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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