Usher


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Usher may refer to:

Several jobs which originally involved directing people and ensuring people are in the correct place:

  • Usher (occupation)
    • Church usher
    • Wedding usher, one of the male attendants to the groom in a wedding ceremony
    • Field usher, a military rank
    • Court usher, a court official
    • Usher of Justice, a judicial official in some countries
    • Usher of the Black Rod, a parliamentary official in the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand
    • Gentleman Usher, a category of royal official in the United Kingdom
    • White House Chief Usher
    • Usher (Switzerland), a largely ceremonial function in Swiss federal, can

People

  • Usher (musician) (born 1978), American R&B recording artist, performer, and actor
  • Usher (surname), a list of people

Places

  • Usher, Western Australia
  • Mount Usher, Antarctica
  • Usher Glacier, South Shetland Islands
  • Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Ushers, New York, a hamlet in Saratoga County, New York
  • Usher, Florida

Media

Film

  • Usher (2002 film), a short film directed by Curtis Harrington
  • Usher (2004 film), a film based on the short story by Poe

Other uses in media

  • The family name in the Edgar Allan Poe short story "The Fall of the House of Usher"
    • The Fall of the House of Usher (disambiguation), adaptations of Poe's work

Other uses

  • Gentleman Usher of an order of knights in the United Kingdom
  • Usher 1C, a human gene
  • Usher syndrome, a genetic disorder
  • Ushers of Trowbridge, a former English brewery
  • Usher baronets, a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
  • Usher (fragrance)
  • Usher (software), an enterprise security platform

See also

  • Ussher
  • All pages with titles beginning with Usher
  • All pages with titles containing Usher
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