Napier (surname)
This article is about the name Napier. For other uses, see Napier.
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| Region of origin | Scotland |
| Language(s) of origin | English |
| Related names | Napper, Napierala |
Napier /ˈneɪpɪər/ is a surname with an English, Scottish or Polish origin. The British surname Napier is derived from an occupational name for someone who sold or produced table linen; or for a naperer which was a servant who was responsible for the washing and storage of linen in a medieval household. The surname is derived from the Middle English, Old French napier, nappier which is a derivative of the Old French nappe meaning "table cloth".[1] The earliest occurrences of the surname is of a Peter Napier in 1148 in the Winton Domesday; Ralph (le) Naper, le Napier in 1167–71; and Reginald le Nappere in 1225.[2] The surname can also be a shortened form of the Polish surname Napierala.[1]
People
- Alan Napier (1903–1988), actor who played Alfred the Butler in the television series Batman
- Sir Albert Edward Alexander Napier, (1881–1973), British civil servant, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Department, 1944 - 1954
- Alex Napier (musician), musician, formerly a drummer for the band Uriah Heep
- Sir Alexander Napier, 2nd Laird of Merchistoun (died c. 1473-4), Scottish administrator, diplomat and member of the Scottish Parliament
- Sir Archibald Napier (1534–1608), Scottish landowner and official, master of the Scottish mint and seventh Laird of Merchiston.
- Archibald Napier, 1st Lord Napier, the 9th Laird Napier of Merchiston (c. 1576–1645), Scottish politician and judge
- Archibald Napier, 2nd Lord Napier (c. 1625–1660), Scottish peer and royalist
- Arthur Sampson Napier (1853-1916), British academic
- Bill Napier (William M. Napier, born 1940), Scottish astronomer and author
- Buddy Napier (Skelton Le Roy "Buddy" Napier), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Charles Elers Napier (1812–1847), British naval officer
- Charles "Charlie" Edward Napier (born 1910), Scottish footballer
- Sir Charles James Napier (1782–1853), British general
- Sir Charles Napier (1786–1860), Scottish admiral of the Royal Navy
- Charles Napier (1936–2011), American actor
- Sir Charles Napier Inn, an 18th-century pub in Chinnor, Oxfordshire, England
- Charles Napier (aviator) (1892–1918), World War I flying ace
- Claude Napier, British translator of Scandinavian
- David Napier (precision engineer) (1785–1873), Scottish engineer
- David Napier (marine engineer) (1790–1869), Scottish marine engineer
- David Napier (director), director of The War of Jenkins Ear
- Diana Napier (1905–1982), British film actor
- Duncan Napier, Victorian botanist and herbalist
- Elma Napier (1892–1973), Scottish-born writer and politician who lived most of her life in the Caribbean island of Dominica
- Findlay Napier, (born 1978), Scottish musician, guitarist and songwriter
- Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier (1758-1823), British peer and army officer
- Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier and 1st Baron Ettrick (1819 – 1898)
- George Napier (1751–1804), British Army officer
- George Thomas Napier (1784–1855), George Napier's son, also a British Army officer, Governor of the Cape
- George Napper (1550–1610) or Napier, English Roman Catholic priest and martyr
- Sir Gerrard Napier, 1st Baronet (1606–1673), of Middle Marsh and Moor Crichel in Dorset, English Member of Parliament, Royalists during the English Civil War
- Graham Napier (born 1980), English cricketer
- Henry Edward Napier, another of George Napier's sons, naval officer and historian.
- Ian Napier (aviator), World War I flying ace
- Irene Napier (born 1953), Scottish film and television Make-up artist
- Jack Napier (porn star) (born 1976), Puerto Rican pornographic actor
- James Napier (chemist) (1810–1884), Scottish chemist and antiquarian
- James Napier (actor) (born 1982), New Zealand actor
- James Robert Napier (1821–1879), Scottish engineer, inventor of Napier's diagram
- Jim Napier (born 1938), baseball catcher and manager
- James Napier, "Jimmy Napes", English songwriter, producer and musician
- Jessica Napier (born 1979), New Zealand actress, daughter of Marshall Napier
- John Napier (1550–1617), Scots mathematician, physicist and astronomer
- John Napier (1859–1939), English clergyman and cricketer
- Sir John Mellis Napier (1882-1976), Chief Justice of South Australia 1942-1967
- John R. Napier (1917–1987), primatologist from the University of London, founder of the Primate Society of Great Britain
- John Napier (born 1944), theatre set designer, recipient of many Tony and Olivier awards
- John Napier (born 1946), Irish-born footballer and manager, notably with Bradford City A.F.C.
