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Ulster Ulster (; or ; or ''Ulster'') is one of the four traditional or historic provinces of Ireland, Irish provinces. It is made up of nine Counties of Ireland, counties: six of these constitute Northern Ireland (a part of the United Kingdom); t ...

) and Scottish surname, and occasionally a given name, possibly a branch of the Cenél nEógain of the

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. The name traditionally relates to a

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("kirk") dedicated to

Saint Patrick Saint Patrick (; or ; ) was a fifth-century Romano-British culture, Romano-British Christian missionary and Archbishop of Armagh, bishop in Gaelic Ireland, Ireland. Known as the "Apostle of Ireland", he is the primary patron saint of Irelan ...

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Alexander Kirkpatrick Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick (25 June 1849 – 22 January 1940) was Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge (1882–1903) and the third Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge (1898–1907). Life Kirkpatrick was born at Lewes, ...

(1849-1940), British professor of Hebrew and biblical commentator Chris at manband

* Alexander Kirkpatrick (rugby union) (1898-1971), New Zealand rugby union player *

Andrew Kirkpatrick (lawyer) Andrew Kirkpatrick (1756–1831) was an American lawyer, politician, and jurist from New Jersey. Biography Andrew Kirkpatrick was born in Mine Brook, New Jersey on February 17, 1756. He graduated from the College of New Jersey (later Princ ...

(1756–1831), Chief Justice of New Jersey Supreme Court * Andrew Kirkpatrick (judge) (1844–1904), U.S. District Court for New Jersey, grandson of Andrew Kirkpatrick (1756–1831) (''above'') * Andrew Kirkpatrick (politician) (1848–1928), South Australian politician * Andy Kirkpatrick (born 1971), British climber and writer *

Ann Kirkpatrick Ann Leila Kirkpatrick (born March 24, 1950) is an American politician and retired attorney who served as the U.S. representative for from 2019 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented from 2009 to 2011, and again from 2013 ...

(born 1950), American politician—Arizona *

Barbro Owens-Kirkpatrick Barbro A. Owens-Kirkpatrick (born in Helsinki 1946) is an American diplomat. Early life and education Owens-Kirkpatrick earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the Helsinki School of Economics in Finland. She received her Master of Public A ...

(born 1946), American diplomat * Bob Kirkpatrick (musician) (born 1934), American Texas blues guitarist, singer and songwriter *

Chris Kirkpatrick Christopher Alan Kirkpatrick (born October 17, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, music producer, podcaster, and actor. He founded the pop group NSYNC, in which he sang countertenor. The band has sold over 70 million records, becomin ...

(born 1971), American musician * Clayton Kirkpatrick (1915–2004), American journalist and newspaper editor *

Conilee Kirkpatrick Conilee Gay Kirkpatrick (born 1948) is an American electronics engineer. Education and career Kirkpatrick graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1969 and earned a PhD at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1974, with the ...

(born 1948), American electronics engineer *

Cyril Kirkpatrick Sir Cyril Reginald Sutton Kirkpatrick (1872–1957) was a British civil engineer. Cyril Kirkpatrick was born in London in 1872. Kirkpatrick was Chief Engineer for the Port of London and formed the engineering firm of Kirkpatrick and Partners ...

(1872–1957), British civil engineer *

David Kirkpatrick (producer) David Paul Kirkpatrick (born June 29, 1951) is an American film producer, studio executive and writer. He is widely known for his career at Paramount Pictures where he started as a story editor, oversaw the studio's exclusive development deal w ...

(born 1951), American film producer * David Gordon Kirkpatrick (1927–2003), Australian country musician known as

Slim Dusty Slim Dusty, AO MBE (born David Gordon Kirkpatrick; 13 June 1927 – 19 September 2003) was an Australian country music singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. He was an Australian cultural icon, referred to universally as Australia's Ki ...

David G. Kirkpatrick David Galer Kirkpatrick is a Professor Emeritus of computer science at the University of British Columbia. He is known for the Kirkpatrick–Seidel algorithm and his work on polygon triangulation, and for co-inventing α-shapes and the β-skele ...

, Canadian computer scientist *

Donald Kirkpatrick Donald L. Kirkpatrick (March 15, 1924 – May 9, 2014) was Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin in the United States and a past president of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). He is best known for creating a highl ...

(1924–2014,

fl. ''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indic ...

1960s), American educator *

Ethel Kirkpatrick Ethel Alice Kirkpatrick (30 November 1869 – 28 December 1966) was a British painter, printmaker and jeweller. She was a marine and landscape painter, mainly working in oil and watercolour but also producing woodcuts. Early life and training ...

