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Ogilvie is a surname of
Clan Ogilvie Clan Ogilvy/Ogilvie is a Scottish Highland clan from Angus, Scotland.Way, George and Squire, Romily. (1994). ''Collins Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia''. (Foreword by The Rt Hon. The Earl of Elgin KT, Convenor, The Standing Council of Sco ...
from Angus, Scotland, deriving from the Old Welsh words ("high") and ("place").


People with the surname

* Ogilvie baronets * Adam Ogilvie, Scottish footballer * Albert Ogilvie (1890–1939), Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania *
Alec Ogilvie ''For the businessman, see Alec Ogilvie (businessman).'' Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander "Alec" Ogilvie CBE (8 June 1882 – 18 June 1962) was an early British aviation pioneer, a friend of the Wright Brothers and only the seventh British person ...
(1882–1962), pioneer British aviator * Alexander Walker Ogilvie, Canadian politician *
Alick Ogilvie Thomas Alexander Ogilvie (7 January 1887 – 18 August 1915) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the University Football Club and Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family Alick Ogilvie was born in ...
, Australian rules footballer who died in WWI * Andy Ogilvie (born 1965), Canadian lacrosse player * Bill Ogilvie (1932–2011), Scottish football player and manager * Dame Bridget Ogilvie (born 1938), Australian scientist * Campbell Ogilvie, Scottish football administrator (Rangers FC, Heart of Midlothian FC, Scottish Football Association) * Charles Atmore Ogilvie (1793–1873), English priest * Charles Ogilvie (disambiguation), several people ** Charles Ogilvie (footballer), Scottish amateur footballer ** Charles Ogilvie (sailor), Jamaican sailor ** Charles Ogilvie (merchant), English merchant and politician ** Charles Atmore Ogilvie, English priest * David Ogilvie (disambiguation), several people **
Dave Ogilvie Dave "Rave" Ogilvie is a Canadian record producer, mixer, songwriter and musician. The former member of bands Skinny Puppy and Jakalope started his recording career in Vancouver working as an engineer at Mushroom Studios. He has been described by ...
, Canadian record producer and musician ** David Ogilvie (cricketer) (born 1951), former Australian cricketer * Duncan Ogilvie (1911–1967), Scottish footballer *
Edward Ogilvie Edward David Stuart Ogilvie (25 July 1814 – 25 January 1896) was an English-born Australian politician and businessman. He served as a member of the Upper House of the New South Wales parliament. He built the renowned estate Yulgilbar. ...
(1814–1896), Australian politician * Elisabeth Ogilvie (1917–2006), American writer * Elizabeth Ogilvie (born 1946), Scottish artist *
Francis Grant Ogilvie Sir Francis Grant Ogilvie CB FRSE (8 August 1858 – 14 December 1930) was a Scottish educator, museum director, and scientist. Birth, parentage and early career Ogilvie was born in Monymusk, Aberdeenshire, the eldest son of the Reverend Al ...
(c.1858–1930), Scottish scientist and museum curator * Francis Ogilvie (Governor), Governor of
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Frederick Ogilvie Sir Frederick Wolff Ogilvie FRSE (7 February 1893 – 10 June 1949) was a British broadcasting executive and university administrator, who was Director-General of the BBC from 19 July 1938 to 26 January 1942, and was succeeded by joint Directors ...
(1893–1949), Director-General of the BBC * Fred Ogilvie, American politician, Missouri state representative * Gary Ogilvie (born 1967), Scottish footballer *
George Ogilvie George Buchan Ogilvie (5 March 1931 – 5 April 2020) was a prolific Australian theatre director and actor, who also worked as a director and actor within film and television. Life and career George Ogilvie began as an actor at the Canberra ...
, 1988 Byron Kennedy Award winner *
Gordon Ogilvie Gordon Bryant Ogilvie (8 May 1934 – 23 October 2017) was a New Zealand historian and biographer who wrote over 20 books, mainly about the people, places and institutions of the Canterbury region. He played a considerable role in uncovering the ...
(1934–2017), New Zealand historian * James Ogilvie (disambiguation), several people ** James Ogilvie (bishop) (died 1518), Scottish bishop ** James Nicoll Ogilvie (1860–1926), Scottish minister ** James Ogilvie (coach) (died 1950), American football player and coach **
James Ogilvie-Grant, 11th Earl of Seafield James Ogilvie-Grant, 11th Earl of Seafield, DL (18 April 1876 – 12 November 1915), briefly known as Viscount Reidhaven in 1888, was a Scottish nobleman. Seafield was born in 1876 in Oamaru, New Zealand. He was the eldest child of Francis Wil ...
(1876–1915), Scottish nobleman *
Joe Ogilvie Norman Joseph Ogilvie (born April 8, 1974) is a retired American professional golfer. Ogilvie was born in Lancaster, Ohio and graduated from Duke University. He played on the PGA Tour and picked up his only win on tour at the U.S. Bank Champion ...
(born 1974), American golfer * John Ogilvie (disambiguation), several people ** John Ogilvie (South African cricketer) (born 1958), South African cricketer ** John Ogilvie (Wellington cricketer) (born 1931), New Zealand cricketer ** John Ogilvie (Central Districts cricketer) (born 1969), New Zealand cricketer ** John Ogilvie (footballer) (1928-2020), Scottish footballer **
John Ogilvie (lexicographer) John Ogilvie (; 17 April 1797 – 21 November 1867) was a Scottish lexicographer who edited the ''Imperial Dictionary of the English Language''. Life He was born 17 April 1797 in Marnoch, Banffshire (now in Aberdeenshire), the son of William O ...
