Oliphant (surname)

Oliphant or Olyphant is a surname that was established in England and Scotland by a family of Norman origin. The early forms Olifard and Oliphard (likely "olif" conjoined with the intensive suffix "-ard") are believed to allude to an olive branch.^[1] Notable people with the surname include:

• Anthony Oliphant (1793–1859), Scottish lawyer and Chief Justice of Ceylon
• Betty Oliphant (1918–2004), Canadian dance educator
• Charles Oliphant (1666–1719), Scottish physician and politician
• David Olyphant (1789–1851), American trader in the Far East
• Ernest Henry Clark Oliphant (1862–1936), Australian Elizabethan scholar
• Evan Oliphant (born 1982), Scottish cyclist
• Francis Wilson Oliphant (1818–1859), British stained glass artist
• Greg Oliphant (born 1950), Australian rugby league footballer and coach
• James Oliphant (1796–1881), Chairman of H.E.I.C. and Equerry to Maharajah Duleep Singh
• John Oliphant (died 1905), Scottish portrait painter
• Laurence Oliphant (author) (1829–1888), British author and mystic
• Laurence James Oliphant (1846–1914), 9th of Condie and 31st Chief of Clan Oliphant
• Laurence Oliphant (Jacobite) (1691–1767), Scottish Jacobite army officer
• Laurence Oliphant (Scottish politician) (1791–1862), Scottish politician
• Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897), Scottish novelist and historical writer
• Mark Oliphant (1901–2000), Australian physicist and Governor of South Australia
• Mike Oliphant (born 1963), American NFL running back
• Mildred Oliphant (born 1959), South African politician
• Pat Oliphant (born 1935), Australian American editorial/political cartoonist
• Peter Oliphant, American actor and video game designer
• Rob Oliphant (born 1956), Canadian politician
• Robert Morrison Olyphant (1824–1918), President of the Delaware and Hudson Railway
• Timothy Olyphant (born 1968), American actor
• Thomas Oliphant (journalist), American journalist
• Thomas Oliphant (1799–1873), Scottish musician and artist
• William Landon Oliphant (1900–1947), American Protestant preacher and polemicist
• William Oliphant, Lord of Aberdalgie (died 1329), Scottish magnate during the Scottish Wars of Independence
• William Oliphant (governor of Stirling Castle) (died after 1313), Governor of Stirling Castle during the Scottish Wars of Independence
• Oliphant brothers, Nigel and Harry Oliphant, manufacturers of ultraviolet lamps in South Australia

See also

• Justice Oliphant (disambiguation)
• Oliphant (disambiguation)