Fairchild (name)
Fairchild is a common surname derived from the Old English words for fair or beautiful and the word child. Originally a given name, early records of its use as a surname are found in Oxfordshire, Surrey and Sussex.
List of persons with the surname
- Fairchild family, descendants of Thomas Fairchild, son of William Fairchild
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- Alexa Fairchild, Belgian equestrian athlete
- Amy Fairchild, American historian
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- Barbara Fairchild, American country and gospel singer/songwriter
- Benjamin L. Fairchild, New York State Republican congressman
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- Cassius Fairchild, Wisconsin Democratic Party Leader and Union Army colonel, U.S. Civil War
- Charles S. Fairchild, New York State Attorney General, 38th United States Secretary of Treasury
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- David Fairchild, industrial botanist, plant explorer, son-in-law of Alexander Graham Bell
- David Fairchild (California politician)
- Dylan Fairchild, American football player
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- Edward Henry Fairchild, abolishionist educator, first President of Berea College
- Edward T. Fairchild (Wisconsin associate justice), jurist, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Edward Thomson Fairchild, New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts president
- Edwin C. Fairchild, British socialist activist
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- Frank Wesbrook, first University of British Columbia president
- Fred Rogers Fairchild, American educator and economist
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- George Thompson Fairchild, college educator, president of Michigan State University and Kansas State University
- George Winthrop Fairchild, American politician, and co-founder of IBM
- Graham Fairchild, entomologist, grandson of Alexander Graham Bell
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- Henry Pratt Fairchild, American sociologist, co-founder of Planned Parenthood
- Herman LeRoy Fairchild, American geologist and college educator, early proponent of theorizing meteorite impact
- Hiram Orlando Fairchild, speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
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- James Fairchild, president of Oberlin College
- Jim Fairchild American singer/songwriter guitarist, Band member of Modest Mouse
- Jairus C. Fairchild, first Wisconsin State Treasurer, and first mayor of Madison, Wisconsin
- John Fairchild, American basketball player
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- Karen Fairchild, singer in American Country band, Little Big Town
- Kelly Fairchild, American ice hockey player
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- LeRoy Fairchild, founded the Masonic order, the Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm in 1889
- Lucius Fairchild, Civil War Brigadier General, three-term Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Minister to Spain, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic
- Lydia Fairchild, one of only 30 known worldwide cases of chimerism
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- Megan Fairchild, American ballet dancer
- Morgan Fairchild, American actress
- Muir S. Fairchild, Four-star General, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
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- Robert Fairchild, American ballet dancer
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- Sherman Fairchild, industrialist inventor, founder of Fairchild Aviation, Fairchild-Strato, Fairchild-Hiller, Fairchild Recording, and Fairchild Camera and Instrument
- Stuart Fairchild, American baseball player
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- Thomas E. Fairchild, Wisconsin Attorney General, appointed to Wisconsin Supreme Court and U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Characters
- Sabrina Fairchild: From Sabrina
- Miss Fairchild : From 'Hearts and Hands' by O. Henry
- Caitlin Fairchild : From Prime Earth, DC Comics
- Nikki Fairchild : From the Stark trilogy by J Kenner
- Fairchild family : From Shadowhunters
- Simon Fairchild : From the Magnus Archives
- Bryce Fairchild : From Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
- Chiffon Fairchild : From Freezing