Struan is a name of Scottish origin and may refer to:
Places
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Struan, South Australia
Struan is a locality located within the Naracoorte Lucindale Council in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia.
The railway between Wolseley and Mount Gambier passed through here but closed on 12 April 1995.
Demographics
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Struan, Saskatchewan
Struan is an unincorporated community in Eagle Creek Rural Municipality No. 376, Saskatchewan, Canada. The locality is located at the intersection of Highway 376 and Highway 784 about northwest of Saskatoon.
The community is named for Str ...
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Struan, Skye, Scotland
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Struan, Perthshire
Struan is a small village in Perthshire
Perthshire ( locally: ; gd, Siorrachd Pheairt), officially the County of Perth, is a historic county and registration county in central Scotland. Geographically it extends from Strathmore in the e ...
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Struan railway station
Struan railway station served the village of Struan, Perthshire
Struan is a small village in Perthshire in Scotland. The name derives from ''sruthan'', the Gaelic for 'Little Stream'. It is 8 km west of Blair Atholl.
It is near the confl ...
People
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Struan Dewar
Struan Douglas Dewar (born 6 July 1989) is a Scottish rugby union player.
He was a member of the Scotland national rugby sevens team between 2008-2015. Outwith those commitments he was available to play for Edinburgh Rugby.
Career
Struan Dew ...
(born 1989), Scottish rugby player
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Struan Rodger
Struan Rodger (born 18 September 1946) is a British actor who has appeared widely in a range of supporting roles. He appeared briefly in '' Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?'' in 1978 but his first major film role was as Eric Liddell' ...
(born 1946), British actor
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Struan Stevenson
Struan John Stirton Stevenson (born 4 April 1948) is a Scottish politician. He was the Conservative Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Scotland from 1999 to 2014 and chair and Vice Chair of the Committee on Fisheries, in addition to whi ...
(born 1948), Scottish politician
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Struan Sutherland
Struan Keith Sutherland AO (17 June 193611 January 2002) was an Australian medical researcher who developed effective antivenoms and other treatments for people bitten or stung by venomous Australian wildlife.
Early life
Sutherland was born i ...
(1936–2002), Australian medical researcher
Other uses
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* Struan's, a trading company in the
Asian Saga
The ''Asian Saga'' is a series of six novels written by James Clavell between 1962 and 1993. The novels all centre on Europeans in Asia, and together explore the impact on East and West of the meeting of these two distinct civilizations.
Overv ...
novels by James Clavell
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Dirk Struan
Dirk Lochlin Struan (1797–1841) is the fictional main character of James Clavell's 1966 novel ''Tai-Pan''. The title comes from a Cantonese term that Clavell loosely translates as "supreme leader", and Struan is the Tai-pan or head of his own ...
, the founder of Struan's
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Struan Michael
Michaelmas ( ; also known as the Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, the Feast of the Archangels, or the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels) is a Christian festival observed in some Western liturgical calendars on 29 September, an ...
, a variety of flat quick bread served on Michaelmas
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Clan Robertson
Clan Donnachaidh ( Scottish Gaelic: Clann Donnchaidh ), also known as Clan Robertson or Clan Duncan is a Scottish clan.
History Origins
There are two main theories as to the origins of the Clan Donnachaidh:
#That the founder of the clan, Donn( ...
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Clan Duncan
The personal name Duncan can be found in Scotland’s oldest records in its Gaelic form Dunchad/Donchadh/Donachie/Donnchadh and other spelling variants.
Origins
(Dunchad) Duncan, originally a forename is one of the earliest names in Scotland ...
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List of listed buildings in Bracadale, Highland
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