Bacon (name)
Bacon is an English surname originally from Normandy and England.
Etymology
Its etymology is uncertain, with favoring a derivation from a diminutive of Germanic bach and others from an eponymous seigniory in Normandy or from a corruption of Beacon.People
- Albion Fellows Bacon, American reformer and writer
- Alice Bacon
- * Alice Martha Bacon, English politician and baroness
- Amanda Chantal Bacon, American entrepreneur
- Anne Bacon, English scholar, translator, and lady of the British court
- Anthony Bacon
- * Anthony Bacon, British cavalry officer during the Napoleonic wars
- * Anthony Bacon, English-born merchant and industrialist
- Antoinette Frissell Bacon, American photographer; better known as Toni Frissell
- Arthur Bacon, English footballer
- Augustus Octavius Bacon, American politician
- Benjamin Wisner Bacon, American theologian
- Benoit-Antoine Bacon, Canadian neuropsychologist
- Bertha Bacon, British suffragette
- Brady Bacon, American race car driver
- , English politician; one of the Bacon baronets
- Cecil Walter Bacon, British artist and illustrator
- Charles Bacon
- * Charles Bacon, English sculptor
- Charlotte Bacon
- * Charlotte Bacon, English aristocrat
- Christopher Bacon
- * Christopher Gerald Bacon, Australian Olympic judoka and boxer
- Christylez Bacon, American hip-hop musician
- Clara Latimer Bacon, American mathematician
- Clarence George "Clarrie" Bacon, English footballer; better known as Clarrie Bacon
- Cyril Bacon, English footballer
- Cyrus Bacon, American politician
- C. Everett "Ev" Bacon, American football player from Wesleyan University, in College Football Hall of Fame
- C. Shannon Bacon, American judge
- Daisy Sarah Bacon, American magazine editor
- Daniel Bacon
- * Daniel Stanton Bacon, American politician and judge
- David Bacon
- * David Bacon, American missionary and explorer
- * David Bacon, American photojournalist
- * David F. Bacon, American computer programmer
- Delia Bacon, American Anti-Stratfordian
- Dick Bacon, nudist from Wisconsin
- Dolores Bacon, American novelist
- Donald Bacon
- * Donald Frederick Bacon, New Zealand microbiologist
- * Donald John Bacon, American baseball player and manager
- * Donald John Bacon, American politician
- Dorothy Bacon, American lawn and indoor bowls player
- Dorothy Carolin Bacon, American economist
- Dwayne Bacon, American basketball player
- Edgar Bacon
- * Edgar Hugh Bacon, British wrestler
- Edmund Bacon
- * Edmund Bacon, American business manager and overseer for Thomas Jefferson
- * Edmund Bacon, American urban planner
- * Edmund Castell Bacon, knighted British landowner and businessman; one of the Bacon baronets
- Edward Bacon
- * Edward Denny Bacon, knighted British philatelist and curator of the Royal Philatelic Collection
- * Edward Woolsey Bacon, American Congregational preacher and writer
- Edwin Munroe Bacon, American writer and editor
- Elijah William Bacon, Union Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Elizabeth Bacon
- * Elizabeth Bacon, English aristocrat
- * Elizabeth Daken Bacon, American suffragist and educator
- Emily Bacon, American pediatrician
- Ephraim Bacon, American church minister
- Ernest Aubrey Bacon, British wrestler and civil servant
- Ernest Frederick Bacon, English footballer
- Ernst Lecher Bacon, American composer and pianist
- Eugen Bacon, Tanzanian-Australian computer scientist and author of speculative fiction
- Eugenia Jones Bacon, American writer
- Eugenia McKenzie Bacon, American suffragist and public library advocate
- Eva Bacon, Australian socialist, feminist, and pacifist
- Evan Bacon, American LEGO-artist and software developer
- Evelyn Louise Bacon, Canadian politician
- Ezekiel Bacon, American politician
- Faith Bacon, American dancer and actress
- Francis Bacon
- * Francis Bacon, knighted and ennobled English lawyer, philosopher, statesman, and author
- * Francis Bacon, Anglo-Irish painter
- * Francis Thomas Bacon, British engineer
- Frank Bacon
- * Frank Bacon, American actor and playwright
- * Frank Leander Bacon, American politician
- Frederick Bacon
- * Frederick E. Bacon British runner
- * Frederick James Bacon American banjoist and banjo manufacturer
- * Frederick Stanley Bacon American Football coach
- Gareth Andrew Bacon, British Conservative politician
