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1974 spy novel by John le Carré
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1974 spy novel by the author and former secret intelligence officer John le Carré. It follows the endeavours of the taciturn
Tinker_Tailor_Soldier_Spy
2011 film based on John le Carré's novel
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 2011 Cold War spy film directed by Tomas Alfredson. The screenplay was written by Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film)
Tinker_Tailor_Soldier_Spy_(film)
Traditional song
"Tinker, Tailor" is a counting game, nursery rhyme and fortune telling song traditionally played in England, which can be used to count cherry stones,
Tinker,_Tailor
1979 BBC programme based on John le Carré's spy novel
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1979 British spy drama television serial from the BBC, based upon John le Carré's 1974 novel. It is directed by John Irvin
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TV series)
Tinker_Tailor_Soldier_Spy_(TV_series)
2011 film score by Alberto Iglesias
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the score album to the 2011 film of the same name. The film's original score is composed
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (soundtrack)
Tinker_Tailor_Soldier_Spy_(soundtrack)
Fictional British intelligence officer
central character in the novels Call for the Dead, A Murder of Quality, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, Smiley's People and Karla's Choice
George_Smiley
Topics referred to by the same term
Tinker, Tailor is a counting game, nursery rhyme and fortune telling song. Tinker, Tailor may also refer to: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, a 1974 spy novel
Tinker, Tailor (disambiguation)
Tinker,_Tailor_(disambiguation)
Character by John le Carré
Came in from the Cold and The Looking Glass War, and is referred to in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and several others, usually by le Carré's recurring protagonist
Control_(fictional_character)
Character by John le Carré
Harkaway, which is set some time before Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. In the BBC's television adaptations of both Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People,
Karla_(character)
Marvel Comics fictional character
Mystique is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist David Cockrum, the character
Mystique_(character)
Fictional intelligence officer
in the role of Smiley's assistant. Guillam is a major character in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, which retcons the chronology of Call for the Dead to make
Peter_Guillam
2024 American comedy series
season, based on 51 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Tailor-made to suit Ted Danson's estimable strengths, this warm and witty sitcom
A_Man_on_the_Inside
2016 studio album by Radiohead
Melody Nelson. "Present Tense" is a ballad with bossa nova elements. "Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief" features strings
A_Moon_Shaped_Pool
Wandering tinsmith
Tinker or tinkerer is an archaic term for an itinerant tinsmith who mends household utensils. Tinker for metal-worker is attested from the thirteenth century
Tinker
English actor and filmmaker (born 1958)
an Academy Award for his portrayals of George Smiley in the thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) and Herman J. Mankiewicz in the drama Mank (2020)
Gary_Oldman
British television miniseries
the 1979 spy novel Smiley's People by John le Carré, and a sequel to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (missing out the second book in the trilogy, The Honourable
Smiley's_People_(TV_series)
English actor (born 1977)
before achieving critical acclaim for Bronson (2008), Warrior (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Lawless (2012), and Locke (2013). Hardy rose to
Tom_Hardy
Murder of Quality, OCLC 851437951 The Quest for Karla (1982), containing Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People ISBN 0-394-52848-4
John_le_Carré_bibliography
Irish-British novelist and former spy (1931–2020)
adapted for film or television include The Looking Glass War (1965), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974), Smiley's People (1979), The Little Drummer Girl
John_le_Carré
English actor (1935–2024)
appearances, which included portraying Peter Guillam in the miniseries Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979), playing the Valeyard in all 14 episodes of the Doctor
Michael_Jayston
Oscar-nominated for portraying George Smiley in the Cold War spy thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) and Herman J. Mankiewicz in David Fincher's drama
List of awards and nominations received by Gary Oldman
List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Gary_Oldman
Swedish-Danish actor
then had major roles in English-language films and series including Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Top of the
David_Dencik
English actor and producer (born 1960)
The Secret Service (2014) and its 2017 sequel. He also took roles in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Mary Poppins Returns (2018), 1917 (2019), The Secret
Colin_Firth
Fictional character in the works of John le Carré
fictional character created by John le Carré. He plays a major role in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and is a minor character in A Legacy of Spies and Karla's
Jim_Prideaux
British actor (born 1963)
(2007), Sherlock Holmes (2009), Kick-Ass (2010), Robin Hood (2010), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), The Imitation Game (2014)
Mark_Strong
