Watt (surname)

Watt (surname)

As a surname, Watt may refer to:

*Watt of Sussex, Anglo-Saxon king
*Adam Watt, Australian boxer
*Alexander Watt, British plant ecologist
*Ben Watt, British musician and music producer
*Davey Watt, Australian speedway rider
*David Watt, British computer scientist
*David Gibson-Watt, British politician
*Douglas Watt, Canadian politician
*Eddie Watt, Major League Baseball pitcher
*Geoff Watt, Australian runner
*George Watt, Scottish botanist
*Hamish Watt, Scottish politician
*Ian Watt, literary historian
*Jaime Watt, Canadian political consultant
*James Watt, Scottish engineer for whom is named the watt, SI-derived unit of power
*James G. Watt, US Secretary of the Interior
*Jim Watt, Scottish boxer
*Joachim von Watt, the birth name of Swiss scholar Joachim Vadian
*Joseph Watt, Scottish VC recipient
*Joseph M. Watt, American judge
*Kathy Watt, Australian cyclist
*Keith Watt, cosmologist
*Lawrence Watt-Evans, American fantasy writer
*Lali Watt, American politician
*Leslie Watt, New Zealand cricketer
*Mel Watt, American politician
*Mike Watt, American musician
*Mike Watt (ice hockey), Canadian professional ice hockey player
*Nicole Watt, Canadian skater
*Robert Watt, Canadian herald
*Robert Watson-Watt, British developer of radar
*Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Canadian activist
*Steven Watt, a professional soccer player formerly of Chelsea
*Tom Watt, Canadian hockey coach
*Tom Watt (actor), British actor, journalist and radio DJ
*William Watt, Australian politician
*William Montgomery Watt, Islamic studies scholar
*William Smith Watt (1913–2002), a British classical scholar

ee also

*Watts
*Watt
*Watt (disambiguation)
*James Watt (disambiguation)
*Boulton and Watt, manufacturers of steam engines
*"Boulton, Watt and Murdoch", statue
*"James Watt's Mad Machine", sculpture
*List of Old English (Anglo-Saxon) surnames


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