- Gaspar Griswold Bacon Sr., American politician
- George Bacon
- * George Blagden Bacon, American Congregational preacher and writer
- * George Washington Bacon, American cartographer and publisher
- Georgeanna Muirson Woolsey Bacon, American author and nurse; better known as Georgeanna Woolsey
- Gertrude Bacon, British writer, aeronaut and botanist
- Guy Bacon, Canadian politician
- Helen Hazard Bacon, American classical philologist
- Henry Bacon
- * Henry Bacon, American painter
- * Henry Bacon, American architect
- Irving Bacon, American character actor
- James Bacon
- * James Bacon, British judge
- * James Alexander Bacon, Premier of Tasmania, Australia
- * James Arthur Bacon, Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer
- Jamie, Jonathan, and Jarrod Bacon, Canadian gangsters
- Janet Ruth Bacon, British educator
- Jaylen Bacon, American sprinter
- Jean Bacon, British computer scientist
- Jennifer Bacon, American attorney, educator, and politician
- Jeremiah S. Bacon, American politician
- Joanna Bacon, British architect
- John Bacon
- * John Bacon, English Carmelite friar and philosopher better known as John Baconthorpe
- * John Bacon, United States Representative from Massachusetts
- * John Bacon Sr., British sculptor
- * John Bacon Jr., British sculptor
- * John Edmund Bacon, American lawyer, politician, diplomat, and judge
- * John Henry Frederick Bacon, British painter and illustrator
- * John Mackenzie Bacon, English astronomer, aeronaut, and lecturer
- * John Mosby Bacon, United States Army general
- Jonathan Edward James Bacon, software engineer and Ubuntu Community Manager; better known as Jono Bacon
- Joséphine Bacon, Innu poet
- Josephine Daskam Bacon, American writer
- Jules S. Bacon, American bodybuilder
- Kelyn Meher Bacon, knighted British judge; also known as Kelyn Meher Bacon Darwin
- Kenneth Bacon
- * Kenneth Hogate Bacon, American journalist
- * Kenneth John Bacon, Australian politician
- Katherine Bacon, English classical pianist
- Kevin Bacon
- * Kevin Norwood Bacon, American film actor
- Lander McCoy Bacon, American football defensive lineman; better known as Coy Bacon
- Lee Bacon, American children's author
- Leonard Bacon
- * Leonard Bacon, American Congregational preacher and writer
- * Leonard Bacon, American poet, translator, and literary critic
- Lindo Bacon, American nutritionist
- Lise Bacon, Canadian politician
- Liz Bacon, Canadian professor of computer science
- Lloyd Francis Bacon, American actor
- Lori Bacon, Canadian entrepreneur
- Louis Bacon, American jazz musician
- Louis Moore Bacon, American hedge fund manager and billionaire
- Louisa Mary Bacon, British musician and writer; better known as Louisa Barwell
- Lucy Angeline Bacon, American artist
- Mabel Marks Bacon, American hotelier
- Mae Bacon, British actress
- Mark Reeves Bacon, American politician
- Margaret Bacon
- * Margaret Frances Bacon, American artist and author; better known as Peggy Bacon
- Margaretha "Greta" Bacon, American singer; better known as Greta Keller
- Maria "Madi" Helena Bacon, American musician, choral conductor, educator, and athlete; better known as Madi Bacon
- Marjorie May Bacon, English printmaker and painter
- Mary Bacon, American thoroughbred jockey and model
- Mathew Bacon, British legal writer
- Matthew Boyce Bacon, New Zealand cricketer
- Max Bacon
- * Max Bacon, British rock singer for Nightwing and GTR
- * Max E. Bacon, Missouri jurist and legislator
- Michael Bacon
- * Michael Bacon, American musician
- Montagu Bacon, English scholar and critic
- Nathaniel Bacon
- * Nathaniel Bacon, English lawyer and politician
- * Nathaniel Bacon, knighted English painter, landowner and horticulturist
- * Nathaniel Bacon, English politician
- * Nathaniel Bacon, Virginia colonist and instigator of Bacon's Rebellion
- Nicholas Bacon
- * Nicholas Bacon, English politician during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal
- * Nicholas Bacon, English politician and the first man created a baronet; first of the Bacon baronets
- * Nicholas Bacon English politician
- * Nicholas Hickman Ponsonby Bacon, British baronet, lawyer, and Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II; one of the Bacon baronets
