Macpherson

MacPherson or Macpherson is a surname, meaning "son of the parson" in Scottish Gaelic. Notable people with the surname include:

In sports

Archie Macpherson (born 1937), Scottish football commentator
Bruce MacPherson (field hockey), Canadian field hockey player
Bryden Macpherson, Australian amateur golfer
Duncan MacPherson, ice hockey player
Gus MacPherson, Scottish footballer
Jeff MacPherson (born 1956), American driver in the CART Championship Car series
Michelle MacPherson, Canadian swimmer

Ben Macpherson (politician), Scottish politician
C. B. Macpherson, Canadian academic
Dean Macpherson, South African politician
Hector Macpherson, Sr. (1875–1970), Canadian-American agricultural economics professor and politician
Hector Macpherson, Jr. (1918–2015), American farmer and politician
James Ian Macpherson, British lawyer and politician
John Alexander MacPherson, Australian politician
John MacPherson (governor of India), Scottish administrator in India
John Thomas Macpherson (1872–1921), English politician
Malcolm MacPherson (1904–1971), Scottish politician
Murdoch MacPherson, Canadian politician
Niall Macpherson, 1st Baron Drumalbyn, Scottish politician
Nicholas Macpherson, British civil servant
Thomas Macpherson, 1st Baron Macpherson of Drumochter (1888–1965), Scottish politician

Ben Macpherson, Australian musician
Christina Macpherson, Australian behind Waltzing Matilda
Donald Macpherson (piper), Scottish bagpipe player
Fraser MacPherson, Canadian jazz musician
Gillie Mc Pherson, Northern Irish singer
Graham MacPherson, better known as Suggs (singer), the lead singer of the English band Madness
Greg MacPherson, Canadian singer-songwriter
Jim Macpherson, United States percussionist
Linda Lizotte-MacPherson, Canadian public servant
Sandy MacPherson, Canadian theatre organist

Daniel MacPherson (born 1980), Australian actor and television presenter
Don Macpherson (born 1954), Canadian journalist
Duncan Macpherson (1924–1993), Canadian editorial cartoonist
Elle Macpherson (born 1964), Australian supermodel and actress
Gordon Macpherson (born 1962), Founder of Macpherson Menswear – Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Hector Macpherson (1851–1924), Scottish journalist and writer
Jeanie MacPherson (1886–1946), American silent actress, writer and director
Malcolm MacPherson (1943–2009), American journalist and author
Myra MacPherson (1934–2026), American journalist and author
Richard MacPherson, American actor

Lieutenant Ralph Stewart MacPherson (1896–1964), Canadian Army officer
Colonel Ronald MacPherson or Ranald MacPherson (1817–1869), architect and colonial administrator
Colonel Tommy Macpherson, British army officer
Sir Keith Macpherson Smith, (1890-1955) Australian aviator
Sir Ross Macpherson Smith, KBE, MC & Bar, DFC & Two Bars, AFC (1892–1922) Australian aviator
Henry Douglas Macpherson (1898-1917) British, WW1 fighter pilot
Donald McPherson (1922-2025), American WW2 fighter pilot ace.¹

Alexander Macpherson, English architect
Cluny MacPherson, Newfoundland medical doctor and inventor of the gas mask
Colin MacPherson, Scottish Roman Catholic Bishop of Argyll and the Isles from 1968 to 1990
Donald Macpherson (disambiguation), several people
Earle S. MacPherson, the Ford engineer who developed the MacPherson strut in the 1940s
Ewen MacPherson of Cluny, Scottish Jacobite
Fiona Macpherson, FRSE, MAE, Scottish Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience, University of Glasgow
Hector Macpherson (astronomer) (1888–1956), Scottish clergyman and astronomer, son of Hector C. Macpherson
Ian MacPherson, Canadian historian
Jamie Macpherson, Scottish outlaw, famed for his lament
John Macferson, early 18th-century English pirate
Sir Macpherson Robertson, Australian philanthropist and entrepreneur
Robert Macpherson (disambiguation), multiple people
Sir William Macpherson, High Court Judge in England