Bacon is an English surname originally from Normandy and England.

Etymology

Its etymology is uncertain, with Charnock favoring a derivation from a diminutive of Germanic bach ("little stream, creek") and others from an eponymous seigniory in Normandy or from a corruption of Beacon.

People

  • Albion Fellows Bacon (1865–1933), American reformer and writer
  • Alice Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Alice Martha Bacon (1909–1993), English politician and baroness
  • Amanda Chantal Bacon, American entrepreneur
  • Anne Bacon (–1610), English scholar, translator, and lady of the British court
  • Anthony Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Anthony Bacon (1796–1864), British cavalry officer during the Napoleonic wars
  • Anthony Bacon (1718–1786), English-born merchant and industrialist
  • Antoinette Frissell Bacon (1907–1988), American photographer; better known as Toni Frissell
  • Arthur Bacon (1905–1942), English footballer
  • Augustus Octavius Bacon (1839–1914), American politician
  • Benjamin Wisner Bacon (1860–1932), American theologian
  • Benoit-Antoine Bacon, Canadian neuropsychologist
  • Bertha Bacon (1866–1922), British suffragette
  • Brady Bacon ( 1990), American race car driver
  • (1580–1661), English politician; one of the Bacon baronets
  • Cecil Walter Bacon (1905–1992), British artist and illustrator
  • Charles Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Charles Bacon (1821–1886), English sculptor
  • Charlotte Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Charlotte Bacon (1801–1880), English aristocrat
  • Christopher Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Christopher Gerald Bacon ( 1969), Australian Olympic judoka and boxer
  • Christylez Bacon ( 1986), American hip-hop musician
  • Clara Latimer Bacon (1866–1948), American mathematician
  • Clarence George "Clarrie" Bacon (1889–1954), English footballer; better known as Clarrie Bacon
  • Cyril Bacon (1919–2001), English footballer
  • Cyrus Bacon (–1873), American politician
  • C. Everett "Ev" Bacon (1890–1989), American football player from Wesleyan University, in College Football Hall of Fame
  • C. Shannon Bacon ( 1971 or 1972), American judge
  • Daisy Sarah Bacon (1898–1986), American magazine editor
  • Daniel Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Daniel Stanton Bacon (1798–1866), American politician and judge
  • David Bacon (disambiguation)
  • David Bacon (1771–1817), American missionary and explorer
  • David Bacon ( 1948), American photojournalist
  • David F. Bacon ( 1963), American computer programmer
  • Delia Bacon (1811–1859), American Anti-Stratfordian
  • Dick Bacon (1932–2000), nudist from Wisconsin
  • Dolores Bacon (1870–1934), American novelist
  • Donald Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Donald Frederick Bacon (1926–2020), New Zealand microbiologist
  • Donald John Bacon ( 1935), American baseball player and manager
  • Donald John Bacon ( 1963), American politician
  • Dorothy Bacon, American lawn and indoor bowls player
  • Dorothy Carolin Bacon (1902–1998), American economist
  • Dwayne Bacon ( 1995), American basketball player
  • Edgar Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Edgar Hugh Bacon (1887–1963), British wrestler
  • Edmund Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Edmund Bacon (1785–1866), American business manager and overseer for Thomas Jefferson
  • Edmund Bacon (1910–2005), American urban planner
  • Edmund Castell Bacon (1903–1982), knighted British landowner and businessman; one of the Bacon baronets
  • Edward Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Edward Denny Bacon (1860–1938), knighted British philatelist and curator (1913–1938) of the Royal Philatelic Collection
  • Edward Woolsey Bacon (1843–1887), American Congregational preacher and writer
  • Edwin Munroe Bacon (1844–1916), American writer and editor
  • Elijah William Bacon (–1864), Union Army Medal of Honor recipient
  • Elizabeth Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Elizabeth Bacon (–1621), English aristocrat
  • Elizabeth Daken Bacon (1844–1917), American suffragist and educator
  • Emily Bacon (1891–1972), American pediatrician
  • Ephraim Bacon (–1826), American church minister
  • Ernest Aubrey Bacon (1893–1966), British wrestler and civil servant
  • Ernest Frederick Bacon (1896–1972), English footballer
  • Ernst Lecher Bacon (1898–1990), American composer and pianist
  • Eugen Bacon, Tanzanian-Australian computer scientist and author of speculative fiction
  • Eugenia Jones Bacon (1840–1920), American writer
  • Eugenia McKenzie Bacon (1853–1933), American suffragist and public library advocate
  • Eva Bacon (1909–1994), Australian socialist, feminist, and pacifist
  • Evan Bacon ( 1997), American LEGO-artist and software developer
