Gordon may refer to any of the following:
People
Gordon is a traditional
Scottish clan name (see
Clan Gordon) and it is now a common given name and a less common surname. It is thought to be Celtic for "great hill" from the Celtic words "gor" which means "great" and "dun" which means "hill". It is also found as the surname of some Eastern European Jews; its origin in this usage is unclear.
As a surname
- Charles George Gordon
- Aharon David Gordon (Aaron David Gordon)
- Ben Gordon, American basketball player
- Charles Gordon (disambiguation page)
- Rabbi Eliezer Gordon, a Lithuanian Rosh Yeshiva
- Jacob Gordon, see Jacob Gordin
- Jeff Gordon, NASCAR driver
- John Gordon (disambiguation page)
- Michael Gordon (disambiguation page)
- Robby Gordon, NASCAR driver
- Stuart Gordon, an American director
- Tom Gordon (b. 1967), an American baseball pitcher
- Jay Gordon, musican
- Mikalah Gordon, (b. 1988), American Idol 4 contestant
Nobility
As a given name
Fictional characters
- Flash Gordon, the lead character of a comic book series by the same name, and the movie and cartoon series based on it.
- Commissioner Gordon, the commissioner of Gotham City in Batman
- Barbara Gordon, the first Batgirl, now the information broker known as Oracle.
- Gordon the Big Engine is engine number 4 in the Thomas the Tank Engine series
- Gordon Freeman, the main character in the Half Life series.
- Gordon Robinson, from the popular children's educational television program Sesame Street
- Gordon Shumway (aka Alf Tanner), an alien from Melmak, the title character of the sitcom ALF
- Gordon, the pet devil of Ackman in Akira Toriyama's manga series Go Go Ackman and its video game adaptation
- Gordon, the first archer to appear in the series Fire Emblem.
- Gordon Deitrich, a character in the film V for Venedetta.
Places
Scotland
Australia
United States
- Gordon, Alabama
- Gordon, Georgia
- Gordon, Nebraska
- Gordon, Ohio
- Gordon, Pennsylvania
- Gordon, Texas
- Gordon, Ashland County, Wisconsin
- Gordon, Douglas County, Wisconsin
- Gordon County, Georgia
- Gordon Township, Minnesota
- Gordon Heights, New York
Other uses
Surnames
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