Rainsford

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"