Witherspoon (surname)
Witherspoon is a Scottish surname, deriving from the elements wether, an archaic name for 'sheep' and spang, which means 'a narrow strip of land'. The name is found in the county of Lanarkshire.
List
Notable people with the name include:Athletics
- Ahkello Witherspoon, American football player
- Brian Witherspoon, American football player
- Chazz Witherspoon, heavyweight boxer
- Derrick Witherspoon, American football player
- Devon Witherspoon, American football player
- Jim Witherspoon, Canadian ice hockey player
- Kyson Witherspoon, American baseball player
- Reggie Witherspoon (basketball), American baseball coach
- Reggie Witherspoon (sprinter), American sprinter
- Sophia Witherspoon, American former basketball player
- Tim Witherspoon, American boxer twice recognized as Heavyweight Champion of the World
- Will Witherspoon, American football player
Entertainers
- Cora Witherspoon, American actress
- Dane Witherspoon, American actor
- Herbert Witherspoon, American bass singer and opera manager
- Jimmy Witherspoon, American blues singer
- John Witherspoon (actor), American comedy actor
- Lajon Witherspoon, vocalist for the Atlanta-based alternative metal band Sevendust
- Reese Witherspoon, American actress and film producer
Politicians
- Buddy Witherspoon, former National Executive Committeeman of the South Carolina Republican Party
- James Hervey Witherspoon, Jr.,, Confederate States of America politician
- John Witherspoon clergyman and signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence
- *Doctor John Witherspoon, a bronze sculpture in Washington D.C. by William Couper of John Witherspoon
- Robert Witherspoon, U.S. Representative from South Carolina
- Samuel Andrew Witherspoon, U.S. Representative from Mississippi
Others
- Frances M. Witherspoon,, American writer and activist
- Gary Witherspoon, Professor of American Indian studies at the University of Washington
- Sarah Witherspoon, American mathematician
- Sharon Witherspoon, British statistician