# Chisholm (surname)

Chisholm (/ˈtʃɪzəm/ ) is a Scottish surname. Although derived from a place near Hawick in southern Scotland, it later became established in the Highlands, where it was Gaelicised as Siosal.
Notable people with the surname or its variants include:

## Chisholm
### In Australia

* Alan Rowland Chisholm (1888–1981), professor of French, critic and memorialist
* Alexander Hugh Chisholm (1890–1977), journalist, newspaper editor, author and ornithologist
* Alice Chisholm (1856–1954), Australian woman who provided canteen services for soldiers in Egypt and Palestine during World War I
* Anthony Chisholm (politician) (born 1978), Australian politician
* Caroline Chisholm (1808–1877) Renowned 19th century social worker in Australia
* Dane Chisholm (born 1990), Australian rugby league footballer
* Eric Chisholm (1892–1946), Australian rules footballer
* Geoff Chisholm (1929–2006), Australian politician
* Keith Chisholm (1918–1991), distinguished Australian fighter pilot
* Les Chisholm (1888–1923), Australian rules footballer
* Mark Chisholm (born 1981), Australian rugby union footballer
* Scott Chisholm (footballer) (born 1973), Aboriginal Australian Rules footballer
* Sheila Chisholm (1895–1969), socialite in British high society

### In Canada

* Alexander Chisholm (Upper Canada politician) (1790–1854), political figure in Upper Canada
* Angus Chisholm (1908–1979), Cape Breton fiddler
* Arthur Murray Chisholm (1871–1960), Canadian author of Western fiction
* Bob Chisholm (born 1947), Canadian politician
* Brock Chisholm (1896–1971), physician
* Christopher P. Chisholm (1854–?), Canadian lawyer and political figure
* Daniel Black Chisholm (1832–1899), Canadian farmer, lawyer and politician
* Donald Chisholm (politician) (1822–1890), Canadian Member of Parliament
* George King Chisholm (1814–1874), politician
* Joseph Andrew Chisholm (1863–1950), politician and jurist
* Kenneth Chisholm (1829–1906), Canadian businessman and politician
* Marie-Hélène Chisholm (born 1979), judoka
* Robert Chisholm (Canadian politician) (born 1957), former politician
* Robert Kerr Chisholm (1819–1899), politician
* William Chisholm (Nova Scotia politician) (1870–1936), politician
* William Chisholm (Upper Canada politician) (1788–1842), founder of Oakville, Ontario

### In the United Kingdom

* Aeneas Chisholm (vicar apostolic of the Highland District) (1759–1818), Roman Catholic bishop in Scotland
* Aeneas Chisholm (Bishop of Aberdeen) (1836–1918), Scottish prelate who served as the Roman Catholic Bishop of Aberdeen
* Alastair Chisholm (fl. 2023), Scottish children's writer
* Alex Chisholm (born 1968), British civil servant
* Alexander Chisholm (1792?–1847), British portrait and historical painter
* Alexander William Chisholm, 25th of Chisholm (1810–1838) Scottish landowner, clan chief and MP
* Caroline Chisholm (1808–1877), English humanitarian
* Catherine Chisholm (1878–1952), British physician
* Cecil Chisholm (1888–1961), British journalist, publisher and author
* David Chisholm (1937–1998), Scottish rugby union footballer
* Duncan Chisholm (born 1968), Scottish fiddle player and composer
* Erik Chisholm (1904–1965), Scottish composer and conductor
* Geoffrey Duncan Chisholm (1931–1994), British urologist
* George Chisholm (geographer) (1850–1930), author of first English-language economic geography textbook
* George Chisholm (musician) (1915–1997), jazz trombonist
* Gordon Chisholm (born 1960), Scottish footballer
* Grace Chisholm Young (1868–1944), mathematician (maiden name 'Chisholm')
* Hugh Chisholm (1866–1924), journalist and editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica
* Iain Chisholm (born 1985), Scottish footballer
* Janet Chisholm (1929–2004), MI6 agent
* John Chisholm (soldier), 16th-century Comptroller and Prefect of the Scottish artillery
* John Chisholm (vicar apostolic of the Highland District) (1752–1814), Roman Catholic bishop in Scotland
* John Chisholm (engineer) (born 1946), engineer, chairman of the Medical Research Council and QinetiQ
* John Stephen Roy Chisholm (1926–2015), English mathematical physicist
* Ken Chisholm (1925–1990), Scottish footballer
* Malcolm Chisholm (born 1949), Scottish politician
* Mairi Chisholm (1896–1981), Scottish nurse and ambulance driver in the First World War
* Melanie Chisholm (better known as Melanie C), British singer
* Michael Chisholm (geographer) (1931–2024), British human geographer
* Robert Chisholm (architect) (1838–1915), architect of the Indo-Saracenic Senate House of the University of Madras
* William Chisholm (died 1564), bishop of Dunblane
* William Chisholm (died 1593), bishop of Dunblane and of Vaison, nephew to the above

### In the United States

* Anthony Chisholm (actor), (1943–2020), American actor
* Chisholm Dennett (1980–), Famed American slacker and mediocre skier
* Henry Chisholm (1822–1881), Scottish American businessman
* Hugh J. Chisholm (1847–1912), industrialist
* Jesse Chisholm (died 1868), American Indian trader, guide, and interpreter for whom the Chisholm Trail is named
* John Chisholm (born 1963), American prosecutor
* Jori Chisholm (born 1975), bagpiper
* Kari Chisholm (born 1973), United States politician
* Linda Chisholm (born 1957), United States volleyball player
* Malcolm H. Chisholm (1945–2015), chemist
* Roderick Chisholm (1916–1999), philosopher
* Sallie W. Chisholm (born 1947), scientist who discovered the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus
* Shirley Chisholm (1924–2005), politician
* Thomas Chisholm (songwriter), American songwriter who wrote several prominent Christian hymns including "Great Is Thy Faithfulness"
* Tim Chisholm (born 1969), player of real tennis
* Tanya Chisholm (born 1984), American actress
* William Chisholm (died 1877), victim of the Chisolm Massacre
* Terrance Jamel Chisolm American songwriter, Composer, Army Veteran (Born 1982)

### Elsewhere

* Jamel Chisholm (born 1995), Jamaican international rugby league footballer playing in England
* Jazz Chisholm Jr. (born 1998), Bahamian baseball player
* Lael Chisholm, New Zealand children's picture book illustrator

## Chisholme

* John James Scott-Chisholme (1851–1899), British cavalry officer who died in the Second Anglo-Boer War

## Chisolm

* Garrett Chisolm, American NFL player
* Richard Chisolm, cinematographer and film-maker based in Baltimore, Maryland

## Chisum

* David Chisum (born 1970), American actor
* Donald S. Chisum, American legal scholar
* Gloria Chisum (born 1930), American psychologist
* John Chisum (1824–1884), American cattle baron, depicted in the 1970 Western film Chisum
* John Chisum (baseball) (1915–1982), American baseball player