Chisholm (surname)

Chisholm
Family name
Meaning	"cheese" + "piece of dry land in a fen"
Region of origin	Scotland
Language(s) of origin	Old English
Related names	Siosal; Shiosal
Clan affiliations	Clan Chisholm

Chisholm is a Scottish surname. It is derived from a habitational name from Chisholme, near Hawick, in the south of Scotland. The name is derived from the Old English elements cese, meaning "cheese"; and holm, meaning "piece of dry land in a fen". In the 14th century, members of the Chisholm family migrated into the Scottish Highlands and their name was Gaelicised.^[1] The Scottish Gaelic form of the name is Siosal (masculine),^[2] and Shiosal (feminine).

List of people with the surname

In Australia

• Alexander Hugh Chisholm, journalist, newspaper editor, author and ornithologist
• Ashleigh Chisholm, actress
• Mark Chisholm, rugby player
• Scott Chisholm (footballer), Aboriginal Australian Rules footballer
• Ashleigh Chisholm, Australian actress
• Keith Bruce Chisholm, a distinguished Australian fighter pilot

In Canada

• Alexander Chisholm (Upper Canada politician), political figure in Upper Canada
• Angus Chisholm, Cape Breton fiddler
• Brock Chisholm, physician
• George King Chisholm, politician
• Joseph Andrew Chisholm, politician and jurist
• Marie-Hélène Chisholm, judoka
• Robert Chisholm (Canadian politician), former politician
• Robert Kerr Chisholm, former politician
• William Chisholm (Nova Scotia politician), former politician
• William Chisholm (Upper Canada politician), founder of Oakville, Ontario

In the United Kingdom

• Aeneas Chisholm (vicar apostolic)
• Aeneas Chisholm (bishop of Aberdeen)
• Caroline Chisholm, English humanitarian
• George Chisholm (geographer), author of first English-language economic geography textbook
• George Chisholm (musician), jazz trombonist
• Gordon Chisholm, Scottish footballer
• Grace Chisholm Young, mathematician (maiden name 'Chisholm')
• Hugh Chisholm, journalist and editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica
• Janet Chisholm, former MI6 agent
• John Chisholm (Vicar Apostolic of the Highland District)
• John Chisholm (executive), businessman
• John Stephen Roy Chisholm (born 1926), English mathematical physicist
• Malcolm Chisholm, Scottish politician
• Melanie Chisholm (also known as Mel C), musician
• Robert Fellowes Chisholm (1838–1915), architect of the Indo-Saracenic Senate House of the University of Madras
• Scott Chisholm (journalist)
• William Chisholm (d. 1564), bishop of Dunblane, Scotland
• William Chisholm (d. 1593), bishop of Dunblane, Scotland, nephew to previous William Chisholm
• William Chisholm (journalist), Scottish journalist

In the United States

• Hugh J. Chisholm, industrialist
• Jesse Chisholm, American Indian trader, guide, and interpreter
• John Chisholm, American prosecutor
• Jori Chisholm, bagpiper
• Roderick Chisholm, philosopher
• Sallie W. Chisholm, scientist who discovered the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus
• Shirley Chisholm, politician
• Tim Chisholm, player of real tennis
• Tanya Chisholm, American actress

Elsewhere

• John Chisholm (disambiguation), multiple people

Variant spellings

Chisum

• John Chisum
  • Chisum (film)

Chisholme

• John James Scott-Chisholme

References

1. ^ "Learn about the family history of your surname". Ancestry.com. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx?. Retrieved 25 September 2010.  which cited Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-508137-4.  for the surname "Chisholm".
2. ^ Mark, Colin (2006), The Gaelic-English Dictionary, London: Routledge, p. 722, ISBN 0-203-22259-8 

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