Sumner is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Sumner Archibald Cunningham
Sumner Archibald Cunningham (July 21, 1843 – December 20, 1913) was an American Confederate soldier and journalist. He was the editor of a short lived Confederate magazine called "Our Day" (1883-1884) published in New York. In 1893 he establish ...
(1843–1913), American Confederate veteran and newspaper editor.
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Sumner Gerard
Sumner Gerard Jr. (July 15, 1916 – February 24, 2005) was an American businessman, politician, and diplomat. Born in New York to a prominent family, Gerard attended Groton School and Trinity College, Cambridge. After serving in the army, navy ...
, American businessman and diplomat, US Ambassador to Jamaica
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Sumner Paine, 1896 Olympic shooting gold and silver medalist
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Sumner Chilton Powell
Sumner Chilton Powell (October 2, 1924 in Northampton, Massachusetts – July 8, 1993 in Colora, Maryland) was an American historian and history teacher at the Choate School, a college-prep boarding school in Wallingford, Connecticut.
He atten ...
, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1964
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Sumner Redstone
Sumner Murray Redstone ( Rothstein; May 27, 1923 – August 11, 2020) was an American billionaire businessman and media magnate. He was the founder and chairman of the second incarnation of Viacom which was dissolved in 2019 (a year before Redst ...
(or Sumner Murray Rothstein, 1923–2020), Chairman of Viacom
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Sumner Stone, (born 1945), typeface designer
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Sumner L. Trussell (1860–1931), judge of the United States Board of Tax Appeals
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Sumner Welles
Benjamin Sumner Welles (October 14, 1892September 24, 1961) was an American government official and diplomat in the Foreign Service. He was a major foreign policy adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and served as Under Secretary of State ...
, (1892–1961), U. S. Undersecretary of State
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