Garrett (name)
Garrett is a surname and given name of Germanic and of Old French origins. It is one of the many baptismal surnames to have been derived from the popular given names of Gerardus, Gerard and Gerald in 12th-century England. Both of these names were taken to Britain by the invading Normans and are the Old French versions of ancient Germanic personal names. The name Gerard is composed of the Germanic elements gēr or gār and hard, while Gerald is composed of again gēr or gār and wald. Although Garrett remains predominantly only a last name in the UK and Ireland, elsewhere in the English-speaking world it is also a common first name.
Other surnames derived from Gerardus, Gerard and Gerald include: Gerrard, Garratt, Garret, Garred, Garrad, Garrard, Garrod, Jarrett, Jared, Jarratt, Jarrard, and Jerrold.
People with the given name
- Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, aka "Garrett the Great", Lord Deputy of Ireland
- Garrett Acton, American professional baseball pitcher
- Garrett Adelstein, American professional poker player
- Garrett Arbelbide, American football and baseball player and football coach
- Garrett Atkins, American former Major League Baseball third baseman
- Garrett Baumann, American baseball player
- Garrett Berry, American racing driver
- Garrett Birkhoff, American mathematician
- Garrett Bradbury, American football player
- Garrett Bradley (politician), current representative in the Massachusetts House of Representatives for the 3rd Plymouth district
- Garrett Brock Trapnell, con man, bank robber, and aircraft hijacker
- Garrett Broshuis, former professional baseball player
- Garrett Brown, American cinematographer
- Garrett Brown Jr., former federal judge and attorney
- Garrett Burhenn, American baseball player
- Garrett Burnett, Canadian professional ice hockey player
- Garrett Byrne (Irish politician), Irish nationalist
- Garrett Byrnes, American composer
- Garrett Caldwell, American-born Canadian former soccer player
- Garrett Camp, Canadian entrepreneur
- Garrett Caples, American poet
- Garrett Celek, American football tight end
- Garrett Clayton, American actor, singer, and dancer
- Garrett Cochran, American football player and coach
- Garrett Davis, U.S. Senator and Representative from Kentucky
- Garrett Dellinger, American football player
- Garrett Dickerson, American football player
- Garrett Dillon, Irish judge, politician and soldier
- Garrett Droppers, American academic and diplomat
- Garrett Eckbo, American landscape architect
- Garrett Epps, American legal scholar, novelist, and journalist
- Garrett Festerling, professional ice hockey forward
- Garret FitzGerald, Taoiseach of Ireland from 1981 to 1982 and 1982 to 1987
- Garrett Ford Jr., American football running back
- Garrett Ford Sr., assistant athletics director at West Virginia University
- Garrett Fort, American short story writer, playwright, and Hollywood screenwriter
- Garrett Gardner, American singer and songwriter
- Garrett Geros, American para-snowboarder
- Garrett Giemont, strength and conditioning coach
- Garrett Gilbert, American football quarterback
- Garrett Gilkey, American football offensive guard
- Garrett Glaser, retired American news reporter
- Garrett K. Gomez, American thoroughbred jockey
- Garrett Graff, American editor-in-chief and instructor
- Garrett Graham, American football tight end
- Garrett Grayson, American football quarterback
- Garrett Greene, American football player
- Garrett Gruener, founder of Ask.com and a co-founder of Alta Partners
- Garrett Haake, American journalist
- Garrett Hammond, American drummer
- Garrett Hardin, American ecologist
- Garrett Hartley, American football placekicker
- Garrett Heath, American middle-distance and distance runner
- Garrett Hedlund, American actor
- Garrett Hilbert, American internet personality and member of Dude Perfect
- Garrett Hines, American bobsledder
- Garrett Hongo, Yonsei, fourth-generation Japanese American academic and poet
- Garrett Howard, Irish hurler
- Garrett Jackson, American basketball coach and former player