British actor (born 1957)
Robin Hood, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (both 2010), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Magic in the Moonlight, The Theory of Everything
Simon_McBurney
1977 novel by John le Carré
following the events of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The Honourable Schoolboy was followed by Smiley's People, which together with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, make
The_Honourable_Schoolboy
Season of television series
rope" they were on, and he apologizes for his hurtful posts. 43 4 "Tinker, Tailor, Demon, Spy" Morgan Sackett Cord Jefferson October 17, 2019 (2019-10-17)
The_Good_Place_season_4
Fictional character in John Le Carré's novels
of John le Carré's spy novels that feature George Smiley, including Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, Smiley's People, and The Secret
Toby_Esterhase
Russian actress
(2011), and appeared as Irina in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). Khodchenkova attended the premiere of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy at the 68th Venice
Svetlana_Khodchenkova
English film director (1940–2026)
and television works, including the BBC adaptation of John le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. He made several Hollywood films in the 1980s, including
John_Irvin
English screenwriter (born 1968)
screenwriter. He won two BAFTA Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Conclave, with the latter also earning him the Academy
Peter_Straughan
Upcoming British spy drama series
novels by John le Carré including The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, A Legacy of Spies and other works
Legacy_of_Spies_(TV_series)
Fictional character by John le Carré
character created by John le Carré who features in le Carré's 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. He is a senior officer in the British Secret Intelligence
Bill_Haydon
Welsh actor (1944–2017)
Ricki Tarr, was pivotal in the BBC serial adaptation of John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979). In later years, he was often cast in villainous
Hywel_Bennett
2017 spy novel by John le Carré
and a sequel to John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. It was the last of le Carré's novels to include his regular
A_Legacy_of_Spies
British actress (born 1964)
as a theatre director, she returned to film roles in the 2010s with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Pan (2015) and Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016)
Kathy_Burke
American film producer
Academy Award winning films Darkest Hour and Mank, his other films, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Contender, and Nil By Mouth, have received 21 Academy
Douglas_Urbanski
Scottish actor (1934–2007)
Television trilogy House of Cards (1990–1995), as well as Bill Haydon in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979). His other notable screen work included a portrayal
Ian_Richardson
King (2003) and he went on to appear in the films Atonement (2007) and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). He has starred in the films Star Trek Into Darkness
List of Benedict Cumberbatch performances
List_of_Benedict_Cumberbatch_performances
British playwright and screenwriter (1961–2010)
nominated for the Academy Award in the same category for her work on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, alongside her husband Peter Straughan. O'Connor was born
Bridget_O'Connor
Spanish composer (born 1955)
in the films The Constant Gardener (2005), The Kite Runner (2007), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), and Parallel Mothers (2021). His other film credits
Alberto_Iglesias
Fictional character
John le Carré. Sachs plays a key supporting role in the Karla Trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley's People. Sachs is
Connie_Sachs
English actor (born 1973)
Gascoigne in the film This Is England (2006). His film appearances include Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Stephen_Graham
1979 novel by John le Carré
It is the third and final novel of the "Karla Trilogy", following Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Honourable Schoolboy. George Smiley is called out
Smiley's_People
British actress (born 1986)
Heart of Thomas Hardy, and End of Our Street. In 2011, she appeared in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and she played Henriette in the 2014 film of Madame Bovary
Laura_Carmichael
2012 film award ceremony
Beginners and Octavia Spencer won Best Supporting Actress for The Help. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, directed by Tomas Alfredson, was voted Outstanding British
65th British Academy Film Awards
65th_British_Academy_Film_Awards
Irish actor (born 1953)
a Day (2008), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Silence (2016), First Man (2018), and Belfast (2021)
Ciarán_Hinds
2024-05-06. Knegt, Peter (2011-10-31). ""Shame," "Tyrannosaur" and "Tinker Tailor" Lead British Independent Film Award Nominations". IndieWire. Retrieved
List of awards and nominations received by Tom Hardy
List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Tom_Hardy
English actor (born 1976)
several period dramas, including Amazing Grace (2006), Atonement (2007), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), 12 Years a Slave (2013), The Current War (2017)
Benedict_Cumberbatch
Swedish film director (born 1965)
the 2008 vampire film Let the Right One In and 2011 espionage film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Alfredson has received the Guldbagge award for Best Direction
Tomas_Alfredson
English actor (born 1966)
