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A Fleming is an inhabitant (or descendant thereof) of Flanders, a region overlapping parts of modern Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. See Flemish people.
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"Fleming" is a surname in English-speaking countries. It may point to an ancestral origin in, and emigration from, Flanders - though it might have happened long enough in the past that no memory of it, except for the name, is retained in the family concerned. (There were extensive ties between England and Flanders already in the Middle Ages, with numerous Flemings arriving in England as merchants or mercenaries or as weavers and some staying on - see William of Ypres.) The name "Fleming" is also common in Scotland, Ireland and occurs in Scandinavian countries (specifically, it is the name of Fleming of Louhisaari, a Swedish noble family whose ancestors immigrated from Denmark to Swedish-ruled Finland) - all testifying to widespread Flemish diasporas from the Middle Ages on. So is the name of Fläming region, spanning parts of the German states of Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg, a name preserving the memory of 12th century Flemish colonists.
Among the persons so named may be mentioned:
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- Anne Fleming (model), American actress and model
- Art Fleming (1924-1995), American television personality
- Erin Fleming (1941-2003), Canadian actress
- Jaqueline Fleming (1977- ), Danish-American actress
- Kate Fleming (1965-2006), American narrator and producer
- Lucy Fleming (1947- ), British actress
- Mike Fleming, conservative radio talk show host
- Rhonda Fleming (1923- ), American actress
- Shaun Fleming (1987- ), American actor
- Victor Fleming (1889-1949), American film director (Gone with the Wind)
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- Chummy Fleming (1863-1950), Australian unionist
- David Pinkerton Fleming (1877-1944), Scottish politician
- Donald Fleming (1905-1987), Canadian parliamentarian
- Elaine Fleming, Minnesota politician
- Erik R. Fleming (1965- ), Mississippi politician
- Francis P. Fleming (1841-1908), Florida politician
- James Fleming (1939- ), Canadian broadcaster and politician
- James W. Fleming, NYS Comptroller 1923-1924
- John Fleming, colonial judge and house of burgesses representative
- M. Brendan Fleming, Massachusetts politician
- Osbourne Fleming (1940- ), Anguillan politician
- Robert John Fleming (1907-1984), Governor of Panama Canal Zone
- Seán Fleming (1958- ), Irish politician
- Thomas Fleming (judge) (1554-1613), English judge
- William Fleming, American lawyer and judge
- William Fleming (Australian politician)
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- Earl of Wigtown, extinct Scottish Earldom
- Arthur Fleming, namesake of Caltech's Fleming House
- David Fleming (1940- ), English environmentalist
- Harold C. Fleming, an anthropologist and historical linguist
- Klas Fleming (or Klas, Class, Claes or Klaus), numerous people
- Marcus Fleming (?-1976), an economist
- Nancy Fleming, 1961 Miss America
- Robert Fleming, numerous people
- Thomas Fleming, numerous people
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Fleming is also the name of several Swedish noble families, some of which have been historically significant.
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- Egypt
- United States
- Canada
- Ireland
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