Chaplin (name) explained

Chaplin is a surname of Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian origin. Surnames of English and French origin are derived from the occupational name for a clergyman, while Belarusian and Ukrainian uses are derived from chaplya, meaning 'heron' or 'stork'.^[1] The surname Chaplin may refer to:

People named Chaplin

• Alice Chaplin (1848–1921), English artist
• Ben Chaplin (born: Benedict Greenwood 1970), English actor
• Blondie Chaplin (born 1951), South African musician
• Carmen Chaplin (born 1972), actress, granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin
• Charles Chaplin, various including:
  • Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977), English comedy film actor - silent and "talkie" - and director
    • Charles Chaplin Jr. (1925–1968), American actor, son of comedian Charlie Chaplin
  • Charles Chaplin (artist) (1907–1987), English artist, engraver and printmaker
  • Charles Chaplin (elder) (1759 - 1816), British Member of Parliament for Lincolnshire 1802-1816
  • Charles Chaplin (younger) (1786 - 1859), British Member of Parliament for Stamford 1809–1812, and for Lincolnshire 1818 - 1831
  • Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825–1891), French painter
  • Charlie Chaplin (singer), Jamaican dancehall and ragga singer
• Christopher Chaplin (born 1962), actor, son of comedian Charlie Chaplin
• Conor Chaplin (born 1997), English footballer
• Dmitry Chaplin (born 1982), Russian-born International Latin dancer
• Geraldine Chaplin (born 1944), American actress, daughter of comedian Charlie Chaplin
• Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin (1840–1923), British politician
• John Chaplin (coach), coach at Washington State University
• John Worthy Chaplin (1840–1920), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Josephine Chaplin (born 1949), actress, daughter of comedian Charlie Chaplin
• Judith Chaplin (1939–1993), British politician
• Kate Chaplin (1865–1948), violinist, who with her sisters Nellie Chaplin (1857–1930), pianist, and Mabel Chaplin (1870–1960), cellist, formed the Chaplin Trio
• Kiera Chaplin (born 1982), actress and model, granddaughter of comedian Charlie Chaplin
• Michael Chaplin (actor) (born 1946), actor, son of comedian Charlie Chaplin
• Nikita Chaplin (born 1982), Russian politician
• Oona Chaplin (born 1986), actress, granddaughter of comedian Charlie Chaplin
• Ralph Chaplin (1887–1961), American labor activist
• Saul Chaplin (1912–1997), American composer and musical director
• Shelley Chaplin (born 1984), Australian wheelchair basketball player
• Sid Chaplin (1916–1986), British writer
• Sydney Chaplin (born: Sidney John Hill 1885–1965), elder half-brother of comedian Charlie Chaplin
• Sydney Chaplin (American actor) (1926–2009), American cinema and theatre actor, second son of comedian Charlie Chaplin
• Tom Chaplin (born 1979), lead singer of the English piano rock band, Keane
• Victoria Chaplin (born 1951), actress, daughter of comedian Charlie Chaplin
• Vsevolod Chaplin (1968–2020), Russian Orthodox Church spokesman
• William Chaplin (coach proprietor) (1787–1859), English transport entrepreneur and Member of Parliament for Salisbury (1847–1857)
• William Robert Chaplin, Warden of Trinity House

See also

• Chaplin family, relatives of comedian Charlie Chaplin
• Chaplin (disambiguation)
• Charlin (name)

Notes and References

1. http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Chaplin-family-history.ashx Ancestry.com Chaplin family history