Painted Veil (2006), The Mist (2007), W. (2008), Frost/Nixon (2008), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), The Adventures of Tintin (2011), Berberian Sound
Toby_Jones
English actress
in BBC dramatisations of the John le Carré novels Call for the Dead, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. "Anna Chancellor
Anna_Chancellor
4th episode of the 6th season of Star Trek: Voyager
of the sixth season. The title is a parody of the famous 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré. In this EMH-centric episode the fictional
Tinker_Tenor_Doctor_Spy
his partner in A Single Man (2009). He then acted in the spy thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), the musical fantasy Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
List of Colin Firth performances
List_of_Colin_Firth_performances
James Gordon in The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012), George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) and Dreyfus in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Gary_Oldman_filmography
British playwright and screenwriter
(2009). In 2008, Morgan was initially set to adapt the John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy into a screenplay for Working Title Films but dropped
Peter_Morgan
Character by John le Carré
character created by spy novelist John le Carré. He first appeared in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974), and is the titular figure in The Honourable Schoolboy
Gerald_Westerby
Dutch cinematographer (born 1971)
cinematographer includes Let the Right One In (2008), The Fighter (2010), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Her (2013), the James Bond film Spectre (2015),
Hoyte_van_Hoytema
English actor (1937–2008)
of Dock Green (1964-1967), Get Carter (1971), Watership Down (1978), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982), The Beiderbecke
Terence_Rigby
English actor (1927–2012)
Lacon in the BBC television adaptations of the John le Carré novels Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People, and his role as Bret Renssalaer in
Anthony_Bate
British actor and director (1925–2018)
Carré's novels, as Toby Esterhase in the BBC Television versions of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People, and George Smiley in the radio adaptations
Bernard_Hepton
English actor (1924–2007)
Heartbeat (series 9 episode 20). Later television appearances include Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979), in which he played Mendel, and the Doctor Who story
George_Sewell
2011 film by Ben Palmer
position in the UK film charts for four weeks before being overtaken by Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy on 20 September 2011, by which time The Inbetweeners Movie
The_Inbetweeners_Movie
Spy novel by Nick Harkaway
set in the time period between The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Nick Harkaway is the pen name of Nicholas Cornwell, the
Karla's_Choice
Canadian actor and writer (1907–1995)
portrayed Control in the 1979 BBC miniseries adaptation of John le Carre's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. He acted in such films as Europe '51, The Vikings, The
Alexander_Knox
Icelandic businesswoman
Davis-Urman, she co-founded Tinker Tailor, a business that let consumers customize designer clothing or design their own. Tinker Tailor ceased operations in
Áslaug_Magnúsdóttir
British actor (1947–2014)
Randolph Churchill (1972), The Frighteners (ep.4 "The Minder) (1974), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979), S.O.S. Titanic (1979), Hammer House of Horror (series
Warren_Clarke
1982 omnibus book by John le Carré
counterpart in Moscow Centre (the Soviet KGB). The "Karla Trilogy" comprises: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – (1974) The Honourable Schoolboy – (1977) Smiley's People
Smiley_Versus_Karla
New Zealand-British film producer (born 1957)
(2001), Love Actually (2003), Atonement (2007), Frost/Nixon (2008), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), The Theory of Everything (2014), and Darkest Hour
Tim_Bevan
List of performances by the English actor
the leading role of George Smiley in the two BBC television series of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People by John le Carré. https://www.youtube
Alec Guinness on stage and screen
Alec_Guinness_on_stage_and_screen
by an Actor. He portrayed George Smiley in the BBC spy drama series Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) and the BBC2 series Smiley's People (1982) for which
List of awards and nominations received by Alec Guinness
List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Alec_Guinness
British film producer (born 1990)
Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2011 The Hour Floor runner 4 episodes Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Crowdrunner Big Fat Gypsy Gangster Floor runner 2012 Now
Tom_Ackerley
1969 novel by Irwin Shaw
inevitability of impending death. The title is taken from the nursery rhyme "Tinker, Tailor". The novel was adapted into a 1976 miniseries. The novel is a sprawling
Rich_Man,_Poor_Man_(novel)
1993 spy novel by John le Carré
Small Town in Germany (1968) The Naïve and Sentimental Lover (1971) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974) The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) Smiley's People (1979)
The_Night_Manager
British ring of spies for the Soviet Union
top-level "Q" clearance from the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Books Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (New York 1974). John le Carré's novelisation of his experiences
Cambridge_Five
