Upton (people)
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Upton is a surname
Surname
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 of English
English people
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 origin and a rarely used given name
Given name
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. At the time of the British Census of 1881 http://www.britishsurnames.co.uk/surnames/UPTON/1881census, the frequency of the surname Upton was highest in Sussex
Sussex
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 (6.2 times the national average), followed by Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire is a county in the South East region of England, bordering on Warwickshire and Northamptonshire , Buckinghamshire , Berkshire , Wiltshire and Gloucestershire ....

, Leicestershire
Leicestershire
Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire...

, Staffordshire
Staffordshire
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, Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west...

, Warwickshire
Warwickshire
Warwickshire is a landlocked non-metropolitan county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, although the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare...

, Kent
Kent
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, Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire
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 and Derbyshire
Derbyshire
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.

Given name

  • Upton Sheredine
    Upton Sheredine
    Upton Sheredine was an American jurist and statesman from Baltimore, Maryland. He represented Maryland at both the state and national level, and was a judge in several courts....

    , (1740–1800), Maryland jurist
  • Upton Sinclair
    Upton Sinclair
    Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. , was an American author who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle . It exposed conditions in the U.S...

    , (1878–1968), American author

Surname

  • Anthony F. Upton
    Anthony F. Upton
    Anthony F. Upton is a professor of Nordic history. He worked in University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He has published about the first decennies 1918–1944 of the Finnish independency. He received the Hon. D...

    , British historian
  • Barry Upton
    Barry Upton
    Barry Upton is an English songwriter, arranger, musician and producer of various forms of pop music. He is also a audio engineer and stage performer having appeared around the world in various capacities.-Career:...

    , (b. 1954), British hit songwriter, arranger, musician and producer of pop music
  • B.J. Upton, (b. 1984), American baseball player
  • Caitlin Upton
    Caitlin Upton
    Lauren Caitlin Upton , also credited as Caite Upton, is an American fashion model and a beauty queen from Lexington, South Carolina. While Miss South Carolina Teen USA, Upton became an Internet meme for her nonsensical response to a pageant question.-Career:Upton became Miss South Carolina Teen...

    , (b.1989), an American
    United States
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     fashion model
    Model (person)
    A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

     and beauty queen from South Carolina
    South Carolina
    South Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence...

  • Charles Upton (poet)
    Charles Upton (poet)
    Charles Upton is an American poet and metaphysician.-Life:Born in San Francisco, Charles Upton grew up in Marin County, California. He attended Catholic schools through high school. He attended UC Davis for only four days.-Career:...

    , (b. 1948), American poet, Sufi and metaphysician
  • Charles H. Upton
    Charles H. Upton
    Charles Horace Upton was a nineteenth century politician and statesman from Massachusetts and Virginia.-Biography:...

    , nineteenth century Congressman from Virginia
  • Charles W. Upton
    Charles W. Upton
    Charles W. Upton is an American economist.In 1974, Upton published together with Merton H. Miller a textbook, Macroeconomics. A Neoclassical Introduction , which is consider a landmark in modern macroeconomics...

    , economist
  • Clive Upton
    Clive Upton
    Clive Upton is professor of English language at the University of Leeds, England, specializing in dialectology and sociolinguistics. He has also acted as a consultant on British pronuciation for the English-language dictionaries published by Oxford University Press, including the Oxford English...

    , consultant, Oxford Dictionary
  • David Upton
    David Upton
    David Upton is an Australian ice hockey player currently playing for the Gold Coast Blue Tongues in the Australian Ice Hockey League.-Playing career:...

     (born 1989), Australian ice hockey player
  • Emory Upton
    Emory Upton
    Emory Upton was a United States Army General and military strategist, prominent for his role in leading infantry to attack entrenched positions successfully at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House during the American Civil War, but he also excelled at artillery and cavalry assignments...

    , (1839–1881), US army general
  • Frank Upton
    Frank Upton
    Frank Upton was an English professional football player and manager.-Playing career:Upton, a hard tackling central defender, began his football career with Nuneaton Borough. He moved to Northampton Town in March 1953, making his league debut the same season...

     (born 1934), English former professional footballer and football club manager
  • Fred Upton
    Fred Upton
    Frederick Stephen Upton is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1987. He is a member of the Republican Party and Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce. The district, based in Kalamazoo, stretches along the Michigan-Indiana border in the southwestern part of the state.-Early life,...

