The surname Bush originates from the early anal bushes Anglo-Saxon

Anglo-Saxon

Anglo-Saxon may refer to:* Anglo-Saxons, a group that invaded Britain** Old English, their language** Anglo-Saxon England, their history, one of various ships* White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, an ethnicity* Anglo-Saxon economy, modern macroeconomic term...

 communities of Britain

Great Britain

Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

. It is derived from the Old English word "busc", which means "bush".

Variations on the English spelling "Bush" include: Bushe, Bosch, Boush, Boushe, Busch, Bussche

Bussche family

Bussche is the name of an old East-Westphalian noble family. The Lords von dem Bussche belonged to the nobility in the County of Ravensberg. Various branches of the family exist today.-Origin:...

, Buscher, Bysh, and Bysshe.

The Bush family has held a family seat

Family seat

A seat or family seat is the principal residence of a family. The residence usually denotes the social, economic, political, or historic connection of the family within a given area. Some families took their dynasty name from their family seat , or named their family seat after their own dynasty...

 in Yorkshire

Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...

, Northern England.

People with the surname Bush name include:

Members of the United States political Bush family

• James Smith Bush
  James Smith Bush
  Rev. James Smith Bush was an attorney, Episcopal priest, and religious writer, and an ancestor of the Bush political family. He was the father of business magnate Samuel Prescott Bush, grandfather of US Senator Prescott Bush, great-grandfather of former US President George H. W. Bush and...
  
   (1825–1889), father of
  • Samuel P. Bush
    Samuel P. Bush
    Samuel Prescott Bush was an American industrialist and entrepreneur, and the patriarch of the Bush political family. He was the father of U.S. Senator Prescott Bush, grandfather of former U.S President George H. W. Bush, and great-grandfather of former U.S. President George W...
    
     (1863–1948), father of
    • Prescott Bush
      Prescott Bush
      Prescott Sheldon Bush was a Wall Street executive banker and a United States Senator, representing Connecticut from 1952 until January 1963. He was the father of George H. W. Bush and the grandfather of George W...
      
       (1895–1972), U.S. Senator and financier, and his children:
      • George H. W. Bush
        George H. W. Bush
        George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...
        
         (b. 1924), 41st U.S. President 1989–1993, his First Lady Barbara Bush
        Barbara Bush
        Barbara Pierce Bush is the wife of the 41st President of the United States George H. W. Bush, and served as First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993. She is the mother of the 43rd President George W. Bush and of the 43rd Governor of Florida Jeb Bush...
        
        , and their children:
        • George W. Bush
          George W. Bush
          George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
          
           (b. 1946), 43rd U.S. President 2001–2009, his First Lady Laura Bush
          Laura Bush
          Laura Lane Welch Bush is the wife of the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush. She was the First Lady of the United States from January 20, 2001, to January 20, 2009. She has held a love of books and reading since childhood and her life and education have reflected that interest...
          
          , and their children:
          • Barbara Pierce Bush
            Barbara Pierce Bush
            Barbara Pierce Bush is the elder of the sororal twin daughters of the 43rd U.S. President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush, and the granddaughter of the 41st U.S. President George H. W. Bush, and his wife Barbara Bush, after whom she was named...
            
             (b. 1981)
          • Jenna Bush Hager (b. 1981), TV reporter
        • Jeb Bush
          Jeb Bush
          John Ellis "Jeb" Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is a prominent member of the Bush family: the second son of former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush; the younger brother of former President George W...
          
           (b. 1953), Governor of Florida 1999–2007, his wife Columba Bush
          Columba Bush
          Columba Bush is a Mexican-born American philanthropist. She is the wife of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.Bush was born as Columba Garnica Gallo in León, Guanajuato, Mexico, where she grew up and attended high school. Her parents were José María Garnica, a migrant worker, and Josefina Gallo...
          
          , and their 3 children:
          • George P. Bush
            George P. Bush
            George Prescott Gallo Bush is an attorney, U.S. Navy Reserve officer and real estate developer, who is the eldest of three children of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his wife Columba. He is the nephew of the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush, and the grandson of the 41st...
            
