Usher (surname)

Usher is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Andrew Usher, Edinburgh distiller
• Bob Usher (1925-2014), Baseball player
• David Usher, Canadian recording artist
• Graham Usher (1938-1975) ballet dancer with the Royal Ballet.
• Graham Usher, Bishop of Dudley
• Hezekiah Usher, first bookseller in the thirteen colonies.
• James Usher (or Ussher), Archbishop of Armagh, 1625–1656 most famously published a chronology that purported to establish the time and date of the creation as the night preceding Sunday, 23 October 4004 BC.
• James Ward Usher, benefactor of the Usher Gallery, in Lincoln, United Kingdom
• John Palmer Usher, U.S. administrator, cabinet member of Abraham Lincoln
• Karyn Usher, American television producer and screenwriter
• Michael Usher, Australian journalist and newsreader for Nine News
• Paul Usher, English actor
• Robin Usher, British architectural historian