Sumner (given name)
# Sumner (given name)

Sumner is a given name. Notable people with the name include:

* Sumner Archibald Cunningham (1843-1913), American Confederate veteran and newspaper editor.
* Sumner Gerard, American businessman and diplomat, US Ambassador to Jamaica
* Sumner Paine, 1896 Olympic shooting gold and silver medalist
* Sumner Chilton Powell, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1964
* Sumner Redstone (or Sumner Murray Rothstein, 1923–2020), Chairman of Viacom
* Sumner Stone, (born 1945), typeface designer
* Sumner L. Trussell (1860–1931), judge of the United States Board of Tax Appeals
* Sumner Welles, (1892–1961), U. S. Undersecretary of State
