Stuart
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Stuart is a semi-common surname and male first name. Its origin is the royal House of Stuart, which gave rise to a number of Scottish and English rulers.
When applied to an individual, Stuart could mean:
- Stuart, Alexander Hugh Holmes (1807-1891)
- Stuart, Don, televangelist
- Stuart, Francis, Saoi of Aosdána
- Stuart, Gilbert, (born 1755), painter
- Stuart, Gloria, (born 1910), actress
- Stuart, Henry Benedict, (died 1807), claimant to the UK throne as King Henry IX
- Stuart, Herbert Akroyd, British engineer
- Stuart, Imogen, (born 1927), sculptor, Aosdána
- Stuart, James Francis Edward, (died 1766), claimant to the thrones of Scotland as King James VIII and of England as King James III
- Stuart, J.E.B., a Confederate general in the American Civil War
- Stuart, Jesse, poet
- Stuart, Mary, claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland as Mary I
There are also few notable people with the first name Stuart.
- Stuart Sutcliffe was a short lived member of The Beatles.
- Stuart Kauffman is a physician, biologist and complex systems researcher.
Stuart is the name of some places in the United States of America:
Other:
- Stuart Little was E. B. White's first children's book.
- The Stuart tank, named after J.E.B. Stuart
- The Supreme Court case, Stuart v. Laird.
- "Stuart" (later named "Peter Sam") — the name of a locomotive on the fictional Mid-Sodor Railway in The Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry.
There are also characters named Stuart in the following TV shows.
- There is a duck named Stuart who works at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant on The Simpsons
- There was a recurring character played by Al Franken on Saturday Night Live named Stuart Smalley.
- Stuart is a recurring character played by Michael McDonald on the sketch comedy television series MADtv.
