Sumner (surname)
Sumner is a surname. It originates from the English-language word that is spelled, in modern English, summoner, denoting a person who serves a summons. In Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, one of the characters is a summoner (see "The Summoner's Tale"); a Middle English spelling is Somonour. Other spellings include Sumpner, Somner, and Summoner. Among the notable people with this surname are the following:
- Allen Melancthon Sumner (1882–1918), American Marine
- Andrew Sumner, British movie journalist and publisher
- Benedict Humphrey Sumner (1893-1951), British historian
- Bernard Sumner (born 1956), British musician
- Brian Sumner (born 1979), British skateboarder
- Carl Sumner (1908–1999), American baseball player
- Charles Sumner (1811–1874), American politician
- Charles Richard Sumner (1790–1874), Anglican bishop (Landaff and then Winchester)
- Charlie Sumner (born 1930), American football player and coach
- Cid Ricketts Sumner (1890–1970), American novelist
- Claude Sumner, Canadian philosopher
- Edwin Vose "Bull" Sumner (1797–1863), American Civil War general
- George Sumner (disambiguation)
- Gordon Sumner (born 1951), British musician better known as Sting, singer of the band The Police
- Heywood Sumner (1853–1940), English artist, designer, writer and archaeologist
- Increase Sumner (1746–1799), American politician and jurist
- J. D. Sumner (1924–1998), American singer and songwriter
- James B. Sumner (1887–1955), American biochemist
- Jethro Sumner (1733–1785), American Revolutionary War general
- Joe Sumner (born 1976), British musician
- Joe Sumner (born 1991), British gangster
- John Sumner (actor born 1951), British actor
- John Sumner (17th-century actor) (died May 1649), an English theatre actor
- John Bird Sumner (1780–1862), Anglican bishop / Archbishop of Canterbury
- John Robert Sumner (1850–1933), English amateur footballer, played in 1873 FA Cup Final (grandson of John Bird Sumner)
- Joseph Burton Sumner (1837–1920), American settler
- John S. Sumner (1876–1971), head of New York Society for the Suppression of Vice from 1915 to 1950
- Kelly Sumner, British businessman
- L. W. Sumner (born 1941), Canadian philosopher
- Mary Sumner (1828–1921), founder of the Mothers' Union
- Mary Lou Sumner (1927-2002), American politician
- Robert Sumner (born 1922), American evangelist and writer
- Samuel S. Sumner (1842–1937), American general
- Sarah Sumner (21st century), American Evangelical theologian
- Sophie Sumner (born 1990), British fashion model
- Steve Sumner (born 1955), New Zealand football player
- T. B. Sumner, American politician
- Thomas Hubbard Sumner (1807–1876), American mariner
- Tim Sumner (physicist), Professor of Experimental Physics at Imperial College London
- Tim Sumner (footballer) (born 1994), Australian rules footballer
- Walt Sumner (born 1947), American football player
- William Graham Sumner (1840–1910), American sociologist
- William H. Sumner (1780–1861), Boston historical figure
- William Sumner (Hawaii) (1786–1847), ship captain and early English settler of Hawaii
- William Keolaloa Sumner (1816–1885), Hawaiian chief and landholder
- John Kapilikea Sumner (1820–1915), Hawaiian chief and landholder
- Nancy Sumner (1839–1896), Hawaiian chiefess and lady-in-waiting
- Elizabeth Keawepoʻoʻole Sumner (1850–1911), Hawaiian chiefess and lady-in-waiting
See also
- Sumner family tree showing the relationship between some of the above
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