Rainsford is an English-language surname, a variation of the toponymic surname Rainford from the village Rainford, Lancashire.[1] Other variants include Raynsford, Rainforth, and Ranford. Notable people with the Rainsford surname variant include:
Andrew Rainsford Wetmore (1820–1892), New Brunswick politician and jurist
Charles Rainsford (1728–1809), British Army officer
Ed Rainsford (born 1984), Zimbabwean cricketer
George Payne Rainsford James (1799–1860), English novelist and historical writer
George Rainsford (politician), Australian politician
George Rainsford (actor), English actor
Harold Rainsford Stark (1880–1972), officer in the United States Navy during World War I and World War II
Jenny Rainsford (1986–) English actress
Jill Rainsford (1905–1994), actress, songwriter, painter and author
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 (c. 1652 – 1709), Irish Lord Mayor of Dublin and the original founder of the St James' Gate (Guinness) Brewery
Peter Rainsford Brady (1825–1902), American military officer, surveyor and politician
Sarah Rainsford BBC foreign correspondent
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"
^Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 2207. ISBN 978-0-19-252747-9. OCLC 964412220. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
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