  • Evelyn Louise Bacon ( 1949), Canadian politician
  • Ezekiel Bacon (1776–1870), American politician
  • Faith Bacon (1910 –1956), American dancer and actress
  • Francis Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Francis Bacon (1561–1626), knighted and ennobled English lawyer, philosopher, statesman, and author
  • Francis Bacon (1909–1992), Anglo-Irish painter
  • Francis Thomas Bacon (1904–1992), British engineer
  • Frank Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Frank Bacon (1864–1922), American actor and playwright
  • Frank Leander Bacon (1841–1917), American politician
  • Frederick Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Frederick E. Bacon ( 1954) British runner
  • Frederick James Bacon (1871–1948) American banjoist and banjo manufacturer
  • Frederick Stanley Bacon (1877–1861) American Football coach
  • Gareth Andrew Bacon ( 1972), British Conservative politician
  • Gaspar Griswold Bacon Sr. (1886–1947), American politician
  • George Bacon (disambiguation)
  • George Blagden Bacon (1836–1876), American Congregational preacher and writer
  • George Washington Bacon (1830–1922), American cartographer and publisher
  • Georgeanna Muirson Woolsey Bacon (1833–1906), American author and nurse; better known as Georgeanna Woolsey
  • Gertrude Bacon (1874–1949), British writer, aeronaut and botanist
  • Guy Bacon (1936–2018), Canadian politician
  • Helen Hazard Bacon (1919–2007), American classical philologist
  • Henry Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Henry Bacon (1839–1912), American painter
  • Henry Bacon (1866–1924), American architect
  • Irving Bacon (1893–1965), American character actor
  • James Bacon (disambiguation)
  • James Bacon (1798–1895), British judge
  • James Alexander Bacon (1950–2004), Premier of Tasmania, Australia
  • James Arthur Bacon (1896–1968), Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer
  • Jamie, Jonathan, and Jarrod Bacon, Canadian gangsters
  • Janet Ruth Bacon (1891–1965), British educator
  • Jaylen Bacon ( 1996), American sprinter
  • Jean Bacon ( 1942), British computer scientist
  • Jennifer Bacon, American attorney, educator, and politician
  • Jeremiah S. Bacon (1858–1939), American politician
  • Joanna Bacon ( 1962), British architect
  • John Bacon (disambiguation)
  • John Bacon (–1347), English Carmelite friar and philosopher better known as John Baconthorpe
  • John Bacon (1728–1820), United States Representative from Massachusetts
  • John Bacon Sr. (1740–1799), British sculptor
  • John Bacon Jr. (1777–1859), British sculptor
  • John Edmund Bacon (1830–1897), American lawyer, politician, diplomat, and judge
  • John Henry Frederick Bacon (1865–1914), British painter and illustrator
  • John Mackenzie Bacon (1846–1904), English astronomer, aeronaut, and lecturer
  • John Mosby Bacon (1844–1913), United States Army general
  • Jonathan Edward James Bacon ( 1979), software engineer and Ubuntu Community Manager; better known as Jono Bacon
  • Joséphine Bacon ( 1947), Innu poet
  • Josephine Daskam Bacon (1876–1961), American writer
  • Jules S. Bacon (1917–2007), American bodybuilder
  • Kelyn Meher Bacon ( 1973), knighted British judge; also known as Kelyn Meher Bacon Darwin
  • Kenneth Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Kenneth Hogate Bacon (1944–2009), American journalist
  • Kenneth John Bacon ( 1944), Australian politician
  • Katherine Bacon (1896–1982), English classical pianist
  • Kevin Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Kevin Norwood Bacon ( 1958), American film actor
  • Lander McCoy Bacon (1942–2008), American football defensive lineman; better known as Coy Bacon
  • Lee Bacon ( 1979), American children's author
  • Leonard Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Leonard Bacon (1802–1881), American Congregational preacher and writer
  • Leonard Bacon (1887–1954), American poet, translator, and literary critic
  • Lindo Bacon, American nutritionist
  • Lise Bacon (1934–2025), Canadian politician
  • Liz Bacon ( 1963), Canadian professor of computer science
  • Lloyd Francis Bacon (1889–1955), American actor
  • Lori Bacon ( 1959), Canadian entrepreneur
  • Louis Bacon (1904–1967), American jazz musician
  • Louis Moore Bacon ( 1956), American hedge fund manager and billionaire
  • Louisa Mary Bacon (1800–1885), British musician and writer; better known as Louisa Barwell
  • Lucy Angeline Bacon (1857–1932), American artist
  • Mabel Marks Bacon (1876 –1966), American hotelier
  • Mae Bacon (1897–1981), British actress
  • Mark Reeves Bacon (1852–1941), American politician
  • Margaret Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Margaret Frances Bacon (1895–1987), American artist and author; better known as Peggy Bacon
  • Margaretha "Greta" Bacon (1903–1977), American singer; better known as Greta Keller
