Cushing (surname)

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

Alonzo Cushing Alonzo Hereford Cushing (January 19, 1841 – July 3, 1863) was an artillery officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was killed in action during the Battle of Gettysburg while defending the Union position on Cemetery Ridge aga ...

(1841–1863), U.S. Army officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor * Arthur Cushing (1869–1944), Canadian politician * Brian Cushing (born 1987), American football player *

Caleb Cushing Caleb Cushing (January 17, 1800 – January 2, 1879) was an American Democratic politician and diplomat who served as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts and the 23rd United States Attorney General under President ...

(1800–1879), US legislator *

Charles Cushing Charles Cook Cushing (December 8, 1905 – 1982) was an American composer, band director, and professor of music. Biography Charles Cushing, a native Californian, studied at the University of California, Berkeley. Encouraged by visiting French Co ...

(1905–1982), American composer *

Charles Stuart Cushing Charles Stuart Cushing (December 28, 1867 – January 7, 1946) was an American attorney and amateur astronomer. Biography Cushing was born on December 28, 1867, in San Francisco, California, one of five children of John Morland Cushing and Anne ...

(1867–1946), American attorney * Christine Cushing, Canadian celebrity chef * David Cushing (1920–2008), British fisheries biologist * Edmund L. Cushing (1807–1883), chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court *

Eliza Lanesford Cushing Eliza Lanesford Cushing (October 19, 1794 – May 4, 1886) was an American-Canadian dramatist, short story writer, and editor. The daughter of Hannah Webster Foster and sister of Harriet Vaughan Cheney, both novelists, she wrote a number of ...

(1794–1886), American-Canadian author and editor *

Eloise B. Cushing Eloise B. Cushing (1887–1977) was an American attorney. She was the first woman to engage actively in the practice of law in Oakland, California. A life-long member of Soroptimist International since joining in 1921, she did the major writing of ...

(1887–1977), American attorney *

Frank Hamilton Cushing Frank Hamilton Cushing (July 22, 1857 in North East Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania – April 10, 1900 in Washington, D.C.) was an American anthropologist and ethnologist. He made pioneering studies of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico by ente ...

(1857–1900), American anthropologist *

Harvey Cushing Harvey Williams Cushing (April 8, 1869 – October 7, 1939) was an American neurosurgery, neurosurgeon, pathologist, writer, and draftsman. A pioneer of brain surgery, he was the first exclusive neurosurgeon and the first person to describe Cush ...

(1869–1939), pioneer American neurosurgeon *

James M. Cushing Lieutenant Colonel James M. Cushing (circa 1910 – August 26, 1963) was a mining engineer in US Army who commanded the Philippine resistance against Japan on Cebu Island in the Philippines during World War II.Smith, R.R., 2005, Triumph in the Ph ...

(1908–1963), US Army mining engineer * James T. Cushing (1937–2002), American physicist and philosopher of science * John Cushing (actor) (1719–1790), British stage actor *

John Perkins Cushing John Perkins Cushing (April 22, 1787 – April 12, 1862), called "Ku-Shing" by the Chinese, was a wealthy American sea merchant, opium smuggler, and philanthropist. His sixty-foot pilot schooner, the ''Sylph'', won the first recorded American ya ...

(1787–1862), American merchant and philanthropist *

Luther Cushing Luther Stearns Cushing (June 22, 1803June 22, 1856) was an American jurist. He was born on June 22, 1803, in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, and died on June 22, 1856, in Boston. Cushing wrote one of the earliest works on parliamentary procedure, ''Ru ...

(1803–1856), author of one of the earliest works on parliamentary procedure * Nathan Cushing (1742–1812), Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court *

Nick Cushing Nicholas Cushing ( ; born 9 November 1984) is an English football manager who currently serves as the interim head coach of Women's Super League club Manchester City. Career Manchester City Women Originally joining the club in a junior role in ...

, English football manager *

Otho Cushing Otho Williams McD. Cushing (October 22, 1870 – October 13, 1942) was an American artist, known primarily for his early 20th century illustration and cartoons, for magazines and posters. His sometimes-homoerotic style, often featuring classical ...

(c. 1820–1942), American artist *

Peter Cushing Peter Wilton Cushing (26 May 1913 – 11 August 1994) was an English actor. His acting career spanned over six decades and included appearances in more than 100 films, as well as many television, stage and radio roles. He achieved recognition f ...

(1913–1994), British actor *

Robert Cushing (sculptor) Robert Cushing (1841 – 11 March 1896) was a prominent Irish sculptor, active in the United States in the second half of the 19th century. According to ''The New York Times'', his most striking work was a statue of John Christopher Drumgoole in ...

(1841–1896), Irish sculptor *

Renny Cushing Robert Reynolds Cushing Jr. (July 20, 1952 – March 7, 2022) was an American politician who was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives as a Democrat from the town of Hampton. First elected in 1996, Cushing represented Rockingham ...

(1952–2022), American politician *

Richard Cushing Richard James Cushing (August 24, 1895 – November 2, 1970) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Boston from 1944 to 1970 and was made a cardinal in 1958. Cushing's main role was as fundraiser and builder ...

(1895–1970), American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church *

Stella Marek Cushing Stella Marek Cushing (1893 – April 14, 1938) was an American folklorist and violinist. She taught about, performed, and collected folk music, dances, and costumes from Eastern and Central Europe, and organized folk dance and music events in the ...

(1893–1938), American folklorist, violinist * Stephen B. Cushing (died 1868), New York State Attorney General 1856–1857 *

Thomas Cushing Thomas Cushing III (March 24, 1725 – February 28, 1788) was an American lawyer, merchant, and statesman from Boston, Massachusetts. Active in Boston politics, he represented the city in the provincial assembly from 1761 to its dissolution ...

(1725–1788), American lawyer and statesman *

William Cushing William Cushing (March 1, 1732 – September 13, 1810) was an American lawyer who was one of the original five associate justices of the United States Supreme Court; confirmed by the United States Senate on September 26, 1789, he served until ...

(1732–1810), Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court *

William B. Cushing William Barker Cushing (4 November 184217 December 1874) was an officer in the United States Navy, best known for sinking the during a daring nighttime raid on 27 October 1864, for which he received the Thanks of Congress. Cushing was the youn ...

(1842–1874), U.S. Navy officer *

William Henry Cushing William Henry Cushing (August 21, 1852 – January 25, 1934) was a Canadian politician. Born in Ontario, he migrated west as a young adult where he started a successful lumber company and later became Alberta's first Minister of Public Works an ...

(1852–1934), Canadian politician * William Orcutt Cushing (1823–1902), American Unitarian minister and hymn writer *

Zattu Cushing Zattu Cushing (June 11, 1771—January 11, 1839) was an American shipbuilder and judge. He was the first settler of Fredonia, New York and the first judge of Chautauqua County, New York (1811―1824). Biography Cushing was born on June 11, 1771, ...

(1771–1839), American shipbuilder and judge * Josiah Nelson Cushing (1840–1905), Missionary and Scholar, Burma; author of the first Shan-English Dictionary and others {{surname, Cushing English-language surnames