- Garrett Jernigan, American physicist and astronomer
- Garrett Johnson, American shot putter
- Garrett Jones, American professional baseball outfielder and first baseman
- Garrett Kelleher, non-executive director of Lightstream Pictures
- Garrett Klugh, American rower
- Garrett Lerner, American television writer and producer
- Garrett Lewis, American set decorator
- Garrett Lindholm, American football placekicker
- Antony Garrett Lisi, American theoretical physicist
- Garrett List, American trombonist, vocalist, and composer
- Garrett Love, Republican member of the Kansas Senate
- Garrett Lowney, American Greco-Roman wrestler
- Garrett Lucash, American pair skater
- Garrett Lynch, Irish new media artist
- Garrett MacKeen, Canadian ice dancer
- Garrett Mason, American politician
- Garrett Mattingly, professor of European history at Columbia University
- Garrett McGhin, American football player
- Garrett McIntyre, American football linebacker
- Garrett McNamara, American professional big wave surfer and extreme waterman
- Garrett Miller (rower), American rower
- Garrett Miller (politician), Nova Scotia politician
- Garrett Mills, American football tight end
- Garrett Mitchell (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey forward
- Garrett Mock, American former professional baseball pitcher
- Garrett Morgan, African-American inventor; created the safety hood smoke protection device and the traffic signal
- Garrett Morris, African-American comedian/actor and Saturday Night Live alumnus
- Garrett Neff, American model
- Garrett Nussmeier, American football player
- Garrett Oliver, American brewer and beer author
- Garrett Olson, American former professional baseball pitcher
- Garrett Phelan, artist from Dublin, Ireland
- Garrett J. Pendergrast, officer in the US Navy; served at the beginning of the American Civil War
- Garrett Raboin, retired American professional ice hockey player
- Garrett Reisman, American astronaut
- Garrett Reynolds, American football guard and tackle
- Garrett Richards, American professional baseball pitcher
- Garrett Richter, Republican member of the Florida Senate
- Garrett Rivas, American former football kicker
- Garrett Roe, American professional ice hockey left winger
- Garrett Schifsky, American ice hockey player
- Garrett Scott, American football offensive tackle
- Garrett P. Serviss, American astronomer, popularizer of astronomy, and early science fiction writer
- Garrett Sinnott, Irish sportsperson
- Garrett Smith, former U.S. soccer defender
- Garrett Stafford, professional ice hockey defenceman
- Garrett Stephenson, retired Major League Baseball pitcher
- Garrett Stubbs, American baseball catcher
- Garrett Swasey, American ice skater and slain police officer
- Garrett Temple, American professional basketball guard
- Garrett Uhlenbrock, punk rock musician and songwriter
- Garrett Wang, American actor
- Garrett Weber-Gale, American swimmer
- Garrett Williams, American football player
- Garrett Willis, American professional golfer
- Garrett Wilson, American football wide receiver
- Garrett Wilson (ice hockey), Canadian professional ice hockey winger
- Garrett L. Withers, Democrat, represented Kentucky
- Garrett Wittels, American baseball player
- Garrett Wolfe, American former football running back
- Garrett Zuercher, American deaf actor, director, and playwright
People with the surname
Fictional characters
- Edna Garrett, a character on the TV series The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
- Kelly Garrett (Charlie's Angels), a character on the 1976–81 TV series Charlie's Angels
- Garrett, a character from the Twilight book and film series
- The eponymous protagonist of Glen Cook's Garrett P.I. series of fantasy novels.
- Garrett (character), from the Thief video game series
- Garrett Breedlove, an astronaut played by Jack Nicholson in Terms of Endearment
- Rachel Garrett, captain of the Enterprise NCC-1701-C in "Yesterday's Enterprise"
- Garrett "The Garbage Man" Garrison, a character from A Minecraft Movie
- Garrett (Quest for Camelot), a cartoon character in the 1998 animated film ''Quest for Camelot''