Gough Whitlam, former Prime Minister of Australia

John Bartholomew Gough, temperance orator

Darren Gough, English cricketer and ballroom dancer

Gough Island aka Diego Alvarez, a volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean

Hugh Gough, a Victorian-age Anglo-Irish soldier

The Gough-Calthorpe family

Michael Gough, English actor

Stephen Gough, the naked rambler

Viscount Gough, a peerage of the United Kingdom

Laurie Gough, Canadian-American travel writer

Alfred Gough, co-creator of Smallville

The GOUGH surname probably derives from the Welsh coch ‘red’, or as a reduced form of the Irish McGough which itself is an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Eochadha, a patronymic from the personal name Eochaidh, variant Eachaidh, ‘horseman’, a derivative of each ‘horse’.