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Russell records on Ancestry
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Origins and History
New to Family History? Check out our Getting Started page. Check out House Of Names to investigate the origins of the Russell surname or get a copy of the Russell family Crest (a great gift idea!).
"RUSSEL, RUSSELL. As this name in Scots occurs twice with 'dictus' and never with 'de' it is most probably a diminutive of rous, 'red, (cf. Dauzat, p. 95). Chaucer (Nonne Prestes Tale) calls the fox 'Daun Russel' alluding to his reddish color. Walter Russell witnessed a charter by Walter filius Alani to the Abbey of Paisley, c. 1164-77 (RMP., p. 87). John, son of Robert Russel of Doncanlaw, granted these lands to the Hospital of Soltre in pure and perpetual alms between 1180-1220 (Soltre, p. 5). Robert Russel witnessed a composition aueiit the lands of Threpland, 1259 (REA., i, p. 27), and another Robert Russel of Berwickshire rendered homage in 1296 (Bain, it, p. 207). Andreas dictus Russell was bailie of Aberdeen, 1310 (REA., i, p. 40), William dictus Russelle is mentioned, c. 1320 (RMS., i, 26), Adam Rossel was received to the king of England's peace in 1321 (Bain, in, 724), and William Russell was tenant in the vill of Dalfubill, 1376 (RHM., i, p. Ivii). Jerome Russell, a Greyfriar, was burned at the stake in 1539 for heresy along with John Kennedy in the High street of Glasgow. Rossell 1528, Rousel c. 1250, Rusel 1514, Russale 1537, Russall 1513, Russsfule 1529, Rwsall 1521 "(The surnames of Scotland. George Fraser Black, 1866-1948)
DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for the Russell Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Russell Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Russell family tree.
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Miscellaneous Russell Databases
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Some Famous People with the surname of Russell
| Bertrand Russell |  | Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 ? 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, socialist, pacifist and social theorist. |
| Eric Frank Russell | | Eric Frank Russell (January 6, 1905 - February 28, 1978) was a British author best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. |
| Henry Norris Russell | | Henry Norris Russell (October 25, 1877 ? February 18, 1957) was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung?Russell diagram (1910). |
| Ken Russell | | Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell, known as Ken Russell (born 3 July 1927), is an English film director. |
| John Russell, 1st Earl Russell | | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC (18 August 1792 ? 28 May 1878), known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was an English Whig and Liberal politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. |
| Mary Doria Russell | | Mary Doria Russell (born 1950) is an American novelist. |
| Rosalind Russell | | Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 ? November 28, 1976) was an American actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy "His Girl Friday", as well as the role of Auntie Mame in film. |
| Gail Russell | | Gail Russell (September 21, 1924 ? August 26, 1961) was an American film and television actress. |
| Kurt Russell | | Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. |
| Willy Russell | | William Russell (born 23 August 1947) is a British dramatist, lyricist, and composer. |
| Luis Russell | | Luis Russell (6 August, 1902 - 11 December, 1963) was a jazz pianist and bandleader. |
| Charles Marion Russell | | Charles Marion Russell (March 19, 1864, St. |
| Bill Russell | | William Felton "Bill" Russell (born February 12, 1934) is a retired American professional basketball player who played center for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). |
| Keri Russell | | Keri Lynn Russell (born March 23, 1976) is an American actress and dancer. |
| Christine Russell | | Christine Margaret Russell (n?e Carr, born 25 March 1945, Holbeach, Lincolnshire) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for the City of Chester since 1997. |
| Bob Russell | | Robert Edward Russell, known as Bob Russell, (born 31 March 1946, London) is a British politician. |
| Pee Wee Russell | | Charles Ellsworth Russell, much better known by his nickname Pee Wee Russell, (27 March 1906 ? 15 February 1969) was a jazz musician. |
