Needham (surname)

Needham is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Alicia Adélaide Needham (1863–1945), Irish composer
 * Arthur Needham (1859–1915), Washington State pioneer
 * Ben Needham, British infant missing since 1991
 * Col Needham, co-founder of the Internet Movie Database
 * David Needham, English football player
 * D. J. Needham, British Applied Mathematician
 * