Sumner
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Sumner has several possible meanings in the English language.
- The Sumner method is a way of finding a ship's place at sea, and William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) calculated a set of tables for its ready application.
- The Sumner Tunnel is a vehicular tunnel in Boston, Massachusetts.
Sumner is the surname or last name of the following people:
- Gordon Sumner, best known as Sting, musician and former lead singer of The Police
- John Bird Sumner, an Archbishop of Canterbury from 1848 to 1862
- Bishop Charles Sumner, younger brother of John Bird Sumner.
- Sociologist William Graham Sumner who proposed the concepts Diffusion Folkways and Ethnocentrism.
- Musician Bernard Sumner, member of the band New Order
- Biochemist James Sumner, who showed that the urease enzyme is a protein in 1926
- James Batcheller Sumner, joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946
- Edwin Vose Sumner, 19th century United States army officer and Major General during the American Civil War.
- Abolitionist U.S. Senator Charles Sumner. Famously beaten with a cane in the Senate Chamber by Preston Brooks in 1856.
Sumner is also the christian name or first name of the following people:
- Sumner Paine, 1896 Olympic shooting gold and silver medalist.
- Sumner Chilton Powell, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1964
- Sumner Crane, Vocalist who formed the band Mars
Sumner is the place name, or part of the place name, of various places in the world, including:
- In the United States of America:
- Sumner, Georgia
- Sumner, Illinois
- Sumner, Iowa
- Sumner, Maine
- Sumner, Michigan
- Sumner, Mississippi
- Sumner, Missouri
- Sumner, Nebraska
- Sumner, Washington
- There are 3 places called Sumner in the state of Wisconsin:
- Sumner County, Kansas
- Sumner County, Tennessee
- Sumner Township, Michigan
- Sumner Township, Minnesota
- Fort Sumner, New Mexico
- Lake Sumner, New Mexico
- In New Zealand:
- Sumner, New Zealand, a seaside suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand
- Lake Sumner, New Zealand