Ash (name)

Ash is used as a given name (commonly a shortened version of Ashton or Ashley) or a surname, and may refer to:

Notable given names

• Ash (director), Ashley Baron-Cohen, film director usually credited as "Ash"
• Ash (god), a hawk-god of the Sahara Desert in Egyptian mythology
• Ash Amin, British geographer
• Ash Atalla, television producer
• Ash Bowie, American indie musician

Fictional given names

• Ash Crimson, the latest main character in the King of Fighters game-series
• Ash Ketchum, the main character of the Pokémon anime
• Ash (MÄR), a character in the manga and anime series MÄR
• Ash (Supernatural), a recurring character on the Supernatural TV series.
• Ash Williams, the hero of the Evil Dead film-series
• Ash Upton, one of the main characters in the Chris Hazelton webcomic Misfile.
• Ash Dove, from H20, Just add Water

Notable surnames

• Brandon Ash, American racing driver
• Brian Ash, American screenwriter
• Brian Ash (bibliographer), bibliographer
• Daniel Ash, British guitarist
• Ed Ash, American car engine constructor
• Eric Ash, British electrical engineer and former Rector of Imperial College
• Gord Ash, baseball manager
• Haruhiko Ash, singer
• Isaac Colton Ash, California politician

• John Ash (physician) (1723-1798), British physician.
• John Ash (divine) (1724–1779), lexicographer and minister
• John Ash (politician) (1821–1886), Member of the Legislative Assembly for Comox riding in British Columbia, Canada
• John Ash (writer) (born 1948), poet, writer and travel writer

• Leslie Ash, British actress
• Maie Ash, British stage actress (1888 -- 1923)
• Marvin Ash, pseudonym of the American jazz pianist Marvin Ashbaugh
• Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman
• Meir Ash (disambiguation), one of several people including
  • Rabbi Meir Eisenstadt
  • Rabbi Meir Eisenstaedter
• Rob Ash (born 1951), American football coach
• Russell Ash, British writer
• Sam Ash, American businessman
• Timothy Garton Ash, British academic historian and writer
• William Ash (pilot), Canadian-American pilot

Fictional surnames

• Captain Ash, fictional character from the video game TimeSplitters
• Nina Ash, fictional character from television series Angel
• Science Officer Ash, the science-officer of the Nostromo in the 1979 film Alien
• Randolph Henry Ash, fictional victorian poet from the novel Possession by A. S. Byatt

See also

• Ash (disambiguation)
• Ashe (disambiguation)
• Ashe (name)