Creed (surname)
Appearance
Creed is a surname of English origin. At the time of the British Census of 1881 [1], its frequency was highest in Somerset (7.4 times the British average), followed by Gloucestershire, Dorset, Kent, Oxfordshire, Norfolk, Warwickshire, London, Buckinghamshire and Wiltshire. The name may refer to:
- Frederick G. Creed (1871–1957), a Canadian inventor
- John Creed (1842-1930), an Australian politician
- John Creed (1819–1872), an Irish-American soldier
- Linda Creed (1949-1986), an American songwriter
- Martin Creed (b. 1968), an English artist
- Michael Creed (b. 1963), an Irish Fine Gael politician
- Charlie Creed-Miles (b. 1972), a British actor
Fictional characters
- Apollo Creed, a boxer in the Rocky films
- Graydon Creed, a Marvel Comics villain
- Louis Creed, the protagonist of Stephen King's 1983 horror novel, Pet Sematary
- Sabretooth (comics)/Victor Creed, Marvel Comics villain
See also
- ^ "Creed Meaning and Distribution". forebears.co.uk. Retrieved 25 January 2014