| Daniel Lindsay Russell | | Daniel Lindsay Russell, Jr. |
| John Scott Russell | | John Scott Russell (9 May 1808, Parkhead, Glasgow ? 8 June 1882, Ventnor, Isle of Wight) was a Scottish naval engineer who built the "Great Eastern" in collaboration with Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and made the discovery that gave birth to the modern study of solitons. |
| Graham Russell | | Graham Cyrill Russell (born 1 June 1950 in Sherwood, Nottingham) is a British musician and one half of the group Air Supply. |
| John Russell | | John Russell (March 29, 1745 ? April 20, 1806) was an English painter renowned for his portrait work in oils and pastels, and as a writer and teacher of painting techniques. |
| Stuart J. Russell | | Stuart Russell (born 1962) is a computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence. |
| William Howard Russell | | William Howard Russell (28 March, 1820 - 11 February, 1907) was an Irish reporter with "The Times", and is considered to have been one of the first modern war correspondents, after he spent 22 months covering the Crimean War including the Charge of the Light Brigade. |
| Jane Russell | | Jane Russell (born June 21,) is an American film actress. |
| Mark Russell | | Mark Russell (born August 23, 1932 in Buffalo, New York) is an American political satirist/comedian. |
| Peter Russell | | Peter Russell (June 11, 1733 ? September 30, 1808) was a gambler, government official, politician and judge in Upper Canada. |
| Harold Russell | | Harold John Russell (January 14, 1914 - January 29, 2002) was a Canadian-American World War II veteran who became one of only two non-professional actors to win an Academy Award for acting (the other being Haing S. |
| Charles William Russell | | Charles William Russell (May 14, 1812 ? February 26, 1880) was an Irish Roman Catholic clergyman and scholar. |
| Jack Russell | | John ("Jack") Russell (December 21, 1795 ? April 28, 1883), "The Sporting Parson" was an enthusiastic hunter and dog breeder as well as an ordained minister. |
| George Russell | | George Allen Russell (June 23, 1923 July 27, 2009) was an American jazz pianist, composer and theorist. |
| George William Russell | | "Not to be confused with George William Erskine Russell (1853 - 1919)". |
| Lillian Russell | | Lillian Russell (December 4, 1860 ? June 6, 1922) was an American actress and singer. |
| Morgan Russell | | Morgan Russell (January 25, 1886 - May 29, 1953) was a U. |
| William Russell | | William Eustis Russell (January 6, 1857 - July 16, 1896) was a U. |
| Leon Russell | | Claude Russell Bridges (born April 2, 1942, Lawton, Oklahoma) known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and guitarist. |
| William Russell | | William Russell (born Russell William Enoch on 19 November 1924 in Sunderland, England) is a British actor, mainly known for his television work. |
| Lee M. Russell | | Lee Maurice Russell (November 16, 1875, Lafayette County, Mississippi) - May 5, 1943, Jackson, Mississippi) was a Mississippi politician. |
| William Huntington Russell | | William Huntington Russell (12 August 1809 ? 19 May 1885) was an American businessman, educator, and politician. |
| Gary Russell | | Gary Russell (born 18 September 1963) is a freelance writer and former child actor. |
| Arthur Russell | | Arthur Russell (March 13, 1886 - August 23, 1972) was a British athlete and winner of the 3,200 metres steeplechase at the 1908 Summer Olympics. |
| Nipsey Russell | | Julius "Nipsey" Russell (September 15, 1918 ? October 2, 2005) was an American comedian, best known today for his appearances as a guest panelist on game shows from the 1960s through the 1990s, especially "Match Game", "Password", "Hollywood Squares", "To Tell the Truth" and "Pyramid". |
| William Russell, Lord Russell | | William Russell, Lord Russell (29 September 1639 ? 21 July 1683), was an English politician. |
| Frederick Russell | | Frederick William Russell, OC, CD (September 10, 1923 - June 20, 2001) was a Canadian businessman and former Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland. |
| Ralph Russell | | Professor Ralph Russell SI (Urdu: ???? ?????) was a British scholar of Urdu literature and a Communist. |
| John Russell | | John Russell (January 3, 1921 ? January 19, 1991) was an American actor most noted for playing Marshal Dan Troop in the successful ABC western television series "Lawman" from 1958 to 1962. |
