Douglas (first name)
Douglas is a male name .
Origin and meaning
The name is common in the English-speaking world. For women, the name is occasionally used as a middle name, similar to the use of the first name Maria as a middle name by men in German-speaking countries.
The name is derived from the Scottish Gaelic Dubhglais / Dubhghlais and means something like "dark (Gaelic: dubh ) river (Gaelic: glais )" and originally referred to a river, later a Scottish clan .
variants
Name bearer
- Douglas (soccer player, 1987) ( Dyanfres Douglas Chagas Matos ; * 1987), Brazilian soccer player
- Douglas (soccer player, 1988) ( Douglas Franco Teixeira ; * 1988), Dutch soccer player
- Douglas (soccer player, April 1990) ( Douglas Silva Bacelar ; * 1990), Brazilian soccer player
- Douglas (soccer player, August 1990) ( Douglas Pereira dos Santos ; * 1990), Brazilian soccer player
- Douglas Adams (1952-2001), British writer
- Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian (1889–1977), British neurophysiologist, see Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian
- Douglas Barr (born 1949), American actor, director, screenwriter and winemaker
- Ray Douglas Bradbury (1920–2012), American writer, see Ray Bradbury
- Douglas Bragg (1928–1973), American musician, see Doug Bragg
- Douglas Clifford (* 1945), American drummer, see Doug Clifford
- Douglas Copland (1894–1971), New Zealand-Australian economist and diplomat
- Douglas Costa (* 1990), Brazilian soccer player
- Douglas Coupland (born 1961), Canadian writer
- Douglas Dunn (born 1942), Scottish poet
- Douglas Eggers (born 1930), American football player
- Douglas C. Engelbart (1925–2013), American computer scientist
- Douglas Hamilton Erwin (* 1958), American paleontologist
- Douglas Fairbanks Sr. (1883–1939), American actor
- Douglas Fairbanks junior (1909-2000), American actor
- Douglas J. Futuyma (* 1942), American biologist
- Douglas dos Santos Justino de Melo (* 1994), Brazilian soccer player
- Douglas Hurd (born 1930), British politician
- Douglas Hyde (1860-1949), Irish poet
- Douglas James Jardine (1888–1946), British colonial governor
- Douglas Bruce Lenat (* 1950), American mathematician and physicist
- Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001), New Zealand composer
- Douglas Lindsay (* 1964), Scottish author
- Douglas Lowe (1902-1981), British athlete
- Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964), American general
- Douglas Mawson (1882-1958), Australian geologist
- Douglas McGregor (1906–1964), American economist
- Douglas Moench (* 1948), American author
- Douglas Dean Osheroff (* 1945), American physicist
- Douglas "Doug" Polk (* 1988), American poker player
- Douglas Preston (born 1956), American writer
- Douglas Purviance (* 1952), American jazz musician
- Douglas Sequeira (born 1977), Costa Rican soccer player
- Douglas Marques dos Santos (* 1985), Brazilian soccer player
- Douglas Sirk (1897–1987), American film director
- Ian Douglas Smith (1919–2007), Rhodesian politician, see Ian Smith
- Douglas Swan (1930-2000), American painter
- Douglas Urbanski (* 1957), American film and theater producer
Fictional people
- Doug , hero of an animated series of the same name
- Douglas "Doug" Steven Heffernan, main character portrayed by Kevin James in the television series King of Queens .
See also
- Douglas (disambiguation)
- Douglas , a parrot who played the parrot Rosalinda in the 1970 film Pippi in Taka Tuka Land