Pigott (surname)

Pigott and Piggott are English surnames.

The Pigott Baronetcy is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain.

Derivation and variants

The name Pigott / Piggott is derived from Picot. The latter is recorded as a given name in the Domesday Book, but its origin is unclear. It may stem from the Germanic or Old English pic, a sharply pointed hill, being applied to residents living near such a feature, or could have been used for a tall, thin person as pic could mean a sharp or pointed tool. William Camden suggested a derivation from Old French picote meaning pock-marked, freckled.

Pigot and Pickett are variant forms.

People with the surname Pigott

• Donald Pigott (1928–2022), British botanist
• Edward Pigott (1753–1825), English astronomer, son of Nathaniel, also an astronomer
• Eugene F. Pigott Jr. (born 1946), American jurist
• Florence Pigott (1878–1899), English operatic singer and ballet dancer
• Francis Pigott (1665–1704), English composer
• Francis Pigott Stainsby Conant (1810–1863), British politician
• Fred Pigott (1895–1979), British mountaineer
• Gwyn Hanssen Pigott (1935–2013), Australian potter
• Jean Pigott (1924–2012), Canadian politician
• Jean Sophia Pigott (1845–1882), Irish poet
• Joe Pigott (born 1993), English footballer
• John Pigott (c. 1550 – by 1627), English politician
• Marjorie Pigott (1904–1990), Canadian artist
• Mark Pigott (born 1954), American businessman
• Mostyn Pigott (1865–1927), English humorist, writer and barrister
• Nathaniel Pigott (1725–1804), English astronomer
• Nick Pigott (born 1951), British editor of The Railway Magazine
• Richard Pigott (1835–1889), Irish journalist and forger
• Stuart Pigott (born 1960), British wine critic
• Tim Pigott-Smith (1946–2017), British actor
• Tony Pigott (1958–2026), English cricketer
• William Pigott (1839–1909), English-born Zimbabwean politician
• William Trigg Pigott (1860–1944), Justice of the Montana Supreme Court

People with the surname Piggott

• Derek Piggott (1922–2019), British glider pilot
• Emeline Piggott (1836–1919), Confederate States of America spy
• Francis Taylor Piggott (1852–1925), British jurist and scholar of Japan
• Jim Piggott, Canadian ice hockey player, after whom the Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy is named
• Joan R. Piggott (born 1947), American historian
• Lester Piggott (1935–2022), British jockey
• Marcus Piggott, Welsh fashion photographer
• Pércival Piggott (born 1966), Panamanian footballer
• Patrick Piggott (1915–1990), English composer, pianist and musicologist
• Rosslynd Piggott (born 1958), Australian installation artist and painter
• Stuart Piggott (1910–1996), British archaeologist
• Tracy Piggott (born 1966), British jockey and broadcaster working in Ireland, daughter of Lester Piggott
• Victor Herrera Piggott (born 1980), Panamanian footballer
• William Roy Piggott (1914–2008), British scientist

Fictional characters

• Owd Grandad Piggott, character on BBC Radio Stoke
• William Piggott, minor character in Quality Street, 1964

See also

• Pigot (surname)
• Pigot (disambiguation); other meanings of Pigot, Pigott, Piggott, Pigotts and Piggotts

References