| Clive Russell | | Clive Russell (born 7 December 1945) is a British actor. |
| Jack Russell | | Robert Charles "Jack" Russell MBE (born 15 August, 1963 in Stroud, Gloucestershire), is a retired English international cricketer, now known for his abilities as an artist, as a cricket wicketkeeping coach and football goalkeeping coach. |
| Theresa Russell | | Theresa Russell (born Theresa Paup; 20 March 1957) is an American actress. |
| Ron Russell | | Ronald S. |
| Todd Russell | | Todd Norman Russell (born December 22, 1966) is a Canadian politician and the Liberal member of Parliament for the riding of Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador. |
| Lynne Russell | | Lynne Russell (born November 1, 1946 in Orange, New Jersey, U. |
| Lord William Russell | | Lord William Russell (20 August 1767 ? 5 May 1840), a member of the British aristocratic family of Russell and longtime Member of Parliament, did little to attract public attention after the end of his political career until, in 1840, he was murdered in his sleep by his valet. |
| Bob Russell | | Sidney Keith Russell, known as Bob Russell (25 April 1914 - February 1970) was an American songwriter born in Passaic, New Jersey. |
| Leonard Russell | | Leonard James Russell (born November 17, 1969 in Long Beach, California) is a former professional American football player who was selected by the New England Patriots in the 1st round (14th overall) of the 1991 NFL Draft. |
| Bryon Russell | | Bryon Demetrise Russell (born December 31, 1970 in San Bernardino, California) is an American basketball player. |
| Muir Russell | | Sir (Alastair) Muir Russell KCB DL FRSE is a former civil servant and former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, and Chairman of the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland. |
| Craig Russell | | Russell Craig Eadie (January 10, 1948 ? October 30, 1990) was a Canadian female impersonator known by the stage name of Craig Russell. |
| Thomas Russell | | Thomas Russell (August 14, 1895 ? March 9, 1958) was an American painter, also the grandfather of Kurt Russell, and father of actor Bing Russell. |
| Brent Russell | | Robert Brent Russell (born 5 March 1980) is a South African rugby union player. |
| Brenda Russell | | Brenda Russell (born Brenda Gordon, April 8, 1949, Brooklyn, New York) is an African American singer-songwriter and keyboardist. |
| Jeff Russell | | Jeffrey Lee Russell (born September 2, 1961 Cincinnati, Ohio) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played 14 years from 1983 to 1996. |
| Bing Russell | | Bing Russell (May 5, 1926 ? April 8, 2003) was an American actor, and was the father of Golden Globe-nominated actor Kurt Russell. |
| Ty Russell | | Ty Russell (born Colorado, USA) was an American pornographic actor who appeared in gay pornographic movies in the mid-1990s, and a male prostitute. |
| Bill Russell | | William Ellis Russell (born October 21 1948, in Pittsburg, Kansas) is a former shortstop, coach and manager in Major League Baseball. |
| Charlie L. Russell | | Charlie Louis Russell, Jr. |
| Steven Jay Russell | | Steven Jay Russell (born September 14 1957) is a US con artist and impostor who has escaped from prison a number of times. |
| Darrell Russell | | Darrell A. |
| Bob Russell | | Bob Russell (January 1, 1908, Passaic, New Jersey ? January 24, 1998, Sarasota, Florida) was an American entertainer, best known for hosting the Miss America pageant during the years of 1940 to 1946, 1948 to 1950 and 1954. |
| Karen Russell | | Karen Russell is a Seattle attorney, television pundit, and political strategist, and a graduate of Mercer Island High School, Georgetown University and Harvard Law School. |
| John Henry Russell | | Rear Admiral John Henry Russell (4 July 1827 ? 1 April 1897) was an officer of the United States Navy during the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. |
| Bibi Russell | | Bibi Russell (Bangla: ???? ?????) is a fashion designer and former international model from Bangladesh. |
| Alfred Francis Russell | | Alfred Francis Russell (born 25 August 1817 in Lexington, Kentucky, U. |
| Tom Russell | | Thomas George "Tom" Russell (born March 5, 1953 in Los Angeles) is an American singer-songwriter. |
| James R. Russell | | James Robert Russell (born in 1953, New York City) is a scholar and professor in Ancient Near Eastern, Iranian and Armenian Studies. |
