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The surname Aitken is derived from the Scots personal name Aitken, which is in turn a form of the name Adam. At the time of the British Census of 1881, its frequency was highest in Peeblesshire (23.6 times the British average), followed by Linlithgowshire, Haddingtonshire, Stirlingshire, Fife, Dunbartonshire, Clackmannanshire, Shetland, Edinburghshire and Ayrshire.
The name Aitken may refer to:
- A.J. Aitken, Scottish lexicographer
- Alexander Aitken, New Zealand mathematician
- Anne Hopkins Aitken (1911–1994), American Buddhist
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Bill Aitken, one of several people including
- Bill Aitken (politician), Scottish politician.
- Bill Aitken (traveller), Scottish-born writer and traveller
- Brad Aitken, Canadian hockey player
- Brian Aitken, libertarian activist convicted on gun-related charges in New Jersey and subsequently granted clemency
- Charles Aitken, English art administrator
- Charlie Aitken (footballer born 1932), Scottish footballer
- Charlie Aitken (footballer born 1942), Scottish footballer
- David D. Aitken, American politician from Michigan
- Edward Hamilton Aitken, Scottish writer
- Ewan Aitken, Scottish politician and ordained minister
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Glenn Aitken, one of several people including:
- Glenn Aitken (footballer), English football player
- Glenn Aitken (singer), London-based New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician
- Hayley Aitken, Australian singer
- Ian Aitken (disambiguation), multiple people
- Jacqueline Aitken, British children's writer Jacqueline Wilson
- James Macrae Aitken (1908–1983), Scottish chess player and World War II cryptographer
- Jim Aitken, Scottish rugby player
- John Aitken, one of several people
- Johnathan Aitken, Canadian ice-hockey player
- Jonathan Aitken (b. 1942), British former Conservative minister
- Kate Aitken, Canadian broadcaster
- Kelley Aitken, Canadian writer
- Laurel Aitken, Jamaican ska musician
- Maria Aitken (b. 1945), British actress
- Matt Aitken of Stock Aitken Waterman, British record producer
- Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (1879–1964), Canadian-British business tycoon and politician
- Melanie L. Aitken, Canada's Commissioner of Competition
- Sir Max Aitken, 2nd Baronet, British press baron and politician
- Maxwell Aitken, 3rd Baron Beaverbrook, British politician
- Hon. Maxwell Francis Aitken
- Michael James Aitken, AM, Australian academic and entrepreneur
- Nicholas Aitken aka Wilbur Wilde, Australian saxophonist
- Lady Penelope Aitken (1910–2005), British socialite and daughter of the first Baron of Rugby
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Robert Aitken, one of several people including
- Robert Aitken (Bible Publisher) (1734–1802), American bible publisher
- Robert Aitken (composer) (b. 1939), Canadian flutist and composer
- Robert Baker Aitken (1917–2010), American teacher of Zen Buddhism, grandson of Robert Grant Aitken
- Robert Grant Aitken (1864–1951), American astronomer
- Robert Hope Moncrieff Aitken, Scottish soldier
- Robert Ingersoll Aitken, American sculptor
- Robert P. Aitken (1819–1873) Michigan Republican Congressman from 1865 to 1868
- Robin Aitken, British journalist
- Roy Aitken, Scottish football player and manager
- Russell Aitken, Australian rugby league player
- Samuel Aitken, Scottish football player
- Suzy Aitken, New Zealand TV personality
- William Traven Aitken, British politician, father of Jonathan Aitken
Aitken may refer to:
- Aitken (crater), a crater on the Moon
- Aitken (surname), people with the surname Aitken
Aitken is a large lunar impact crater that lies on the far side of the Moon, named for Robert Grant Aitken, an American astronomer specializing in binary stellar systems. It is located to the southeast of the crater Heaviside, and north of the unusual formation Van de Graaff. Attached to the southwest rim is Vertregt. To the southeast is the smaller Bergstrand.
The inner wall of Aitken is terraced, and varies notably in width with the narrowest portion in the southwest. The crater Aitken Z lies across the inner north wall. Just to the north of the rim is the small crater Aitken A, which is surrounded by an ejecta blanket of lighter- albedo material. The interior floor has been resurfaced in the past by a darker lava flow, especially in the southern half. There are also several small crater impacts on the eastern floor, an arcing central ridge line just to the east of the midpoint, and a line of smaller ridges in the western half.
This crater lies along the northern rim of the immense South Pole-Aitken basin, which was named after this crater and the southern lunar pole, the two extreme points of the feature.
Aitken was a target of observation on Apollo 17 due to the command module's orbit passing directly over it.
Usage examples of "aitken".
The success of the books made them a natural for television and to date Jemima has featured in two series: in the first played by Maria Aitken, and subsequently, Patricia Hodge.
Aitken reported wryly that he had heard much among the men about how they could have knocked out the other batteries, and that the Captain was probably leaving them for the time being, intending to tackle one a week to keep the guns' crews in practice.
Finally at midnight a weary Aitken came into Ramage's cabin and reported that all the carronades and boat guns had been landed, and with them shot, powder, rammers and sponges.
He saw Aitken suddenly bend back and then jerk forward, and a moment later a black speck began falling through the air, down towards the Juno's deck, trailing behind it what seemed from this distance to be a black thread.
And then it all happened in a rush: a shout to Jackson to put the wheel over, an order to Aitken to brace up the yards and trim the sheets, and an instruction to Southwick to watch the following ships.
One party had no sooner clapped emergency tackles to the tiller as topmen furled the topsail and the great mainsail and foresail were trimmed to get the strain off the rudder, allowing Aitken to report to the Captain that the ship was under control again, than Ramage had ordered the ship to be hove-to, using the tiller tackles, and a cutter hoisted out to starboard, rowed round the ship carrying ten Marines, and recovered on the larboard side.
Working through the night with Aitken encouraging them, the men now had the maincourse bent on the yard and furled, and the maintopsail and topgallant were both neatly faked down in slings ready for hoisting.
Ramage noticed that the Calypso was not firing at the two galleys: obviously Aitken had thought about the galley slaves chained to the oars and decided to give them a chance.
Especially the haggises,' he added before Ramage could correct him, 'very nimble they are, Aitken tells me.
I have also recently been informed that he's only holding down his present job with Kitcat and Aitken because you led the senior partner to believe that in time they will be administering the Hardcastle portfolio.
He rang Kitcat & Aitken, a distinguished firm of stockbrokers in the City of London, and instructed them to buy $250,000 worth of shares in Discovery Oil.
Aitken obviously wanted to make a leisurely job of the merchantmen, but Ramage hoped he would not forget the two remaining frigates.
Aitken and his men had hooked tackles into the slings, taking the weight of the gun and holding it at the top of the cliff ready to start parbuckling it the rest of the way to the top.
Apart from them, two men had stomach pains - brought on, according to an unsympathetic Aitken, by a surfeit of roast beef - while two of Kenton's men were almost crippled by the hairlike spines of prickly pear cactus which had penetrated the skin of their legs and festered overnight.
Aitken, who had just arrived in the West Indies for the first time, had not only noticed it but already had several theories and, he recently told Ramage, had drawn many sketches which he intended sending to an eminent naturalist he knew in Edinburgh.