Fitch 624912 217857681 2008-06-08T00:53:31Z NorthernFalcon 2559917 {{Family name | name = Fitch |image= Fitchcoatofarmsbest.png |imagesize= 75px |caption= Fitch family [[coat of arms]] | pronunciation = Fitch | meaning = | region = [[Norman language|Norman]] | origin = Norman | related names = [[Fytche]], [[Ffytche]], [[Fitche]], [[Fitcher]], [[Fittje]], and [[Fitchy]] | footnotes = <ref>[http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/names_files.html 1990 Census Name Files<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> }} '''Fitch''' is an [[England|English]] surname, and may refer to several people, concepts and places: == Family name== * [[Alfred Fitch]], American Olympian * [[Alison Fitch]], New Zealand Olympian * [[Alva Revista Fitch]], U.S. Army Lieutenant General * [[Anne Fitch]], illustrator of New Belgium Brewery's beer labels * [[Aubrey Fitch]], U.S. Naval Admiral * [[Asa Fitch]], American entomologist * [[Bill Fitch]], basketball coach * [[Brian T. Fitch]], French-Canadian nonfiction author * [[Charles Fitch]], American preacher * [[Clyde Fitch]], American playwright * [[Dennis E. Fitch]], NASA safety consultant * [[Ezra Fitch]], New York lawyer and cofounder of Abercrombie & Fitch, a clothing company * [[Frederic Brenton Fitch]], American logician and inventor of Fitch-style calculus * [[Frederick W. Fitch]], American barber and creator of Fitch's Dandruff Remover Shampoo * [[George Fitch]], American author * [[George Ashmore Fitch]], YMCA Administrative Director * [[George B. Fitch]], American businessman, politician, and Olympic organizer * [[Gerald Fitch]], U.S. basketball player * [[Graham Fitch]], Pianist * [[Graham N. Fitch]], United States Representative and Senator * [[Hannah Fitch (Shaw)]], cofounder, Kappa Alpha Theta * [[Henry Sheldon Fitch]], American herpetologist * [[Horatio Fitch]], American Olympian * [[Jabez W. Fitch]], Democratic lieutenant-governor of [[Ohio]] from 1878 to 1880 * [[James Marston Fitch]], historic preservationist * [[James P. Fitch]], notable in the early history of the Boy Scouts of America * [[Janet Fitch]], American author * [[John Fitch (inventor)]], early American inventor, built the first steamboat in the United States in 1786 * [[John Fitch (settler)]], Massachusetts settler for whom [[Fitchburg, Massachusetts]] is named * John Fitch, [[List of historical gang members of New York City|historical gang member of New York City]] during a period from 1825 to 1920, a subject of Herbert Asbury's ''The Gangs of New York'' * [[John Fitch (driver)]], racetrack driver and inventor of innovative safety devices * [[John A. Fitch]], writer and professor of labor relations * [[John Knowles Fitch]], founder of Fitch Ratings, Ltd. * [[Jon Fitch]], American mixed martial arts fighter * [[Joyce Fitch]], Australian tennis player * [[LeRoy Fitch]], officer during the American Civil War * [[Nancy Fitch]], Professor of History, Cal State/Fullerton * [[Noël Riley Fitch]], author * [[Ralph Fitch]], British merchant-explorer of India and Burma * [[R. Bruce Fitch]], Progressive Conservative New Brunswick Cabinet Minister * [[Sheree Fitch]], Canadian children's author * [[Thomas Fitch (governor)]], Governor of the Connecticut Colony 1754–1766 * [[Thomas Fitch (politician)]], Nevada politician * [[Val Logsdon Fitch]], Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist * [[W. Tecumseh Fitch]], evolutionary psychologist * [[William Fitch Allen]], Judge of the New York Court of Appeals * Fitch family, founders of the [[Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad]] == Place names == * [[Fitch, North Carolina]] * [[Fitch's Covered Bridge]], Delhi, New York * [[Fitch Township, Ohio]] * [[Mount Fitch]], in Massachusetts, on the Appalachian Trail * [[Fitchburg, Massachusetts]] * [[Fitchburg, Michigan]] * [[Fitchburg, Kentucky]] * [[Fitchburg, Wisconsin]] * [[Fitchville, Connecticut]] * [[Fitch Senior High School]], Groton, Connecticut * [[YMCA Camp Fitch, Lake Erie, Ohio]], a YMCA camp named after George Ashmore Fitch * [[YMCA Camp Fitch, Springfield, Pennsylvania]] a YMCA camp named after John H. Fitch * Fitche Square, former name for [[Mahabandoola]] Park in Rangoon == Business names == * [[Abercrombie & Fitch]], clothiers * [[Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery]], Chicago's oldest law firm * [[Fitch Ratings]], Ltd., an international credit rating agency * [[Fitchburg Railroad]], named for the Massachusetts town ==Ships== * [[USS Fitch (DD-462)|USS ''Fitch'' (DD-462)]], a US Navy destroyer * [[USS Aubrey Fitch (FFG-34)|USS ''Aubrey Fitch'' (FFG-34)]], a U.S. Naval ship == Heraldry == * Fitch (or cross fitchy), a [[cross]] in heraldry where the lower part is shaped like a sword blade == Animals and plants == * Fitch, the [[European polecat]] (''Mustela putorius''), a ferret-like predatory mammal * Fitch, the spice kalonji, the seed of ''[[Nigella sativa]]'' (used in the King James's Version of the Bible) == References == <references/> ==External links== *[http://www.fitchfamily.com/ Fitch Family History and Genealogy] *[http://rac.neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk/Books/FitchBooks/HOFF.HTM History of the Fitch Family 1400-1930] {{disambig}} [[de:Fitch]] [[eo:Fitch]] [[fr:John Fitch]]