Pidgeon is a surname from an archaic spelling of

pigeon Columbidae is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons. It is the only family in the order Columbiformes. These are stout-bodied birds with small heads, relatively short necks and slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres. ...

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Notable persons with the surname include: *

Caroline Pidgeon Caroline Valerie Pidgeon, Baroness Pidgeon, (born 29 September 1972), is a British politician. She served as the leader of the Liberal Democrats in the London Assembly from 2010 to 2024, and was a member of the London Assembly (AM) from 2008 ...

, Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom * Elsie Clare Pidgeon (1879–1956), Australian army nurse and hospital matron * Emily Pidgeon (born 1989), English athlete *

Frank Pidgeon Francis Pidgeon Sr. (February 11, 1825 – June 12, 1884) was an American baseball pitcher. He played for Eckford of Brooklyn from 1855 to 1862, and was one of the club's founders. Pidgeon has been called one of the top pitchers of the era, and pa ...

(1825–1884), American baseball player * George C. Pidgeon (1872–1971), Canadian religious minister * Harry Pidgeon (1869–1954), American sailor, circumnavigator *

Jeff Pidgeon Jeff Pidgeon is an American animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist and voice actor at Pixar. Early life Influenced by Charles M. Schulz's comic strip ''Peanuts'', Jeff Pidgeon dreamed of becoming a newspaper cartoonist. He studied and gradu ...

, American writer and actor *

John Pidgeon Sir John Allan Stewart Pidgeon (15 July 1926 – 2 June 2016) was an Australian contractor and property developer. He and his sister, Valmai Pidgeon, have been involved with the Queensland construction industry since joining their father's busine ...

, Australian contractor and property developer *

Lloyd Montgomery Pidgeon Lloyd Montgomery Pidgeon, (December 3, 1903 – December 9, 1999) was a Canadian chemist who developed the Pidgeon process, one of the methods of magnesium metal production, via a silicothermic reduction. He is considered the "father" of aca ...

(1903–1999), Canadian chemist and metallurgist *

Monica Pidgeon Monica Pidgeon (29 September 1913 – 17 September 2009) was a British interior designer and architectural writer best known as the editor of ''Architectural Design'' from 1946 to 1975. Early life Pidgeon was born Monica Lehmann in 1913 in Cate ...

(1913–2009), British interior designer and architectural writer *

Rebecca Pidgeon Rebecca Pidgeon (born October 10, 1965) is an American-British actress who has appeared on stage and in feature films. She is also a singer, songwriter and recording artist. Early life Pidgeon was born to English parents in Cambridge, Massachus ...

(born 1965), American actor and songwriter *

Valmai Pidgeon Florence Valmai Miller Pidgeon AM (born c. 1927) is a leading figure in the Arts and the construction industry in Queensland. After completing her education in 1945, Florence joined her father's building construction business F.A. Pidgeon & Son P ...

, Australian philanthropist and construction contractor * W. R. Pidgeon, English inventor of an electrostatic machine *

Walter Pidgeon Walter Davis Pidgeon (September 23, 1897 – September 25, 1984) was a Canadian-American actor. A major leading man during the Golden Age of Hollywood, known for his "portrayals of men who prove both sturdy and wise," Pidgeon earned two Academy ...

(1897–1984), Canadian actor *

William Pidgeon William Edwin Pidgeon, aka Bill Pidgeon and Wep, (1909–1981) was an Australian painter who won the Archibald Prize three times. After his death, cartoonist and journalist Les Tanner described him: "He was everything from serious draftsman, b ...

(1909–1981), Australian painter *

William Pidgeon (archaeologist) William Pidgeon (ca. 1800 – ca. 1880) was an American antiquarian and archaeologist most famous for his 1858 work, ''Traditions of Dee-Coo-Dah and Antiquarian Researches'', a putative history about lost tribes of the Upper Mississippi and the mou ...

(c. 1800 – c. 1880), American antiquarian and archaeologist

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