Sumner (given name)

Sumner is a given name. Notable people with the name include:


 * Sumner Archibald Cunningham (1843–1913), American Confederate veteran and newspaper editor.
 * Sumner Gerard, American businessman and diplomat, US Ambassador to Jamaica
 * Sumner Paine, 1896 Olympic shooting gold and silver medalist
 * Sumner Chilton Powell, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1964
 * Sumner Redstone (or Sumner Murray Rothstein, 1923–2020), Chairman of Viacom
 * Sumner Stone, (born 1945), typeface designer
 * Sumner L. Trussell (1860–1931), judge of the United States Board of Tax Appeals
 * Sumner Welles, (1892–1961), U. S. Undersecretary of State