Sturge is a Middle Ages surname of Norse-Viking origins, meaning son of Turgis or Thurgis, Turgeus etc., which meant "Thor’s follower".
People:
Alfred Sturge (1816–1901) – British cleric who ministered in Devon, India and Kent.
David Sturge (born 1948) – British athlete in rowing.
Edmund Sturge (1808–1893) – British Quaker businessman and campaigner for liberal causes.
Ernest Adolphus Sturge (1856–1934) – American missionary, organiser of Japanese Presbyterian churches in California.
Joseph Sturge (1793–1859) – British founder of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.
William Allen Sturge (1850–1919) – British physician and archaeologist.
H. Winifred Sturge, Headmistress of The Mount School, York
Places:
Sturge Island, one of the three main islands in the uninhabited Balleny Islands group located in the Southern Ocean.
Sturge Park, former cricket ground in Montserrat, destroyed by the volcanic eruption of 1997.
Others:
Sturge-Weber syndrome (encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis), a rare congenital neurological and skin disorder.
