Milner (surname)

Milner is an occupational surname for a miller, and is related to the surname Miller. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854–1925), British colonial administrator
• Andrew Milner (born 1950), British-Australian cultural theorist and literary critic
• Andy Milner (born 1967), English footballer
• Brenda Milner (born 1918), English-Canadian neuropsychologist
• Edward Milner (born 1819), English landscape architect
• Eric Milner-White (1884–1963), English cleric
• Eric Charles Milner, set theorist
• Frank Milner, respected New Zealand secondary school head-master
• H. R. Milner (1889–1975), Canadian lawyer and businessman
• Helen Milner (born 1958), American political scientist
• Isaac Milner (1750–1820), Cambridge don, clergyman and mathematician
• James Milner (disambiguation), several people named James Milner
• Jean-Claude Milner (born 1941), French philosopher and linguist
• John Milner (disambiguation), several people named John Milner
• Marcus Milner (cricketer) (1864–1939), English racehorse trainer, soldier, civil servant and cricketer
• Marion Milner (1900–98), British psychoanalyst and journal writer
• Martin Milner (1931–2015), American actor
• Martrez Milner American football player
• Paddy Milner (born 1980), British singer/songwriter
• Peter Milner, American psychologist who co-discovered the pleasure center of the brain
• Robin Milner (1934–2010), British computer scientist
• Thomas Milner (died 1694), Virginia colonial politician, Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses
• Scott T. Milner, American chemical engineer and author
• Thomas Milner, rugby league footballer
• Yuri Milner (born 1961), Russian entrepreneur