| Dwayne Russell | | Dwayne Russell (born 4 March 1965) is a former Australian rules footballer and currently a commentator of the sport. |
| Jonathan Russell | | Jonathan Russell (February 27, 1771 ? February 17, 1832) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts and diplomat. |
| Sid Russell | | Sidney Edward James Russell (4 October 1937 ? 18 June 1994) was an English cricketer and footballer. |
| Micho Russell | | Micho Russell (March 15, 1915 ? February 19, 1994) was an Irish musician and author best known for his expert tin whistle performance. |
| JaMarcus Russell | | JaMarcus Russell (born August 9, 1985 in Mobile, Alabama) is an American football quarterback who plays for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. |
| William A. Russell | | William Augustus Russell (April 22, 1831 ? January 10, 1899) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. |
| Thomas Russell | | Thomas Paliser Russell (21 November 1767 ? 21 October 1803) was a co-founder and leader of the United Irishmen who was executed for his part in Robert Emmet's rebellion in 1803. |
| Patrick Russell | | Patrick Russell (6 February 1726, Edinburgh - 2 July 1805) was a Scottish surgeon and naturalist who worked in India. |
| David Russell | | David Russell GC (30 March 1911-February 1945) was a Lance Corporal with the 22nd (Motor) Battalion, New Zealand Infantry, 2nd NZEF, who was awarded the George Cross posthumously after being executed by German forces in Italy. |
| Richard M. Russell | | Richard Manning Russell (March 3, 1891 ? February 27, 1977) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. |
| Bobby Russell | | Bobby Russell (19 April 1940, Nashville, Tennessee ? 19 november 1992) was a Grammy Award-winning American singer and songwriter. |
| Doug Russell | | Doug Russell is the host of "The Doug Russell Show" weekday mornings from 5a-9a CDT on WSSP in Milwaukee. |
| Craig Russell | | Craig Russell (born 4 February 1974 in South Shields) is an English former footballer. |
| Andy Russell | | Charles Andrew "Andy" Russell (born October 29, 1941 in Detroit, Michigan) wore number 34 as an outside linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1963 and from 1966-1976, the two-year gap being from when Russell temporarily left the team for the Army. |
| Johnny Russell | | John Bright "Johnny" Russell (born January 23, 1940, Sunflower County, Mississippi; died July 3, 2001, Nashville, Tennessee) was an American country singer, songwriter, and comedian famous for his song "Act Naturally," which was made famous by Buck Owens, who recorded it in 1963, and The Beatles in 1965. |
| Corinne Russell | | Corinne Russell (born 22 November 1963 in Birmingham, England) was a Page 3 Girl, Glamour Model and dancer during the 1980s. |
| Sol Smith Russell | | Sol Smith Russell (1848-1902) was an American stage actor, born at Brunswick, Missouri. |
| Benjamin Russell | | Benjamin Russell (September 13, 1761 ? January 4, 1845) was an American journalist, born in Boston. |
| Frederick Stratten Russell | | Sir Frederick Stratten Russell (3 November 1897 ? 5 June 1984) was an English marine biologist. |
| Mary Rhodes Russell | | Mary Rhodes Russell (b. |
| J. Stuart Russell | | Early life and ministry. |
| Samuel Russell | | Samuel Wadsworth Russell, born in Middletown, Connecticut (August 25,1789 ? 1862) was an American entrepreneur and trader, and founder of Russell & Company, the largest and most important American trading house in China from 1842 to its closing in 1891. |
| J. R. Russell | | J. |
| Hugh Russell | | Hugh Russell (born December 15 1959 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a former Irish boxer. |
| Charles Wells Russell | | Charles Wells Russell (July 22, 1818 ? November 22, 1867) was a prominent Confederate States of America politician during the American Civil War. |
| Scott Russell | | Harry Henry Russell, better known as Scott Russell (25 September 1868 and died on 28 August 1949), was an English singer, actor and theatre manager best known for his performances in the tenor roles with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. |
| Erk Russell | | Erskine "Erk" Russell (July 23, 1926 in Birmingham, Alabama - September 8, 2006 in Statesboro, Georgia) was the defensive coordinator for the Georgia Bulldogs for seventeen years (1964-1981) and head football coach (seasons 1981-1989) of the Georgia Southern Eagles. |
