Livingstone (name)
 Scottish physician and explorer David Livingstone | |
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Livingstone is a surname and given name. The surname is toponymic. It is one of the habitual surnames eventually adopted by members of the Scottish branch of the Irish Dunleavy (Gaelic language Duinnshléibhe)/MacNulty[1] royals, including the ancestors of the African missionary doctor and African explorer David Livingstone.[2][3] There may be a relationship between the Livingstones and Clan MacLea.[4][5]
Notable people
Surname
- Adelaide Livingstone (Dame Adelaide Stickney Lord Livingstone) (died 1970), responsible for organizing the 1934–5 Peace Ballot in the UK
- Alexander Livingstone (Scottish politician)
- Archie Livingstone (footballer, born 1915) (1915–1961), Scottish footballer
- Bob Livingstone (1922–2013), American football player
- Bobby Livingstone, Scottish footballer
- Bruce Livingstone (born 1971), Canadian entrepreneur
- Colin H. Livingstone, first president of the Boy Scouts of America
- David Livingstone 1813–1873, Scottish missionary explorer of Africa, best-known bearer of the name and namesake of numerous places
- David N. Livingstone (born 1953), Professor of Geography and Intellectual History at Queen's University Belfast
- Doug Livingstone (1898–1981), Scottish football player
- Douglas Livingstone (1932–1996), South African poet
- Duncan Livingstone (d. 1964) South African poet who contributed to Scottish Gaelic literature
- Eddie Livingstone (1884–1945), Canadian owner and manager of the Toronto Shamrocks and the Toronto Blue Shirts
- Frank Livingstone (bowls), New Zealand lawn bowler
- Ian Livingstone (born 1949), English fantasy author
- Ian Livingstone (disambiguation), various people
- Jake Livingstone (ice hockey) (born 1999), Canadian ice hockey player
- Ken Livingstone (born 1945), former mayor of London
- Liam Livingstone, English cricketer
- Margaret Livingstone (born 1950), American neuroscientist and professor at Harvard Medical School
- Marilyn Livingstone (born 1952), Scottish Labour politician
- Mary Livingstone (Sadye Marks) (1905–1983), American radio comedian, widow and radio partner of Jack Benny
- Nicole Livingstone (née Stevenson), Australian swimmer
- Paul Livingstone American sitarist, composer and multi-instrumentalist
- Peadar Livingstone, Irish priest, linguist, and local historian
- Richard Winn Livingstone, gave the Rede Lecture in 1944 on Plato and modern education
- Robert Livingstone (born 1967), Canadian businessman
- Scott Livingstone (born 1965), former professional baseball player
- Sergio Livingstone (1920-2011), former Chilean goalkeeper, nicknamed 'El Sapo'
- Sidney Livingstone (born 1945), English actor
- Stacey Livingstone (born 1988), Australian rules footballer
- Susan Livingstone, American administrator and civil servant
- Terasa Livingstone (born 1975), Australian theatre, film and television actress
- Joseph Livingstone (1942-2009), English footballer
Given name
- Livingstone Adjin (born 1989), Ghanaian footballer
- Livingstone Harris (born 1957), West Indian cricketer
- Livingstone Lawrence (born 1962), West Indian cricketer
- Livingstone Lusinde (born 1972), Tanzanian politician
- Livingstone Sargeant (born 1947), West Indian cricketer
- Livingstone Walker (1879–1940), English cricketer
See also
- Donlevy
- Clan MacLea
- Gaels
- Highlands of Scotland
- Lowland Scots language
- Livingston, West Lothian, presumed origin of the name
- Living stone, common name for succulent plants of the genus Lithops
- Levingston
- Livingston (surname)
- MacDunleavy (dynasty)
External links
- [2] Highland Livingstone
References
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 35 MacCarwell – Maltby (Sidney Lee Ed.). (1893) New York: MacMillan & Co., p. 52, "As the family originally came from Ulidia, the lesser Uladh, or Ulster, the members of the family are often called in Irish writings, instead of MacDonlevy, Ultach, that is, Ulsterman, and from this the name of MacNulty, Mac an Ultaigh, son of the Ulsterman, is derived."
- ^ George F. Black, The Surnames of Scotland, New York, New York Public Library, 1946, p 230, ISBN 0871041723, "William Livingston (Highland Livingston), the Islay bard, always wrote his name in Gaelic M'Dhunleibhe and Dr. David Livingstone, the African traveler, was a Mac Dunleavy of Ulva”
- ^ John O'Hart, Irish Pedigrees; or, The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation, 5th edition, in two volumes, originally published in Dublin in 1892, reprinted, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1976, Vol. 1, p. 426, “MacDunshliebhe and O’Dunsleibhe, anglicized Dunleavy, Dunlief, Dunlap … Delap, Dunlevy, Don-Levi, Donlevy, Levingstone, Livingstone, and Levenston (original emphasis).”
- ^ [1] Genetic profiling has established that the Highland Mac Dunnshleibhe actually branched to become both the Livingstone and the Clan MacLea, their name presumably having been also slurred, first, to Maconlea and, then, to Mac Lea, Mac Lay and McClay
- ^ Highland Papers. Vol. II. Edinburgh: Scottish Historical Society. 1916. p. 255. Note on list of Stuart loyalists massacred at the 1647 Battle of Dunaverty in Kintyre, Scotland, “Of the surnames appearing in the second column the M'onleas were originally M'Dunleas ; the D disappears through euphonistic elision in Gaelic. Although Niall 10th Duke of Argyll, thought it quite possible that their eponymic ancestor was Dunsleve, the son of Aedh Alain, the O'Neill Prince evidence now leads to the conclusion that they are descendants of the Ruaidhri Mac Duinnsleibhe, the last king of Ulidia.”