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Ashman is an English surname of Anglo-Saxon origin. It is derived from the Middle English personal name "Asheman", and also a byname form of "qescman" meaning "seaman" or "pirate", a compound of the Olde English "aesc" (boat made of) ash, plus "mann", man. It can also be a topographical name for someone who lived near a prominent ash tree. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Anastasia M. Ashman (born 1964), American author
  • George Allan Ashman (1928–2002), English footballer
  • Glen Ashman (born 1956), a jurist and judge from Georgia, US
  • Howard Ashman (1950–1991), American playwright
  • James Ashman (born 1848), American businessman and politician
  • John Ashman (born 1926), former English cricketer
  • Keith M. Ashman (born 1963), British theoretical astrophysicist
  • Kevin Ashman (born 1959), British World and European quiz champion and television quiz competitor
  • Matthew Ashman (1950–1995), English guitarist (Adam and the Ants)
  • Richard Ashman (1899–1965), South African cricket umpire
  • Rod Ashman (born 1954), retired Australian rules footballer
  • Ron Ashman (1926–2004), English footballer

Usage examples of "ashman".

Ashman shouted to Joseph and Eddie - and kept down himself as the big Leyland Clydesdale shot forward and smashed through the boarded-up front of the little house with a noise like a bomb.

ABOUT THE TIME Ashman and Joseph were sitting in the spring sunshine of Roundwood Park, Cunningham was slouching like a sleepy cat through the same sunshine in Battersea Park.

To have been for a moment, like Ashman, done for good and all with material things, and living the white life where are no barriers between man and woman.

Beth was driving a fuel-injected BMW with a top speed of 130 miles per hour and she was as good as any man driver Ashman had known.

The ashmen of the planet milked their glands for precious radioactive iodine, by inserting a surgical tap into the gland-sac.

The ashmen of the planet milked their glands for precious radioactive iodine, by inserting a surgical tap into the glandsac.