Stuart is a semi-common surname and male first name. Its origin is the royal House of Stuart, which gave rise to a number of Scottish and English rulers.

When applied to an individual, Stuart could mean:

• Stuart, Alexander Hugh Holmes (1807-1891)
• Stuart, Don , televangelist
• Stuart, Francis , Saoi of Aosdána
• Stuart, Gilbert, (born 1755), painter
• Stuart, Gloria, (born 1910), actress
• Stuart, Henry Benedict, (died 1807), claimant to the UK throne as King Henry IX
• Stuart, Herbert Akroyd, British engineer
• Stuart, Imogen, (born 1927), sculptor, Aosdána
• Stuart, James Francis Edward, (died 1766), claimant to the thrones of Scotland as King James VIII and of England as King James III
• Stuart, J.E.B., a Confederate general in the American Civil War
• Stuart, Jesse , poet
• Stuart, Mary, claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland as Mary I

There are also few notable people with the first name Stuart.

• Stuart Sutcliffe was a short lived member of The Beatles.
• Stuart Kauffman is a physician, biologist and complex systems researcher.

Stuart is the name of some places in the United States of America:

• Stuart, Florida
• Stuart, Iowa
• Stuart, Nebraska
• Stuart, Oklahoma
• Stuart, Virginia

Other:

• Stuart Little was E. B. White's first children's book.
• The Stuart tank, named after J.E.B. Stuart

There are also characters named Stuart in the following TV shows.

• Spin City
• Beavis and Butthead
• Marsupalami

• There is a duck named Stuart who works at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant on The Simpsons
• There was a recurring character played by Al Franken on Saturday Night Live named Stuart Smalley.
• Stuart is a recurring character played by Michael McDonald on the sketch comedy television series MADtv.

See also

• List of people by name: Stu
• Stewart
• Stuart Middleton