Pigott (surname)

Pigott and Piggott are English surnames.

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

Derivation and variants
The name Pigott / Piggott is derived from Picot. The latter is recorded as a given name in the Domesday Book, but its origin is not clear. It may stem from the Germanic or Old English pic, a sharply pointed hill, being applied to residents living near such a feature, or could have been used for a tall, thin person as pic could mean a sharp or pointed tool. William Camden suggested a derivation from Old French picote meaning pock-marked, freckled.

Pigot and Pickett are variant forms.

People with the surname Pigott

 * Donald Pigott (1928–2022), British botanist
 * Edward Pigott (1753–1825), English astronomer, son of Nathaniel, also an astronomer
 * Eugene F. Pigott Jr. (born 1946), American jurist
 * Florence Pigott (died 1899), English operatic singer and ballet dancer
 * Francis Pigott (1665–1704), English composer
 * Francis Pigott Stainsby Conant (1810–1863), British politician
 * Fred Pigott (1895–1979), British mountaineer
 * Gwyn Hanssen Pigott (1935–2013), Australian potter
 * Jean Pigott (1924–2012), Canadian politician
 * Jean Sophia Pigott (1845–1882), Irish poet
 * Joe Pigott (born 1993), English footballer
 * John Pigott (c. 1550 – by 1627), English politician
 * Marjorie Pigott (1904–1990), Canadian artist
 * Mark Pigott (born 1954), American businessman
 * Mostyn Pigott (1865–1927), English humorist, writer and barrister
 * Nathaniel Pigott (1725–1804), English astronomer
 * Nick Pigott (born 1951), British editor of The Railway Magazine
 * Richard Pigott (1835–1889), Irish journalist and forger
 * Stuart Pigott (born 1960), British wine critic
 * Tim Pigott-Smith (1946–2017), British actor
 * Tony Pigott (born 1958), English cricketer
 * William Pigott (1839–1909), English-born Australian politician
 * William Trigg Pigott (1860–1944), Justice of the Montana Supreme Court

People with the surname Piggott

 * Derek Piggott (1922–2019), British glider pilot
 * Emeline Piggott (1836–1919), Confederate States of America spy
 * Francis Taylor Piggott (1852–1925), British jurist and scholar of Japan
 * Jim Piggott, Canadian ice hockey player, after whom the Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy is named
 * Joan R. Piggott (born 1947), American historian
 * Lester Piggott (1935–2022), British jockey
 * Marcus Piggott, Welsh fashion photographer
 * Pércival Piggott (born 1966), Panamanian footballer
 * Patrick Piggott (1915–1990), English composer, pianist and musicologist
 * Rosslynd Piggott (born 1958), Australian installation artist and painter
 * Stuart Piggott (1910–1996), British archaeologist
 * Tracy Piggott (born 1966), British jockey and broadcaster working in Ireland, daughter of Lester Piggott
 * Victor Herrera Piggott (born 1980), Panamanian footballer
 * William Roy Piggott (1914–2008), British scientist

Fictional characters

 * Owd Grandad Piggott, character on BBC Radio Stoke
 * William Piggott, minor character in Coronation Street, 1964