Pemberton (surname) explained
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Pemberton is an English, Anglo Saxon surname first found in Pemberton, Greater Manchester, a residential area of Wigan, historically a part of Lancashire. It is common in the United Kingdom, and in places with an English diaspora such as Australia and the United States .
Etymologically, it consists of the elements Pen, Brythonic for hill or head, ber Anglo-Saxon for barley, and ton Anglo-Saxon for an enclosure or field; thus "Barley field on the hill".[1]
Surname
- Amy Pemberton, (born 1988), British actress
- Brock Pemberton (1885–1950), American theatrical producer and director
- Caroline Pemberton (born 1986), Australian model
- Charles Reece Pemberton (1790–1840), British actor and lecturer
- Charley Pemberton (1854–1894), son of John Pemberton
- Christopher Robert Pemberton (1765–1822), English physician
- Cyril Pemberton (1886–1975), American entomologist
- Daniel Pemberton (born 1977), English composer
- Ebenezer Pemberton (minister) (1671–1717), colonial American Congregational clergyman, bibliophile, and minister
- Ebenezer Pemberton (1746–1835), American educator
- Eli Pemberton (born 1997), American basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Henry Pemberton (1694–1771), English physician and man of letters
- Hugh Pemberton (physician) (1890–1956), physician
- Hugh Pemberton (historian), historian
- John Pemberton (1831–1888), inventor of Coca-Cola in Atlanta, Georgia in 1886
- John Pemberton (footballer) (born 1964), English football (soccer) player
- John C. Pemberton (1814–1881), Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War (1861–1865)
- Johnny Pemberton (born 1981), American actor and comedian
- Joseph Despard Pemberton, Canadian surveyor-general
- Joseph Scott Pemberton, a US Marine lance corporal who was charged with homicide for the death of Jennifer Laude, a Filipino trans woman
- Max Pemberton (1863–1950), British novelist
- Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown (1927–2013), Governor of the Bank of England (1983–1993)
- Sophie Pemberton (1869–1959), Canadian painter
- Stanton C. Pemberton (1858 - 1944), American businessman and politician
- Steve Pemberton (born 1967), British comedy writer and performer
- Steven Pemberton (born 1953), computer scientist
- Thomas Edgar Pemberton (1849–1905), English playwright and theatrical historian
- Victor Pemberton, British script writer and novelist
Fictional characters
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Pemberton Name Meaning & Pemberton Family History . www.ancestry.com.
