Macpherson

MacPherson or Macpherson is a surname, meaning "son of the parson" in Scottish Gaelic. Notable people with the surname include:

In sports

 * Archie Macpherson (born 1937), Scottish football commentator
 * Bruce MacPherson (field hockey), Canadian field hockey player
 * Bryden Macpherson, Australian amateur golfer
 * Duncan MacPherson, ice hockey player
 * Gus MacPherson, Scottish footballer
 * Jeff MacPherson, driver in the CART Championship Car series
 * Michelle MacPherson, Canadian swimmer

In politics

 * Ben Macpherson (politician), Scottish politician
 * C. B. Macpherson, Canadian academic
 * Dean Macpherson, South African politician
 * Hector Macpherson, Sr. (1875–1970), Canadian-American agricultural economics professor and politician
 * Hector Macpherson, Jr. (1918–2015), American farmer and politician
 * James Ian Macpherson, British lawyer and politician
 * John Alexander MacPherson, Australian politician
 * John MacPherson (governor of India), Scottish administrator in India
 * John Thomas Macpherson (1872–1921), English politician
 * Malcolm MacPherson (1904–1971), Scottish politician
 * Murdoch MacPherson, Canadian politician
 * Niall Macpherson, 1st Baron Drumalbyn, Scottish politician
 * Nicholas Macpherson, British civil servant
 * Thomas Macpherson, 1st Baron Macpherson of Drumochter (1888–1965), Scottish politician

In music

 * Ben Macpherson, Australian musician
 * Christina Macpherson, Australian behind Waltzing Matilda
 * Fraser MacPherson, Canadian jazz musician
 * Greg MacPherson, Canadian singer-songwriter
 * Graham MacPherson, better known as Suggs, the lead singer of the English band Madness
 * Jim Macpherson, United States percussionist
 * Linda Lizotte-MacPherson, Canadian public servant
 * Sandy MacPherson, Canadian theatre organist
 * Donald Macpherson BEM was a Scottish bagpipe player, and one of the most successful competitive solo pipers of all time

In literature

 * James Alan McPherson, American essayist
 * James Macpherson, Scottish poet
 * Jay Macpherson, Canadian poet

In show business and news

 * Daniel MacPherson, Australian actor and television presenter
 * Don Macpherson, Canadian journalist
 * Duncan Macpherson, Canadian editorial cartoonist
 * Elle Macpherson, Australian supermodel and actress
 * Gordon Macpherson, Founder of Macpherson Menswear – Palmerston North, New Zealand.
 * Hector Macpherson (1851–1924), Scottish journalist and writer
 * Malcolm MacPherson (1943–2009), American journalist and author
 * Myra MacPherson, American journalist and author
 * Richard MacPherson, American actor

Others

 * Alexander Macpherson, English architect
 * Cluny MacPherson, Newfoundland medical doctor and inventor of the gas mask
 * Colin MacPherson, Scottish Roman Catholic Bishop of Argyll and the Isles from 1968 to 1990
 * Donald Macpherson (disambiguation), several people
 * Earle S. MacPherson, the Ford engineer who developed the MacPherson strut in the 1940s
 * Ewen MacPherson of Cluny, Scottish Jacobite
 * Fiona Macpherson, FRSE, MAE, Scottish Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience, University of Glasgow
 * Hector Macpherson (astronomer) (1888–1956), Scottish clergyman and astronomer, son of Hector C. Macpherson
 * Ian MacPherson, Canadian historian
 * Jamie Macpherson, Scottish outlaw, famed for his lament
 * John Macferson, early 18th-century English pirate
 * Sir Macpherson Robertson, Australian philanthropist and entrepreneur
 * Robert Macpherson (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Colonel Ronald MacPherson or Ranald MacPherson (1817–1869), architect and colonial administrator
 * Colonel Tommy Macpherson, British army officer
 * Sir William Macpherson, High Court Judge in England

Fictional characters

 * Anya MacPherson, fictional character in Degrassi: The Next Generation