Pemberton (surname)
Pemberton is an English 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,, British actress
- Brock Pemberton, American theatrical producer and director
- Caroline Pemberton, Australian model
- Charles Reece Pemberton, British actor and lecturer
- Charley Pemberton, son of John Pemberton
- Cyril Pemberton, US entomologist
- Daniel Pemberton, English composer
- Ebenezer Pemberton, American educator
- Henry Pemberton, English physician and man of letters
- Hugh Pemberton, physician
- Hugh Pemberton, historian
- John Pemberton, inventor of Coca-Cola soda pop in Atlanta, Georgia in 1886
- John Pemberton , English football player
- John C. Pemberton, Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War
- Johnny Pemberton, American actor and comedian
- Joseph Despard Pemberton, Canadian surveyor-general
- Max Pemberton, British novelist
- Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown, Governor of the Bank of England
- Sophie Pemberton, Canadian painter
- Stanton C. Pemberton, American businessman and politician
- Steve Pemberton, British comedy writer and performer
- Steven Pemberton, computer scientist
- Thomas Edgar Pemberton, English playwright and theatrical historian
- Tom Pemberton, English chef
- 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
