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Street (surname)

Street is an English surname, deriving from the Latin ', via the Old English stræt, referring to a Roman road. As a toponymic surname, the name may be derived from the villages of Strete in Devon, England, and Streat in Sussex, England. A branch from an English family Street fixated in Portugal, which surname, currently, appears to be used only by the descendants of the Street de Arriaga e Cunha Viscounts and Counts of Carnide. Its arms are: gules, three St. Catherine's wheels argent; crest: a lion assaltant or, against a St. Catherine's wheel gules.

People with the surname

*John Street (footballer, born 1926) (1926–1988), English footballer for Liverpool
*John Street (Australian politician) (1832–1891), MP for East Sydney
*John Street (snooker referee) (1932–2009), British snooker referee
*John Alfred Street (1822–1889), British Army general
*John Ambrose Street (1795–1865), Canadian lawyer and politician
*John F. Street (born 1943), American lawyer and mayor of Philadelphia
*Cecil John Charles Street (1884–1964), British MI7 officer and novelist

Fictional characters

Street family of Australia

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