Gough

Gough can refer to:

Places

• Gough Island, also known historically as Diego Alvarez, a volcanic British island in the South Atlantic Ocean
• Gough Street in Hong Kong

People

Surname

The surname probably derives from the Welsh coch (English: ‘red’),^[1] given as a nickname to someone with red hair or a red complection or as a reduced form of the Irish McGough which itself is an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Eochadha, a patronymic from the personal name Eochaidh (variant Eachaidh), ‘horseman’, both derivatives of ‘horse’.

• Alfred Gough, co-creator of Smallville
• Antony Gough, New Zealand businessman and property developer
• Charles Gough (disambiguation), a number of people with this name
• Charles John Stanley Gough, British soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Darren Gough, English cricketer and ballroom dancer
• Douglas Gough FRS, a British astronomer, and Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow at the University of Cambridge.
• Sir Henry Gough, Knt (1649–1724) Sheriff of Staffordshire, MP
• Hubert Gough, British World War I general
• Hugh Henry Gough, Victorian-age Anglo-Irish soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Ian Gough, Welsh rugby player
• John Gough (VC), (1871–1915), British general and recipient of the Victoria Cross
• John Gough (natural philosopher) (1757–1825), blind English natural and experimental philosopher
• John Bartholomew Gough, (1817–1886), American temperance orator
• John George Gough (1848–1907), co-founder of the New South Wales Labour Party
• Laurie Gough, Canadian-American travel writer
• Michael Gough (1916–2011), English actor
• Michael Gough (voice actor), American voice actor
• Richard Gough (antiquarian), English antiquarian, donated the Gough Map to the Bodleian Library
• Robert Gough (actor), English actor
• Stephen Gough, naked rambler
• Viscount Gough, a peerage of the United Kingdom

Given name

• Gough Whitlam, former Prime Minister of Australia

Other uses

• Gough bunting (Rowettia goughensis), a finch-like bird from the Gough Island
• Gough Map, the oldest surviving road map of Great Britain
• "Gough" (song), a song by The Whitlams
• Gough/Stewart platform, a type of parallel robot.

See also

• The Gough-Calthorpe family
• All pages with titles containing Gough

References