             (b. 1976), real estate developer and investor
          • Noelle Lucila Bush (b. 1977)
          • John Ellis "Jebby" Bush, Jr.
        • Neil Bush
          Neil Bush
          Neil Mallon Bush is the fourth of six children of former President George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Bush . His five siblings are George Walker Bush, the former President of the United States; Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida; Robin Bush, who died of leukemia in 1953 at the age of...
          
           (b. 1955), businessman, former banker, and his 2 children:
          • Lauren Bush-Lauren (b. 1984), fashion model and designer
          • Pierce Bush
        • Marvin P. Bush (b. 1956), financier
        • Dorothy Bush Koch
          Dorothy Bush Koch
          Dorothy Walker Bush Koch, often called "Doro", , is the daughter of the 41st President of the United States George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush, and the youngest sibling of George W. Bush, the 43rd President...
          
           (b. 1959)
      • Jonathan Bush
        Jonathan Bush
        Jonathan James Bush , is an American banker and former Republican Party fundraiser.-Education and family:Jonathan Bush graduated from The Hotchkiss School and Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He is the fourth child of Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush and is...
        
         (b. 1931), banker and political fundraiser and his son:
        • Billy Bush (b. 1971), radio and television host
      • William H.T. Bush
        William H.T. Bush
        William Henry Trotter "Bucky" Bush is the youngest son of Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush, the younger brother of former President George H.W. Bush, and the uncle of former President George W...
        
         (b. 1938), banker and venture capitalist

Other people

• Archie Bush
  Archie Bush (umpire)
  Archibald McClure Bush was a professional baseball umpire.Bush umpired 2 National Association games in , both of them as the home plate umpire.-References:...
  
  , American professional baseball umpire
• Alan Dudley Bush
  Alan Bush
  Alan Dudley Bush was a British composer and pianist. He was a committed socialist, and politics sometimes provided central themes in his music.-Personal life:...
  
  , English classical composer and pianist
• Ashley Bush, psychologist
• Bryan Bush
  Bryan Bush
  Bryan Bush was a professional footballer who played as a Winger and Inside forward for Bristol Rovers.Prior to his footballing career Bush had worked as a butcher in Bitton and as an engineer in the Fleet Air Arm, and he joined Bristol City as an amateur following the conclusion of World War II...
  
  , English footballer
• Charles P. Bush
  Charles P. Bush
  Charles P. Bush was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.-Biography:Bush was born in Ithaca, New York and moved to Michigan in 1836, becoming one of the first residents of Handy....
  
  , American politician from Michigan
• Donie Bush
  Donie Bush
  Owen Joseph "Donie" Bush , was a Major League Baseball shortstop in the American League for the Detroit Tigers and the Washington Senators...
  
  , baseball player and manager of the early 20th century
• Dave Bush, Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
  
   pitcher
• Garnet Bush
  Garnet Bush
  Garnet Cooper Bush was a professional baseball umpire.Bush umpired 100 National League games from to . He then umpired in the Federal League in . -References:...
  
  , Professional baseball umpire
• Geoffrey Bush
  Geoffrey Bush
  Geoffrey Bush was a British composer, organist and scholar of 20th century English music.Geoffrey Bush was born in London, became a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral at the age of 8 and studied informally with the composer John Ireland...
  
  , English composer
• George Washington Bush
  George Washington Bush
  George Washington Bush was one of the first American settlers and the first black settler in what would later become the U.S. state of Washington.-Early life:...
  
  , Black pioneer settler of the Northwest, Oregon & Washington
• Grand L. Bush
  Grand L. Bush
  Grand Lee Bush is an American actor of stage, television and major motion pictures.-Personal life:Bush was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Essie and Robert Bush, who was an actor...
  
  , American actor
• Irving T. Bush
  Irving T. Bush
  Irving T. Bush was an American businessman. His father was the wealthy industrialist, oil refinery owner, and yachtsman Rufus T. Bush. As founder of the Bush Terminal Company, Irving T...
  
  , American businessman
• Jason Eugene "Gunny" Bush, convicted to death for the murders of Raul and Brisenia Flores
  Murders of Raul and Brisenia Flores
  On May 30, 2009, Raul "Junior" Flores, 29, and his daughter, Brisenia, 9, of Arivaca, Arizona, were murdered during a home-invasion by Shawna Forde and accomplices. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said the attackers hoped to rob the Flores-Gonzales family....
  