(1869–1966), British artist and jeweller *

Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick (1933–1986) was an African-American musician, civil rights activist, and minister from Haynesville, Louisiana. In late 1964 he was a co-founder of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, an armed black self-defense gro ...

(1933–1986), African-American musician, civil rights activist, and minister *

Gary Kirkpatrick Gary Kirkpatrick (August 19, 1941 - February 22, 2021) was an American concert pianist from Junction City, Kansas. Kirkpatrick received his Bachelor of Music at Eastman School of Music and his artist's diploma from the University of Music and P ...

(1941–2021), American concert pianist *

George Airey Kirkpatrick Sir George Airey Kirkpatrick (September 13, 1841 – December 13, 1899) was a Canadian politician who was the 4th Speaker of the House of Commons from 1883 to 1887 and a Member of Parliament from 1870 to 1892. Early life Born in 1841, ...

(1841–1899), Canadian politician * George G. Kirkpatrick Jr. (1938–2003), American politician *

Harry Kirkpatrick Henry Kirkpatrick (born c. 1958) is a former Irish National Liberation Army member turned informer against other members of the INLA. Arrest In February 1983 Kirkpatrick was arrested on multiple charges including the murder of two policemen, two ...

(born c. 1958), Irish activist and convict *

Ian Kirkpatrick Ian Andrew Kirkpatrick (born 24 May 1946) is a former New Zealand rugby union player. Described as "supremely athletic, fast, fearless and with an uncanny sense of anticipation", Kirkpatrick is widely regarded as one of the greatest flankers ...

(born 1946), New Zealand rugby union player *

Ivone Kirkpatrick Sir Ivone Augustine Kirkpatrick, (3 February 1897 – 25 May 1964) was a British diplomat who served as the British High Commissioner in Germany after World War II, and as the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the hig ...

(1897–1964), British diplomat * J. Davy Kirkpatrick, American astronomer * James Kirkpatrick (disambiguation), various people *

Jeane Kirkpatrick Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick (née Jordan; November 19, 1926December 7, 2006) was an American diplomat and political scientist who played a major role in the foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration. An ardent anticommunist, she was a lon ...

(1926–2006), American diplomat for whom the American political doctrine,

Kirkpatrick Doctrine The Kirkpatrick Doctrine was a foreign policy doctrine expounded by United States ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick in the early 1980s based on her 1979 essay, "Dictatorships and Double Standards".Jeane Kirkpatrick,Dictatorships a ...

, is named *

Joey Kirkpatrick Joey Kirkpatrick (born 1952) is an American glass artist, sculptor, wire artist, and educator. She has taught glassblowing at Pilchuck Glass School. Since the 1970s, her artistic partner has been Flora Mace and their work is co-signed. Kirkpatr ...

(born 1952), American

glass artist Studio glass is the modern use of glass as an artistic medium to produce sculptures or three-dimensional work of art, artworks in the fine arts. The glass objects created are typically intended to make a sculptural or decorative statement, rathe ...

, sculptor, wire artist, and educator * John Kirkpatrick (rugby league) (born 1979), British player *

John Kirkpatrick (folk musician) John Michael Kirkpatrick (born 8 August 1947) is an English musician, playing free reed instruments such as the accordion and concertina and performing English folk songs and tunes. In London John Kirkpatrick was born in Chiswick, London, E ...

(born 1947), English musician * John Simpson Kirkpatrick (1892–1915), British-born Australian soldier * Joseph Kirkpatrick (1872-1930), British artist *

Karey Kirkpatrick Karey Kirkpatrick (born December 14, 1964) is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer. His films include ''Chicken Run'', '' The Rescuers Down Under'', '' James and the Giant Peach,'' '' Over the Hedge'', ''The Spiderwick Chronic ...

(born 1964), American writer *

Kitty Kirkpatrick Katherine Aurora "Kitty" Kirkpatrick (9 April 1802 – 2 March 1889) was a British woman of Anglo-Indian descent best known as a muse of the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle. Born in India to a British father and an Indian mother, Kirkp ...

(1802–1889), Anglo-Indian noblewoman, muse of the philosopher Thomas Carlyle *

Littleton Kirkpatrick Littleton Kirkpatrick (October 19, 1797 – August 15, 1859) was an American Whig Party politician, who represented in the United States House of Representatives for one term from 1853 to 1855. He was the son of Andrew Kirkpatrick and th ...

