title: Pigot (surname)
text: # Pigot (surname)
  
  Pigot is an English surname.
  
  The Pigot Baronetcy is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain.
  
  ## Derivation and variants
  
  The name Pigot is derived from Picot. The latter is recorded as a given name in the Domesday Book, but its origin is not clear. William Camden suggested a derivation from Old French picote meaning pock-marked, freckled.
  
  Pigott, Piggott and Pickett are variant forms.
  
  ## People with the surname Pigot
  
  * Mary Pigot (daughter of Gervase Pigot), former wife of Sir Robert Burdett, 3rd Baronet (1640–1716)
  * George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot (1719–1777), governor of Madras
  * British Major General Henry Pigot, in Malta in 1800 for the French surrender
  * John Edward Pigot (1822–1871), Irish music collector
  * Edward Pigot (1858–1929), Irish/Australian Jesuit priest, seismologist and astronomer
  * Robert Pigot (disambiguation), various people
  * Hugh Pigot (disambiguation), various people
  * Neil Pigot (born 1961), Australian actor
  * Spencer Pigot (born 1993), American racing driver
  
  ### Fictional characters
  
  * Serafine Pigot, a character in the 1997 An American Werewolf in Paris motion picture
  