Paine (surname)
Paine is a surname. The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland records it as a variant of Payne, along with Pain, Payn, Pane, Payen, Payan, Panes, and Pagan. The name Payne is believed to derive from the medieval English personal name Pagan.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Albert Paine, American author and biographer
- Allie Paine, American college basketball player
- Augustus G. Paine, Sr., American financier
- Augustus G. Paine, Jr., American paper manufacturer and bank official
- Charles Jackson Paine, American Civil War general and America's Cup yachtsman
- Eleazer A. Paine, American Civil War general
- Elijah Paine, U.S. Senator from Vermont
- Ephraim Paine, Continental Congressman from New York
- George Paine, several people
- Godfrey Paine, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force officer
- Halbert E. Paine, American Civil War general
- Harriet Evans Paine, Texas storyteller and oral historian
- James Paine, multiple people
- John Paine, multiple people
- Lyman Paine, American architect
- Lynn S. Paine, American economist
- Mary Wheaton Paine, American actress
- Michael Paine, acquaintance of purported assassin Lee Harvey Oswald
- Robert Treat Paine, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence or any of several Americans by this name
- Roxy Paine, American artist
- Ruth Paine, American woman who inadvertently played a role in the Kennedy Assassination
- Sumner Paine, American Olympic marksman
- Terry Paine, English footballer
- Thomas Paine, several people
- *Thomas Paine, U.S. Founding Father and author of Common Sense, Rights of Man and The Age of Reason
- Tim Paine, Australian cricketer
- William Paine, several people
