Cushing (surname)

Cushing is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alonzo Cushing (1841–1863), U.S. Army officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor
• Brian Cushing (born 1987), American football player
• Caleb Cushing (1800–1879), US legislator
• Charles Cushing (1905–1982), American composer
• Christine Cushing, Canadian celebrity chef
• Eliza Lanesford Cushing (1794–1886), American-Canadian author and editor
• Frank Hamilton Cushing (1857–1900), American anthropologist
• Harvey Williams Cushing (1869–1939), pioneer American neurosurgeon
• James M. Cushing (1908–1963), US Army mining engineer
• James T. Cushing (1937–2002). American physicist and philosopher of science
• John Perkins Cushing (1787-1862), American merchant and philanthropist
• Luther Cushing (1803–1856), author of one of the earliest works on parliamentary procedure
• Peter Cushing (1913–1994), British actor
• Richard Cushing (1895–1970), American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• Stephen B. Cushing (died 1868), New York State Attorney General 1856–1857
• Thomas Cushing (1725–1788), American lawyer and statesman
• William Cushing (1732–1810), Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
• William B. Cushing (1842–1874), U.S. Navy officer
• William Orcutt Cushing (1823-1902), American Unitarian minister and hymn writer