Ashe (name)

Ashe is a surname in Ireland. Most are of Norman origin and were originally known as d'Essecourt (their name has been Gaelicised as Ághas). A minority of the Ó Luaithre from County Galway also Anglicised their name as Ashe. The family crest is a silver shield with two black chevronels.[citation needed]

Notable people with the surname include:

* Adam Ashe (born 1993), Scottish rugby union coach and
* Andrew Ashe (c. 1758–1838), Irish flautist
* Aran Ashe, British erotic writer
* Arthur Ashe (1943–1993), American tennis player and social activist
* Bowman Foster Ashe (1885–1952), American academic administrator
* Brian Ashe (born 1963), American politician
* Corey Ashe (born 1986), American soccer player
* Daniel M. Ashe, former Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service
* Danni Ashe (born 1968), American model and businesswoman
* Douglas Ashe, pseudonym used by John Franklin Bardin (1916–1981)
* Edward Ashe (disambiguation)
* Geoffrey Ashe (1923–2022), British writer on Arthurian subjects
* George Ash (Australian politician) (1859–1897), newspaper editor, lawyer and parliamentarian in colonial South Australia
* George Ashe (Canadian politician) (1932–2014)
* George T. Ashe (1905–1975), American politician
* John Ashe (disambiguation)
* Sir Joseph Ashe, 1st Baronet (1618–1686), English MP for Downton
* Joseph Ashe (English politician) (c. 1684–1725), English MP for Chippenham
* Joseph Ashe (Irish politician) (1717–c. 1760), Irish MP for Trim
* Karen Ashe, American research scientist
* Kathy Ashe (born 1946), American politician
* Martin Ashe (born 1953), Irish-Australian Catholic bishop
* Robert Hoadley Ashe (1751–1826), English divine
* Robert Ashe (civil servant) (1872–1911), Collector and District Magistrate in India, assassinated in 1911
* Samuel Ashe (disambiguation)
* Simeon Ashe (died 1662), English nonconformist clergyman
* Saint-George Ashe (1871–1922), British rower
* St George Ashe (1658–1718), Church of Ireland cleric
* Tala Ash (born 1984), Iranian-American actress
* Thomas Ashe (disambiguation)
* Tim Ashe (born 1976), American politician
* Trevor Ashe (1770–1836), Irish writer, newspaper editor, publisher, museum director, entrepreneur, confidence trickster and blackmailer
* Vic Ash (1930–2014), English jazz saxophonist and clarinetist
* Victor Ashe (born 1945), American former mayor and ambassador
* Victor Ash (artist) (born 1968), French graffiti artist
* William Ashe (disambiguation)

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Surname list

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