  • Maria "Madi" Helena Bacon (1906–2001), American musician, choral conductor, educator, and athlete; better known as Madi Bacon
  • Marjorie May Bacon (1902–1988), English printmaker and painter
  • Mary Bacon (1948–1991), American thoroughbred jockey and model
  • Mathew Bacon (), British legal writer
  • Matthew Boyce Bacon ( 1993), New Zealand cricketer
  • Max Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Max Bacon, British rock singer for Nightwing and GTR
  • Max E. Bacon ( 1941), Missouri jurist and legislator
  • Michael Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Michael Bacon ( 1949), American musician
  • Montagu Bacon (1688–1749), English scholar and critic
  • Nathaniel Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Nathaniel Bacon ( 1622), English lawyer and politician
  • Nathaniel Bacon (1585–1627), knighted English painter, landowner and horticulturist
  • Nathaniel Bacon (1593–1660), English politician
  • Nathaniel Bacon (1647–1676), Virginia colonist and instigator of Bacon's Rebellion
  • Nicholas Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Nicholas Bacon (1510–1579), English politician during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal
  • Nicholas Bacon (–1624), English politician and the first man created a baronet; first of the Bacon baronets
  • Nicholas Bacon (–1687) English politician
  • Nicholas Hickman Ponsonby Bacon ( 1953), British baronet, lawyer, and Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II; one of the Bacon baronets
  • Nicky Daniel Bacon (1945–2010), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient; better known as Nick Bacon
  • Orrin Bacon (1821–1893), American politician
  • Paul Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Paul Bacon (1907–1999), French politician
  • Percy Charles Haydon Bacon, British stained-glass artist and sculptor
  • Peter Child Bacon (1804–1886), American lawyer
  • Phanuel Bacon (1700–1783), English playwright, poet, and author
  • Philemon Bacon ( 1666), captain in the Royal Navy
  • Philip John Bacon ( 1947), Australian art dealer and philanthropist
  • Phoebe Bacon ( 2002), American swimmer
  • Randall Bacon, American actor and former football player
  • Ranulph Robert Maunsell Bacon (1906–1988), British police officer
  • Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon (1863–1952), Royal Navy admiral
  • Richard Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Richard Michael Bacon ( 1962), British politician
  • Richard Paul Bacon ( 1975), English television and radio presenter
  • Rick Bacon ( 1955), Canadian volleyball player
  • Robert Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Robert Bacon ( 1248), English Dominican writer
  • Robert Bacon (1860–1919), American diplomat
  • Robert Low Bacon (1884–1938), American politician
  • Roger Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Roger Bacon (1214–1295), Franciscan friar, English philosopher
  • Romain Bacon ( 1990), French cyclist
  • Ronald Bacon ( 1946), American respiratory therapist and politician
  • Ronald Alfred Sydney Bacon (1935–2020), English footballer
  • Ruth Elizabeth Bacon (1908–1985), American foreign service officer
  • Samuel Bacon (1781–1820), American lawyer, newspaper editor, and colonist
  • Sarah Bacon ( 1996), American diver
  • Scott Bacon ( 1977), Australian politician, son of Jim Bacon
  • Selden Daskam Bacon (1909–1992), Yale professor of sociology and alcoholism researcher
  • Sosie Ruth Bacon ( 1992), American film actress
  • Stanley Vivian Bacon (1885–1952), British wrestler
  • Steevi Bacon, musician from London
  • Sylvia A. Bacon (1931–2023), judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
  • Thomas Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Thomas Bacon ( 1559), English academic
  • Thomas Bacon (1711/1712–1768), Anglican clergyman
  • Thomas Rutherford Bacon (1850–1913), American Congregational preacher, writer, professor of history
  • Timothy Alan Bacon (1964–2016), British actor and restaurateur
  • Tony Bacon, American table football player
  • Venancio "Anciong" Bacon, inventor of Balintawak Eskrima
  • Virginia Cleaver Bacon (1883–1930), Oregon State Librarian
  • Virginia Purdy Bacon (1853–1919), American heiress and art dealer
  • Waine Bacon ( 1979), American football player
  • Waller Bacon (–1734), British lawyer and Whig politician
  • Walter Bacon (disambiguation), several people
  • Wendy Bacon ( 1946), Australian academic, investigative journalist, and political activist
  • William Johnson Bacon (1803–1889), American politician and judge
  • William Thompson Bacon (1812–1881), American minister, editor, and author
  • Winchel Dailey Bacon (1816–1894), American politician
  • W. Meredith Bacon, American political scientist and LGBT rights activist
  • Yehuda Bacon ( 1929), Israeli artist and Holocaust survivor

