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 again ...

(1841–1863), U.S. Army officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor *

Arthur Cushing Arthur Thompson Cushing (February 10, 1869 – March 26, 1944) was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a municipal councillor in Edmonton. His brother, William Henry Cushing, was a mayor of Calgary, while another brother, Alfred Cushing, served ...

(1869–1944), Canadian politician *

Brian Cushing Brian Patrick Cushing (born January 24, 1987) is a former American football linebacker. He played college football at USC, and was drafted by the Houston Texans in the first round of the 2009 NFL Draft and played his entire 9-year career for the ...

(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 Congressman from Massachusetts and Attorney General under President Franklin Pierce. He was an eager proponent of territor ...

(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 Com ...

(1905–1982), American composer * Christine Cushing, Canadian celebrity chef *

David Cushing David Henry Cushing FRS (1920-2008) was an English born fisheries biologist, who is credited with the development the match/mismatch hypothesis as an explanation for reduced fish stocks as associated with climatic variability. David Cushin ...

(1920–2008), British fisheries biologist *

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 *

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 enter ...

(1857–1900), American anthropologist *

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

(1869–1939), pioneer American neurosurgeon * James M. Cushing (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 (1803–1856), author of one of the earliest works on parliamentary procedure *

Nathan Cushing Nathan Cushing (1742 – November 4, 1812) was a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1790 to 1800. He was appointed by Governor John Hancock to the seat vacated by the elevation of Nathaniel Sargent to chief justice. Born in ...

(1742–1812), Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court *

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 ...

(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 Ne ...

(1841–1896), Irish sculptor * Robert Reynolds Cushing (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 * 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 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 his death. His Supreme Court ...

(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 and ...

(1852–1934), Canadian politician *

William Orcutt Cushing William Orcutt Cushing (31 December 1823 – 19 October 1902) was an American Unitarian minister and hymn writer from Hingham, Massachusetts. Personal life Cushing was born in 1823 in Hingham to Unitarian parents. When he was a teenager and s ...

(1823–1902), American Unitarian minister and hymn writer {{surname, Cushing English-language surnames