Major (given name)

Major is an English-language given name, which often causes confusion with the military rank of the same name.

People with the name or nickname include:

• Major Applewhite (born 1978), American football quarterback and coach
• Major Booth (1886–1916), English cricketer
• Major Culbert (born 1987), American football player
• Major Davis (1882–1959), English cricketer
• Major Everett (born 1960), American football player
• Major Kerby Farrell (1913–1975), American baseball player and manager
• Major Goodsell (1900–1988), Australian rower
• Major Harris (American football) (born 1968), American football player
• Major Jones (born 1953), American basketball player
• Major Ritchie (1870–1955), English tennis player
• Major Taylor (1878–1932), American cyclist nicknamed "Major"
• Major Wingate (born 1983), American basketball player
• Major Wright (born 1988), American football player

• Major Andre Andrews (1792–1834), American politician in New York
• Major Coxson (1929–1973), American politician in New Jersey
• Major M. Hillard (1896–1977), American politician in Virginia
• Major Knight (1812–1891), American politician in Maine
• Major Logue (1826–1900), Australian politician in Western Australia
• Major C. Mead (1858–1925), American politician in Wisconsin
• Major Olímpio (1962–2021), Brazilian politician
• Major Owens (1936–2013), American politician in New York
• Major Thibaut (born 1977), American politician in Louisiana

• Major Dodson (born 2003), American actor
• Major Garrett (born 1962), American journalist
• Major Harris (singer) (1947–2012), American R&B singer
• Klaus Heuser (born 1957), German rock guitarist and producer
• Major Holley (1924–1990), American jazz musician
• Major Lance (1939–1994), American R&B singer
• Major (American musician) (born 1984), American pop soul musician and actor Major R. Johnson Finley

• Major Downes (1834–1923), British Army general
• Major Greenwood (1880–1949), English scientist
• Major B. Harding (born 1935), American judge in Florida
• Major Rohde Hawkins (1821–1884), English architect
• Major Nichols (1914–2005), English cycle-maker
• Major "Moogy" Sumner, Aboriginal Australian elder, dancer and cultural adviser
• Major Jackson (born 1968), American poet

• Major (disambiguation), which includes fictional characters

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