Ash (name)
Ash is both a given name (commonly a shortened version of Ashton or Ashley) and a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
People with the given name
- 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
- "Ash" Carter (born 1954), nickname of Ashton Carter, American physicist, Harvard University professor, and United States Secretary of Defense
Fictional characters:
- Ash, an android in Alien film.
- 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 Dove, from H20, Just add Water
- Ash Lynburn, fictional character in the book Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan
- Ash Fox, the son of Mr Fox in the animated film Fantastic Mr. Fox, voiced by Jason Schwartzman.
People with the surname
- 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) (c. 1724–1779), lexicographer and minister
- John Ash (politician) (1821–1886), Member of the Legislative Assembly for Comox riding in British Columbia, Canada
- John Ash (ornithologist) (1925–2014), British ornithologist
- John Ash (writer) (born 1948), poet, writer and travel writer
- John Ash (MP for Totnes)
- Kevin Ash (1959–2013), British motorycle journalist and 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
- Peter Ash, British actor
- Peter Ash (composer), American composer
- Rob Ash (born 1951), American football coach
- Russell Ash, British writer
- Sam Ash, (born Samuel Ashkynase), American businessman
- Sam Ash (actor), American vaudeville singer and film actor
- Timothy Garton Ash, British academic historian and writer
- William Ash (pilot), Canadian-American pilot
Fictional characters:
- 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
- Asch (surname)
- Ash (disambiguation)
- Ashe (disambiguation)
- Ashe (name)