# Rainsford

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'''Rainsford''' is an English-language [surname](/source/surname), a variation of the [toponymic surname](/source/toponymic_surname) [Rainford](/source/Rainford_(surname)) from the village [Rainford, Lancashire](/source/Rainford%2C_Lancashire).<ref name="Hanks Coates McClure 2016">{{cite book
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}}</ref> Other variants include [Raynsford](/source/Raynsford), [Rainforth](/source/Rainforth), and [Ranford](/source/Ranford_(surname)). Notable people with the Rainsford surname variant include:

* [Andrew Rainsford Wetmore](/source/Andrew_Rainsford_Wetmore) (1820–1892), New Brunswick politician and jurist
* [Charles Rainsford](/source/Charles_Rainsford) (1728–1809), British Army officer
* [Ed Rainsford](/source/Ed_Rainsford) (born 1984), Zimbabwean cricketer
* [George Payne Rainsford James](/source/George_Payne_Rainsford_James) (1799–1860), English novelist and historical writer
* [George Rainsford (politician)](/source/George_Rainsford_(politician)), Australian politician
* [George Rainsford (actor)](/source/George_Rainsford_(actor)), English actor
* [Harold Rainsford Stark](/source/Harold_Rainsford_Stark) (1880–1972), officer in the United States Navy during World War I and World War II
* [Jenny Rainsford](/source/Jenny_Rainsford) (1986–) English actress
* [Jill Rainsford](/source/Jill_Rainsford) (1905–1994), actress, songwriter, painter and author
* [Marcus Rainsford](/source/Marcus_Rainsford) (c. 1758 – 1817) Officer in the British Army, serving in the Battle of Camden 1780, during the American Revolutionary War, and historical author
* [Sir Mark Rainsford](/source/Sir_Mark_Rainsford) (c. 1652 – 1709), Irish Lord Mayor of Dublin and the original founder of the St James' Gate (Guinness) Brewery
* [Peter Rainsford Brady](/source/Peter_Rainsford_Brady) (1825–1902), American military officer, surveyor and politician
* [Sarah Rainsford](/source/Sarah_Rainsford) BBC foreign correspondent
* [Rainey Qualley](/source/Rainey_Qualley) (born 1989), singer and actress, uses the name '''Rainsford''' while releasing and writing music

'''Fictional characters'''
* Sanger Rainsford, from Richard Connell's 1924 short story "[The Most Dangerous Game](/source/The_Most_Dangerous_Game)"

== See also ==
* [Rainsford Historic District](/source/Rainsford_Historic_District), group of Victorian houses in Cheyenne, Wyoming, many designed by architect George D. Rainsford
* [Rainsford Island](/source/Rainsford_Island), 11-acre island in the Boston Harbor, between Long Island and Peddocks Island

== See also ==
* {{intitle|Rainsford}}
* [Rainforth](/source/Rainforth), variant spelling
* [Ranford (surname)](/source/Ranford_(surname)), variant spelling
* [Raynsford](/source/Raynsford), variant spelling

== References ==
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Category:English-language surnames
Category:English toponymic surnames

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