Cumming (surname)

Cumming is an Irish surname (Gaelic: Ó Comáin), or Scottish origin akin to Scottish Gaelic: Cuimeinich.

People bearing the surname include:

* Alan Cumming (born 1965), Scottish actor
* Alexander Cumming (1733–1814), Scottish watchmaker and inventor
* Alexander Charles Cumming (1880–1940), Australian-born chemist and author
* Alfred Cumming (governor) (1802), Governor of the U.S. Territory of Utah from 1858 to 1861
* Alfred Cumming (general) (1829–1910), Confederate General in American Civil War (nephew of previous Alfred Cumming)
* Allan Cumming (born 1996), South African hammer thrower
* Arthur Cumming (skater) (1889–1914), British figure skater
* Arthur Cumming (Royal Navy officer) (1817–1893), Admiral of the Royal Navy
* Arthur Edward Cumming (1896–1971), British Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient
* Bobby Cumming, Scottish footballer
* Charles Cumming (born 1971), Scottish writer of spy fiction
* Charlotte Gordon Cumming (born 1958) a Scottish singer/songwriter
* Craig Cumming (born 1975), New Zealand cricketer
* David Cumming (1910–1993), Scottish footballer
* David Robert Sime Cumming, Scottish engineer
* Derwas Cumming (1891–1918), Australian rules footballer and soldier
* Donigan Cumming (born 1947), visual artist
* George Cumming (politician) (1752–1834), Scottish politician, MP for Inverness Burghs 1803–1806 and 1818–1826
* George Cumming (golfer) (1879–1950), Canadian professional golfer and golf course architect
* Hanway Robert Cumming (1867–1921), British Army general killed by the IRA in the Clonbanin ambush
* Henry John Cumming (1771–1856), British Army officer
* Henry Harford Cumming, important figure in antebellum Augusta, Georgia
* Hugh S. Cumming (1868–1948), Surgeon General of the United States
* John Cumming (clergyman) (1807–1881), Scottish clergyman
* John Cumming (Scottish footballer) (1930–2008), Scottish footballer
* Joseph Cumming, Scholar of Islamic and Christian thought
* Joseph George Cumming (1812–1868), English geologist and archaeologist
* Kenneth Cumming (1916–1988), Western Australian cricketer
* Peter Hood Ballantine Cumming, mayor of Rumson, New Jersey
* Primrose Cumming (1915–2004), British children's book author
* Robert H. Cumming (born 1943), American artist and photographer
* Thomas W. Cumming, U.S. Representative from New York
* William Cumming (delegate) (1724–1797), American lawyer, Continental Congressman for North Carolina
* William Cumming (colonel) (1788–1863), American soldier and planter from Augusta, Georgia

## See also

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* Gordon-Cumming, a list of people with the surname
* Charles Cumming-Bruce (1790–1875), Scottish Conservative politician
* John Graham-Cumming, British computer programmer
* Mansfield Smith-Cumming (1859–1923), British spymaster
* Clan Cumming
* Cummings (surname)

Surname list

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