Masson (surname)
Masson is a French and Scottish surname. In Scotland, it is a form of the surname Mason. Historical evidence indicates that the origin of the surname is the occupation of mason. Másson is the Icelandic spelling.
People with the surname
- André Masson, a French artist
- André Masson, a French economist
- Angela Masson, an American pilot and artist
- Antoine Masson, a French engraver
- Antoine Masson (boxer), a Belgian boxer
- Charles Eadie Masson, a Canadian amateur ice hockey right winger
- Charles François Philibert Masson, a private secretary to the future Tsar Alexander I
- Charles Masson, the pseudonym of James Lewis, a British East India Company soldier and explorer
- David Masson, a Scottish writer
- David I. Masson, a Scottish science-fiction writer and librarian, grandson of David Orme Masson
- David Orme Masson, an Australian chemist, son of David Masson
- David Parkes Masson, a wealthy banker in India and distinguished philatelist
- Didier Masson, a French pilot
- Diego Masson, a French conductor, composer and percussionist
- Don Masson, Scottish footballer
- Édouard Masson, a Canadian businessman and political figure
- Émile Masson, a Belgian professional road bicycle racer
- Émile Masson Jr., a Belgian professional road bicycle racer, son of above
- Elsie Rosaline Masson, Australian photographer, writer and traveller, daughter of David Orme Masson
- Forbes Masson, a Scottish actor
- Francis Masson, a Scottish botanist and gardener
- Frédéric Masson, a French historian
- Gérard Masson, a French composer
- Hafliði Másson, Icelandic goði and chieftain
- Jean Papire Masson, a French scholar
- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, a writer on Freudian psychoanalysis
- Joseph Masson, a Canadian businessman
- Laetitia Masson, a French film director and screenwriter
- Maxime Masson, pastor for 52 years at the Catholic parish of Sainte-Thècle, Quebec, Canada
- Paul-Marie Masson, French composer and musicologist
- Paul Masson, a pioneer of California viticulture
- Paul Masson, a French cyclist and 1896 Summer Olympian
- Robert le Masson, a supporter of Joan of Arc
- Louis-Rodrigue Masson, a Canadian politician
- Snorri Másson, Icelandic podcaster and politician
- Sophie Masson, a French-Australian author
- Suzanne Masson, a French resistance fighter
- Thomas Lansing Masson, an American anthropologist, editor and author