Chamberlain is an English surname. In English, it means an attendant for a sovereign or lord in his bedchamber, or a chief officer in the household of a king or nobleman.[1]
List of people
editNotable people with this surname include:
- Alec Chamberlain (born 1964), English football player
- Azaria Chamberlain (1980) baby killed by dingo; mother and father wrongfully imprisoned for murder
- Alexander Francis Chamberlain (1865–1914), Canadian anthropologist
- Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (born 1993), English football player
- Ardwight Chamberlain (born 1957), American voice actor and screenwriter
- Austen Chamberlain (1863–1937), British politician, Nobel Peace Prize winner, son of Joseph Chamberlain
- Basil Hall Chamberlain (1850–1935), British Japanologist and poet
- Betsey Guppy Chamberlain (c. 1797–1886), textile mill worker of Native American background who wrote sketches and poetry in the early 19th century
- Brenda Chamberlain (politician) (born 1952), Canadian politician
- Brenda Chamberlain (artist) (1912–1971), Welsh artist and poet
- Boeta Chamberlain (b. 1999), South African rugby union player
- Calvin T. Chamberlain (1795–1878), New York politician
- Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1863–1943), American botanist
- Corinna Chamberlain, as also as Chan Ming-yan, Hong Kong-based Sinophone singer and actress with Australia-New Zealand ancestry
- Cyril Chamberlain (1909–1974), British actor
- Daniel Henry Chamberlain (1835–1907), American politician
- Daniel R. Chamberlain, American academic administrator, president of Houghton College
- David Chamberlain (born 1975), American cross-country skier
- Dean Chamberlain, American photographer
- Edward Chamberlain (disambiguation), multiple people
- Emma Chamberlain, American Youtuber
- George Chamberlain (disambiguation), several people
- Helen Chamberlain (born 1967), British television host
- Henry Chamberlain (disambiguation), several people
- Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927), British author noted for his works concerning the Aryan race
- Howland Chamberlain (1911-1984), American actor
- Ice Box Chamberlain (1867–1929), American baseball player
- Jay Chamberlain (1925–2001), American race car driver
- Jerry Chamberlain (born 1952), American singer/songwriter/guitarist/producer
- Joba Chamberlain (born 1985), American baseball player
- John Chamberlain (letter writer) (1553–1628), English writer
- John Angus Chamberlain (1927–2011), American sculptor
- John Curtis Chamberlain (1772–1834), US politician
- John Henry Chamberlain (1831–1883), English architect
- John Loomis Chamberlain (1858–1948), American army officer, recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal
- John Marvin Chamberlain (1844–1928), English composer
- John Rensselaer Chamberlain (1903–1995), American journalist and editor
- Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914), British politician
- Joshua Chamberlain (1828–1914), college professor, officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War and Governor of Maine
- Lauren Chamberlain (born 1993), American softball infielder
- Lindy Chamberlain (born 1948) and Michael Chamberlain (1944–2017), whose infant daughter Azaria disappeared in the Dingo Baby case
- Marise Chamberlain (born 1935), New Zealand middle-distance runner
- Matt Chamberlain (born 1967), American drummer
- M. E. Chamberlain (1932–2022), British historian
- Mellen Chamberlain (1821–1900), American lawyer, historian and librarian
- Montague Chamberlain (1844–1924), Canadian-American naturalist, founder of the American Ornithologists' Union
- Nathan Henry Chamberlain (1830–1901), American clergyman
- Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940), British Prime Minister from 1937 to 1940, son of Joseph Chamberlain
- Neville Bowles Chamberlain (1820–1902), British Field Marshal
- Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain (1856–1944), British Army officer and Inspector-General of the Royal Irish Constabulary
- Neville Patrick Chamberlain (born 1960), English footballer
- Neville Chamberlain (bishop) (1939–2018), British Anglican cleric, bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Brechin, 1997–2005
- Owen Chamberlain (1920–2006), Nobel Prize–winning American physicist and co-discoverer of the anti-proton
- Richard Chamberlain (born 1935), American actor who became a teen idol in the title role of the television show Dr. Kildare
- Richard Chamberlain (MP for Islington West) (1840–1899), British politician
- Samuel Chamberlain (1829–1908), American soldier, painter and artist
- Samuel Selwyn Chamberlain (1851–1916), American journalist
- Siobhan Chamberlain (born 1983), English football goalkeeper
- Spencer Chamberlain (born 1983), American vocalist for the band Underoath
- Thomas Crowder Chamberlain (1843–1928), American geologist
- Tosh Chamberlain (1934–2021), English footballer
- Vicente Cuadra Chamberlain (1919–2000), Nicaraguan advertising executive
- Warren D. Chamberlain (1927–2013), American politician
- William Charles Chamberlain (1818–1878), British Rear Admiral
- William H. Chamberlain (1931–1972), American politician from Illinois
- Wilt Chamberlain (1936–1999), American basketball player
References
edit- ^ "chamberlain". Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
See also
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