Sumter
# Sumter

Sumter may refer to:

## People

### Given name

* Sumter S. Arnim (1904–1990), American dentist
* Sumter de Leon Lowry Jr. (1893–1985), United States Army general

### Surname

* Rowendy Sumter (born 1988), Curaçaoan footballer
* Shavonda E. Sumter (born 1974), American politician
* Thomas Sumter (1734–1832), brigadier general during the American War of Independence
* Thomas De Lage Sumter (1809–1874), American politician

## Places

* Fort Sumter, location of the first shots of the United States Civil War
* Sumter, Georgia
* Sumter, Nebraska
* Sumter, South Carolina
* Sumter National Forest
* Sumter County, Alabama
* Sumter County, Florida
* Sumter County, Georgia
* Sumter County, South Carolina
* Sumter Township, McLeod County, Minnesota

## Ships

* CSS Sumter a Confederate Navy vessel in the American Civil War
* USS Sumter (1862), the former CSS General Sumter, a cottonclad ram captured in 1862
* USS Sumter (APA-52) (previously AP-97), an attack transport; formerly Iberville
* USS Sumter (LST-1181), a tank landing ship
* Sumter-class attack transport