- Nicky Daniel Bacon, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient; better known as Nick Bacon
- Orrin Bacon, American politician
- Paul Bacon
- * Paul Bacon, French politician
- Percy Charles Haydon Bacon, British stained-glass artist and sculptor
- Peter Child Bacon, American lawyer
- Phanuel Bacon, English playwright, poet, and author
- Philemon Bacon, captain in the Royal Navy
- Philip John Bacon, Australian art dealer and philanthropist
- Phoebe Bacon, American swimmer
- Randall Bacon, American actor and former football player
- Ranulph Robert Maunsell Bacon, British police officer
- Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon, Royal Navy admiral
- Richard Bacon
- * Richard Michael Bacon, British politician
- * Richard Paul Bacon, English television and radio presenter
- Rick Bacon, Canadian volleyball player
- Robert Bacon
- * Robert Bacon, English Dominican writer
- * Robert Bacon, American diplomat
- * Robert Low Bacon, American politician
- Roger Bacon
- * Roger Bacon, Franciscan friar, English philosopher
- Romain Bacon, French cyclist
- Ronald Bacon, American respiratory therapist and politician
- Ronald Alfred Sydney Bacon, English footballer
- Ruth Elizabeth Bacon, American foreign service officer
- Samuel Bacon, American lawyer, newspaper editor, and colonist
- Sarah Bacon, American diver
- Scott Bacon, Australian politician, son of Jim Bacon
- Selden Daskam Bacon, Yale professor of sociology and alcoholism researcher
- Sosie Ruth Bacon, American film actress
- Stanley Vivian Bacon, British wrestler
- Steevi Bacon, musician from London
- Sylvia A. Bacon, judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
- Thomas Bacon
- * Thomas Bacon, English academic
- * Thomas Bacon, Anglican clergyman
- * Thomas Rutherford Bacon, American Congregational preacher, writer, professor of history
- Timothy Alan Bacon, British actor and restaurateur
- Tony Bacon, American table football player
- Venancio "Anciong" Bacon, inventor of Balintawak Eskrima
- Virginia Cleaver Bacon, Oregon State Librarian
- Virginia Purdy Bacon, American heiress and art dealer
- Waine Bacon, American football player
- Waller Bacon, British lawyer and Whig politician
- Walter Bacon (disambiguation), several people
- Wendy Bacon, Australian academic, investigative journalist, and political activist
- William Johnson Bacon, American politician and judge
- William Thompson Bacon, American minister, editor, and author
- Winchel Dailey Bacon, American politician
- W. Meredith Bacon, American political scientist and LGBT rights activist
- Yehuda Bacon, Israeli artist and Holocaust survivor
Other people with the name "Bacon"
- Albert Bacon Fall, American politician
- Anne Bacon Drury, English literary patron
- Bacon Rind, Osage politician
- Camille Bacon-Smith, American scholar and novelist
- Elizabeth Bacon Custer, American journalist and memoirist
- Florence Hannah Bacon Marsh, British botanist
- George Bacon Wood, American physician
- Harriet Bacon MacDonald, American musician
- John Bacon McDonald, United States Army general
- John Bacon Sawrey Morritt, British politician
- Joseph Bacon Fraser Sr., United States Army general
- Joseph Bacon Fraser Jr., American architect
- June Bacon-Bercey, American meteorologist
- Linus Bacon Comins, American politician
- Matthew Bacon Sellers Jr., American inventor and scientist
- Peter Bacon Hales, American historian, professor, musician, and photographer
- Samuel Bacon Hillocks, Canadian politician, minister, and inventor
- Sarah Bacon Tunnicliff, American clubwoman
- Sydney Bacon Palmer, British clubman
- Thomas Bacon Fugate, American politician
- Tilman Bacon Parks, American lawyer and politician
- Wilbur Bacon Camp, American architect
- Wilford Bacon Hoggatt, American naval officer and sixth Governor of the District of Alaska
- William Bacon Oliver, American politician
- William Bacon Stevens, American bishop
- William Bacon Wright, Confederate politician
Fictional characters
- Abra Bacon, character in John Steinbeck's East of Eden
- Don Bacon, the main antagonist of the mobile game Angry Birds Evolution
- Sam Bacon, character in ''Grange Hill''
Further lists
- Ed Bacon
- General Bacon
- Justice Bacon (disambiguation)
- Senator Bacon
- Bacon baronets, a position in the English peerage held by several Bacons