Moncrieff may refer to:

Family name Moncreiff

Baron Moncreiff Baron Moncreiff, of Tulliebole in the County of Kinross, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 9 January 1874 for the lawyer and Liberal politician Sir James Moncreiff, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a Ba ...

, title in the peerage of the U.K. *

James Moncreiff, 1st Baron Moncreiff James Moncreiff, 1st Baron Moncreiff (29 November 1811 – 27 April 1895) was a Scottish lawyer and politician. Life Moncreiff was born on 29 November 1811 to Ann, daughter of George Robertson, R. N. and Sir James Wellwood Moncreiff, 9th Barone ...

Henry Moncreiff, 2nd Baron Moncreiff Henry James Moncreiff, 2nd Baron Moncreiff (24 April 1840 – 3 March 1909) was a Scottish judge who succeeded to the title Baron Moncreiff. Life Moncreiff was born in Edinburgh, the elder son of James Moncreiff, 1st Baron Moncreiff and h ...

* Francis Moncreiff (bishop) (1906-1984) Anglican bishop *

Moncreiffe baronets There have been three baronetcy, baronetcies created for people with the surname Moncreiffe or Moncreiff, two in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Two of the titles are dormant, as the heir has not pro ...

, three baronetcies

Family name Moncrieff

Alexander Bain Moncrieff Alexander Bain Moncrieff (22 May 1845 – 11 April 1928) was an Irish-born engineer, active in Australia. Moncrieff was the son of Alexander Rutherford Moncrieff, and was born in Dublin, Ireland. His family was of Scottish ancestry. He was edu ...

, Irish-Australian engineer *

Alexander Moncrieff, Lord Moncrieff Alexander Moncrieff, Lord Moncrieff FRSE (14 August 1870 – 5 August 1949), was a Scottish lawyer and judge, who was created a Senator of the College of Justice. Life Alexander Moncrieff was the third son Alexander Moncrieff, Advocate and She ...

, Scottish judge * Colonel Sir Alexander Moncrieff, Victorian military engineer responsible for the concept of the

disappearing gun A disappearing gun, a gun mounted on a ''disappearing carriage'', is an obsolete type of artillery which enabled a gun to hide from direct fire and observation. The overwhelming majority of carriage designs enabled the gun to rotate bac ...

* Alice Moncrieff (born 1881), American contralto and voice teacher * Chris Moncrieff (1931–2019), British journalist *

Gladys Moncrieff Gladys Lillian Moncrieff (13 April 1892 – 8 February 1976) was an Australian singer who was so successful in musical theatre and recordings that she became known as 'Australia's Queen of Song' and 'Our Glad'. Life and career Early years M ...

(1892–1976), Australian singer * Joanna Moncrieff (1966–), British psychiatrist and academic * John J. Moncrieff (1866–1939), Canadian newspaper editor and conductor * John Robert Moncrieff (1899–1928), New Zealand aviator *

Karen Moncrieff Karen Moncrieff (born December 20, 1963, in Sacramento, California) is an American actress, director and screenwriter. She is best known as the writer and director of critically acclaimed films ''Blue Car'' and ''The Dead Girl'' '. Movies sh ...

, American film director * Michael Moncrieff, Australian rules footballer * Perrine Millais Moncrieff (1893–1979), New Zealand author, ornithologist and conservationist *

Robert Hope Moncrieff Robert Hope MoncrieffAscott was never part of his name, but was adopted by him as part of his pseudonym. It may have been a punning reference to his origin ''A Scot''. He used the name A. R. Hope Moncrieff for some of his books for adults, incl ...

, author *

Seán Moncrieff Seán Moncrieff is an Irish people, Irish broadcaster, journalist and writer. He currently presents the weekday afternoon radio show ''Moncrieff'' on Newstalk and is a columnist for ''The Irish Times''. His television credits include his own R ...

, Irish writer, journalist and television presenter ** ''Moncrieff'', his radio show on

Newstalk Newstalk (formerly NewsTalk 106) is a national independent radio station in Ireland. It is operated by News 106 Limited, a subsidiary of Bauer Media Audio Ireland, and broadcasts under a sound broadcasting contract with the Broadcasting Aut ...

** '' Good Grief Moncrieff!'', his chat show on RTÉ *

William Thomas Moncrieff William Thomas Moncrieff (24 August 1794 – 3 December 1857), commonly referred as W. T. Moncrieff, was an English dramatist and author. Biography William Thomas Thomas, born in London to a Strand tradesman named Thomas, assumed the name Moncri ...

(1794–1857), English dramatist

Family name Scott Moncrieff

* Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff (1889–1930), Scottish writer and translator, famous for ''

Remembrance of Things Past ''In Search of Lost Time'' (), first translated into English as ''Remembrance of Things Past'', and sometimes referred to in French as ''La Recherche'' (''The Search''), is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust. This early twen ...

'' * Colonel Sir Colin Scott-Moncrieff (1836–1918), British engineer who reorganised the irrigation system of Egypt * Major General Sir

George Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff Major General Sir George Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff (3 October 1855 – 4 June 1924) was a Scottish soldier and engineer. Early life Scott-Moncrieff was born in Bengal, British India, the younger son of Maj. Alexander Pringle Scott-Moncrieff, of ...

(1855–1924), Scottish soldier and engineer * George Scott-Moncrieff (1910–1974), Scottish author * Robert Scott Moncrieff (1793–1869), British illustrator

Family name Wellwood Moncreiff

* Sir Henry Wellwood-Moncreiff, 10th Baronet (1809-1885), minister of the Free Church of Scotland * Sir James Wellwood Moncreiff, 9th Baronet (1776-1851), lawyer and judge

Fictional character

* Algernon Moncrieff, one of the main characters in Oscar Wilde's play, ''

The Importance of Being Earnest ''The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People'' is a play by Oscar Wilde, the last of his four drawing-room plays, following ''Lady Windermere's Fan'' (1892), ''A Woman of No Importance'' (1893) and ''An Ideal Husban ...

''.

Other uses

Division of Moncrieff The Division of Moncrieff is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The current MP is Angie Bell of the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party. Geography Since 1984, federal el ...

, electoral division in Queensland, Australia * Moncrieff, Australian Capital Territory, planned suburb of Canberra, Australia * Moncrieff Bay, a bay in South Australia * ''

Moncrieff v Jamieson ''Moncrieff v Jamieson'' Scots property law">Scottish property law case decided by the House of Lords on servitudes (the Scottish equivalent of "easements"). Facts The appellant (J) appealed against a decision (2005 1 S.C. 281) that a right ...

007 The ''James Bond'' franchise focuses on James Bond (literary character), the titular character, a fictional Secret Intelligence Service, British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels ...