Reid is a surname of
Scottish origin.
It means "red".
People with the surname
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Alec Cunningham-Reid (1895–1977), British politician
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Alan Reid (disambiguation) Alan or Allan Reid may refer to:
Sportsmen
*Allan Reid (cricketer) (1877–1948), South African cricketer
*Alan Reid (footballer, born 1926) (1926–1988), Australian rules player for Geelong
*Alan Reid (cricketer) (born 1931), Australian right han ...
, multiple people
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Alex Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Alexander Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Alexandra Reid (born 1992), American singer
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Amanda Reid (born 1996), Australian Paralympic athlete
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Amanda Reid (taxonomist), Australian biologist
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Amy Sanderson née Reid (1876–1931), Scottish suffragette
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Andrew Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Andy Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Andy Reid (born 1958), American professional football coach
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Angella Reid, White House Chief Usher
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Anne Cooke Reid (1907–1997), African American stage director and academic
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Anthony Reid (born 1957), British racing driver
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Anthony Reid (academic)
Anthony John Stanhope Reid (19 June 1939 – 8 June 2025) was a New Zealand-born historian of Southeast Asia. He is most well known for his two volume book, ''Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce'', developed during his time at the Research S ...
(1939–2025), New Zealand-born Australian historian of Southeast Asia
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Antonio Reid (born 1956), American record executive
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Arizona Reid (born 1986), American international basketball player
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Beverly W. Reid (1917–1942), United States Navy officer, pilot, and Navy Cross recipient
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Bevis Reid (1919–1997), British athlete
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Billy Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Brandon Reid (born 1981), ice hockey player for the Vancouver Canucks
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Bruce Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Bruce Reid (born 1963), Australian cricketer
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Buddy Reid (born 1940), Sri Lankan cricketer
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Carl Reid (born 1950), Canadian Roman Catholic priest
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Carolyn Reid (born 1972), English field hockey goalkeeper
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Carolynn Reid-Wallace (born 1942), American academic administrator
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Catherine Reid, New Zealand paleontologist
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Charles Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Charlie Reid (disambiguation) multiple people
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Charlie and Craig Reid, members of The Proclaimers
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Chris Reid (born 1971), Scottish footballer
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Christopher Reid (born 1949), British poet, essayist and writer
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Christopher Reid (entertainer) (born 1964), aka "Kid" Reid, American actor and rapper
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Christopher Reid (swimmer) (born 1996), South African competitor 2016 Olympics
* Clarence Reid (1939–2016), American musician, songwriter, and record producer, also known as
Blowfly
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Cliff Reid
Cliff Reid (September 7, 1891 – August 22, 1959), also known as George Clifford Reid, was an American film producer and film production studio founder during the 1930s and 1940s. In addition he also directed film shorts, and was the assistant d ...
(1891–1959), American film producer
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Constance Reid
Constance Bowman Reid (January 3, 1918 – October 14, 2010)
was the author of several biographies of mathematicians and popular books about mathematics. She received several awards for mathematical exposition. She was not a mathematician ...
(1918–2010), mathematical author
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Cornelius L. Reid (1911–2008), American voice teacher and writer on singing
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Dallas Reid (born 1993), American voice actor
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Daniel G. Reid (1858 – 1925), American industrialist, financier, and philanthropist
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Damion Reid (born 1979), American drummer
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Daphne Reid (born 1948), American actress
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Darren Reid (born 1983), Canadian ice hockey player
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David Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Derek Reid (1927–2006), British mycologist
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Desmond Reid (born 2004), American football player
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Don Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Douglas Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Duke Reid
Arthur "Duke" Reid CD (21 July 1915 – 1 January 1975) was a Jamaican record producer, DJ and record label owner.
He ran one of the most popular sound systems of the 1950s called Reid's Sound System, whilst Duke himself was known as The Tr ...
(1915–1975), Jamaican record producer
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Duncan Reid (born 1989), Hong Kong basketball player
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Ebenezer Emmet Reid (1872–1973), American chemist
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Edward Waymouth Reid (1862–1948), British physiologist
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Eliza Reid (born 1976), Canadian-born writer and editor; First Lady of Iceland
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Elliott Reid (1920–2013), American actor
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Ellis Vair Reid (1889–1917), Canadian World War I pilot
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Escott Reid (1905–1999), Canadian public servant and diplomat
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Elizabeth Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Fiona Reid (born 1951), Canadian actress
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Forrest Reid
Forrest Reid (24 June 1875, Belfast, Ireland; 4 January 1947, Warrenpoint, County Down, Northern Ireland) was an Irish novelist, literary critic and translator. He was a leading pre-war novelist of boyhood and is still acclaimed as a noted Ulster ...
(1875–1947), British novelist
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Frances Reid (1914–2010), American daytime television actress
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Francis Reid (1900–1970), British army officer
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Frank Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Geordie Reid (1882–1960), Scottish footballer
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George Reid (disambiguation)
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George Reid
Sir George Houston Reid (25 February 1845 – 12 September 1918) was a Scottish-born Australian and British politician, diplomat, and barrister who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Australia, prime minister of Australia from 1904 t ...
(1845–1918), fourth Prime Minister of Australia
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Gordon Reid (disambiguation) multiple people,
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Harry Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Harry Reid
Harry Mason Reid Jr. (; December 2, 1939 – December 28, 2021) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senate, United States senator from Nevada from 1987 to 2017. He led the Senate Democratic Caucus from 2005 to 2 ...
(1939–2021), American politician
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Hayden Reid (born 1978), New Zealand pastor and former rugby union player
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Helen Rogers Reid (1882–1970), American publisher
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Henry Reid
Henry Reid is the former director of UCLA’s Body donation, willed body program, who agreed to a plea deal in October 2008 for admitting his role along with a body broker to profit from lease-loaning donated anatomical material to outside corpora ...
, UCLA employee involved in human tissue scandal
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Hugo Reid (1809–1852), Scottish-born early California settler
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Iain Reid (born 1980), Canadian writer
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James Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Jamie Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Jamie Reid (1947–2023), British artist and anarchist
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Janice Reid (born 1947), Australian academic and medical anthropologist
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Jayden Reid (born 2001), English professional footballer
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Jayden Reid (soccer) (born 2001), American soccer player
* Jen Reid, subject of Mark Quinn's sculpture ''
A Surge of Power (Jen Reid) 2020''
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Jim Reid (born 1961), musician, lead singer of The Jesus and Mary Chain
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Joani Reid, Scottish politician
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Joanne Reid (born 1992), American biathlete
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John Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan, British politician
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Joseph L. Reid (1923–2015), American oceanographer
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Joy Reid (born 1968), American television journalist
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Justin Reid (born 1997), American football player
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Kerry Reid (born 1947), Australian tennis player
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Laurie Reid (born 1964), American artist
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Lawrence A. Reid, American linguist
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Linda Reid (born 1959), Canadian politician
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Lucien Reid (born 1993), British boxer
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Lydia Reid, American politician
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Lydia Reid (activist) (–2023), activist for families with children who died as infants
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Mabel Reid (died 1969), American Samoan politician
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Malcolm Reid (1857–1933), timber merchant and furniture retailer in South Australia
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Marcella Althaus-Reid (1952–2009), Argentine educator
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Margaret Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Marion Kirkland Reid (1815–1902), Scottish feminist writer
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Marion Reid
Marion Loretta Reid (; January 4, 1929 – June 22, 2023) was a Canadian politician who was the first female Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, and the List of lieutenant governors of Prince Edward Island#Lieutenant G ...
(1929–2023), Canadian provincial politician
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Marion Reid (scientist), British immunohaematologist
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Matthew Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Meta Mayne Reid (1905–1991), British children's writer
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Michael Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Mike Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Miles Reid (born 1948), mathematician
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Nancy Reid (born 1952), Canadian Theoretical Statististician
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Naz Reid (born 1999), American basketball player
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Neil Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Nicholas Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Ogden Mills Reid
Ogden Mills Reid (May 16, 1882 – January 3, 1947) was an American newspaper publisher who was president of the ''New York Herald Tribune''.
Early life
Reid was born on May 16, 1882, in Manhattan. He was the son of Elisabeth (née Mills) Reid ( ...
