Gough

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Gough could refer to many things.

Contents 1 Places 2 People 2.1 Surname 2.2 Given name 3 Other uses 4 See also

[edit] Places

• Gough Island, also known as Diego Alvarez, a volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean
• Gough Street in Hong Kong
• Gough Street in San Francisco, California

[edit] People

[edit] Surname

The surname probably derives 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
• Charles John Stanley Gough, a British soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Hugh Henry Gough, a Victorian-age Anglo-Irish soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
• John Bartholomew Gough, temperance orator
• John Edmund Gough, a British soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Laurie Gough, Canadian-American travel writer
• Michael Gough, English actor
• Stephen Gough, the naked rambler
• Darren Gough, English cricketer and ballroom dancer
• Hubert Gough, British World War I general

[edit] Given name

• Gough Whitlam, former Prime Minister of Australia

[edit] Other uses

• Gough Map, the oldest surviving road map of Great Britain

[edit] See also

• The Gough-Calthorpe family