  
• John Bush (Lord Lieutenant)
  John Bush (Lord Lieutenant)
  John Barnard Bush OBE CStJ JP is the current Lord Lieutenant of the English county of Wiltshire, serving since 2004...
  
  , Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
• John Bush (singer)
  John Bush (singer)
  John Bush is an American vocalist, currently a member of Armored Saint, a traditional metal band from Los Angeles, California and formerly of thrash metal band Anthrax.-Armored Saint:...
  
  , rock vocalist for Armored Saint and Anthrax
• Kate Bush
  Kate Bush
  Kate Bush is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic vocal style have made her one of the United Kingdom's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years.In 1978, at the age of 19, Bush topped the UK Singles Chart...
  
  , English musician
• Lesley Bush
  Lesley Bush
  Lesley Leigh Bush is a diver from the United States and Olympic champion. She represented the USA at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where she received a gold medal in Platform Diving. Lesley performed with the 1968 Olympic diving team as well.Bush was inducted into the International Swimming...
  
  , Olympic diver
• Luis Bush
  Luis Bush
  Luis Bush is an American Christian strategist-activist and international facilitator of Transform World Connections based in Singapore.-Early life:...
  
  , American Christian strategist-activist
• Marian Spore Bush
  Marian Spore Bush
  Marian Spore Bush left her successful Michigan dental practice for a studio in Greenwich Village, New York City, and became a self-taught painter in the 1920s...
  
  , American artist and dentist
• Matt Bush (disambiguation), multiple people
• Michael Bush
  Michael Bush
  Michael Bush is an American football running back for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. He was drafted in the 4th round of the 2007 NFL Draft...
  
  , an American football running back
• Percy Bush
  Percy Bush
  Percy Frank Bush was a Welsh rugby union player who played international rugby for Wales on eight occasions. Playing at fly-half, Bush is regarded as one of the most talented Welsh players before the first World War.-Rugby career:...
  
  , Welsh rugby union player
• Reggie Bush
  Reggie Bush
  Reginald Alfred "Reggie" Bush II is an American football running back for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the first round of the 2006 NFL Draft...
  
  , American football player
• Robert Bush (disambiguation), multiple people
• Roger Bush
  Roger Bush
  Reverend Roger Bush OBE was a British-born Australian Methodist minister and media personality. -Early life:Bush was born in England and his family migrated to Sydney, Australia the following year. He was the oldest of a family of four and had two brothers and a sister.-Family and BHP:He met his...
  
   (1918–2000), Australian Methodist minister and media personality
• Sam Bush
  Sam Bush
  Sam Bush is an American bluegrass mandolin player considered an originator of the Newgrass style.- History :...
  
  , American musician
• Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln, Abe Lincoln's stepmother
• Sophia Bush
  Sophia Bush
  Sophia Anna Bush is an American actress, director and spokesperson. She currently stars in the CW television series One Tree Hill where she portrays Brooke Davis. Bush is additionally known for her film portrayals in the 2007 remake The Hitcher, John Tucker Must Die and The Narrows.-Early...
  
  , American actress
• Stan Bush
  Stan Bush
  Stan Bush is an American singer-songwriter and musician whose most notable work includes the songs "Dare" and "The Touch" from the soundtrack to the 1986 animated film The Transformers: The Movie, and "She's Got the Power", featured in the American voice dub of the animated series Sailor Moon...
  
  , American singer
• Stephen Bush
  Stephen J. Bush
  -Intro:Stephen Bush is a Welsh actor who started his professional career in early 2000 with a series of comedy sketches on a BBC Choice Wales show called Sleeping Dogs...
  
  , Welsh actor
• Tracy W. Bush
  Tracy W. Bush
  Tracy W. Bush is a video game music composer, sound designer and a foley artist. He is known for composing music for the popular games Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, World of Warcraft, StarCraft , and StarCraft: Brood War , and for sound design on Diablo II and...
  
  , American composer and voice actor
• Vannevar Bush
  Vannevar Bush
  Vannevar Bush was an American engineer and science administrator known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb as a primary organizer of the Manhattan Project, the founding of Raytheon, and the idea of the memex, an adjustable microfilm viewer...
  
  , American scientist
• William Bush (disambiguation), multiple people