Sumner

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.

Sumner is the surname or last name of the following people:

J.D. Sumner, was an American singer and songwriter.
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 is also the middle name of the following people:

Sumner is the place name, or part of the place name, of various places in the world, including: