Sumner

Sumner has several possible meanings in the English language.

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, Nineteen century United States army officer.
• United States History records that a Charles Sumner was caned 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 U.S. State Wisconsin:
    • Sumner, Barron County, Wisconsin
    • Sumner, Jefferson County, Wisconsin
    • Sumner, Trempealeau County, 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

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.

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