New is an English surname, occurring in Britain and countries to which British people have emigrated, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, etc.
In
England
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, the family name New is particularly known from
Warwickshire
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,
Gloucestershire
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,
Worcestershire
Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It is bordered by Shropshire, Staffordshire, and the West Midlands (county), West ...
,
Wiltshire
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and
Dorset
Dorset ( ; Archaism, archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, t ...
.
Some immigrants of Central European origins with names like
Neu or
Neumann
Neumann () is a German language, German surname, with its origins in the pre-7th-century (Old English) word ''wikt:neowe, neowe'' meaning "new", with ''wikt:mann, mann'', meaning man. The English form of the name is Newman. Von Neumann is a varian ...
have anglicised their family name to New.
Notable people with the surname include:
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Chris New (born 1981), British actor
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Edmund Hort New, English illustrator
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George New (1894–1963), American artist
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Hannah New (born 1984), British actress
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Jane New, wife of band leader
Tommy Dorsey
Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombone, trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader of the big band era. He was known as the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing" because of his smooth-to ...
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Jeptha Dudley New (1830–1892), U.S. Representative from Indiana
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Jethro New (1757–1825), frontiersman and
Continental Army
The Continental Army was the army of the United Colonies representing the Thirteen Colonies and later the United States during the American Revolutionary War. It was formed on June 14, 1775, by a resolution passed by the Second Continental Co ...
soldier
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John C. New (1831–1906), Treasurer of the United States, 1875–76
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John D. New (1924–1944), U.S. Medal of Honor recipient
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Kimberly New, American politician from Georgia
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Maria New (1928–2024), an American professor of pediatrics, Genomics and Genetics
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Peter New, Canadian actor, voice actor and screenwriter
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Robert A. New (1789–1856), 1st
Secretary of State of Indiana
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Tom New (born 1985), English cricketer
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W. H. New (born 1938), Canadian poet and literary critic
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English-language surnames