English actor (1914–2000)
depiction of the leading role of George Smiley in the BBC television series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People by John le Carré. Guinness was born
Alec_Guinness
British actor (born 1951)
Angeles Times. Retrieved 14 October 2024. "Murder, She Wrote, Series 8, Tinker, Tailor, Liar, Thief". BBC. Retrieved 14 October 2024. Scott, Tony (27 May 1992)
Trevor_Eve
a Day (2008), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Silence (2016), First Man (2018), and Belfast (2021)
List of Ciarán Hinds performances
List_of_Ciarán_Hinds_performances
Young English actors who have achieved success in Hollywood
October 2011. Retrieved 1 August 2019. Stern, Marlow. "Gary Oldman Talks 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,' 'Batman' Retirement". The Daily Beast. 8 December 2011
Brit_Pack
Scottish actor (born 1945)
role of SIS Chief Percy Alleline in the 2009 BBC Radio 4 version of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. In 2010, Paterson starred in Doctor Who as Professor Edwin
Bill_Paterson_(actor)
British actor (1919–1986)
(1977), the Doctor Who serial Time Flight (1982), Yes Minister (1982), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) and for a BBC dramatisation of A Tale of Two Cities
Nigel_Stock_(actor)
English actor (born 1940)
screen roles were in Fall of Eagles (1974), I, Claudius (1976) and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979). In 2008 he reprised his role as King Claudius in
Patrick_Stewart
Welsh actress (born 1933)
Alec Guinness's character George Smiley, in the BBC1 espionage dramas Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979) and Smiley's People (1982), adapted from John le
Siân_Phillips
English actor (1940–2017)
Snowpiercer (2013). He also acted in the acclaimed films Melancholia (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) and Jackie (2016)
John_Hurt
Scottish actor (1928–1999)
won acclaim for his roles as Jim Prideaux in the BBC adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979), Brother Benedict in Lamb (1986), Grandfather George
Ian_Bannen
English stage & screen actor (born 1973)
also appeared in Florence Foster Jenkins, The Theory of Everything, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Rush. McKay was born in Bury, Lancashire. He has a sister
Christian_McKay
Award ceremony for films of 2011
George Clooney – The Descendants as Matthew "Matt" King Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as George Smiley Brad Pitt – Moneyball as Billy Beane Best
84th_Academy_Awards
British comedian and actor (born 1977)
June 2016, he directed a short music video for the Radiohead song "Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief", as part of a series
Richard_Ayoade
British composer
most recognisable works are Monty Python's Life of Brian for film, and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Brideshead Revisited for television, the latter two
Geoffrey_Burgon
English actor (born 1978)
mould-breaker". Retrieved 9 March 2024. Abell, Stig (21 June 2019). "Tinker, tailor, soldier, sprite". The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 9 March
Oliver_Chris
2011 film by Joe Wright
International. 13 February 2012. Retrieved 15 March 2012. "'Drive,' 'Tinker Tailor' lead London Film Critics nominations". Entertainment Weekly. 20 December
Hanna_(film)
Type of spy
the public by British spy novelist John le Carré in his 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and has since entered general usage, but its origin is unclear
Mole_(espionage)
1946 single by Charles Trenet
Julio Iglesias version plays in the final scene of the 2011 spy film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli's recording of
La_Mer_(song)
English actor (1920–1994)
produced by London Weekend Television. He played Percy Alleline in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy on BBC TV in 1979, Sir Basil in the 6th episode “Neck”
Michael_Aldridge
2015 film by Tom Hooper
Variety that production on the project would precede that of his upcoming Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy adaptation, adding: "We have been in talks for close to
The_Danish_Girl_(film)
Film genre
Game (2010) The Debt (2010) Red (2010) Cars 2 (2011) Page Eight (2011) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) Haywire (2012) Safe House (2012) This Means War (2012)
Spy_film
2024 film by Kelly Marcel
low. From the elegant character work of Stuart: A Life Backwards and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy to a blank-eyed Marvel meathead whose greatest line is:
Venom:_The_Last_Dance
British television crime drama series (1977–1983)
called Tinker Tailor Smiley Doyle (Series 11; broadcast February 1985 – March 1985). This was a joint send-up of The Professionals and the Tinker Tailor Soldier
The_Professionals_(TV_series)
British actor (1928–2023)
70s. He worked opposite Alec Guinness in the 1979 television serial Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, playing sporting journalist and intermittent British espionage
Joss_Ackland
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Finnish
Finnish form of Icelandic IngifrÃður, INKERI means "Ing-beautiful."
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian
The Sun
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English
English : occupational name for a maker of bins, from a derivative of Old English binn ‘bin’, ‘manger’.Welsh : variant of Bonner.German : variant of Binder.
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German
German : variant of Tanner 2.English : from Old French teneor, teneur, tenor, ‘holder of a tenement’, hence an equivalent of Tennant.
