List of Famous people with last name Ayrton

Hertha Ayrton

Phoebe Sarah Marks

First Name Hertha

Born on April 28, 1854

Died on August 23, 1923 (aged 69)

Born in United Kingdom, England, Portsmouth

Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton was a British engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor, and suffragette. Known in adult life as Hertha Ayrton, born Phoebe Sarah Marks, she was awarded the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society for her work on electric arcs and ripple marks in sand and water.

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Michael Ayrton

Michael Ayrton Gould

First Name Michael

Last Name Ayrton

Born on February 20, 1921

Died on November 17, 1975 (aged 54)

Born in United Kingdom, England

Michael Ayrton was an English artist and writer, renowned as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and designer, and also as a critic, broadcaster and novelist. His varied output of sculptures, illustrations, poems and stories reveals an obsession with flight, myths, mirrors and mazes.

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William Edward Ayrton

First Name William

Last Name Ayrton

Born on September 14, 1847

Died on November 8, 1908 (aged 61)

Born in United Kingdom, England

William Edward Ayrton, FRS was an English physicist and electrical engineer.

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Edward R. Ayrton

First Name Edward

Last Name Ayrton

Born on December 17, 1882

Died on May 18, 1914 (aged 31)

Born in People's Republic of China, Anhui

Edward Russell Ayrton was an English Egyptologist and archaeologist.

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