# MacWilliams

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/MacWilliams
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/MacWilliams.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacWilliams
> Source revision: 1293634047
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

Not to be confused with [McWilliams](/source/McWilliams) or [MacWilliam pretenders](/source/MacWilliam_pretenders).

**MacWilliams** and **MacWilliam** are [English-language](/source/English-language) surnames. They are derived from the [Gaelic](/source/Scottish_Gaelic) *Mac Uilleim*, a [patronymic](/source/Patronymic) form of a [Gaelicized](/source/Gaelicized) form of the English *[William](/source/William_(given_name))*. The final *-s* in *MacWilliams* is a redundant English patronymical [suffix](/source/Suffix).[1]

- [Dave MacWilliams](/source/Dave_MacWilliams) (born 1957), American soccer player
- [Jessie MacWilliams](/source/Jessie_MacWilliams) (1917–1990), English mathematician
- [Keenan MacWilliam](/source/Keenan_MacWilliam) (born 1989), Canadian actress
- [Lyle MacWilliam](/source/Lyle_MacWilliam) (born 1949), Canadian congressman
- [Mike MacWilliam](/source/Mike_MacWilliam) (born 1967), Canadian ice hockey player

## References

1. ["MacWilliams"](http://www.answers.com/topic/macwilliams), [Answers.com](/source/Answers.com), retrieved 2013-11-30

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [MacWilliams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacWilliams) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacWilliams?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.