Cumming (surname) explained
Cumming is a surname of Scottish origin, akin to gd|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 1803–06 and 1818–26
- 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, writer
- 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
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