Bingham (surname)

Bingham is a surname of English origin, ultimately deriving from the toponym of Melcombe Bingham in Dorset. The name was taken to Ireland in the 16th century, by Richard Bingham, a native of Dorset who was appointed governor of Connaught in 1584. There is another Bingham in Nottinghamshire.

People surnamed Bingham include:

British
Peerage:


 * Bingham Baronets, of Castlebar (created 1634)
 * Sir Henry Bingham, 1st Baronet (1573 – c. 1658)
 * Sir George Bingham, 2nd Baronet (c. 1625 – 1682)
 * Sir Henry Bingham, 3rd Baronet (died c. 1714)
 * Sir George Bingham, 4th Baronet (died c. 1730)
 * Sir John Bingham, 5th Baronet (c. 1696 – 1749)
 * Sir John Bingham, 6th Baronet (1730–1750)
 * Sir Charles Bingham, 7th Baronet (1735–1799)
 * Earls of Lucan (second creation (1795)
 * Charles Bingham, 1st Earl of Lucan (1735–1799)
 * Richard Bingham, 2nd Earl of Lucan (1764–1839)
 * George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan (1800–1888)
 * Charles Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan (1830–1914)
 * George Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan (1860–1949)
 * George Bingham, 6th Earl of Lucan (1898–1964)
 * Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (b. 1934, missing since 1974, presumed dead – death certificate issued 2016) the infamous "Lord Lucan" who disappeared after murdering his nanny when intending to murder his wife
 * George Charles Bingham, 8th Earl of Lucan (born 1967)
 * Baron Clanmorris (created 1800)
 * John Bingham, 1st Baron Clanmorris (1762–1821)
 * Charles Barry Bingham, 2nd Baron Clanmorris (1796–1829)
 * Denis Arthur Bingham, 3rd Baron Clanmorris (1808–1847)
 * John Charles Robert Bingham, 4th Baron Clanmorris (1826–1876)
 * John George Barry Bingham, 5th Baron Clanmorris (1852–1916)
 * Arthur Maurice Robert Bingham, 6th Baron Clanmorris (1879–1960)
 * John Michael Ward Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris (1908–1988), MI5 spy and novelist
 * Simon John Ward Bingham, 8th Baron Clanmorris (born 1937)
 * Robert Derek de Burgh Bingham (born 1942)

Law:
 * Tom Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill, one of the most senior judges in the United Kingdom
 * Peregrine Bingham the Elder, biographer and poet
 * Peregrine Bingham the Younger, English legal writer
 * Lady Camilla Bingham KC (born 1970)

Mathematics and science:
 * Nicholas Bingham (1945), British mathematician
 * Dame Kate Bingham, bioscientist, venture capitalist and Head of UK's Vaccine Taskforce

Military:
 * Arthur Bingham, Captain in the Royal Navy
 * Cecil Edward Bingham, General in the British Army
 * Charles Thomas Bingham (1848–1908), Irish Army officer, entomologist and naturalist in India
 * Edward Bingham, Rear-Admiral of the British Royal Navy during the First World War
 * Edward W. Bingham, polar explorer
 * Peregrine Bingham the Elder, biographer and poet
 * Richard Bingham (soldier)

Religion:
 * Joseph Bingham (1668–1723), English scholar and divine

Sport:
 * Billy Bingham (1931–2022), Northern Irish footballer
 * Craig Bingham, Scottish footballer
 * Stuart Bingham, an English Snooker player, world snooker champion 2015

Writers
 * Madeleine Bingham, Baroness Clanmorris (1912–1988), English writer and wife of 7th Baron

American
Artists and writers:
 * George Caleb Bingham, 19th-century American realist artist
 * Henrietta A. Bingham (1841–1877), American writer, editor, preceptress
 * Howard Bingham, photographer
 * Jennie M. Bingham, American writer
 * Robert Bingham, American writer

Film industry workers:
 * J. Michael Bingham, pseudonym of D. C. Fontana, screenplay writer
 * Traci Bingham, American actress & model

Law:
 * Robert Worth Bingham, lawyer, US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, and owner of the Courier-Journal newspaper of Louisville, Kentucky
 * Stephen Bingham is a progressive activist and legal services attorney in San Francisco
 * Theodore A. Bingham, Brigadier General and New York City Police Commissioner
 * Gwen Bingham, first female Commanding Officer of TACOM

Mathematics and science:
 * Caroline Priscilla Bingham (née Lord 1831–1932), American botanist
 * Christopher Bingham, American statistician who introduced the Bingham distribution and jointly with other introduced complex demodulation into Fourier analysis of time series
 * Harold Clyde Bingham, psychologist and primatologist
 * Hiram Bingham III, explorer and U.S. Senator, best known as rediscoverer of sacred Inca city of Machu Picchu
 * Eugene C. Bingham, a professor at Lafayette College who coined the term rheology
 * Millicent Todd Bingham, Geographer, first woman to receive a doctorate in geology and geography from Harvard University
 * Paul M. Bingham is an American molecular biologist and evolutionary theorist

Missionaries:
 * Hiram Bingham I, missionary to the Kingdom of Hawai'i
 * Hiram Bingham II, missionary to the Kingdom of Hawai'i

Pioneers:
 * Erastus Bingham, Latter Day Saint Pioneer, wagon train leader, founder of Bingham's Fort, early settler of Ogden, Utah, first LDS bishop of Ogden.

Politicians:
 * E. Volney Bingham (1844–1922), Indiana state legislator
 * Henry H. Bingham, United States Civil War Hero and Congressman from Pennsylvania
 * Hiram Bingham IV, US Vice Consul in Marseille, France, during World War II, who rescued Jews from the Holocaust
 * James Bingham, Indiana Attorney General
 * James M. Bingham, Wisconsin state legislator
 * John Bingham, U.S. Representative from Ohio during the Reconstruction
 * Jonathan Brewster Bingham, U.S. Representative from New York
 * Kinsley S. Bingham, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Michigan
 * Stan Bingham, North Carolina state legislator
 * William Bingham, Senator in the early USA
 * William Bingham (Pittsburgh), Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1856 to 1857.

'''Publishers:
 * Barry Bingham Sr., owner and publisher of Pulitzer Prize–winning Courier-Journal newspaper of Louisville, Kentucky
 * Barry Bingham Jr., editor and publisher of Pulitzer Prize–winning Courier-Journal newspaper of Louisville, Kentucky
 * Henrietta Bingham, American journalist and horse breeder associated with Bloomsbury Group

Sports:
 * Craig Bingham (American football), Jamaican-born American football player
 * Dave Bingham, American college baseball coach
 * Don Bingham, American football player
 * Marcus Bingham Jr. (born 2000), American basketball player

Others

 * Max Bingham, Australian politician in the Tasmanian House of Assembly
 * Mark Bingham, a leader of the attempted passenger revolt against hijackers aboard United Airlines Flight 93
 * Tyler Bingham, US-American Criminal