Gough
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[edit] Places that contain the name Gough
- Gough Island aka Diego Alvarez, a volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean
[edit] People with the surname Gough
The GOUGH surname probably derives from the nickname for a red-haired person, from the Welsh coch ‘red’, 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’, a derivative of each ‘horse’.
- Viscount Gough, a peerage of the United Kingdom
- Alfred Gough, co-creator of Smallville
- Hugh Gough, a Victorian-age Anglo-Irish soldier
- John Bartholomew Gough, temperance orator
- Laurie Gough, Canadian-American travel writer
- Michael Gough, English actor
- Stephen Gough, the naked rambler
- Darren Gough, English cricketer and ballroom dancer
[edit] People with the given name Gough
- Gough Whitlam, former Prime Minister of Australia