(1797–1867), Scottish lexicographer ** John Ogilvie (miller) (1833–1888), Canadian businessman and miller **
John Ogilvie (poet) John Ogilvie or Ogilvy FRSE (1733-1813) was an 18th-century Scottish minister, hymn-writer and poet. A friend of James Beattie and Samuel Johnson he came to fame during his own life-time but had more success with his poetry than with longer texts. ...
(1733–1813), Scottish reverend and poet **
John Ogilvie (saint) John Ogilvie (1580 – 10 March 1615) was a Scottish Jesuit martyr. For his work as a priest in service to a persecuted Roman Catholic community in 17th century Scotland, and in being hanged for his faith, he became the only post-Reformation ...
(1579–1615), Scottish Jesuit martyr * Kelvin Ogilvie (born 1942), Canadian chemist and senator * Lauryn Ogilvie, Australian sport shooter *
Lawrence Ogilvie Lawrence Ogilvie (5 July 1898 – 16 April 1980) was a Scottish plant pathologist. From 1923, in his first job and aged only 25, when agriculture was Bermuda's major industry, Ogilvie identified the virus that had devastated the islands' high-v ...
, plant pathologist in Bermuda and Britain *
Lloyd John Ogilvie Lloyd John Ogilvie (September 2, 1930 – June 5, 2019)Marquis Who's Who on the WebMajor Ogilvie, American football player *
Malcolm Ogilvie Dr Malcolm Alexander Ogilvie is a British ornithologist and freelance natural history author and consultant. One of his areas of expertise is wildfowl. Ogilvie was a research scientist with the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust from 1960 to 1986, als ...
, British ornithologist *
Maria Gordon Dame Maria Matilda Gordon (née Ogilvie; 30 April 1864 – 24 June 1939), sometimes known as May Ogilvie Gordon or May Gordon, was an eminent Scottish geologist, palaeontologist, and politician. She was the first woman to be awarded a Doctor ...
(née Ogilvie) (1864–1939), Scottish geologist * Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie, biographer of women scientists *
Nivek Ogre Kevin Graham Ogilvie (born December 5, 1962), known professionally as Nivek Ogre, is a Canadian musician, performance artist and actor, best known for his work with the industrial music group Skinny Puppy, which he co-founded with cEvin Key. Sin ...
(born 1962), musician, real name Kevin Graham Ogilvie *
Richard B. Ogilvie Richard Buell Ogilvie (February 22, 1923 – May 10, 1988) was the 35th governor of Illinois and served from 1969 to 1973. A wounded combat veteran of World War II, he became known as the mafia-fighting sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, in t ...
(1923–1988), 1960s American politician *
Robert Ogilvie Robert Andrew Muter Macindoe Ogilvie (20 October 1852 – 7 March 1938) was an English footballer who made one appearance as a defender for England in 1874, and was a member of the Clapham Rovers team that won the 1880 FA Cup Final. Football c ...
(1853–1938), England international footballer *
Robert Maxwell Ogilvie Robert Maxwell Ogilvie FRSE FSA FBA DLitt (5 June 1932 – 7 November 1981) was a British scholar of Latin literature and Classical language, classical philology. Life His parents were Sir Frederick Wolff Ogilvie (1893–1949), director-general ...
(1932–1981), classical scholar *
Sheilagh Ogilvie Sheilagh Catheren Ogilvie, FBA (born 7 October 1958) is a Canadian historian, economist, and academic, specialising in economic history. Since 2020, she has been Chichele Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford. Previously, she ...
(born 1958), Canadian economic historian * William Ogilvie (disambiguation), several people **
William Ogilvie of Pittensear William Ogilvie of Pittensear FRSE FSA(Scot) (1736-1819), known as the Rebel Professor and described by his biographer as the ''Euclid of Land law Reform', was a Scottish classicist, numismatist and author of an influential historic land ref ...
(1736–1819), Scottish land reformer and 'rebel professor' **
William Ogilvie (surveyor) William Ogilvie FRGS (April 7, 1846 in Ottawa – November 13, 1912 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) was a Canadian Dominion land surveyor, explorer and the commissioner of Yukon. He was born on a farm in Gloucester Township, Canada West in an area now kno ...
(1846–1912), Canadian Commissioner of the Yukon Territory **
William Ogilvie (Ardglass) William Ogilvie (1740–1832) was a Scottish-born scholar and tutor. Life Details of Ogilvie's early life are unclear. The ''Dictionary of Irish Biography'' suggests several possible backgrounds: "His enemies alleged that he was from a humble b ...
(1740–1832), Scottish scholar and tutor ** William Abernethy Ogilvie (1901–1989), Canadian painter and war artist **
William Henry Ogilvie Will H. Ogilvie (21 August 1869 – 30 January 1963) was a Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman, jackaroo, and drover, and described as a quiet-spoken handsome Scot of medium height, with a fair moustache and red complexion. H ...
(1869–1963), Australian poet, author of ''Saddle For A Throne'' **
William Robert Ogilvie-Grant William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (25 March 1863 – 26 July 1924) was a Scottish ornithologist. Early life and education Grant born on 25 March 1863 as second son of Capt. Hon. George Henry Essex Ogilvie-Grant, of Easter Elchies, Craigellachie, Sco ...
(1863–1924), Scottish ornithologist ** William Watson Ogilvie (1835–1900), Canadian pioneer


See also

* Ogilvy (name)


References

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