Usher may refer to:
- Usher (occupation)
- Church usher
- Court usher
- White House Chief Usher
- (archaic) The second schoolmaster in a school (such as a grammar school in England)
- Usher 1C, human gene
- Usher syndrome, genetic disorder
- Gentleman Usher of an order of knights in the United Kingdom
People:
- Usher (entertainer), American R&B singer and actor
- Andrew Usher, Edinburgh distiller
- David Usher, Canadian recording artist
- James Usher (or Ussher), Archbishop of Armagh, 1625–1656
- James Ward Usher, benefactor of the Usher Gallery, Lincoln, England
- John Palmer Usher, U.S. administrator, cabinet member of Abraham Lincoln
- Karyn Usher, American television producer and screenwriter
- Michael Usher, Australian journalist and newsreader for Nine News
- Paul Usher, English actor
Places:
- Usher, Western Australia
- Mount Usher, Antarctica
In fiction:
- The family name in the Edgar Allan Poe short story "The Fall of the House of Usher"
- Usher (2002 film), a short film directed by Curtis Harrington
Other
- Usher S.A. de C.V., Mexican candy production company
- Usher Hall, Edinburgh
- Ushers of Trowbridge, brewery
Famous quotes containing the word usher:
“As long as skies are blue, and fields are green
Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow,
Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“This war no longer bears the characteristics of former inter-European conflicts. It is one of those elemental conflicts which usher in a new millennium and which shake the world once in a thousand years.”
—Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)
“[Anarchism] is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual. It is the theory of social harmony. It is the great, surging, living truth that is reconstructing the world, and that will usher in the Dawn.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)