Redding (surname)

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Region of origin England		Language(s) of origin English
Related names RedingReddingtonRedingtonReddinReddenReading

Redding is an English surname, derived from the town of Reading. At the time the 1881 British Census was enumerated, the frequency of the surname Redding was highest in Buckinghamshire (12.8 times the national average), followed by Huntingdonshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Cambridgeshire, Warwickshire, Anglesey, Bedfordshire and Rutland.

List of persons with the surname

Ann Holmes Redding (born 1952), former Episcopal priest who was defrocked in 2009 for converting to Islam years earlier

Benjamin B. Redding (1824–1882), Canadian-born California politician

Cory Redding (born 1980), American football player

Cyrus Redding (1785–1870), British journalist and wine writer

Dick Redding (1890–1948), American baseball player

Gene Redding (born 1945), American singer

George Redding (1900–1974), Canadian ice hockey player

Jheri Redding (1907–1998), American hair care entrepreneur

Louis L. Redding (1901–1998), American civil rights advocate

Noel Redding (1945–2003), English musician

Oscar Redding (born c. 1974), Australian actor and director

Otis Redding (1941–1967), American soul singer

Phil Redding (1890–1928), American baseball player

Reggie Redding (born 1988), American basketball player

Reggie Redding (American football) (born 1968), American football player

Rob Redding (born 1976), American commentator

Scott Redding (born 1993), English Grand Prix motorcycle racer

Tim Redding (born 1978), American baseball player

Radcliff Redding (born 1957), American actor and writer

Brian Redding (born 1980), American Banker/Finance

Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding, character in The Shawshank Redemption

Burr Redding, inmate on TV's Oz

William Redding, character in the Splinter Cell series of video games and novels

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