# Gurney (surname)

Gurney is an English surname of Anglo-Norman origin.

## Notable families

* The Gurney family (Norwich), Quakers in England that established Gurney's bank:
** Anna Gurney (1795–1857), Old English scholar
** Catherine Gurney (1848–1930), English activist
** Daniel Gurney (1791–1880), banker and antiquary
** Elizabeth Fry née Gurney (1780–1845), prison reformer and philanthropist
** Hudson Gurney (1775–1864), English antiquary, verse-writer, and politician
** Isabel Charlotte Gurney (Isabel Talbot, Baroness Talbot de Malahide) (1851–1932), English philanthropist
** John Henry Gurney Sr. (1819–1890), banker and amateur ornithologist, son of Joseph John Gurney
** Joseph John Gurney (1788–1847), banker, brother of Elizabeth Fry and father of John Henry Gurney
** Robert Gurney (1879–1950), English zoologist
** Samuel Gurney (1786–1856), banker and philanthropist
* English shorthand pioneers:
** Thomas Gurney (shorthand writer) (1705–1770), first known official shorthand writer
** Sir John Gurney (judge) (1768–1845), barrister and judge
** William Brodie Gurney (1777–1855), shorthand writer and philanthropist
** Joseph Gurney (1804–1879), British shorthand writer and biblical scholar
* English clergymen and civil servants (related to the banking family):
** Archer Thompson Gurney (1820–1887), Church of England clergyman and hymn writer
** John Hampden Gurney (1802–1862), Anglican clergyman and hymnist
** Richard Gurney (1790–1843), vice-warden of the stannaries, and father of Archer Thompson Gurney
** Edmund Gurney (divine) (d.1648), English clergyman, divine and anti-Catholic writer
** Russell Gurney (1804–1878), English Conservative Party politician
* American professional auto racing drivers:
** Dan Gurney (1931–2018), father of Alex Gurney
** Alex Gurney (born 1974), son of Dan Gurney

## Others with this surname

* A. R. Gurney (1930–2017), American playwright and novelist
* Alison Gurney (born 1957), Scottish pharmacologist
* Andy Gurney (b. 1974), English footballer
* Alexander George Gurney (1902–1955), Australian cartoonist and comic strip creator
* Bobby Gurney (1907–1994), English football player
* Charles Raymond Gurney (1906-1942), Australian aviator
* Charles W. Gurney (1840-1913), American businessman
* Daryl Gurney (b. 1986), Northern Irish darts player
* Edmund Gurney (1847-1888), English psychologist and psychic researcher.
* Edward Gurney (1868—1938), English cricketer who played for Gloucestershire
* Edward J. Gurney (1914–1996), U.S. Representative and Senator from Florida
* Eric Gurney (1910–1992), Canadian cartoonist who worked with the Walt Disney Company
* Sir Goldsworthy Gurney (1793–1875), British scientist
* Harry Gurney (b. 1986), English cricket player
* Sir Henry Gurney (Henry Lovell Goldsworthy Gurney) (1898–1951), British High Commissioner in Malaya
* Ivor Gurney (1890–1937), English composer and war poet
* James Gurney (born 1958), U.S. artist best known as the creator and illustrator of the Dinotopia books
* Jason Gurney (1910-1973), British sculptor who fought in the Spanish Civil War
* Jeremiah Gurney (1812-1886), American daguerreotype photographer
* John Chandler Gurney (1896–1985), U.S. Senator from South Dakota
* Margaret Gurney (1908–2002), American mathematician, statistician, and computer programmer
* Margaret Gurney (artist) (b.1943), Australian artist
* Oliver Gurney (1911–2001), English assyriologist and hittitologist
* Peter Gurney (1938-2006), English guinea pig campaigner
* Rachel Gurney (1920–2001), English actor
* Sir Richard Gurney (d.1647), 1st Baronet, English merchant, Lord Mayor of London.
* Ronald Wilfred Gurney (1898–1953), British theoretical physicist
* Scott Gurney (b. 1976), American actor and executive producer
* Stan Gurney (1908–1942), Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
* Steve Gurney (b. 1963), New Zealand multisport and triathlon athlete

## In fiction

* Gladys Gurney, a member of the extended Simpson family in The Simpsons
* Jack Arnold Alexander Tancred Gurney, protagonist of Peter Barnes' 1968 play, The Ruling Class.