    , (b. 1953), American politician
  • Frederick and Louis Upton
    Frederick and Louis Upton
    Louis Upton , Emory Upton, and venture capitalist Lowell Bassford founded the Upton Machine Company on November 11, 1911 in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The firm's first products were wringer washing machines powered by primitive electric motors. Louis Upton's younger brother Frederick Upton then...

    , American entrepreneurs, founders of the company that became Whirlpool Corporation
  • Graham Upton
    Graham Upton
    Graham Upton is acting Vice Chancellor of the University of Cumbria. He was the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, from September 1997 to August 2007....

    , Vice-Chancellor, Oxford Brookes University
  • Harriet Taylor Upton
    Harriet Taylor Upton
    Harriet Taylor Upton was a suffragette, author, and the first woman to be vice chairman of the Republican National Committee.-Early history:...

    , suffragette and author
  • James Upton
    James Upton
    James Upton VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....

    , (1888–1949) British soldier awarded the Victoria Cross
  • Jason Upton (b. 1973), independent Christian worship leader
  • Jimmy Upton
    Jimmy Upton
    James Saunders "Jimmy" Upton was a college and high school track star from Minden, Louisiana, who was inducted into the University of Louisiana at Monroe Hall of Fame. In 1971, Upton was a United States Track and Field Federation All-American hurdler...

     (1949–2003), college and high school track star
  • John Upton (Spenser editor)
    John Upton (Spenser editor)
    John Upton was an important early editor of Edmund Spenser, who is best known for the notes in his 1758 edition of Spenser's great romance epic The Faerie Queene, which was first published in 1590 and 1596 ....

     (1707-60) important early editor and critic of Edmund Spenser
    Edmund Spenser
    Edmund Spenser was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognised as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy, and one of the greatest poets in the English...

    , who editied the 1758 edition of the Spenser's The Faerie Queene
    The Faerie Queene
    The Faerie Queene is an incomplete English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. The first half was published in 1590, and a second installment was published in 1596. The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: it was the first work written in Spenserian stanza and is one of the longest poems in the English...

    , (originally published 1590 and 1596).
  • Justin Upton
    Justin Upton
    Justin Irvin Upton is a National Major League Baseball right fielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks....

     (b. 1987), American baseball player
  • Lawrence Upton
    Lawrence Upton
    Lawrence Upton is a poet, graphic artist and sound artist, currently directing Writers Forum. Upton is remarkable for the range of his genres and forms; and for the political savvy of his writing. He is a performer, continuing and expanding the performance tradition of, amongst others, Bob Cobbing...

    , (b. 1949), poet and artist
  • Lee Upton
    Lee Upton
    Lee Upton is an American poet, fiction writer, literary critic, and a graduate of the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.-Life:...

    , American poet
  • Mary Upton
    Mary Upton
    Mary Upton is a former Irish Labour Party politician. She served as a Teachta Dála for the Dublin South Central constituency from 1999 to 2011....

    , Irish politician
  • Pat Upton
    Pat Upton
    Pat Upton was an Irish veterinarian and a senior Labour Party politician.He was born in Kilrush, County Clare and educated at St Flannan's College in Ennis, at University College Galway, and at University College Dublin where he received a doctorate in veterinary medicine...

     (1944–1999), Irish veterinarian and senior Labour Party politician
  • Simon Upton
    Simon Upton
    Simon David Upton, QSO is a former New Zealand politician and member of Parliament from 1981 to 2001, representing the National Party.-Early life:...

    , (b. 1958), New Zealand politician
  • Steve Upton
    Steve Upton
    Steve Upton is the former drummer for the British rock band Wishbone Ash. He was with the band for two decades...

    , (b. 1946), Wishbone Ash drummer
  • Sue Upton
    Sue Upton
    Sue Upton is an English comic actress and dancer, best known for her many appearances on The Benny Hill Show. She was one of the longest-serving cast members of Benny Hill's stock company, appearing on the show from 1977 to his final programme for Thames Television in 1989...

     (b. 1954), British comic actress and dancer
  • Robert Upton, (1884-1972), American Congressman
  • William W. Upton
    William W. Upton
    William W. Upton was an American jurist and politician. He served as Oregon’s 8th Chief Justice of the state’s highest court. William Upton served from 1867 until 1874 on the Oregon Supreme Court before appointment to a position with the United States Treasury in 1877...

    , (1817-1896), Oregon judge and U.S. Treasury comptroller
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