(1797–1859), 19th-century American attorney, political figure * Lyman Kirkpatrick (1916–1995), American government administrator *

Maggie Kirkpatrick Margaret Anne Kirkpatrick (née Downs; born 29 January 1941) is an Australian stage and screen actress who has appeared in numerous theatre, television and feature film roles since the late 1950s. Kirkpatrick starred in the TV series ''Prisone ...

(born 1941), Australian actress * María Manuela Kirkpatrick (1794–1879), Spanish royal family member * Martha Kirkpatrick (1925–2015), American psychoanalyst and clinical professor of psychiatry *

Nora Kirkpatrick Nora Kirkpatrick (born December 6, 1984) is an American actress, director, writer and musician. Early life Kirkpatrick grew up in rural Iowa. She graduated from La Quinta High School. She graduated with a BA in theater from UCLA School of Theate ...

(born 1984), American actress and musician, founding member of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros *

Ralph Kirkpatrick Ralph Leonard Kirkpatrick (; June 10, 1911April 13, 1984) was an American harpsichordist and musicologist, widely known for his chronological catalog of Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas as well as for his performances and recordings. Life an ...

(1911–1984), American musician, musicologist and cataloguer of the works of Domenico Scarlatti *

Randolph Kirkpatrick Randolph Kirkpatrick (1863–1950) was a British spongiologist, cnidariologist and bryozoologist. He was assistant keeper of lower invertebrates at the British Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum from 1886 until his retirem ...

(1863–1950), British naturalist and author *

Roger de Kirkpatrick Sir Roger de Kirkpatrick of Closeburn (fl. 14th century) was a Kingdom of Scotland, Scottish gentry, gentleman, a 3rd cousin and associate of Robert the Bruce, a 1st cousin of Sir William Wallace and a distant relative of Nicole Clark. He was born ...

(

14th century), Scottish activist * Samuel A. Kirkpatrick, president of the University of Texas at San Antonio and Eastern Michigan University *

Sanford Kirkpatrick Sanford "Sant" Kirkpatrick (February 11, 1842 – February 13, 1932) was a revenue agent and a one-term Democratic U.S. Representative from Iowa's 6th congressional district. He was the last Civil War veteran elected to represent Iowa in Congr ...

(1842–1932), American politician—Iowa * Sean M. Kirkpatrick, physicist and director of

All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is an office within the United States Office of the Secretary of Defense that investigates unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and other phenomena in the air, sea, and/or space and/or on land: someti ...

* Sidney D. Kirkpatrick (born 1955), American documentary filmmaker and author * Snyder S. Kirkpatrick (1848–1909), American politician—Kansas * Sophia Astley Kirkpatrick (1802–1871), wife of Littleton Kirkpatrick (''above''), donor to Rutgers College * Ted Kirkpatrick (1960–2022), American musician *

Timothy Kirkpatrick Timothy James Kirkpatrick (born June 11, 1978) is an American drummer. Originally from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Kirkpatrick played in punk band Shaft and Emotional Hardcore, emotional hardcore bands Roosevelt an ...

(born 1978), American drummer *

Thomas Kirkpatrick (Canadian politician) Thomas Kirkpatrick, (December 25, 1805 – March 26, 1870) was a Canadian lawyer and political figure. He represented Frontenac in the 1st Canadian Parliament as a Conservative. Biography He was born at Coolmine House, Clonsilla, County Du ...

(1805–1870), Canadian politician *

Thomas Kirkpatrick (New York) Thomas Kirkpatrick was an American politician from New York. Life He lived in Albany, New York, and was an alderman, elected in the Tenth Ward in 1843, and Overseer of the Poor. In 1853, he was elected, on the Whig ticket, Inspector of State ...

, New York politician * Thomas J. Kirkpatrick (1829–1897), American lawyer and politician *

Wayne Kirkpatrick Wayne Kirkpatrick (born c. 1961) is an American songwriter and musician born in Greenville, MS, who now lives in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated from Baton Rouge Magnet High School in 1979. His younger brother is American screenwriter and d ...

(born c. 1960), American musician * William Kirkpatrick (disambiguation), various people

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* Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1812–1878), Scottish blacksmith and inventor of the mechanical bicycle *

Kirkpatrick Sale Kirkpatrick Sale (born June 27, 1937) is an American author who has written prolifically about political decentralism, environmentalism, luddism and technology. He has been described as having a "philosophy unified by decentralism" and as bei ...

, American author, technology critic and tax resister

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