(1882–1947), American publisher
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Ogden Rogers Reid (1925–2019), American diplomat and politician
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Patrick Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Peter Reid (born 1956), English football manager
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Pierre Reid (1948–2021), Canadian politician
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Poppy Reid, editor-in-chief of ''
The Music Network''
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Rebecca Reid, British actress
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Reuben Reid (born 1988), British football (soccer) player
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Richard Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Richard Reid (born 1973), British jihadist best known as the "shoe bomber"
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Riley Reid (born 1991), American pornographic actress
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Robert Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Robert Gillespie Reid (1842–1908), Scottish railway contractor
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Robert James Reid (born 1993), Filipino-Australian singer-songwriter, actor, dancer, model, record producer and record label executive
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Robert Reid (painter) (1862–1929), American impressionist painter
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Robert Threshie Reid, 1st Earl of Loreburn, British Liberal politician
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Ross Reid, multiple people
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Rufus Reid (born 1944), American jazz bassist and educator
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Russell Reid, British psychiatrist
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Sally Reid, Scottish actress
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Samantha Reid (1984–1999), American high school student and manslaughter victim
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Samuel Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Scott Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Sean Reid-Foley (born 1995), American baseball player
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Sophia Reid-Gantzert (born 2010), Canadian actress and dancer
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Squire Reid (1887–1949), Australian politician
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Stefen Reid (born 1972), Canadian football player
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Steven Reid (born 1981), Irish football (soccer) player
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Storm Reid (born 2003), US-American actor
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Sue Reid (born 1970), Canadian field hockey player
* Susan Reid, birth name of
Hilda Koronel
Hilda Koronel (born Susan Reid; January 17, 1957) is a MMFF, FAMAS, Luna and Urian award-winning Filipino actress. Born to a Filipino mother and an American father who was a serviceman in Clark Air Base, she has starred in around 45 films, m ...
(born 1957), Filipino actress
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Susanna Reid (born 1970), English journalist and television presenter
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Tara Reid
Tara Donna Reid (; born November 8, 1975) is an American actress and model. Her film roles established her status as a sex symbol in the late 1990s through the early 2000s.
In film, Reid is best known for her lead ensemble role as Vicky Lathum ...
(born 1975), American actress
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Tasha Reid (born 1981), Korean rapper
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Thomas Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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T.R. Reid, American journalist and author
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Thomas Reid
Thomas Reid (; 7 May (Julian calendar, O.S. 26 April) 1710 – 7 October 1796) was a religiously trained Scotland, Scottish philosophy, philosopher best known for his philosophical method, his #Thomas_Reid's_theory_of_common_sense, theory of ...
(1710–1796), Scottish common-sense philosopher
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Thomas Mayne Reid
Thomas Mayne Reid (4 April 1818 – 22 October 1883) was an Irish British novelist who fought in the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). His many works on American life describe colonial policy in the American colonies, the horrors of slave ...
(1818–1883), Irish-American novelist
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Tim Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Tim Reid (born 1944), American actor and film director
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Tim Reid (politician) (born 1936) Canadian politician
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Trevor Reid (1908–1965), English actor
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Trevor Reid (gridiron football) (born 2000), American football player
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Vernon Reid (born 1958), guitarist of the band Living Colour
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Victor Stafford Reid (1913–1987), Jamaican writer
* Virginia Reid (1916–1955), first stage name of actress better known as
Lynne Carver
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Wallace Reid
William Wallace Halleck Reid (April 15, 1891 – January 18, 1923)
was an American actor in silent film, referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover".
He also had a brief career as a racing driver.
Early life
Reid was born in St. Lou ...
(1891–1923), silent film actor
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William Reid (disambiguation), multiple people
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Whitelaw Reid (1837–1912), American diplomat, politician, and journalist
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Whitelaw Reid (journalist) (1913–2009), American journalist and publisher
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Wilfrid Thomas Reid (1887–1968), English aircraft designer and Canadian aviation pioneer
Fictional characters
* Ashleigh Reid, a playable character known as Ash in ''
Apex Legends
''Apex Legends'' is a 2019 Battle royale game, battle royale-hero shooter video game developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts, set in the same science fiction universe as Respawn's ''Titanfall'' series. It is offered ...
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* Britt Reid, secret identity of the
Green Hornet
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Elliot Reid, a character on the TV show ''Scrubs''
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Emma Reid, a character on the British soap opera ''Doctors''
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F. X. Reid, pseudonym used by a British computer science writer
* Fergus Reid, a character in multiple titles in the ''
Wolfenstein'' video game series
* John Reid, better known as the
Lone Ranger
The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked former Texas Ranger who fought outlaws in the American Old West with his Native American friend Tonto. The character has been called an enduring icon of American culture.
He first appeared in 1933 in a ...
* Jonathan Reid, a character in the ''
Vampyr
''Vampyr'' () is a 1932 Gothic horror film directed by Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer. It was written by Dreyer and Christen Jul based on elements from Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 collection of supernatural stories '' In a Glass Darkly''. The ...
'' video game
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Spencer Reid, a character on the TV show ''Criminal Minds''
**Diana Reid, his mother
**William Reid, his father
See also
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Reed (name)
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Reid (disambiguation)
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Reidy
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Riedy
References
{{Red-surname
Surnames of Scottish origin
English-language surnames
Surnames from nicknames