Affleck
Affleck is a Scottish surname that may be of Gaelic origins.
The name is a toponymic surname, derived from several possible places, including Auchinleck, Ayrshire, Affleck, Lanark and Affleck, Angus. The Gaelic achadh means field.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Arthur Affleck, Australian aviator
- Ben Affleck, American actor, film director and screenwriter
- B. F. Affleck, American businessman
- Bruce Affleck, retired former professional ice hockey defenceman
- Casey Affleck, American actor, Ben Affleck's brother
- David Affleck, Scottish professional footballer
- Edmund Affleck, British naval officer
- Ewan Affleck, Canadian physician
- Francis Affleck, Canadian race car driver
- Gavin Affleck, Canadian architect
- George Affleck (footballer), Scottish footballer for Grimsby Town and Leeds City
- George Affleck (entrepreneur), Canadian media businessman
- Gilbert Affleck, British politician
- Ian Affleck, Canadian physicist
- James Ormiston Affleck, Scottish physician and medical author
- John Affleck, British politician
- John Affleck (coach), American college sports coach
- Keith Affleck, Australian sports shooter
- Mary Hunt Affleck, American poet
- Mike Affleck, American football player
- Neil Affleck, American actor, animator, and director
- Paul Affleck, Welsh professional golfer
- Philip Affleck, British admiral, younger brother of Sir Edmund Affleck
- Raymond Affleck, Canadian architect
- Simon Affleck, Swedish tax official
- Thomas Affleck (cabinetmaker), Pennsylvanian cabinetmaker
- Thomas Affleck (planter), a Scottish-American plantation owner.
- William Affleck, Australian politician
- Affleck baronets, a baronetage of Great Britain