Crerar is a

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

surname. The original name is the Scots version of the Gaelic criathar meaning Sievewright. The Crerars are a sect of Clan Macintosh, and the name originated in

Perthshire Perthshire (Scottish English, locally: ; ), officially the County of Perth, is a Shires of Scotland, historic county and registration county in central Scotland. Geographically it extends from Strathmore, Angus and Perth & Kinross, Strathmore ...

People

* Duncan MacGregor Crerar (1836–1916), Scottish poet * Finlay Crerar (1904–1965), RAF officer * George Crerar (1914–1987), President of the SRU and Scottish sportsman * Harry Crerar (1888–1965), Canadian World War II commander * John Crerar (1750–1840), Scottish gamekeeper and composer * John Crerar (1827–1899), American industrialist * Leila Crerar, actress * Peter Crerar (1785–1856), Scots-Canadian civil engineer * Pippa Crerar (born 1976), British journalist * Thomas Crerar (1876–1975), Canadian politician

Places

* Crerar, Ontario, a neighborhood of Hamilton, Ontario named for the Canadian general Harry Crerar *

John Crerar Library The John Crerar Library is a research library, which after a long history of independent operations, is now operated by the University of Chicago. Throughout its history, the library's technology resources have made it popular with Chicago-area ...

, a library operated by the University of Chicago named for the American industrialist John Crerar

Other

* Crerar Hotels, Scottish hotel chain

References

{{surname English-language surnames Surnames of Scottish origin