Ponting is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
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Charles Ponting
Charles Edwin Ponting, F.S.A., (1850–1932) was a Gothic Revival architect who practised in Marlborough, Wiltshire.
Career
Ponting began his architectural career in 1864 in the office of the architect Samuel Overton. He was agent for Meux br ...
(1850–1932), English architect
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Chris Ponting, British biologist
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Clive Ponting
Clive Sheridan Ponting (13 April 1946 – 28 July 2020)Richard Norton-Taylor, "The Ponting Affair", Cecil Woolf, London, 1985, p. 14. was a senior British civil servant and historian. He was best known for leaking documents about the sinkin ...
(1946–2020), UK civil servant and writer
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Herbert Ponting
Herbert George Ponting, FRGS (21 March 1870 – 7 February 1935) was a professional photographer. He is best known as the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pol ...
(1870–1935), British photographer
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Nick Ponting
Nicholas Ponting (born 13 June 1966) is a former professional badminton player from England.
Career
Olympic Games
He was ranked No. 1 in the world at mixed doubles during 1993 and represented Great Britain at the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Game ...
, British badminton player
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Ricky Ponting
Ricky Thomas Ponting (born 19 December 1974) is an Australian cricket coach, commentator, and former cricketer. Ponting was captain of the Australian national team during its "golden era", between 2004 and 2011 in Test cricket and 2002 and 20 ...
(born 1974), former Australian cricket player and captain
*Thomas Ponting, British entrepreneur, founder of
Pontings
Pontings was a department store based in Kensington High Street, London and operated from 1863 to 1970.
Early history
Pontings started out as a small drapery business by Thomas Ponting in Archer Street, just off Westbourne Grove, as Thomas H Po ...
department store
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Tom Ponting
Thomas Harold Ponting (born January 28, 1965) is a Canadian former competitive swimmer who specialized in the butterfly stroke. Ponting competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for Canada starting with the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los A ...
(born 1965), Canadian swimmer
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Tom Candy Ponting
Tom Candy Ponting (August 26, 1824 - October 11, 1916) was an American rancher, farmer and cattle driver. In 1853–1854, together with his business partner, Washington Malone, they were the first people to drive a herd of Texas Longhorn cattle f ...
(1824-1916), cattleman and pioneer cattle driver
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Walter Ponting
Walter Thomas Ponting (13 April 1913 – 17 August 1960), Access individual season statistics via Season Stats dropdown menu. also known as Wally Ponting, was a professional footballer who scored 53 goals from 116 appearances in the Football Le ...
(1913–1960), English footballer
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William Ponting
William Robert Ponting (1872 – 21 March 1952) was an English amateur footballer who played as a half-back for Southampton St. Mary's in 1896–97, when they won the Southern League title for the first of six occasions over the next eight y ...
(1872–1952), English footballer
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English-language surnames