- John Napier (born 1946), footballer, birth name Robert John Napier
- John Light Napier (born 1947), U.S. Representative from South Carolina
- John Napier (born 1986), American bobsledder
- Joseph Napier (1804-1882), politician in the United Kingdom
- Joseph Napier, a station keeper for the United States Lifesaving Service, founder of the lifesaving station at St. Joseph, Michigan,whose name was given to the cutter USCGC Joseph Napier
- Lonnie Napier (born 1940), American politician from Kentucky
- Macvey Napier (1776–1847), Scottish lawyer, editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica
- Margaret Brisbane, 5th Lady Napier (died 1706), Scottish peer
- Mark Napier (1798–1879), Scottish historian
- Mark Napier (born 1957), retired Canadian ice-hockey player
- Mark Napier (born 1961), American internet artist
- Mark Francis Napier, British Member of Parliament for Roxburghshire, 1892–1895
- Marshall Napier, New Zealand actor, father of Jessica Napier
- Montague Stanley Napier (1870–1931), English automobile and aircraft engine manufacturer
- Mick Napier, American actor and director
- Sir Nathaniel Napier (died 1635), of Middlemarsh Hall and Moor Crichel in Dorset, English Member of Parliament
- Sir Nathaniel Napier, 2nd Baronet (1636–1709), English politician, traveller and dilettante.
- Nigel Napier, 14th Lord Napier (born 1930), Scottish soldier and courtier
- Nigel Napier-Andrews (born 1942), British/Canadian TV producer and director
- Oliver Napier (1935-2011), first leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- Phillip Morris Napier, American politician in Maine
- Richard Napier (1559–1634), astrologer
- Priscilla Napier, English biographer
- Prudence Hero Napier, British primatologist
- Richard Napier (1559 – 1 April 1634) English astrologer and medical practitioner
- Robert Napier (1791-1876), Scottish marine engineer
- Sir Robert Napier (died 1615), English judge, Member of Parliament, Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland
- Sir Robert Napier, 1st Baronet, of Luton Hoo (1560-1637), English merchant
- Sir Robert Napier, 2nd Baronet (c. 1603-1661), his son, Member of Parliament
- Robert Napier (died 1766), British Adjutant-General to the Forces
- Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810-1890), British Field Marshal
- The Robert Napier School, Gillingham, Kent
- Sir Robert Napier, 1st Baronet, of Punknoll (1642–1700)
- Robina Napier, aka Mrs. Alexander Napier, 19c British translator and antiquarian
- Russell Napier (1910–1974), Australian actor
- Shabazz Napier (born 1991), Puerto Rican-American basketball player
- Sheena Napier, British costume designer
- Simon Napier-Bell (born 1939), English music professional, one-time manager of The Yardbirds, Wham! and others
- Sue Napier (born 1948), Tasmanian politician
- Susan Napier, New Zealand novelist
- Susan J. Napier, American professor
- Thomas Napier (philanthropist) (1802–1881), Scottish philanthropist
- Vice Admiral Sir Trevylyan Dacres Willes Napier (1867–1920), Royal Navy office
- Wilfrid Napier (born 1941), South African cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- William Napier, pseudonym for British novelist Christopher Hart
- William Napier (1804–1879), lawyer, newspaper editor (in Singapore), and Lieutenant-Governor of Labuan
- William Napier (1828–1908), winner of the Victoria Cross
- Major-General William Craig Emilius Napier (1818–1903), British Army officer, Governor of the Royal Military College Sandhurst
- William Ewart Napier (17 January 1881 in East Dulwich, Surrey - 6 September 1952 in Washington, D.C.) was an American chess master of English birth
- General Sir William Francis Patrick Napier (1785–1860), British Army officer and military historian
- William Rawdon Napier (1877-1951), Admiral of the Royal Navy
Titles of nobility
- Lord Napier
- Baron Napier of Magdala
- Napier baronets of Luton Hoo, Middle Marsh, Merchistoun, Merrion Square, and Punknoll
Fictional persons
- Carson Napier, fictional hero of Edgar Rice Burroughs Venus series
- Declan Napier, fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- India Napier, fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Jack Napier, fictional villain from Batman
- Rebecca Napier, fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Sean Napier, fictional character in Exosquad
- Major Napier, suspect in the film The Hindenburg
- Evelyn Napier, minor character in Downton Abbey
- Edie Napier, shopkeeper in Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City
References
- 1 2 "Napier Name Meaning and History". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 3 March 2009.
- ↑ Reaney, Percy Hilde; Wilson, Richard Middlewood (2006). A Dictionary of English Surnames (pdf) (3rd ed.). London: Routledge. p. 2240. ISBN 0-203-99355-1.
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