Stratton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Addams Stratton McAllister Addams Stratton McAllister (February 24, 1875 – November 26, 1946) was an American electrical engineer and editor. Career He was educated at Pennsylvania State College (B.S. 1898; E.E., 1900) and at Cornell University (M.M.E., 1901; Ph.D. ...

(1875–1946), US electrical engineer and editor *

Allan Stratton Allan Stratton (born 1951) is a Canadian playwright and novelist. Life and career Stratton was born in Stratford, Ontario, and began his professional arts career while he was still in high school when James Reaney published his play ''The ...

, Canadian author *

Allegra Stratton Allegra Elizabeth Jane Stratton (born 10 April 1980) is a British former political aide, journalist, and writer who served as Downing Street Press Secretary under Boris Johnson from November 2020 to April 2021. Stratton worked for ''The Guardi ...

(born 1980), British journalist and writer * Anne Stratton (1887-1977), American composer *

Arthur Stratton Arthur Mills Perce Stratton (1911 – 3 September 1975) was an American author and traveller. He was a playwright, a novelist, an OSS agent, a teacher in Turkey, and an assistant college professor in the US, before working for the CIA for about ...

(1911-1975), American author, traveller and OSS agent *

Ben Stratton Benjamin Stratton (born 1 March 1989) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Early career Stratton was educated at Dunsborough Primary School and MacKillop C ...

, Australian rules footballer * Brian Stratton, Mayor of Schenectady, New York * Casey Stratton (born 1976), US musician *

Charles C. Stratton Charles Creighton Stratton (March 6, 1796 – March 30, 1859) was a politician from New Jersey who served in the United States House of Representatives and was later the 15th governor of New Jersey. Biography He was born, and died, in Swedesbo ...

(1796–1859), US politician *

Charles Sherwood Stratton Charles Sherwood Stratton (January 4, 1838 – July 15, 1883), better known by his stage name "General Tom Thumb", was an American dwarf who achieved great fame as a performer under circus pioneer P. T. Barnum. Childhood and early life B ...

(1838–1883), US circus performer under the stage name General Tom Thumb *

Chris Stratton Christopher Lee Stratton (born August 22, 1990) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Angels, and Pittsbu ...

(born 1990), American baseball player *

David Stratton David James Stratton (born 10 September 1939) is an English-Australian award-winning film critic, as both a journalist and interviewer, film historian and lecturer and television personality and producer. Life and career Born in Trowbridge, ...

(born 1939), Australian film critic and television personality *

Dennis Stratton Dennis Stratton (born 9 October 1952) is an English guitarist who is best known as a former member of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden from December 1979 to October 1980. Biography Born in Canning Town, London, Stratton showed early promise a ...

(born 1954), British guitarist *

Dorothy C. Stratton Dorothy Constance Stratton (March 24, 1899 – September 17, 2006) is best known as the first director of the SPARS, the U.S. Coast Guard Women's Reserve. In 1942, she became the first woman to be commissioned an officer in U.S. Coast Guard ...

(1899–2006), director of US Coast Guard women's reserve *

Ellen Stratton Ellen is a female given name, a diminutive of Elizabeth, Eleanor, Elena and Helen. Ellen was the 609th most popular name in the U.S. and the 17th in Sweden in 2004. People named Ellen include: *Ellen Adarna (born 1988), Filipino actress *Ellen A ...

(born 1939), US model *

Evelyn Lundberg Stratton Evelyn Lundberg Stratton (born February 25, 1953) is an American jurist. She was a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court and is now an attorney with Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease. Background and education Evelyn Lundberg Stratton was born to mi ...

(born 1953), Supreme Court of Ohio Justice * Felton Stratton (1895–1974), American baseball player * F.J.M. Stratton (1881–1960), British astrophysicist *

Fred Stratton Frederick Stratton (8 October 1913 – 2 April 2001) was an English haematologist and an internationally recognized expert in blood transfusion. He is known for discovering one of the ''Rh'' allelomorphs. Stratton was born in Levenshulme, Manch ...

(1913–2001), British physician and medical researcher *

Gene Stratton Porter Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17, 1863 – December 6, 1924), born Geneva Grace Stratton, was an American author, nature photographer, and naturalist from Wabash County, Indiana. In 1917 Stratton-Porter urged legislative support for the Habitat con ...

(1863–1924), US author, screenwriter and naturalist *

George M. Stratton George Malcolm Stratton (September 26, 1865 – October 8, 1957) was an American psychologist who pioneered the study of perception in vision by wearing special glasses which inverted images up and down and left and right. He studied under ...

(1865–1957), US psychologist *

Gil Stratton Gil Stratton Jr. (June 2, 1922 – October 11, 2008) was an actor and sportscaster who was born in Brooklyn, New York. He most recently resided in Toluca Lake, California, until his death from congestive heart failure. Early life Stratton was ...