| Cliff Russell | | Clifford Antonio Russell (born February 8, 1979 in) is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent after being waived by the Denver Broncos on February 11, 2009. |
| Jack Russell | | Jack Erwin Russell (October 24, 1905 - November 3, 1990) was a Major League Baseball player from 1926 to 1940 for the Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, Detroit Tigers and St. |
| Mike Frank Russell | | Mike Frank Russell (born 1977 n Killorglin, County Kerry) is an Irish sportsperson. |
| Tina Russell | | Tina Russell (September 23, 1948 ? May 18, 1981), was the stage name of a pioneering adult film actress active in New York between about 1970 and 1975. |
| Darel Russell | | Darel Francis Russell (born 22 October 1980 in Mile End, England) is an English footballer, currently playing for Norwich City. |
| William Russell | | William Russell (12 April 1884 ? 18 February 1929) was an American silent film actor. |
| Fred Russell | | Fred "The Hussell" Russell (born September 14, 1980) is an American football player who was previously on the St. |
| Iain Russell | | Iain Thomas Russell (born 14 November, 1982 in Dumfries) is a Scottish professional footballer currently playing as a forward for Alloa Athletic, on loan from Greenock Morton in the Scottish Football League. |
| George Horne Russell | | George Horne Russell (1861?1933) was a Canadian painter. |
| John Russell | | John Russell (September 7, 1772 - August 2, 1842) was a United States Representative from New York. |
| Billy Russell | | William McKnight "Billy" Russell (born September 14 1959 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish former footballer who now works as Centre of Excellence Manager at Hull City, where he has been caretaker manager on three occasions. |
| Walker Russell | | Walker D. |
| Simon Russell | | Simon Craig Russell (born 19 March 1985) is an English footballer who plays for Tamworth as a midfielder, on loan from York City. |
| Ben T. Russell | | Benjamin T. |
| James McPherson Russell | | James McPherson Russell (November 10, 1786 ? November 14, 1870) was a Whig member of the U. |
| Calvin Russell | | Calvin Leon Russell is a former American football wide receiver with the Green Bay Packers in the National Football League. |
| William Greeneberry Russell | | William Greeneberry "Green" Russell (1818-1887) was an American prospector and miner. |
| Scott Russell | | Raymond Scott Russell (born October 28, 1964), aka Mr. |
| David Allen Russell | | David Allen Russell (December 10, 1820 ? September 19, 1864) was a career United States Army officer who served in the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. |
| Scott Russell | | Scott Russell (born 16 January 1979 in Windsor, Ontario), is a male javelin thrower from Canada. |
| David Abel Russell | | David Abel Russell (1780 - November 24, 1861) was a U. |
| David Russell | | David John Russell was born in Leeds in 1952 and attended Leeds Central High School. |
| Michael Russell | | Michael Russell is an American tennis player, best known for holding match point in the 4th round of the 2001 French Open against eventual champion Gustavo Kuerten. |
| Chuck Russell | | Chuck Russell (born August 6, 1952) is an American film director, film producer and actor. |
| Betsy Russell | | Betsy Russell (born September 6, 1963) is an American actress who is best remembered for her roles in several 1980s B movies, and for the role of Jill Tuck, the ex-wife of the sociopathic Jigsaw in the "Saw" film series. |
| Kylee Russell | | Kylee Russell (born October 8, 1996) is an American child actress with film and television credits starting in 2005. |
| Sam Russell | | Samuel R. |
| Joey Russell | | Joey Russell (born June 24, 1988 in Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador) is a Canadian figure skater. |
| Henry Chamberlain Russell | | Henry Chamberlain Russell, CMG, FRS, (17 March 1836 ? 22 February 1907) was an Australian astronomer and meteorologist. |
| Osborne Russell | | Osborne Russell (1814?1892) was a mountain man and politician who helped form the government of the U. |
| Gary Russell | | Gary Russell (born June 5, 1988 in Washington D. |
| Jack Russell | | Jack Russell (born December 5, 1960, Montebello, California), is an American rock vocalist. |
| Brian Russell | | Brian William Russell (born February 5, 1978 in) is an American football safety for the Houston Texans of the National Football League. |
