Gough
Gough can refer to:
Places
- Gough Island, also known historically as Diego Alvarez, a volcanic British island in the South Atlantic Ocean
- Gough Street in Hong Kong
People
Surname
The surname probably derives from the Welsh coch (English: ‘red’),[1] given as a nickname to someone with red hair or a red complection or as a reduced form of the Irish McGough which itself is an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Eochadha, a patronymic from the personal name Eochaidh (variant Eachaidh), ‘horseman’, both derivatives of ‘horse’.
- Alfred Gough, co-creator of Smallville
- Antony Gough, New Zealand businessman and property developer
- Charles Gough (disambiguation), a number of people with this name
- Charles John Stanley Gough, British soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Darren Gough, English cricketer and ballroom dancer
- Douglas Gough FRS, a British astronomer, and Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow at the University of Cambridge.
- Sir Henry Gough, Knt (1649–1724) Sheriff of Staffordshire, MP
- Hubert Gough, British World War I general
- Hugh Henry Gough, Victorian-age Anglo-Irish soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Ian Gough, Welsh rugby player
- John Gough (VC), (1871–1915), British general and recipient of the Victoria Cross
- John Gough (natural philosopher) (1757–1825), blind English natural and experimental philosopher
- John Bartholomew Gough, (1817–1886), American temperance orator
- John George Gough (1848–1907), co-founder of the New South Wales Labour Party
- Laurie Gough, Canadian-American travel writer
- Michael Gough (1916–2011), English actor
- Michael Gough (voice actor), American voice actor
- Richard Gough (antiquarian), English antiquarian, donated the Gough Map to the Bodleian Library
- Robert Gough (actor), English actor
- Stephen Gough, naked rambler
- Viscount Gough, a peerage of the United Kingdom
Given name
- Gough Whitlam, former Prime Minister of Australia
Other uses
- Gough bunting (Rowettia goughensis), a finch-like bird from the Gough Island
- Gough Map, the oldest surviving road map of Great Britain
- "Gough" (song), a song by The Whitlams
- Gough/Stewart platform, a type of parallel robot.
See also
- The Gough-Calthorpe family
- All pages with titles containing Gough
References
- ↑ "Gough Surname Meaning". forebears.co.uk. Retrieved 21 January 2014
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