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Fiske is a surname of
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n origins. According to ''
Burke's Peerage Burke's Peerage Limited is a British genealogical publisher founded in 1826, when the Irish genealogist John Burke began releasing books devoted to the ancestry and heraldry of the peerage, baronetage, knightage and landed gentry of Great ...
'', "The family of Fiske has long flourished in the counties of
Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the Nort ...
(recorded as landowners in the
Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...
) and
Suffolk Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include L ...
n England">England.html" ;"title="n England">n England and derives from the old Old Norse">Norse Norse is a demonym for Norsemen, a medieval North Germanic ethnolinguistic group ancestral to modern Scandinavians, defined as speakers of Old Norse from about the 9th to the 13th centuries. Norse may also refer to: Culture and religion * Nor ...
name of Fiskr. Legend holds that they arrived with the invading forces of Olaf Tryggvason, King of Norway, at the Battle of Maldon on the River Blackwater, Essex, Blackwater River in Essex in 991 A.D. Daniel Fisk, of
Laxfield Laxfield is a small ancient village in northern Suffolk, England. It is located at a distinct bend in today's B1117 road. History Laxfield arose in Saxon times as it is known that an early church was there and the village itself appears in th ...
is mentioned in a document issued by John, King of England, King John, confirming a grant of land in Digneveton (
Dennington Dennington is a village and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk. It is north of Framlingham and north-east of Ipswich in the east of the county. It lies along the A1120 road around west of the road's junction with the main A12 road ...
), made by the
Duke of Lorraine The rulers of Lorraine have held different posts under different governments over different regions, since its creation as the kingdom of Lotharingia by the Treaty of Prüm, in 855. The first rulers of the newly established region were kings o ...
to the men of
Laxfield Laxfield is a small ancient village in northern Suffolk, England. It is located at a distinct bend in today's B1117 road. History Laxfield arose in Saxon times as it is known that an early church was there and the village itself appears in th ...
1 May 1208."''Burke's Peerage & Gentry''
'Fiske Harrison of Layer de la Haye'
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In arts and entertainment

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Alexander Fiske-Harrison Alexander Rupert Fiske-Harrison (born 22 July 1976) is an English author, producer, financier and conservationist. His writing is known for his immersion in his subject matter. He trained and worked for some years as a Method actor. For his fi ...
(born 1976), British writer *
Alison Fiske Alison Mary Fiske (2 August 1943 – 26 July 2020) was an English actress, who won Actress of the Year in a New Play at the 1977 Laurence Olivier Awards for playing Fish in ''Dusa, Fish, Stats and Vi''. She was also nominated in the 1979 Lauren ...
(1943–2020), English actress, daughter of
Roger Fiske Roger Fiske (11 September 1910 – 22 July 1987) was a musicologist, broadcaster and author who played an important part in establishing music for schools at the BBC during and after World War II. Fiske was born in Surbiton. He studied English at ...
* George Fiske (1835–1918), American photographer *
Harrison Grey Fiske Harrison Grey Fiske (July 30, 1861 – September 2, 1942) was an American journalist, playwright and Broadway producer who fought against the monopoly of the Theatrical Syndicate, a management company that dominated American stage bookings ...
(1861–1942), American writer *
Irving Fiske Irving L. Fiske (born Irving Louis Fishman; March 5, 1908 – April 25, 1990) was an American playwright, writer, and public speaker. He worked for the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s, where he was ...
(1908–1990), American playwright *
Minnie Maddern Fiske Minnie Maddern Fiske (born Marie Augusta Davey; December 19, 1865 – February 15, 1932), but often billed simply as Mrs. Fiske, was one of the leading American actresses of the late 19th and early 20th century. She also spearheaded the fig ...
(1865–1932), American actress *
Reine Fiske Nils Reine Fiske (born 4 October 1972) is a Swedish guitarist, art director and sound engineer at the record label Subliminal Sounds, who put his signature to many prog-rock projects such as Landberk, Morte Macabre, Paatos, Motorpsycho, Eleph ...
(born 1972), Swedish musician *
Richard Fiske Thomas Richard Potts (November 20, 1915 – August 10, 1944), known professionally as Richard Fiske, was an American film actor. He appeared in over 80 films between 1938 and 1942. Career Born Thomas Richard Potts, Fiske was born to Frank a ...
(1915–1944), American actor *
Robert Fiske (actor) Robert Fiske (October 20, 1889 – September 12, 1944) was an American actor on film and stage during the first half of the 20th century. In the late 1920s, Fiske acted with the Sharp Players at the Pitt Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvan ...
(1889–1944), American actor *
Roger Fiske Roger Fiske (11 September 1910 – 22 July 1987) was a musicologist, broadcaster and author who played an important part in establishing music for schools at the BBC during and after World War II. Fiske was born in Surbiton. He studied English at ...
(1910–1987), English musicologist, broadcaster and author *
Willard Fiske Daniel Willard Fiske (November 11, 1831 – September 17, 1904) was an American librarian and scholar, born on November 11, 1831, at Ellisburg, New York. Biography Fiske studied at Cazenovia Seminary and started his collegiate studies at Hamil ...
(1831–1904), American librarian and writer * Lars Fiske (born 1966), Norwegian illustrator * Anna Fiske (born 1964), Swedish illustrator