| William Russell | | Sir William Russell (12 November 1838 ? 24 September 1913) was a New Zealand politician from 1870 to 1905. |
| Baker Russell | | General Sir Baker Creed Russell GCB, KCMG was an Australian born British Army officer who served with distinction in the Indian Mutiny, Anglo-Ashanti War, Anglo-Zulu War and Egyptian War. |
| Tom Russell | | Tom Russell is a Scottish radio presenter based in Glasgow. |
| Johnny Russell | | Johnathon "Johnny" Russell (born 8 April 1990 in Glasgow) is a Scottish footballer who currently plays for Raith Rovers on loan from Dundee United. |
| Allen Russell | | Allen E. |
| Charles A. Russell | | Charles Addison Russell (March 2, 1852 - October 23, 1902) was a U. |
| Andrew Hamilton Russell | | Major General Sir Andrew Hamilton Russell KCB, KCMG, DSO (23 February 1868 ? 29 November 1960) was a World War I brigade and divisional commander; commanding initially the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade, then the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) during the evacuation of Gallipoli and subsequently the New Zealand Division on the Western Front. |
| Benjamin E. Russell | | Benjamin Edward Russell (October 5, 1845 - December 4, 1909) was a U. |
| J. Edward Russell | | Joshua Edward Russell (August 9, 1867 - June 21, 1953) was a U. |
| William Russell | | William Russell (1782 ? September 28, 1845) was a United States Representative from Ohio. |
| John Joyce Russell | | John Joyce Russell (December 1, 1897?March 17, 1993) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, serving as Bishop of Richmond from 1958 to 1973. |
| Shirley Ann Russell | | Shirley Ann Russell (March 11, 1935 ? March 4, 2002) was an award-winning British costume designer and the first wife of film director Ken Russell, to whom she was married from 1956 to 1978 and with whom she had five children,Xavier, James, Alexander, Victoria and Toby. |
| Allan Russell | | Allan Russell (born 13 December 1980 in Glasgow) is a Scottish professional football player currently playing for Kilmarnock in the Scottish Premier League as a striker. |
| Twan Russell | | Twan Sanchez Russell (born April 25, 1974 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins, the Miami Dolphins, and the Atlanta Falcons. |
| Bo Russell | | Torrance Albert Russell, Jr. |
| Edward Russell | | Edward Russell (1782-1835) served as Maine's Secretary of State and was a brigadier general. |
| Gary Russell | | Gary Russell (born September 8, 1986 in) is an American football running back for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. |
| Lafayette Russell | | Lafayette H. |
| Richard A. Russell | | Richard A. |
| Scott Russell | | Scott Alexander Russell MA (born 1958) is a Canadian sports writer and broadcaster. |
| Derek Russell | | Derek Russell (born June 22, 1969 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is a former American football wide receiver who played college football at the University of Arkansas and seven seasons in the NFL. |
| Leslie W. Russell | | Leslie Wead Russell (April 15, 1840 Canton, St. |
| Lloyd Russell | | Lloyd Russell (April 10, 1913 ? May 24, 1968) was an American football and baseball coach. |
| John Russell | | John William Russell (born January 5, 1961 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is a former catcher and outfielder in Major League Baseball, and the current manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates. |
| Doug Russell | | Dougal Russell, Jr. |
| Sam Russell | | Samuel Ian Russell (born 4 October 1982) is an English footballer, who plays as a goalkeeper for Wrexham. |
| William Russell | | General William Russell (1735 ? January 14, 1793) was an American Revolutionary War officer and a prominent early settler of southwestern Virginia. |
| Kevin Russell | | An England Youth internationalKevin Russell (nicknamed "Rooster" early in his career because of his quiff); later to lose all his hair) was a professional footballer (soccer player) who played for 11 clubs in a career spanning nearly 20 years. |
| Adam Russell | | Adam W. |
| Philip Welsford Richmond Russell | | Philip Welsford Richmond Russell (born 21 October 1919, Durban, South Africa) was the Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa from 1980 to 1986. |
| John Russell | | John Russell (born 18 of May 1985 in Galway) is a professional footballer. |
| Blake Russell | | Blake Russell is a runner originally from Winston-Salem, North Carolina and currently residing in Pacific Grove, California. |