(1922–2008), US actor and sportscaster * Grace Stratton (born 1999), New Zealand blogger and fashion entrepreneur * Hal Stratton, chairman of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, 2002 * Harold M. Stratton, founder of Briggs & Stratton *

Helen Stratton Helen Isobel Mansfield Ramsey Stratton (5 April 1867 – 4 June 1961) was a British artist and book illustrator. Biography Stratton was born in Nowganj, Bundelkhand, Madhya Pradesh, India on 5 April 1867, the daughter of a surgeon in the Ind ...

, (1867–1961), English artist and illustrator *

James Robert Stratton James Robert Stratton (May 3, 1857 – April 19, 1916) was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Peterborough West in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1886 to 1904 and in the House of Commons of Canada from 19 ...

, Irish-Canadian politician * John Stratton (disambiguation), multiple people *

Julius Adams Stratton Julius Adams Stratton (May 18, 1901 – June 22, 1994) was a U.S. electrical engineer and university administrator. He attended the University of Washington for one year, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity, then transferred to th ...

(1901–1994), US educator and President of MIT * Kim Stratton (born 1961), American gospel musician * Lois Stratton (1927–2020), American politician * Margaret Stratton (born 1953), US photographer and video artist. *

Mary Chase Perry Stratton Mary Chase Perry Stratton (March 15, 1867 – April 15, 1961) was an American ceramic artist. She was a co-founder, along with Horace Caulkins, Horace James Caulkins, of Pewabic Pottery, a form of ceramic art used to make architectural tiles. ...

(1867–1961), US ceramic artist * Michael Stratton, British clinical scientist *

Mike Stratton David Michael Stratton (April 10, 1941 – March 25, 2020) was an American professional football player who was a linebacker for 12 seasons in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). He won two AFL championships ...

(1941–2020), US football player *

Monty Stratton Monty Franklin Pierce Stratton (May 21, 1912 – September 29, 1982) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB). He was born in Palacios, Texas (some sources state Wagner, Texas) and lived in Greenville, Texas, for part of his life. ...

(1912–1982), US baseball player * Richard Stratton (CCC), US educator * Richard A. Stratton, USN., former P.O.W. *

Rick Stratton Rick Stratton is an American make-up and special effects artist. He won an Primetime Emmy Awards, Primetime Emmy Award in 1999 for his work on ''The X-Files'' and in 1990 for his work on ''Alien Nation (1989 TV series), Alien Nation''. Stratton ...

, Make-up artist * Samuel S. Stratton (1916–1990), US politician *

Samuel Somerville Stratton Samuel Somerville Stratton (February 23, 1898 – March 1969) served as the eleventh president of Middlebury College, 1943 - 1963. Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, he was a graduate of Newburyport High School in Newburyport, Massachusetts and Dartmo ...

Samuel Wesley Stratton Samuel Wesley Stratton (July 18, 1861 – October 18, 1931) was an administrator in the American government, physicist, and educator. Life and work Stratton was born on farm in Litchfield, Illinois on July 18, 1861. In his youth he kept farm ma ...

(1861–1931), US educator and President of MIT * Solomon Stratton (1785–1818), US explorer *

Terry Stratton Terrance Richard "Terry" Stratton (born March 16, 1938) is a former Conservative Canadian Senator who represented Manitoba in the Upper House. A businessman, teacher and consultant, Stratton was appointed to the Senate on the advice of Prime Min ...

(born 1938), Canadian politician *

William Stratton William Grant Stratton (February 26, 1914 – March 2, 2001), was the 32nd governor of Illinois from 1953 to 1961. Early life and career Born February 26, 1914 in Ingleside, Lake County, Illinois, the son of William J. Stratton, an Illinoi ...

(1914–2001), US politician * W. K. Stratton, American writer *

W. K. Stratton (actor) Walter Kirk Stratton Jr. (born August 2, 1950) is an American film and television actor born in Front Royal, Virginia. He portrayed "Lt. Lawrence Casey" in the American television series ''Black Sheep Squadron'' . Stratton also played the recurr ...

(born 1950), American film and television actor *

W. S. Stratton Winfield Scott Stratton (July 22, 1848 – September 14, 1902) was an American prospector, capitalist, and philanthropist. He discovered the Independence Lode near Victor, Colorado on July 4, 1891, and became the Cripple Creek Mining District' ...

(1848–1902), US gold prospector and philanthropist *

John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (1602 – 26 August 1678) was an English royalist soldier, politician and diplomat, of the Bruton branch of the Berkeley family. From 1648 he was closely associated with James, Duke of York, and ...

(1602–1678)

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