Cushing is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alonzo Cushing (1841–1863), U.S. Army officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor
• Arthur Cushing (1869–1944), Canadian politician
• Brian Cushing (born 1987), American football player
• Caleb Cushing (1800–1879), US legislator
• Charles Cushing (1905–1982), American composer
• Charles Stuart Cushing (1867–1946), American attorney
• Christine Cushing, Canadian celebrity chef
• David Cushing (1920–2008), British fisheries biologist
• Edmund L. Cushing (1807–1883), chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
• Eliza Lanesford Cushing (1794–1886), American-Canadian author and editor
• Eloise B. Cushing (1887–1977), American attorney
• Frank Hamilton Cushing (1857–1900), American anthropologist
• Harvey Cushing (1869–1939), pioneer American neurosurgeon
• James M. Cushing (1908–1963), US Army mining engineer
• James T. Cushing (1937–2002), American physicist and philosopher of science
• John Cushing (actor) (1719–1790), British stage actor
• John Perkins Cushing (1787–1862), American merchant and philanthropist
• Luther Cushing (1803–1856), author of one of the earliest works on parliamentary procedure
• Nathan Cushing (1742–1812), Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
• Nick Cushing, English football manager
• Otho Cushing (c. 1820–1942), American artist
• Peter Cushing (1913–1994), British actor
• Robert Cushing (sculptor) (1841–1896), Irish sculptor
• Renny Cushing (1952–2022), American politician
• Richard Cushing (1895–1970), American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• Stella Marek Cushing (1893–1938), American folklorist, violinist
• Stephen B. Cushing (died 1868), New York State Attorney General 1856–1857
• Thomas Cushing (1725–1788), American lawyer and statesman
• William Cushing (1732–1810), Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
• William B. Cushing (1842–1874), U.S. Navy officer
• William Henry Cushing (1852–1934), Canadian politician
• William Orcutt Cushing (1823–1902), American Unitarian minister and hymn writer
• Zattu Cushing (1771–1839), American shipbuilder and judge
• Josiah Nelson Cushing (1840–1905), Missionary and Scholar, Burma; author of the first Shan-English Dictionary and others

Surname list

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