Herriot is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Édouard Herriot (1872–1957), French politician
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James Herriot (1916–1995), British veterinary surgeon and writer
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Jim Herriot
James Herriot (born 20 December 1939) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper for clubs in Scotland, England and South Africa. Herriot represented both Scotland and the Scottish League XI.
Career
Herriot was an apprentice br ...
(born 1939), Scottish footballer
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John George Herriot
John George Herriot (1916 – 16 March 2003) was a mathematician at Stanford University who worked on numerical analysis.
Herriot received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1941. He was a professor of mathematics and then of computer science at S ...
(1916–2003), mathematician
Fictional characters:
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Zoe Herriot
Zoe Heriot (sometimes spelled Zoe Herriot) is a fictional character played by Wendy Padbury in the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. A young astrophysicist who lived on a space wheel in the 21st century, s ...
, character in ''Doctor Who''
See also
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Heriot (disambiguation) Heriot or Heriots may refer to:
*Old English for "war-gear", see Anglo-Saxon weaponry
*Heriot, the English term used for the tenurial relief in feudal Europe, in French known as ''le droit du meilleur catel''
*Heriot, Scottish Borders, a town ...
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Herriott Herriott is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*John Herriott (1844–1918), Lieutenant Governor of Iowa 1902–1907
*Maurice Herriott (born 1939), British athlete
*Elizabeth Herriott (1882–1936), New Zealand botanist and univers ...
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