# 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
Gillie Mc Pherson, singer songwriter from Belfast, Zoë Mc Pherson, French electronic musician

## 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
* Jeanie MacPherson(1886–1946), American silent actress, writer and director
* 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