Church (surname)

Church (surname)

Church is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Albert T. Church (born 1947), Vice-Admiral in the United States Navy
  • Alonzo Church (1903–1995), logician, famous for the Church-Turing thesis and lambda calculus
  • Captain Benjamin Church (1639–1718), colonial officer during King Philip's War
  • Benjamin Church (1734–1776), first Surgeon General of the Continental Army and grandson of Captain Benjamin Church
  • Benjamin F. Church (1807-1887), American pioneer amd builder of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Bill Church, American musician
  • Brad Church (born 1976), Canadian ice hockey player
  • Charlotte Church (born 1986), Welsh soprano singer and talk show host
  • Doug Church, video-game designer
  • Ellen Church (1904 - 1965), first airline stewardess
  • Eric Church (born 1977), American country music singer
  • Forrester Church (born 1948), American minister, son of Senator Frank Church
  • Francis Pharcellus Church (1839–1906), American writer (famous for the editorial Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus)
  • Frank Church (1924–1984), four-term U.S. Senator from Idaho.
  • Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), landscape painter
  • Frederick Stuart Church (1842–1924), American artist.
  • George W. Church, Sr. (? - 1956), founder of Church's Chicken, a chain of franchised fried chicken restaurants
  • James E. Church (1869 - 1959), pioneered the techniques used to measure snow and forecast seasonal water supplies
  • John A. Church, an expert on sea-level and its changes
  • Johnny Church, a well-known spoken word artist
  • Judith Church (born 1953), a politician in the United Kingdom
  • Louis K. Church (1845 - 1898), New York Supreme Court justice
  • Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954), American writer and civil-rights activist
  • Mike Church (born 1962) , a Southern United States radio commentator
  • Richard Church (general) (1784–1873), a British military officer and general in the Greek army
  • Richard William Church (1825–1890), an English divine, nephew of the general
  • Richard Church (poet) (1893–1972), an English poet and man of letters
  • Robert Reed Church (1839–1912), the first African-American millionaire
  • Ryan Church (born 1978), an American baseball player
  • Simon Church (born 1988), Welsh international footballer
  • Thomas Dolliver Church (1902–1978), American landscape architect
  • Thomas Haden Church (born 1961), American actor in television and film
  • Thomas Langton Church (1870–1950), Canadian politician
  • Walter G. Church, Sr., member of the North Carolina General Assembly
  • William Church (c. 1778–1863), American inventor who patented a typesetting machine in 1822

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