Pemberton (surname)

Pemberton

John Pemberton (1831–1888), of Georgia, the inventor in 1886 of the carbonated soft drink Coca-Cola.
Origin
Region of origin	Pemberton, old Lancashire, England
Other names
Variant form(s)	numerous

Pemberton is an English, Anglo Saxon surname first found in Pemberton, Greater Manchester, a residential area of Wigan, historically a part of Lancashire. It is common in the United Kingdom, and in places with an English diaspora such as Australia and the United States .

Etymologically, it consists of the elements Pen, Brythonic for hill or head, ber Anglo-Saxon for barley, and ton Anglo-Saxon for an enclosure or field; thus "Barley field on the hill".

Surname

• Amy Pemberton, (born 1988), British actress
• Brock Pemberton (1885–1950), American theatrical producer and director
• Caroline Pemberton (born 1986), Australian model
• Charles Reece Pemberton (1790–1840), British actor and lecturer
• Charley Pemberton (1854–1894), son of John Pemberton
• Christopher Robert Pemberton (1765–1822), English physician
• Cyril Pemberton (1886–1975), American entomologist
• Daniel Pemberton (born 1977), English composer
• Ebenezer Pemberton (minister) (1671–1717), colonial American Congregational clergyman, bibliophile, and minister
• Ebenezer Pemberton (1746–1835), American educator
• Eli Pemberton (born 1997), American basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
• Henry Pemberton (1694–1771), English physician and man of letters
• Hugh Pemberton (physician) (1890–1956), physician
• Hugh Pemberton (historian), historian
• John Pemberton (1831–1888), inventor of Coca-Cola in Atlanta, Georgia in 1886
• John Pemberton (footballer) (born 1964), English football (soccer) player
• John C. Pemberton (1814–1881), Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War (1861–1865)
• Johnny Pemberton (born 1981), American actor and comedian
• Joseph Despard Pemberton, Canadian surveyor-general
• Joseph Scott Pemberton, a US Marine lance corporal who was charged with homicide for the death of Jennifer Laude, a Filipino trans woman
• Max Pemberton (1863–1950), British novelist
• Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown (1927–2013), Governor of the Bank of England (1983–1993)
• Sophie Pemberton (1869–1959), Canadian painter
• Stanton C. Pemberton (1858–1944), American businessman and politician
• Steve Pemberton (born 1967), British comedy writer and performer
• Steven Pemberton (born 1953), computer scientist
• Thomas Edgar Pemberton (1849–1905), English playwright and theatrical historian
• Victor Pemberton, British script writer and novelist

Fictional characters

• Frank Pemberton, in the novel The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
• Guy and Simon Pemberton, characters on the BBC R4 soap The Archers
• Sylvester Pemberton, DC Comics superhero the Star-Spangled Kid
• Greg Pemberton
• Mr. Pemberton, the main antagonist in Sneaky Sasquatch.

See also

• Pemberton (disambiguation)