family name
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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 ...
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Anglicisation
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Gaelic
Gaelic (pronounced for Irish Gaelic and for Scots Gaelic) is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". It may refer to:
Languages
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patronymic
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Patronymics are used, b ...
form of the Gaelic
personal name
A personal name, full name or prosoponym (from Ancient Greek ''prósōpon'' – person, and ''onoma'' –name) is the set of names by which an individual person or animal is known. When taken together as a word-group, they all relate to that on ...
meaning 'proud' or 'noble'.
Notable people with the family name MacQuarrie
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Albert MacQuarrie
Albert MacQuarrie (January 8, 1882, San Francisco – February 17, 1950, California)Bob MacQuarrie, Canadian politician
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Frank MacQuarrie
Frank MacQuarrie (January 27, 1875 in San Francisco – December 25, 1950 in Los Angeles) was an American silent film actor.
He was the brother of actors Albert MacQuarrie, George MacQuarrie and Murdock MacQuarrie.
Filmography
* '' The Black ...
John Macquarrie
John Macquarrie (1919–2007) was a Scottish-born theology, theologian, philosophy, philosopher and Anglican priest. He was the author of ''Principles of Christian Theology'' (1966) and ''Jesus Christ in Modern Thought'' (1991). Timothy Bradshaw ...
Murdock MacQuarrie
Murdock MacQuarrie (August 25, 1878 – August 20, 1942) was an American silent film actor and director. His name was also seen as Murdock McQuarrie.
MacQuarrie was born in San Francisco, California, and attended school there. He was the br ...
Clan MacQuarrie
Clan MacQuarrie (also Quarrie, MacQuarie, McQueary, McQuary, MacQuaire, Macquarie) is an ancient Highland Scottish clan which owned the islands of Ulva, Staffa and Gometra as well as large tracts of land on the Isle of Mull, which are all ...