Giffard is an Anglo-Norman surname, carried by a number of families of the Peerage of the United Kingdom and the landed gentry. They included the Earls of Halsbury and the Giffards of Chillington Hall, Staffordshire. Notable people with the surname include:
Giffard is an Anglo-Norman surname, carried by a number of families of the Peerage of the United Kingdom and the landed gentry. They included the Earls...
The Giffard dirigible or Giffard airship was an airship built in France in 1852 by Henri Giffard, the first powered and steerable (French: dirigeable)...
Henri Jacques Giffard (8 February 1825 – 14 April 1882) was a French engineer. In 1852 he invented the steam injector and the powered Giffard dirigible airship...
John Giffard may refer to: John Giffard, 1st Baron Giffard (1232–1299), English nobleman John Giffard (died 1556) (c. 1465–1556), Tudor courtier, soldier...
General Sir George James Giffard, GCB, DSO (27 September 1886 – 17 November 1964) was a British military officer, who had a distinguished career in command...
Ingaret Giffard, Lady Van der Post (1902 – 5 May 1997), was a British actress and writer, and the second wife of Sir Laurens Van der Post (CBE). Born...
Godfrey Giffard (c. 1235 – 1302) was Chancellor of the Exchequer of England, Lord Chancellor of England and Bishop of Worcester. Giffard was a son of Hugh...
Miles William Giffard (1925 – 24 February 1953) was an English cricketer and convicted murderer. He played cricket five times for the Cornwall County...
Several units of the Royal Canadian Navy have been named HMCS Giffard. HMCS Giffard (K538), a River-class frigate renamed Toronto before commissioning...
Stanley Lees Giffard (1788 – November 1858) was founder and first editor of a London newspaper, The Standard. Born in Dublin, Stanley Lees Giffard was the...
Osbern (or Osborne) Giffard (c. 1020 – c. 1085) was one of the knights who invaded England in 1066 under William the Conqueror. He was rewarded with holdings...
Roger Giffard (died 1597) was an English physician. Giffard was the son of Ralph Giffard of Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire, by his wife Mary, daughter...
William Giffard (d. 1129), was the Lord Chancellor of William II and Henry I, from 1093 to 1101, and Bishop of Winchester (1100–1129). Giffard was the...
Dave Giffard (born August 29, 1975) is an American soccer coach. Giffard was raised in Illinois, where he attended MacMurray College from 1993 to 1997...
Nicolas Giffard (born 4 October 1950) is a French chess International Master (IM) (1980), and a two-time French Chess Championship winner (1978, 1982)...
Walter Giffard (c. 1225 – April 1279) was Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of York. Giffard was a son of Hugh Giffard of Boyton in Wiltshire...
Sir Charles Sydney Rycroft Giffard KCMG (30 October 1926 – 21 February 2020) was a British diplomat and author. He was educated at Repton School and read...
Tom Giffard is a Welsh Conservative politician who has served as Member of the Senedd (MS) for the region of South Wales West since 2021. Giffard is a...
Pierre Giffard (1 May 1853 – 21 January 1922) was a French journalist, a pioneer of modern political reporting, a newspaper publisher and a prolific sports...
Sir Thomas Giffard (c.1491 – 27 May 1560) was a Tudor courtier, Staffordshire landowner and Member of the English Parliament. Thomas Giffard's father was...
Henry Giffard (1694 – 20 October 1772) was a British stage actor and theatre manager. Although there is some uncertainty about his early years, he is...
Robert Giffard de Moncel (c. 1587 – 14 June 1668) was a Perche-based surgeon and apothecary who became New France's first colonizing seigneur. As a naval...
George Markham Giffard, PC (4 November 1813 – 13 July 1870) was an English barrister and judge. The fourth son of Admiral John Giffard and Susannah, daughter...
Rohese Giffard (sometimes Rose, or Rohais; died after 1113) was a Norman noblewoman in the late 11th and early 12th century. The daughter of a Norman...
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