Lees (surname)
Lees is a surname meaning "open place" and deriving from several locations in England in Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Cheshire, Lincolnshire, Wiltshire.[1]
| Language(s) | English |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Language(s) | English |
| Meaning | "open place" |
Notable people with the surname include:
- Andrew Lees (environmentalist) (1949–1994), British environmentalist
- Andrew Lees (neurologist) (born 1947), English neurologist
- Arthur Lees (rugby), English rugby union and rugby league footballer who played in the 1890s and 1900s
- Arthur Lees (1908–1992), English golfer
- Benjamin Lees (1924–2010), American classical music composer
- Brian Lees (born 1923), Massachusetts politician
- Brian Lees (geographer) (born 1944), Australian Geographer
- Camilla Lees (born 1989), Australian netball player
- Charles Lees (disambiguation), several people
- David Lees (1881–1934), Scottish public health expert
- Edwin Lees (1800–1887), British botanist and antiquarian
- Sir Elliott Lees, 1st Baronet (1860–1908), British Conservative Party politician and soldier
- Gabriel Lees (born 1990), French-British ski mountaineer
- Geoffrey Lees (cricketer) (1920–2012), English cricketer
- Geoffrey Lees (footballer) (1933–2019), English footballer
- Geoff Lees (racing driver) (born 1951), English racing driver
- George Harmon Lees (fl. 1911–1912), mayor of Hamilton, Ontario
- Harcourt Lees (1776–1852), Irish political pamphleteer
- Harrington Clare Lees (1870–1929), Anglican archbishop of Melbourne
- James Lees-Milne (1908–1997), English writer and expert on country houses
- Jim Lees (1919–2004), Commissioner of the New South Wales Police
- Joanne Lees (born 1973), British girlfriend of Peter Falconio (murder victim in Australia)
- John Lees (disambiguation), several people
- Marjory Lees (1878–1970), British suffragist and politician
- Meg Lees (born 1948), member of the Australian Senate
- Merv Lees, Australian rugby league footballer
- Nathaniel Lees (born 1972), New Zealand actor and theatre director
- Paris Lees, British journalist and activist
- Robert Lees (1912–2004), American television and film screenwriter
- Robert Lees (linguist) (1922–1996), American linguist
- Robert James Lees (1849–1931) British spiritualist and medium
- Sarah Lees (1842–1935), English politician, activist and philanthropist
- Simon Lees (born 1970), Welsh guitarist
- Sue Lees (1941–2002), English academic, activist, feminist and writer
- Tom Lees (born 1990), English footballer
- Walter Lees (cricketer) (1875–1924), English Test cricketer
- Walter Edwin Lees (1887–1957), American aviator
- Warren Lees (born 1952), New Zealand Test cricketer
References
- "Surname Database: Lees Last Name Origin". The Internet Surname Database. Retrieved 2021-04-24.
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