Usher

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Usher may refer to:

• Several jobs which originally involved directing people and ensuring people are in the correct place:
  • Usher (visitor assistant)
  • Church usher
  • Field usher, a military rank
  • Court usher, a court official
  • Usher of Justice, a judicial official in some countries
  • Usher of the Black Rod, a parliamentary official in the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
  • Gentleman Usher, a category of royal official in the United Kingdom
  • White House Chief Usher
  • Usher-at-arms, historically, a soldier of the gardes de la porte of the maison militaire du roi de France
  • Usher of State, a protocol official of the Swiss central or canton governments

People

• Usher (entertainer) (born 1978), American R&B recording artist and performer
  • Usher (album), a 1994 album by Usher
• Usher (surname)

Places

• Usher, Western Australia
• Mount Usher, Antarctica
• The Usher Glacier in the South Shetland Islands

In fiction

• The family name in the Edgar Allan Poe short story "The Fall of the House of Usher"
  • The Fall of the House of Usher (disambiguation), adaptations of Poe's work
• Usher (2002 film), a short film directed by Curtis Harrington
• Usher (2004 film), a film based on the short story by Poe

Other

• (Archaic), the second schoolmaster in a school in England
• Gentleman Usher of an order of knights in the United Kingdom
• Usher 1C, human gene
• Usher Hall, Edinburgh
• Usher syndrome, genetic disorder
• Ushers of Trowbridge, brewery
• Usher baronets, a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom

See also

• Ussher