Fairchild (name)

List of persons with the surname

• Fairchild family, descendants of Thomas Fairchild, son of William Fairchild
• Barbara Fairchild, American country and gospel singer/songwriter from Knobel, Arkansas
• Benjamin L. Fairchild, five-time New York State Republican Congressman
• Caitlin Fairchild, fictional Gen 13 comic book heroine
• Cassius Fairchild, Wisconsin Democratic Party Leader and Union Army Colonel, U.S. Civil War
• Charles Stebbins Fairchild, New York State Attorney General, 38th United States Secretary of Treasury
• David Grandison Fairchild, pioneering industrial botanist, plant explorer, son-in-law of Alexander Graham Bell
• David Fairchild
• Edward Henry Fairchild, abolishionist educator, first President of Berea College, the first fully integrated southern university
• Edward Thomas Fairchild, jurist, Wisconsin Supreme Court
• Edward Thomson Fairchild, New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts President
• Frank Fairchild Wesbrook, First University of British Columbia President.
• Fred Rogers Fairchild, educator/economist, holder of Seymour Knox Chair Professor of Mathematical Institutional Economics Yale University
• George Thompson Fairchild, college educator, President of Michigan State University and Kansas State University
• George Winthrop Fairchild, New York State Senator, Republican National Convention delegate, and co-founder of IBM
• Alexander Graham Bell Fairchild, Harvard-educated entomologist, and grandson of Alexander Graham Bell
• Henry Pratt Fairchild, American sociologist, co-founder of Planned Parenthood
• Herman LeRoy Fairchild, American geologist and college educator, early proponent of theorizing meteorite impact
• Hiram Orlando Fairchild, Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
• James Fairchild, third president of Oberlin College
• Jim Fairchild American singer/songwriter guitarist, Band member of Modest Mouse
• Jairus Cassius Fairchild, first Wisconsin State Treasurer, and first mayor of Madison, Wisconsin
• John Russell Fairchild, Professional basketball player, drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers.
• Karen Fairchild, singer in American Country band, Little Big Town.
• Kelly Fairchild, American ice hockey player
• LeRoy Fairchild, founded the Masonic order, the Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm in 1889
• Lucius Fairchild, Civil War Brigadier General, three-term Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Minister to Spain, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic.
• Lydia Fairchild, one of only 30 known worldwide cases of chimerism
• Megan Fairchild, principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, from Salt Lake City, Utah
• Morgan Fairchild, American actress from Dallas, Texas
• Muir Stephen Fairchild, Four-star General, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
• Robert Fairchild, principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, soloist from Salt Lake City, Utah
• Sherman Mills Fairchild, industrialist inventor, founder of Fairchild Aviation, Fairchild-Strato, Fairchild-Hiller, Fairchild Recording, and Fairchild Camera and Instrument
• Thomas Edward Fairchild, Wisconsin Attorney General, appointed to Wisconsin Supreme Court and U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals after losing the 1952 Wisconsin Senate race to Joseph McCarthy from "McCarthy-ism" fame.