Tweedie is a surname of Scottish origin. The name is a habitational name from Tweedie, located in the parish of Stonehouse, south of Glasgow. The origin and meaning of the name is unknown.Tweedie Name Meaning and History Retrieved on 2012-07-13 Notable people with the surname include:
Alexander Tweedie (1794–1884), Scottish physician and writer Andrew Tweedie (born 1975), South African cricketer Charles Tweedie (1868–1925), Scottish mathematician Dave Tweedie (born 1968), American composer, musician and record producer David Tweedie (accountant) (born 1944), Scottish accountant David Tweedie (mathematician) (1865–1934), Scottish mathematician David J. Tweedie (1870–1926), Scottish mathematician Ethel Brilliana Tweedie (1862–1940), British author and feminist Frederick Tweedie (1877–1943), Canadian politician George R. Tweedie (1857–1937), English businessman Herbert J. Tweedie (1864–1906), English golf course designer Hugh Tweedie, English naval officer Irina Tweedie (1907–1999), Russian-British Sufi Jill Tweedie (1936–1993), British feminist, writer and broadcaster Lemuel John Tweedie (1849–1917), Canadian politician, father of Frederick Mark Tweedie (born 1956), American politician Maurice Tweedie (1919–1996), British medical physicist and statistician Merylyn Tweedie (born 1953), New Zealand artist Michael Tweedie (1907–1993), naturalist and archaeologist Penny Tweedie (1940–2011), English photojournalist Richard Tweedie (1947–2001), Australian statistician Rob Tweedie (born 1979), American musician Sandie Tweedie (born 1985), Co-founder of Watermelon Tattoo ltd Scott Tweedie (born 1988), Australian television and radio presenter Stephen Tweedie (born 1969), Scottish software developer Thomas Tweedie (1871–1944), Canadian politician and jurist William Tweedie (1836–1914), Scottish major general and diplomat William King Tweedie (1803–1863), Scottish Presbyterian minister William Menzies Tweedie (1826–1878), Scottish portrait painter
See also Clan Tweedie, a Scottish clan, or historical family in Scotland Tweedie, Alberta Tweedie distribution, any of a certain parameterized family of probability distributions Tweedy (disambiguation), a variant of name Tweedie
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