# Tweedie

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**Tweedie** is a [surname](/source/Surname) of [Scottish](/source/Scotland) origin. The name is a habitational name from Tweedie, located in the parish of Stonehouse, south of [Glasgow](/source/Glasgow). The origin and meaning of the name is unknown.[1][2] Notable people with the surname include:

- [Alexander Tweedie](/source/Alexander_Tweedie) (1794–1884), Scottish physician and writer
- [Andrew Tweedie](/source/Andrew_Tweedie) (born 1975), South African cricketer
- [Charles Tweedie](/source/Charles_Tweedie) (1868–1925), Scottish mathematician
- [Dave Tweedie](/source/Dave_Tweedie) (born 1968), American composer, musician and record producer
- [David Tweedie (accountant)](/source/David_Tweedie_(accountant)) (born 1944), Scottish accountant
- [David Tweedie (mathematician)](/source/David_Tweedie_(mathematician)) (1865–1934), Scottish mathematician
- [David J. Tweedie](/source/David_J._Tweedie) (1870–1926), Scottish mathematician
- [Ethel Brilliana Tweedie](/source/Ethel_Brilliana_Tweedie) (1862–1940), British author and feminist
- [Frederick Tweedie](/source/Frederick_Tweedie) (1877–1943), Canadian politician
- [George R. Tweedie](/source/George_R._Tweedie) (1857– after 1893), English businessman
- [Herbert J. Tweedie](/source/Herbert_J._Tweedie) (1864–1906), English golf course designer
- [Hugh Tweedie](/source/Hugh_Tweedie), English naval officer
- [Irina Tweedie](/source/Irina_Tweedie) (1907–1999), Russian-British Sufi
- [Jill Tweedie](/source/Jill_Tweedie) (1936–1993), British feminist, writer and broadcaster
- [Lemuel John Tweedie](/source/Lemuel_John_Tweedie) (1849–1917), Canadian politician, father of Frederick
- [Mark Tweedie](/source/Mark_Tweedie) (born 1956), American politician
- [Maurice Tweedie](/source/Maurice_Tweedie), British medical physicist and statistician
- [Merylyn Tweedie](/source/Merylyn_Tweedie) (born 1953), New Zealand artist
- [Michael Tweedie](/source/Michael_Tweedie) (1907–1993), naturalist and archaeologist
- [Penny Tweedie](/source/Penny_Tweedie) (1940–2011), English photojournalist
- [Richard Tweedie](/source/Richard_Tweedie) (1947–2001), Australian statistician
- [Rob Tweedie](/source/Rob_Tweedie) (born 1979), American musician
- [Sandie Tweedie](/source/Sandie_Tweedie) (born 1985), Co-founder of Watermelon Tattoo ltd
- [Scott Tweedie](/source/Scott_Tweedie) (born 1988), Australian television and radio presenter
- [Stephen Tweedie](/source/Stephen_Tweedie) (born 1969), Scottish software developer
- [Thomas Tweedie](/source/Thomas_Tweedie) (1871–1944), Canadian politician and jurist
- [William Tweedie](/source/William_Tweedie) (1836–1914), Scottish major general and diplomat
- [William King Tweedie](/source/William_King_Tweedie) (1803–1863), Scottish Presbyterian minister
- [William Menzies Tweedie](/source/William_Menzies_Tweedie) (1826–1878), Scottish portrait painter

## See also

- [Clan Tweedie](/source/Clan_Tweedie), a Scottish clan, or historical family in Scotland
- [Tweedie, Alberta](/source/Tweedie,_Alberta)
- [Tweedie distribution](/source/Tweedie_distribution), any of a certain parameterized family of probability distributions
- [Tweedy (disambiguation)](/source/Tweedy_(disambiguation)), a variant of name Tweedie[2]

## References

1. [Tweedie Name Meaning and History](http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=tweedie) Retrieved on 2012-07-13

1. Hanks, Patrick & Hodges, Flavia (1988), [*A Dictionary of Surnames*](https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofsurn00patr), Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-211592-8

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