Pemberton (surname)

Pemberton
John Pemberton of (1831-1888), of Georgia, the inventor in 1886 of the drink Coca-Cola soda pop.
Origin
Region of origin	Pemberton, old Lancashire, England
Word/Name	Anglo-Saxon
Other names
Variant(s)	numerous

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, Australia and the United States and many places with an English diaspora.

Etymologically, it consists of the elements Pen, Celtic 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, 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
• Cyril Pemberton (1886–1975), US entomologist
• Hugh Pemberton (1890-1956), physician
• John Pemberton (1831–1888), inventor of Coca-Cola soda pop 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
• Max Pemberton (1863–1950), British novelist
• Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown (born 1952), Governor of the Bank of England (1983–1993)
• Sophie Pemberton (1869–1959), Canadian painter
• 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

• Frank Pemberton, in the novel The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
• Guy and Simon Pemberton, characters on the BBC R4 soap The Archers
• Sylvester Pemberton, DC Comics superhero the Star-Spangled Kid

See also

• Pemberton (disambiguation)

References

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