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Patrick is a male given name of Latin origin. ... Patrick Troughton (1920–1987), English actor; Patrick Tse (born 1936), Hong Kong actor, producer, ...
The name is often anglicised as its English language equivalent Patrick or phonetically, e.g. Pauric. Diminutives include Páidín , Páidí (both anglicised as 'Paudeen' and ' Paddy ', respectively), and the feminine equivalent Pádraigín ( little Patrick ), which was originally an exclusively masculine name before later being viewed as the ...
In others, the surname Patrick is a shortened form of the surnames Mulpatrick and Fitzpatrick. [1] Many instances of Patrick as a surname appear in Ireland due to Scottish emigration. [1] It can also be a form of the English surname Partridge [3] or an Americanization of several Slavic names. [1] [4] People with the surname Patrick include:
Patrick (footballer, born 2000), Brazilian defender John Byrne (Scottish playwright) (born 1940), also a painter under the pseudonym Patrick Don Harris (wrestler) (born 1960), American professional wrestler who uses the ring name Patrick
Patrick's father, Calpurnius, is described as a decurion (Senator and tax collector) of an unspecified Romano-British city, and as a deacon; his grandfather Potitus was a priest from Bonaven Tabernia. [31] However, Patrick's confession states he was not an active believer in his youth, and considered himself in that period to be "idle and ...
Some names are recent creations, such as the now-common female names Saoirse "freedom" and Aisling "vision, dream". Some English-language names are anglicisations of Irish names, e.g. Kathleen from Caitlín and Shaun from Seán. Some Irish-language names derive from English names, e.g. Éamonn from Edmund.
Patrick Stewart [1] was born in Mirfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire on 13 July 1940, [2] the son of Gladys (née Barrowclough), a weaver and textile worker, and Alfred Stewart (1905–1980), a regimental sergeant major in the British Army Parachute Regiment during the Second World War who later worked as a general labourer and postman. [3]
This list of Scottish Gaelic given names shows Scottish Gaelic given names beside their English language equivalent. In some cases, the equivalent can be a cognate , in other cases it may be an Anglicised spelling derived from the Gaelic name, or in other cases it can be an etymologically unrelated name.