Pigot (surname)

Pigot is an English surname.

The Pigot Baronetcy is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain.

Derivation and variants
The name Pigot is derived from Picot. The latter is recorded as a given name in the Domesday Book, but its origin is not clear. William Camden suggested a derivation from Old French picote meaning pock-marked, freckled.

Pigott, Piggott and Pickett are variant forms.

People with the surname Pigot

 * Mary Pigot (daughter of Gervase Pigot), former wife of Sir Robert Burdett, 3rd Baronet (1640–1716)
 * George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot (1719–1777), governor of Madras
 * British Major General Henry Pigot, in Malta in 1800 for the French surrender
 * John Edward Pigot (1822–1871), Irish music collector
 * Edward Pigot (1858–1929), Irish/Australian Jesuit priest, seismologist and astronomer
 * Robert Pigot (disambiguation), various people
 * Hugh Pigot (disambiguation), various people
 * Neil Pigot (born 1961), Australian actor
 * Spencer Pigot (born 1993), American racing driver


 * Fictional characters
 * Serafine Pigot, a character in the 1997 An American Werewolf in Paris motion picture