Gough

For other uses, see Gough (disambiguation).

Gough (/ˈɡɒf/) is a surname. The surname probably derives from the Welsh coch (English: "red"), given as a nickname to someone with red hair or a red complexion 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 Irish each "horse".

• Alfred Gough, co-creator of Smallville
• Antony Gough, New Zealand businessman and property developer
• Austin Gough, American football player
• Charles Gough (disambiguation), a number of people with this name
• Charles John Stanley Gough, British soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Richard Gough, Scottish international centre-back commonly known as Richard Gough
• Darren Gough (born 1970), English cricketer and ballroom dancer
• Denise Gough (born 1980), Irish actress
• Douglas Gough FRS (born 1941), a British astronomer, and Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow at the University of Cambridge
• Frank Gough (1898–1980), Australian cricketer
• Charles Frederick Howard Gough (1901–1977), (MC), British Territorial Army officer, company director and politician
• Frederick Foster Gough, British Protestant Christian missionary
• 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 (1871–1915), British general and recipient of the Victoria Cross
• John Gough (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
• Doris Gough Boyd (1888–1960), Australian artist
• Laurie Gough, Canadian-American travel writer
• Martyn Gough (born 1966), British Anglican priest and military chaplain
• Michael Gough (1916–2011), English actor
• Michael Gough (1916–1973), archaeologist
• Michael Gough (born 1956), American voice actor
• Ray Gough (born 1938), Northern Irish footballer
• Richard Gough, English antiquarian, donated the Gough Map to the Bodleian Library
• Robert Gough, English actor
• Sandra Gough, English actress
• Stephen Gough, pro-nudity activist known as the "Naked Rambler"
• Viscount Gough, a United Kingdom peerage successively held by:
  • Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough (1779–1869)
  • George Gough, 2nd Viscount Gough (1815–1895)
  • Hugh Gough, 3rd Viscount Gough (1849–1919)
  • Hugh Gough, 4th Viscount Gough (1892–1951)
  • Shane Gough, 5th Viscount Gough (born 1941)

See also

• The Gough-Calthorpe family
• All pages with titles containing Gough