Pitcairn (surname)

Pitcairn is a surname of Scottish origin.^[1] Notable people with the surname include:

• Alexander Pitcairn (1750–1814), English cricketer
• David Pitcairn (1749–1809), Scottish physician, son of John Pitcairn and brother of the midshipman Robert Pitcairn
• Elizabeth Pitcairn (born 1973), American violinist
• Feodor Pitcairn (1934–2021), American photographer, cinematographer, naturalist and environmentalist, grandson of John Pitcairn and uncle of Elizabeth Pitcairn
• Harold Frederick Pitcairn (1897–1960), American aviation inventor and pioneer
• Hugh Pitcairn (1845–1911), first United States consul general to Hamburg, German Empire, brother of railroad executive Robert Pitcairn and John Pitcairn Jr.
• James Pitcairn (1776–1859), British physician and Director-General of the Medical Department for Ireland
• John Pitcairn (1722–1775), British marine officer during the American Revolutionary War
• John Pitcairn Jr. (1841–1916), Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist
• Joseph Pitcairn (1764–1844), American diplomat, landowner and the American consul to the free Hansa city of Hamburg
• Raymond Pitcairn (1885–1966), American lawyer, businessman and politician, son of John Pitcairn Jr.
• Robert Pitcairn (1836–1909), Scottish-American railroad executive
• Robert Pitcairn (antiquary) (1793–1855), British antiquary
• Robert Pitcairn (athlete) (1938–2022), Canadian sport shooter
• Robert Pitcairn (commendator) (1520?–1584), Scottish diplomat and judge
• Robert Pitcairn (Royal Navy officer) (1752–c.1770), Royal Navy midshipman, first European to sight Pitcairn Island, son of marine officer John Pitcairn
• Theodore Pitcairn (1893–1973), American clergyman, theologian, philanthropist and connoisseur of the arts and antiquities, son of the industrialist John Pitcairn
• Thomas Pitcairn (1800–1854), Scottish Presbyterian minister
• William Pitcairn (1712–1791), Scottish physician and botanist, brother of marine officer John Pitcairn
• William Fettes Pitcairn (1804–1891), Scottish theological author

References

1. Sims, Clifford Stanley (1862). The Origin and Signification of Scottish Surnames. With a Vocabulary of Christian Names. Albany, New York: J. Munsell. p. 85. OCLC 1060940902 – via Internet Archive.