Duncan (surname)

Acting

• Carmen Duncan, Australian actress
• Lindsay Duncan, Scottish actress
• Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor
• Sandy Duncan, American actress

  Art and design

• Charles Stafford Duncan, San Francisco painter and lithographer.
• Edward Duncan, British watercolorist
• Jane Duncan , British architect
• Jean Duncan , British artist
• Walter Duncan, British painter

  Military, armed forces

• Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, British admiral
• Donald B. Duncan, American vice-admiral
• Donald W. Duncan, American soldier and anti-war activist
• Gordon Duncan , Scottish WW1 flying ace
• Henry Duncan, British naval officer
• Pippa Duncan, British naval officer
• W. G. G. Duncan Smith, British military aviator
• William "Art" Duncan, Canadian aviator

  Music

• C Duncan, born Christopher Duncan, Scottish composer and musician whose debut album Architect was nominated for the 2015 Mercury Prize
• Gary Duncan, American guitarist and singer
• Johnny Duncan , American singer
• Lesley Duncan, English singer and songwriter
• Little Arthur Duncan, American blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter
• Molly Duncan, Scottish tenor saxophonist
• Tim Duncan, Southern Gospel singer
• Trevor Duncan, English composer
• Zélia Duncan, Brazilian singer and songwriter

  Politics

• Alan Duncan, British politician
• Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education
• Charles Duncan Jr., U.S. Secretary of Energy
• Frank I. Duncan, American politician, lawyer, judge and newspaper publisher
• Geoff Duncan, American politician
• Jeff Duncan , American politician
• Jimmy Duncan,, American politician, U.S. Representative from Tennessee's 2nd congressional district
• John Duncan Sr.,, American politician, U.S. Representative from Tennessee's 2nd congressional district, father of Jimmy Duncan
• Kirsty Duncan, Canadian politician and Deputy Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
• Leslie Duncan, newspaper editor and politician in South Australia
• Mike Duncan , chairman of the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service and former chairman of the Republican National Committee in the United States
• Peter Duncan , Labor representative in South Australian and federal parliaments
• Peter Duncan , Scottish politician, Member of Parliament from Galloway and Upper Nithsdale
• Sir Walter Gordon Duncan, South Australian pastoralist and MLC
• Walter Hughes Duncan, South Australian pastoralist and MHA for Burra
• Walter Leslie Duncan, Australian Senator for New South Wales
• Wesley Duncan, American politician and member of the Nevada Assembly
• William Addison Duncan, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania's 19th congressional district

  Sports

• Alexander Duncan, British long-distance runner
• Alex Duncan, Australian rules football player
• Andy Duncan , American basketball player
• Bobby Duncan, Scottish footballer
• Bobby Duncan
• Cecil Duncan, Canadian ice hockey administrator
• Chris Duncan, American baseball player
• Dave Duncan , Major League Baseball player and pitching coach, father of Chris Duncan and Shelley Duncan
• Darryl Duncan, Australian rugby league footballer
• Eric Duncan, American baseball coach
• George Duncan , Scottish golfer
• Ian Duncan, Kenyan rally driver
• Jaelyn Duncan, American football player
• Jean Duncan, Scottish hockey umpire
• Jeff Duncan , American baseball player and coach
• John Duncan , Scottish footballer who notably played for Dundee and Tottenham Hotspur
• Johnny Duncan , Scottish international footballer and manager, who was most notably with Leicester City
• Jon Duncan, British orienteer
• Jonathan Duncan , New Zealand swimmer
• Katie Duncan, New Zealand association footballer
• Ken Duncan , American football player
• Mariano Duncan, Dominican baseball player
• Rick Duncan, American football player
• Ross Duncan, Australian cricketer
• Sam Duncan, Westmeath Gaelic footballer
• Scott Duncan , former Scottish football player and manager
• Shelley Duncan, American baseball player
• Tim Duncan, American basketball player
• Vern Duncan, American baseball player

  Writers

• Alasdair Duncan, Australian writer
• Dave Duncan , Canadian writer
• Glen Duncan, British author
• Isabelle Wight Duncan, Scottish author
• Jane Duncan, pseudonym of Scottish writer Elizabeth Jane Cameron
• John Shute Duncan, English academic, writer, and museum curator
• Lois Duncan, American writer of children's books
• Mary Lundie Duncan, Scottish poet and hymn-writer
• Philip Bury Duncan, English academic, writer, and museum curator
• Robert Duncan, American beat poet
• Sara Jeannette Duncan, Canadian author and journalist

  Other fields

• Bruce Duncan, British priest and founder
• Carl Porter Duncan, professor of experimental psychology at Northwestern University, US
• Dan Duncan, American businessman
• David Duncan, government witness in the Enron scandal
• David Douglas Duncan, American photojournalist
• David F. Duncan, epidemiologist and drug policy adviser to former US President Bill Clinton
• Donald F. Duncan Sr., American entrepreneur and inventor, most commonly associated with Yo-yos
• Gary Duncan, defendant in case Duncan v. Louisiana decided by the US Supreme Court
• George Smith Duncan, a tramway and mining engineer
• Graham Duncan, botanist at Kirstenbosch Botanic Garden, South Africa
• Helen Duncan, Scottish medium
• Henry Duncan, founder of the first Trustee Savings Bank
• Herbert Osbaldeston Duncan, English racing bicyclist, journalist, and pioneer of the British automobile industry
• Iain Duncan Smith, British politician
• Isadora Duncan, American dancer
• Jonathan Duncan , British advocate of reforming the monetary system
• Jonathan Duncan
• Joseph Edward Duncan, American convicted serial killer and child molester
• Kath Duncan, Scottish communist activist
• Ken Duncan , Australian photographer
• Laurence Ilsley Duncan, justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
• Leslie Duncan, newspaper editor and politician in South Australia
• Marion Moncure Duncan, American businesswoman and lineage society leader
• Mary Ellen Duncan, American academic administrator and teacher
• Mike Duncan, American history podcaster and writer
• Pearl Duncan, Australian retired teacher, anthropologist, academic and Aboriginal elder.
• Scott Duncan, American billionaire
• Stephen Duncan, American plantation owner in the Antebellum South
• Stewart Duncan, American philosopher
• Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola victim of the 2014 West African outbreak to develop symptoms while in the US
• Todd Duncan, author and motivational speaker
• Vender Duncan, American serial killer
• Walter Jack Duncan, war artist for the US Army during World War I
• Warren W. Duncan, American jurist
• William Duncan , American physician and politician
• William Duncan , Scottish natural philosopher and classicist

  Fictional characters

• Karen Beecher-Duncan, supporting character of the Teen Titans
• Lily Duncan, a fictional character from Mona the Vampire
• Mal Duncan, supporting character of the Teen Titans
• Tammy & Tommy Duncan, supporting characters from The Mighty Ducks.
• Tyler Duncan and Mrs. Duncan are secondary characters in Big Time Rush
• Duncan, the main characters family's surname in Good Luck Charlie
• Veronica Duncan, supporting character in Young Sheldon
• Ian Duncan, a character in the TV series Community, played by actor John Oliver
• King Duncan, of Shakespeare's Macbeth
• Duncan, Robin of Locksley's companion in the 1991 film Robinhood Prince of Thieves.
• Duncan Idaho, a Mentat from Frank Herbert's Dune
• Tara Duncan, the titular character of the French fourteenth-book series by Sophie Audouin-Mamikonian. Unfortunately, only the first two have been translated into English.
• Carter Duncan, the main antagonist of ''The Perfect Guy ''