Gurney (surname)

Gurney is an English surname of Anglo-Norman origin.

Notable families

 * The Gurney family (Norwich), Quakers in England that established Gurney's bank:
 * Anna Gurney (1795–1857), Old English scholar
 * Catherine Gurney (1848–1930), English activist
 * Daniel Gurney (1791–1880), banker and antiquary
 * Elizabeth Fry née Gurney (1780–1845), prison reformer and philanthropist
 * Hudson Gurney (1775–1864), English antiquary, verse-writer, and politician
 * Isabel Charlotte Gurney (Isabel Talbot, Baroness Talbot de Malahide) (1851–1932), English philanthropist
 * John Henry Gurney Sr. (1819–1890), banker and amateur ornithologist, son of Joseph John Gurney
 * Joseph John Gurney (1788–1847), banker, brother of Elizabeth Fry and father of John Henry Gurney
 * Robert Gurney (1879–1950), English zoologist
 * Samuel Gurney (1786–1856), banker and philanthropist
 * English shorthand pioneers:
 * Thomas Gurney (shorthand writer) (1705–1770), first known official shorthand writer
 * Sir John Gurney (judge) (1768–1845), barrister and judge
 * William Brodie Gurney (1777–1855), shorthand writer and philanthropist
 * Joseph Gurney (1804–1879), British shorthand writer and biblical scholar
 * English clergymen and civil servants (related to the banking family):
 * Archer Thompson Gurney (1820–1887), Church of England clergyman and hymn writer
 * John Hampden Gurney (1802–1862), Anglican clergyman and hymnist
 * Richard Gurney (1790–1843), vice-warden of the stannaries, and father of Archer Thompson Gurney
 * Edmund Gurney (divine) (d.1648), English clergyman, divine and anti-Catholic writer
 * Russell Gurney (1804–1878), English Conservative Party politician
 * American professional auto racing drivers:
 * Dan Gurney (1931–2018), father of Alex Gurney
 * Alex Gurney (born 1974), son of Dan Gurney

Others with this surname

 * A. R. Gurney (1930–2017), American playwright and novelist
 * Alison Gurney (born 1957), Scottish pharmacologist
 * Andy Gurney (b. 1974), English footballer
 * Alexander George Gurney (1902–1955), Australian cartoonist and comic strip creator
 * Bobby Gurney (1907–1994), English football player
 * Charles Raymond Gurney (1906-1942), Australian aviator
 * Charles W. Gurney (1840-1913), American businessman
 * Daryl Gurney (b. 1986), Northern Irish darts player
 * Edmund Gurney (1847-1888), English psychologist and psychic researcher.
 * Edward Gurney (1868—1938), English cricketer who played for Gloucestershire
 * Edward J. Gurney (1914–1996), U.S. Representative and Senator from Florida
 * Eric Gurney (1910–1992), Canadian cartoonist who worked with the Walt Disney Company
 * Sir Goldsworthy Gurney (1793–1875), British scientist
 * Harry Gurney (b. 1986), English cricket player
 * Sir Henry Gurney (Henry Lovell Goldsworthy Gurney) (1898–1951), British High Commissioner in Malaya
 * Ivor Gurney (1890–1937), English composer and war poet
 * James Gurney (born 1958), U.S. artist best known as the creator and illustrator of the Dinotopia books
 * Jason Gurney (1910-1973), British sculptor who fought in the Spanish Civil War
 * Jeremiah Gurney (1812-1886), American daguerreotype photographer
 * John Chandler Gurney (1896–1985), U.S. Senator from South Dakota
 * Margaret Gurney (1908–2002), American mathematician, statistician, and computer programmer
 * Margaret Gurney (artist) (b.1943), Australian artist
 * Oliver Gurney (1911–2001), English assyriologist and hittitologist
 * Peter Gurney (1938-2006), English guinea pig campaigner
 * Rachel Gurney (1920–2001), English actor
 * Sir Richard Gurney (d.1647), 1st Baronet, English merchant, Lord Mayor of London.
 * Ronald Wilfred Gurney (1898–1953), British theoretical physicist
 * Scott Gurney (b. 1976), American actor and executive producer
 * Stan Gurney (1908–1942), Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * Steve Gurney (b. 1963), New Zealand multisport and triathlon athlete

In fiction

 * Gladys Gurney, a member of the extended Simpson family in The Simpsons
 * Jack Arnold Alexander Tancred Gurney, protagonist of Peter Barnes' 1968 play, The Ruling Class.