Pemberton (surname)
Pemberton is an English surname first found in Pemberton, Greater Manchester, a residential area of Wigan, historically a part of Lancashire. It is common in the United Kingdom, and in places with an English diaspora such as Australia and the United States .
 | |
| Origin | |
|---|---|
| Region of origin | Pemberton, old Lancashire, England |
| Other names | |
| Variant form(s) | numerous |
Etymologically, it consists of the elements Pen, Brythonic for hill or head, ber Anglo-Saxon for barley, and ton Anglo-Saxon for an enclosure or field; thus "Barley field on the hill".[1]
Surname
- Amy Pemberton, (born 1988), British actress
- Brock Pemberton (1885–1950), American theatrical producer and director
- Caroline Pemberton (born 1986), Australian model
- Charles Reece Pemberton (1790–1840), British actor and lecturer
- Charley Pemberton (1854–1894), son of John Pemberton
- Cyril Pemberton (1886–1975), US entomologist
- Daniel Pemberton (born 1977), English composer
- Ebenezer Pemberton (minister) (1671–1717), colonial American Congregational clergyman, bibliophile, and minister
- Ebenezer Pemberton (1746–1835), American educator
- Henry Pemberton (1694–1771), English physician and man of letters
- Hugh Pemberton (1890–1956), physician
- Hugh Pemberton (historian), historian
- John Pemberton (1831–1888), inventor of Coca-Cola soda pop in Atlanta, Georgia in 1886
- John Pemberton (footballer) (born 1964), English football (soccer) player
- John C. Pemberton (1814–1881), Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War (1861–1865)
- Johnny Pemberton (born 1981), American actor and comedian
- Joseph Despard Pemberton, Canadian surveyor-general
- Joseph Scott Pemberton, a US Marine lance corporal who was charged with homicide for the killing of Jennifer Laude, a Filipino trans woman
- Max Pemberton (1863–1950), British novelist
- Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown (born 1952), Governor of the Bank of England (1983–1993)
- Sophie Pemberton (1869–1959), Canadian painter
- Stanton C. Pemberton (188–1944), American businessman and politician
- Steve Pemberton (born 1967), British comedy writer and performer
- Steven Pemberton (born 1953), computer scientist
- Thomas Edgar Pemberton (1849–1905), English playwright and theatrical historian
- Tom Pemberton (born 1969), English chef
- Caroline Pemberton (born 2004), Writer
- Victor Pemberton, British script writer and novelist
Fictional characters
- Frank Pemberton, in the novel The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
- Guy and Simon Pemberton, characters on the BBC R4 soap The Archers
- Sylvester Pemberton, DC Comics superhero the Star-Spangled Kid
- Greg Pemberton
See also
References
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pemberton (surname). |
- "Pemberton Name Meaning & Pemberton Family History". www.ancestry.com.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.