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English pet form of Latin Virginia, GINGER means "maiden, virgin." Sometimes also given as a spice name.
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Garment Maker; Tucker of Cloth
Male
English
English occupational surname transferred to forename use, TUCKER means "cloth fuller."
Surname or Lastname
English (southwest)
English (southwest) : occupational name for a digger of ditches or a builder of dikes, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a ditch or dike, from an agent derivative of Middle English diche, dike (see Dyke).English : regional name from an area of East Sussex, near Hellingly, called ‘the Dicker’ (hence also the hamlets of Upper and Lower Dicker), from Middle English dyker unit of ten (Latin decuria, from decem ‘ten’); the reason for the place being so named is not clear. It has been suggested that the reference is to a bundle of iron rods, in which sense dicras appears in Domesday Book. Such a bundle could have been the rent for property in this iron-working area. Surname forms such as atte dicker occur in the surrounding region in the 13th and 14th centuries.German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Dick 2, from an inflected form.North German : variant of Low German Dieker, a topographic or an occupational name for someone who lived or worked at a dike (see Dieck).Americanized spelling of French Decaire.
Surname or Lastname
English and Dutch
English and Dutch : occupational name for a tanner of skins, Middle English tanner, Middle Dutch taenre. (The Middle English form derives from Old English tannere, from Late Latin tannarius, reinforced by Old French taneor, from Late Latin tannator; both Late Latin forms derive from a verb tannare, possibly from a Celtic word for the oak, whose bark was used in the process.)Swiss and German : habitational name for someone from any of several places called Tanne (in the Harz Mountains and Silesia) or Tann (southern Germany).Finnish : topographic or ornamental name from Finnish tanner ‘open field’.
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English American
Tucker of doth.
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Jewish (Ashkenazic)
Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a cantor in a synagogue, from Yiddish zinger ‘singer’.English : variant of Sanger 2, in fact a Middle English recoinage from the verb sing(en) ‘to sing’.German : variant of Sänger (see Sanger 1) in the sense of ‘poet’.Isaac Merrit Singer, inventor of the eponymous sewing machine, was born in 1811 in Pittstown, NY, the son of German immigrant Adam Reisinger. He had five wives and fathered 24 children. Singer, who incorporated his company as the Singer Manufacturing Company in 1864, left a fortune worth $13 million to his various heirs.
Surname or Lastname
English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle English, Middle High German, Yiddish finger (modern German Finger), probably applied as a nickname for a man who had some peculiarity of the fingers, such as possessing a supernumerary one or having lost one or more of them through injury, or for someone who was small in stature or considered insignificant. As a Jewish name, it can also be an ornamental name.
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English : probably a variant spelling of Tucker.
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American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, English, French, Latin, Swedish
Pure; Virgin; Plant whose Red Root is Used as a Spice; Pep; Liveliness; Ginger Plant; Spring-like; Flourishing
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English (mainly Yorkshire) and Irish
English (mainly Yorkshire) and Irish : variant of Pender.South German : variant of Binder ‘cooper’.
Surname or Lastname
Dutch and German
Dutch and German : occupational name for a stonemason or someone who used or made pickaxes or chisel, from bicke ‘pickaxe’, ‘chisel’ + the agent suffix -er. Compare Bick.English : occupational name for a beekeeper, Middle English biker (from Old English bīcere). Bees were important in medieval England because their honey provided the only means of sweetening food (sugar being a more recent importation); honey was also used in preserving.English : habitational name from Bicker in Lincolnshire or Byker in Tyne and Wear, both named with the Old English preposition bī ‘by’, ‘beside’ + Old Norse kjarr ‘wet ground’, ‘brushwood’.Cars Bicker was a wealthy merchant and one of the commissioners to New Netherland under the West India Company’s 1621 charter.
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English
English : nickname, of Norman origin, for a reliable or good-hearted person, from Old French bon ‘good’ + cuer ‘heart’ (Latin cor).German : variant of Boenker.Bunker Hill in Charlestown, MA, was named as land assigned in 1634 to George Bunker of Charlestown, who had emigrated from Odell in Bedfordshire, England.
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English (mainly Yorkshire)
English (mainly Yorkshire) : occupational name for a mender of pots and pans, Middle English tink(l)er (of uncertain etymology).
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German
German : from a diminutive of Fink.German : indirect occupational name for a blacksmith, from a derivative of finken ‘to make sparks’.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from Yiddish finkl ‘sparkle’.English : variant spelling of Finkle.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a tin worker, Middle English tinier, an agent derivative of Middle English, Old English tin.
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