Other people with the name "Bacon"

  • Albert Bacon Fall (1861–1944), American politician
  • Anne Bacon Drury (1572–1624), English literary patron
  • Bacon Rind (–1932), Osage politician
  • Camille Bacon-Smith, American scholar and novelist
  • Elizabeth Bacon Custer (1842–1933), American journalist and memoirist
  • Florence Hannah Bacon Marsh (1881–1948), British botanist
  • George Bacon Wood (1797–1879), American physician
  • Harriet Bacon MacDonald (1865–1935), American musician
  • John Bacon McDonald (1859–1927), United States Army general
  • John Bacon Sawrey Morritt (–1843), British politician
  • Joseph Bacon Fraser Sr. (1895–1971), United States Army general
  • Joseph Bacon Fraser Jr. (1926–2014), American architect
  • June Bacon-Bercey (1928–2019), American meteorologist
  • Linus Bacon Comins (1817–1892), American politician
  • Matthew Bacon Sellers Jr. (1869–1932), American inventor and scientist
  • Peter Bacon Hales (1950–2014), American historian, professor, musician, and photographer
  • Samuel Bacon Hillocks (1869–1937), Canadian politician, minister, and inventor
  • Sarah Bacon Tunnicliff (1872–1957), American clubwoman
  • Sydney Bacon Palmer (1890–1954), British clubman
  • Thomas Bacon Fugate (1899–1980), American politician
  • Tilman Bacon Parks (1872–1950), American lawyer and politician
  • Wilbur Bacon Camp (1860–1918), American architect
  • Wilford Bacon Hoggatt (1865–1938), American naval officer and sixth Governor of the District of Alaska
  • William Bacon Oliver (1867–1948), American politician
  • William Bacon Stevens (1815–1887), American bishop
  • William Bacon Wright (1830–1895), Confederate politician

Fictional characters

  • Abra Bacon, character in John Steinbeck's East of Eden
  • Don Bacon, the main antagonist of the mobile game Angry Birds Evolution
  • Sam Bacon, character in Grange Hill

Further lists

  • Ed Bacon (disambiguation)
  • General Bacon
  • Justice Bacon (disambiguation)
  • Senator Bacon
  • Bacon baronets, a position in the English peerage held by several Bacons

See also

  • Bacon (disambiguation)

References

Citations

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