In law and politics

* Bill Fiske (1905–1975), British politician * Fiske Goodeve Fiske-Harrison (1793–1872), British judge and politician *
Robert B. Fiske Robert Bishop Fiske Jr. (born December 28, 1930) is an American trial attorney and a partner with the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City. He was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1976 to 1980 ...
(born 1930), American lawyer


In science and academia

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Alan Fiske Alan Page Fiske (born 1947) is an American professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, known for studying the nature of human relationships and cross-cultural variations between them. Early life Fiske was born in 1947. ...
(born 1946), American anthropologist * Donald W. Fiske (1916–2003), American psychologist *
John Fiske (philosopher) John Fiske (March 30, 1842 – July 4, 1901) was an American philosopher and historian. He was heavily influenced by Herbert Spencer and applied Spencer's concepts of evolution to his own writings on linguistics, philosophy, religion, and history. ...
(1842–1901), American philosopher *
Lewis R. Fiske Lewis Ransom Fiske (December 24,MSU Archives give Fiske's birth date as December 22. Three sources, Barnard, Chapman Brothers, and the Evening News Associates, give the date as December 24. The ''National Cyclopaedia of American Biography'' as pr ...
(1825–1901), American university president *
Susan Fiske Susan Tufts Fiske (born August 19, 1952) is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs in the Department of Psychology at Princeton University. She is a social psychologist known for her work on social cognition, stereotypes, an ...
(born 1952), American psychologist * Thomas Fiske (1864–1944), American mathematician *
Willard Fiske Daniel Willard Fiske (November 11, 1831 – September 17, 1904) was an American librarian and scholar, born on November 11, 1831, at Ellisburg, New York. Biography Fiske studied at Cazenovia Seminary and started his collegiate studies at Hamil ...
(1831–1904), American librarian and writer


Places

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Fiske, Saskatchewan Fiske is a hamlet in Pleasant Valley Rural Municipality No. 288, Saskatchewan, Canada. Listed as a designated place by Statistics Canada, the hamlet had a population of 65 in the Canada 2016 Census. Fiske is located approximately east of Ki ...
, hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada *
Fiskdale, Massachusetts Fiskdale (or Fiskedale) is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Sturbridge in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 2,583 at the 2010 census. Geography Fiskdale is located at (42.114994, -72.111547). ...
, a village of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, USA


In other fields

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Billy Fiske William Meade Lindsley Fiske III (4 June 1911 – 17 August 1940) was an American combat fighter pilot and Olympic bobsledder. At the 1928 and 1932 Winter Olympics, Fiske won gold as driver for the US bobsledding team, also acting as the Am ...
(1911–1940), American athlete and fighter pilot *
Bradley A. Fiske Rear Admiral Bradley Allen Fiske (June 13, 1854 – April 6, 1942) was an officer in the United States Navy who was noted as a technical innovator. During his long career, Fiske invented more than a hundred and thirty electrical and mechanica ...
(1854–1942), American admiral *
Catherine Fiske Catherine Fiske (July 30, 1784 – May 20, 1837) was an American teacher and principal who founded a girls' boarding school, Miss Catherine Fiske's Young Ladies Seminary. Located in Keene, New Hampshire, it was in operation from 1814 until the 18 ...
(1784-1837), American school founder * Clive Fiske Harrison (born 1939), British banker *
Solveig Fiske Solveig Margrete Fiske (born 26 October 1952) is a theologian and bishop emerita in the Church of Norway, serving as the bishop of Hamar between 2006 and 2022, when she retired. Originally from Frei in Møre og Romsdal, she graduated from the Fr ...
(born 1952), Norwegian bishop * Thomas W. Fiske (born 1954), American Episcopal Priest


See also

* Fisk (surname) * Fisker (disambiguation)


References

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