Payne

The name may also be spelt Paine.

The surname Payne stems from paganus, see pagan.

People

• King Payne, a Seminole chief
• A.R. Payne, British rubber scientist and namesake of the Payne effect
• Alexander Payne (born 1961), U.S. film director and screenwriter
• Ben Iden Payne (1881-1976), English actor and director
• Bruce Payne (born 1960), British actor
• Candie Payne - English singer-songwriter
• C.D. Payne, U.S. novelist
• Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), British-American astronomer
• C.F. Payne (Chris F. Payne) (born 1954), U.S. illustrator
• Cynthia Payne (born 1932), British madam
• David L. Payne (1836-1884), the Father of Oklahoma
• David Payne, British academic, expert in photonics
• Donald M. Payne (born 1934), U.S. politician
• Dougie Payne, bassist and vocalist for band Travis
• Edgar Alwin Payne (1883-1947), Landscape painter, muralist, Western American artist
• Edwin Payne, English lecturer in orthodontics and OTA council member
• Ernest Payne (1884-1961), English cyclist and Olympic gold medallist
• Ethel L. Payne (1911-1991), award-winning journalist
• Fernandus Payne (1881-1977), American zoologist
• Freda Payne (born 1942), U.S. singer and actress
• Frederick G. Payne (1904-1978), U.S. politician
• Gareth Payne (1935-2004), Welsh rugby player
• Henry B. Payne (1810-1896), U.S. politician
• Henry C. Payne (1843-1904), U.S. politician and railroad executive
• Hughes de Payens (1070-1136), Knight of the First Crusade and founder of the Knights Templar
• Humfry Payne (1902–1936), English archaeologist
• Joseph Payne (1808-1876), English educationalist
• Joseph Payne (1914-1975), English footballer
• Joseph Payne (musician) (1941-2008), English harpsichordist, organist and musicologist
• Joseph "Joe" Payne (b. 1984), American bassist
• Keith Payne (born 1933), Vietnam veteran, Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Kevin Payne (1972-2006), American boxer
• Lewis Payne, the pseudonym of American Civil War assassin Lewis Powell
• Marise Payne, Australian Senator
• Nicolle Payne, Olympic water polo American goalkeeper
• Pierre Stephen Robert Payne, novelist, historian and biographer
• Rufus Payne, U.S. blues musician
• Sam Payne, Danish singer, pseudonym of Gustav Winckler
• Samantha Payne, Number 1 Chicago White Sox fan

Sarah Payne (1992-2000), British murder victim

• Scherrie Payne (born 1944), U.S. singer (The Supremes)
• Sean Payne, drummer for British band The Zutons
• Stanley G. Payne, historian of modern Spain and European fascism
• Stephen Payne, designer of the Cunard ocean liner Queen Mary 2
• Theodore Payne, a noted California horticulturist and proponent of California native plants

Places

Payne is the name of several places in the United States:

• Payne, Georgia
• Payne, Ohio
• Payne County, Oklahoma
• Payne's Prairie, Florida

Entertainment

• Payne (TV series), a US TV show patterned after Fawlty Towers
• Max Payne, computer game
• Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, computer game
• Major Payne, a 1995 film

Other uses

• The Payne effect, the name of a particular feature of the stress-strain response of filled rubber
• The Arnaud River, formerly "Payne River", in Nunavik, Canada