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Pringle

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Pringle is a Scottish surname.[1][2]

Notable people with the surname include:

  • Aileen Pringle (1895–1989), American stage and film actress
  • Alan Pringle (born 1952), American football player
  • Alexander Pringle (1791–1857), Scottish Conservative politician
  • Alexandra Pringle (born 1952/1953), British publisher
  • Andrew Pringle:
    • Andrew Pringle (British Army officer) (born 1946), British Army officer
    • Andrew Pringle, Lord Alemoor (died 1776), Scottish judge
    • Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison (1856–1931), Scottish philosopher
    • Andy Pringle (born c. 1949), Canadian bond trader and Conservative political activist in Ontario
  • Anne Pringle (born 1955), British diplomat
  • Benjamin Pringle (1807–1887), American politician
  • Bryan Pringle (1935–2002), British actor
  • Byron Pringle (born 1993), American football player
  • Charlie Pringle (born 1894), Scottish footballer
  • Charles K. Pringle (born 1931), Mississippi lawyer and politician
  • Chris Pringle (born 1968), New Zealand cricketer
  • Christine Pringle, Australian pastor
  • Cyrus Pringle (1838–1911), American botanist
  • Curt Pringle (born 1959), California politician
  • David Pringle (born 1950), Scottish science fiction editor
  • Denys Pringle (born 1951), British archaeologist and medievalist
  • Derek Pringle (born 1958), English cricketer
  • Donald Pringle (1932–1975), English cricketer
  • Eric Pringle, (1935-2017), British television and radio writer
  • Eunice Pringle (1912–1996), American actress
  • Harold Pringle (d. 1945), executed Canadian soldier
  • Harry Pringle (1900–65), English footballer
  • Harry Pringle (producer) (1903 – after 1959), radio and television producer who worked on light entertainment programmes in England and Australia
  • Heather Pringle, Canadian author and journalist
  • Henry F. Pringle, (1897–1958) American historian; Pulitzer prize
  • James Pringle:
    • James Alexander Pringle (1874–1935), British politician
    • James E. Pringle (born 1949), British astrophysicist
    • James Hogarth Pringle (1863–1941), Australian surgeon
  • Joan Pringle (born 1945), American actress
  • Joel R. P. Pringle (1873–1932), US naval officer
  • John Pringle:
    • John Pringle (1707–1782), Scottish physician
    • John Pringle (born 1938), Australian baritone
    • John Pringle, Lord Haining (c. 1674–1754), Scottish landowner, judge and politician, shire commissioner for Selkirk 1702–07, MP for Selkirkshire 1708–29, Lord of Session
    • John Pringle (MP, born 1716) (c. 1716–1792), son of the above, Scottish landowner and politician, MP for Selkirkshire 1765–86
    • John Pringle (1796–1831) of Haining, Scottish politician, MP for Lanark Burghs 1819–20
    • John James Pringle (1855–1922), British dermatologist
    • John Abbott Pringle, Ontario farmer, merchant and political figure
    • John Quinton Pringle (1864–1925), Scottish painter
    • John Wallace Pringle (1863–1938), Chief Inspecting Officer of the UK Railways Inspectorate
    • John William Sutton Pringle (1912–1982), British zoologist
    • Sir John Pringle, 2nd Baronet (1662–1721) of the Pringle Baronets
    • Sir John Pringle, 5th Baronet (1784–1869) of the Pringle Baronets
  • Mark Pringle, member of Hot House
  • Martin Pringle (born 1964), New Zealand cricketer
  • Martin Pringle (born 1970), Swedish soccer player
  • Mike Pringle:
    • Mike Pringle (politician) (born 1945), Scottish Member of Parliament
    • Mike Pringle (gridiron football) (born 1967), Canadian football player
  • Meyrick Pringle (born 1966), South African cricketer
  • Percy Pringle (1954–2013), American wrestling manager (better known by another ring name, Paul Bearer)
  • Phil Pringle (born 1952), Australian pastor
  • Ramona Pringle, Canadian actress
  • Richard Pringle, American psychologist and professor
  • Robert Pringle:
    • Robert Pringle (politician) (d. 1736), British politician
    • Robert Abercrombie Pringle (1855–1922), Canadian lawyer and politician
    • Robert Pringle (poet) (born 1940), American poet
  • Thomas Pringle:
    • Thomas Pringle (1789–1834), Scottish writer, poet and abolitionist
    • Thomas Pringle (politician) (born 1967), Irish politician
    • Thomas Pringle (Royal Navy officer) (d. 1803), admiral in the Royal Navy
  • Valerie Pringle (born 1953), Canadian journalist and television host
  • Walter Pringle, Lord Newhall (1664?–1736), Scottish lawyer and judge
  • Walter Pringle (rugby union) (1869–1945), New Zealand rugby union player
  • William Pringle:
    • William Henry Pringle (1772–1840), British soldier and Member of Parliament
    • William Henderson Pringle (1877-1967), Scottish politician
  • William Pringle (Liberal politician) (1874-1928), British Member of Parliament

See also

  • Clan Pringle

References

  1. ^ 'Records of the Pringles of the Scottish Border', by Alex Pringle, Published 1933, Edinburgh.
  2. ^ http://www.clanpringle.com/html/name_origin_-_errors.html
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