Hamish
Not to be confused with Amish, an Anabaptist Christian denomination.
Also not to be confused with either Haimish or Heimish, two English phrases of Yiddish origin.
Also not to be confused with either Haimish or Heimish, two English phrases of Yiddish origin.
| Hamish | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Masculine |
| Language(s) | English |
| Origin | |
| Language(s) | Scottish Gaelic |
| Word/name | Seumas (voc. Sheumais) |
| Other names | |
| See also | James |
Hamish is a masculine given name in English. It is the Anglicised form of the vocative case of the Scottish Gaelic Seumas: Sheumais. The Scottish Gaelic Seumas is the equivalent to the English James.[1]
People
- Hamish Blake (born 1981), Australian comedian and radio presenter
- Hamish Bowles (born 1963), European Editor-at-Large for Vogue
- Hamish Brown, writer, lecturer and photographer specialising in mountain and outdoor topics
- Hamish Carter (born 1971), Olympic gold medalist
- Hamish Clark, Scottish actor, famous for playing the part of Duncan McKay in the BBC TV series Monarch of the Glen
- Major Sir Hamish Forbes, 7th Baronet (1916–2007), British Army officer
- Hamish Glencross (born 1978), heavy metal guitarist for the band My Dying Bride
- Hamish Hamilton, British book publishing house and alternative name of its founder, Jamie Hamilton
- Hamish Imlach (born 1940), Scottish folk singer
- Hamish Linklater, American actor, known for role on The New Adventures of Old Christine
- Hamish MacCunn (1868–1916), Scottish composer, conductor and music teacher
- Hamish Marshall (born 1979), New Zealand cricketer
- Hamish McAlpine (born 1948), Scottish footballer
- Hamish McDonald, Australian broadcast journalist for Al Jazeera English
- Hamish McHamish, famous "cat about town" in St Andrews, Scotland
- Hamish McKay, New Zealand television presenter
- Hamish Milne, British pianist
- Hamish Moore, Scottish maker, musician and teacher of Scottish Bagpipes, especially the Scottish Smallpipes
- Hamish Peacock Australian athlete
- Hamish Pepper New Zealand sailor
- Hamish Purdy, Canadian art director and set decorator
- Hamish Rosser, drummer of Australian band, the Vines
- Hamish Rutherford (born 1989), New Zealand cricketer
- Hamish Stuart (born 1949), lead singer of Average White Band
- Hamish Wilson, a Scottish actor from Glasgow
Fictional characters
- John Hamish Watson, a character known as Sherlock Holmes's closest companion in Conan Doyle's classic detective series.
- Hamish Alexander, a character in the Honorverse novels by David Weber
- Hamish Campbell, a friend and lieutenant of William Wallace in the 1995 film Braveheart, played by Brendan Gleeson
- Hamish MacLeod, a character in the Ian Rutledge novels by Caroline and Charles Todd
- Hamish and Dougal, comedy characters from Radio 4 series I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
- Hamish Macbeth, detective in series of novels and television adaptation starring Robert Carlyle as the eponymous hero
- Hamish MacPherson, fictional character from the Baby Blues comic strip and TV series
- Hot Shot Hamish and Mighty Mouse, two former popular British football-themed comic strips
- In Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov, the Hamish are the agrarian natives of the planet Trantor after the fall of the Galactic Empire
- Hamish Osborne, a daemon in the All Souls series by Deborah Harkness
- Hamish, a character in the Nickelodeon TV show Mr. Meaty.
- Hamish Bond, fictional character in film and book Band of Angels
- Hamish Sewell-Allen, a mythical, snowy coloured beast from the highlands of Scotland
- Brett Gelman plays the degenerate, Hamish, on Another Period
-Hamish from Cecelia Ahearns book 'The Marble Collector'
References
- ↑ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 118, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1
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