series production of car bodies )
• Johnston Murray (1902-1974), American politician
• Joseph Murray ( boxer ) (* 1987), English boxer
• Joseph Edward Murray (1919-2012), American physician, Nobel laureate in medicine
• Joseph Thomas Murray (1834-1907), American manufacturer and inventor
• Julia Murray (* 1988), Canadian freestyle skier

K

• Keith Murray ( born 1974 ), American rapper
• Keith Murray, Baron Murray of Newhaven (1903-1993), a British agricultural scientist and university teacher
• Ken Murray (1903-1988), American entertainer

L

• Len Murray (1922-2004), British politician and trade unionist
• Les Murray ( born 1938 ), Australian poet and literary critic
• Lindley Murray ( grammarian ) ( 1745-1826 ), American- English businessman and grammarian
• Lindley Murray (tennis player) ( 1892-1970 ), American tennis player
• Lyn Murray (1909-1989), American composer, arranger and conductor

M

• Mae Murray (1889-1965), American actress and dancer
• Magnus Miller Murray (1787-1838), American politician
• Margaret Alice Murray (1863-1963), British anthropologist and Egyptologist
• Marie-Pier Murray - Méthot ( born 1986 ), Canadian volleyball player
• Martin Murray ( b. 1982 ), British boxer
• Marty Murray ( b. 1975 ), Canadian ice hockey player
• Matthew Murray ( engineer) ( 1765-1826 ), English engineer, locomotive builders and entrepreneurs
• Matthew John Murray ( b. 1981 ), English football goalkeeper
• Max Murray (1901-1956), Australian writer
• Mitch Murray ( born 1940 ), British music producer

N

• Neil Murray ( born 1950 ), British rock musician
• Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947), American philosopher and writer
• Nigel Murray (born 1964 ), British bowls player
• Noreen Murray (1935-2011), British biologist

O

• Oswyn Murray ( born 1937 ), British historian

P

• Patrick Murray ( Redemptorist ) ( 1865-1959 ), Irish Redemptorist
• Patrick Murray (philosopher ) ( born 1948 ), American philosopher and professor
• Patrick Murray (actor ) ( born 1956 ), English actor
• Patrick Murray, known as Pato Banton ( born 1961 ), British singer
• Patrick Murray ( footballer ) (* 1991 ), U.S. American football player
• Patty Murray ( born 1950 ), American politician
• Paul Murray ( born 1975 ), Irish writer
• Peter Murray -Rust ( b. 1941 ), British chemist and open data activist

R

• Reid F. Murray (1887-1952), American politician
• Richard Murray (* 1989), South African duathlete and triathlete
• Robert Maynard Murray (1841-1913), American politician
• Ronald Murray ( born 1979 ), American basketball player
• Ruby Murray (1935-1996), British pop singer
• Ryan Murray (* 1993), Canadian ice hockey player

S

• Samantha Murray (Actress), Australian actress
• Samantha Murray ( tennis player ) (* 1987), British tennis player
• Samantha Murray ( pentathlete ) (* 1989), British Modern pentathlete
• Seán Murray (1898-1961), Irish politician
• Sean Murray ( composer ), American film composer
• Sean Murray ( born 1977 ), American actor
• Stephen Murray -Smith (1922-1988), Australian publisher and author
• Stephen O. Murray ( born 1950 ), American sociologist
• Suna Murray ( born 1955 ), American figure skater
• Sunny Murray ( b. 1936 ), American jazz drummer

T

• T. C. Murray (1873-1959), Irish playwright
• Terry Murray ( born 1950 ), Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• Thomas Murray ( painter) ( 1663-1735 ), Scottish painter
• Thomas Murray Jr. (1770-1823), American politician
• Thomas Blackwood Murray (1877-1944), Scottish Curler
• Thomas Jefferson Murray (1894-1971), American politician
• Tim Murray ( born 1968 ), American politician
• Tom J. Murray (1894-1971), American politician
• Troy Murray (born 1962 ), Canadian ice hockey player and coach

W

• Wallace S. Murray (1887-1965), American diplomat
• William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield ( 1705-1793 ), British lawyer
• William Murray (New York) ( 1803-1875 ), American politician
• William Daniel Murray (1908-1994), American lawyer and judge
• William Edward Murray (1920-2013), Australian clergyman, Bishop of Wollongong
• William Francis Murray (1881-1918), American politician
• William H. Murray (1869-1956), American politician
• William J. Murray ( born 1946 ), American activist evangelical revivalism
• William James Murray ( born 1950 ), American actor, director and producer, see Bill Murray
• William Vans Murray (1769-1803), American politician and diplomat

Y

• Yvonne Murray (born 1964 ), British track and field athlete

First name

• Murray Bookchin (1921-2006), American socialist
• Murray Bowen (1913-1990), American psychiatrist and psychotherapist
• Murray Chandler ( born 1960 ), British chess master
• Murray Craven (born 1964 ), Canadian ice hockey player
• Murray Gell-Mann ( born 1929 ), American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1969
• Murray Grand (1919-2007), American pianist and songwriter
• Murray Halberg ( born 1933), New Zealand athlete
• Murray G. Hall ( b. 1947 ), German scholar at the University of Vienna
• Murray Hamilton (1923-1986), American actor
• Murray Head ( born 1946 ), British actor and singer
• Murray Heatley ( born 1948 ), Canadian ice hockey player
• Murray Henderson (1921-2013), Canadian ice hockey player
• Murray Jarvik (1923-2008), American psychopharmacologist
• Murray Leinster (1896-1975), American science fiction author
• Murray Perahia ( b. 1947 ), American pianist
• Murray Rose (1939-2012), Australian swimmer
• Murray Rothbard (1926-1995), American economist and political philosopher
• Murray Salem (1950-1998), American actor and screenwriter
• Schisgall Murray ( born 1926 ), American author, screenwriter and playwright
• Murray Van Wagoner (1898-1986), American politician
• Murray Waas (c. 1959), American journalist
• Murray Weidenbaum (1927-2014), American economist and politician

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