Ayrton
Ayrton /aɪərˈtʌn/ is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Ayrton Fagundes (1937–1994), Brazilian broadcast journalist
- Ayrton Senna (1960–1994), Brazilian three times Formula One World Champion
- Ayrton Ganino (born 1985), Brazilian footballer
Surname
- Acton Smee Ayrton (1816–1886), British Liberal politician, uncle of William Edward Ayrton
- Barbara Ayrton-Gould (c. 1886 – 1950), a Labour politician in the United Kingdom
- Edmund Ayrton (1734–1808), English organist
- Edward R. Ayrton (1882–1914), British Egyptologist
- Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854–1923), British mathematician and physicist, second wife of William Edward Ayrton
- Neil Ayrton (born 1962), former English professional footballer
- Norman Ayrton (born 1924), English actor, director, and theatre instructor
- Matilda Chaplin Ayrton (1846–1883), doctor of medicine, first wife of William Edward Ayrton
- Maxwell Ayrton (1874–1960), Scottish architect
- Michael Ayrton (1921–1975), British artist
- Randle Ayrton (1869–1940), British actor, producer and director
- William Edward Ayrton (1847–1908), British physicist who taught in Japan
In fiction
- Tom Ayrton, character in Jules Verne's novels In Search of the Castaways and The Mysterious Island
See also
- All pages with titles containing Ayrton
- S.A.S. Ayrton, French LED Lighting innovator
- Ayrton Drugs, a Ghanaian pharmaceuticals company
- Airton (given name)
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