| Calvin Russell | | Calvin Russell (born Nov 1 1948 in Austin, Texas), as the 6th of nine children, is an American roots rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. |
| Claude Russell | | Claude Russell was the first Collector of Aligarh District. |
| Barbara Russell | | Barbra Russell (born in Avenel, New Jersey) is an American stage actor, singer, and Broadway producer. |
| Colin Russell | | Colin Russell (born July 2, 1984 in Oshawa, Ontario) is a Canadian swimmer. |
| Charles Sawyer Russell | | Charles Sawyer Russell (March 15, 1831 ? November 2, 1866) was a United States Army general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. |
| John Russell | | John Russell CBE (22 January 1919 ? 23 August 2008) was a British American art critic. |
| Ted Russell | | (George Edward) Ted Russell (1 April 1912 ? 28 November 2004) was an Irish politician and company director. |
| Craig L. Russell | | Craig L. |
| John Russell | | John Russell was an administrator of the English East India Company. |
| Archibald Russell | | Sir Archibald Russell (30 May 1904 ? 29 May 1995) was a British aerospace engineer who worked most of his career at the Bristol Aeroplane Company, before becoming managing director of the Filton Division when Bristol merged into British Aircraft Corporation in 1960. |
| Ben J. Russell | | Benjamin John Russell was born 9 July 1984 in Guildford, England. |
| Donald J. Russell | | Donald Joseph Russell (1900?1985) was an American railroad executive. |
| Peter Russell | | Edwin Peter Russell (commonly known as Peter Russell; born August 12, 1939) was an English cricketer. |
| Michael Russell | | Michael Russell (1920 ? 12 January, 2009) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Waterford and Lismore in Ireland from 1965 to 1993. |
| Ashley J Russell | | Ashley J Russell (born 1983 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish actress and singer who competed as one of the finalists in the BBC talent show-themed television series "I'd Do Anything" in 2008. |
| Richard John Russell | | Richard John Russell (12 April 1872 ? 5 February 1943) was a British dental surgeon and Liberal later Liberal National politician. |
| Martin Russell | | Martin Christopher Russell (born 27 April 1967) is an Irish former professional footballer who played in the Football League for Birmingham City, Leicester City, Scarborough and Middlesbrough. |
| David Lynn Russell | | David Lynn Russell (born 1942) is a United States federal judge. |
| Robert Lee Russell | | Robert Lee Russell (August 19, 1900 ? January 18, 1955) was a United States federal judge. |
| Lefty Russell | | Clarence Dickson "Lefty" Russell (July 8, 1890 ? January 22, 1962) was an American professional baseball player who played three seasons for the Philadelphia Athletics from through. |
| Carolyn Russell | | Carolyn Russell (born May 18, 1974 in Montreal, Quebec) is a professional female squash player who represented Canada during her career. |
| Jack Russell | | Cecil John "Jack" Russell (19 June 1904 ? 1995) was an English professional footballer who scored 74 goals in 250 appearances in the Football League playing for Birmingham, Bristol Rovers, Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic, Luton Town and Norwich City. |
| Zella Russell | | Zella Russell was a well known vaudevillian star from about 1912 to the late 1940s on the Columbia circuit. |
| William A. Russell | | William A. |
| Gilbert C. Russell | | Gilbert Christian Russell (May 18, 1782 - May 25, 1861) was an American military officer who served during the Creek War. |
| William Russell | | William Russell (11 November 1740-1818), Birmingham merchant, was a practical Christian, a practising Unitarian Dissenter, and a close friend and sponsor of Joseph Priestley. |
| Guy Russell | | Guy Robert Russell (born 28 September 1967) is an English former professional footballer and manager who played in the Football League for Birmingham City and Carlisle United. |
| William Fletcher Russell | | William Fletcher Russell (May 18, 1890 - March 26, 1956) was an U. |
| Daniel J. Russell | | Daniel J. |
| Edwin F. Russell | | Edwin F. |
| Cynthia Cary Van Pelt Russell | | Cynthia Cary Van Pelt Russell (born 1924) is an American socialite, who was part of American 'High Society' in New York and Newport, Rhode Island. |
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