Ainsworth (surname)
Ainsworth is a surname with its origins in the North West of England. The origin of the word Ainsworth is from the Anglo Saxon word 'worth' meaning an 'Enclosure', 'Ain' probably having been someone's name..
There is a village called Ainsworth near Bolton.
Notable Ainsworths
An Ainsworth coat of arms
- Alf Ainsworth, (1913–1975), English football player
- Bob Ainsworth (b. 1952), British politician and MP
- Cassandra Ainsworth, fictional character in the television series Skins who is portrayed by Hannah Murray
- Charles Ainsworth (1874–1956), British businessman and politician
- Charles Ainsworth (1885–1955), English footballer
- Dylan Ainsworth (born 1992), Canadian football player
- Ellen Ainsworth US Army Nurse Corps officer
- Gareth Ainsworth (b. 1973), English football player
- Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth (1905-1908) English mycologist
- George Ainsworth (1878–1950), Australian meteorologist, explorer and public servant
- Harrison Ainsworth (1888–1965), British newspaper editor
- Henry Ainsworth (1571–1622), English Nonconformist clergyman and scholar
- Kacey Ainsworth (b. 1971), English actress
- Kurt Ainsworth (b. 1978), American baseball player
- Laban Ainsworth (1757–1858), American clergyman and pastor
- Leonora Ainsworth (1894–1985), American screenwriter for silent movies
- Lexi Ainsworth, an American actress
- Mary Ainsworth (1913–1999), American-Canadian developmental psychologist
- Peter Ainsworth (1790–1870), British politician
- Peter Ainsworth (b. 1956), British politician
- Sir Ralph Bignell Ainsworth (1875–1952), British Major-General
- Robert Ainsworth (lexicographer) (1660–1743), English Latin lexicographer
- Brad Ainsworth (b. 1981), notable British Wealth Management Director
- Roger Ainsworth, British engineer and academic
- Ron Ainsworth, Australian rugby league player
- Seymour Ainsworth (1821–1890), American businessman
- Sidney Ainsworth, British screen and stage actor
- Walden L. Ainsworth (1886–1960), American admiral
- William Francis Ainsworth (1807–1896), English traveller and geographer, cousin to William Harrison Aimsworth
- William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882), English historical novelist
See also
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