title: Sumner (given name)
text: # Sumner (given name)
  
  Sumner is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
  
  * Sumner Archibald Cunningham (1843-1913), American Confederate veteran and newspaper editor.
  * Sumner Gerard, American businessman and diplomat, US Ambassador to Jamaica
  * Sumner Paine, 1896 Olympic shooting gold and silver medalist
  * Sumner Chilton Powell, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1964
  * Sumner Redstone (or Sumner Murray Rothstein, 1923–2020), Chairman of Viacom
  * Sumner Stone, (born 1945), typeface designer
  * Sumner L. Trussell (1860–1931), judge of the United States Board of Tax Appeals
  * Sumner Welles, (1892–1961), U. S. Undersecretary of State
  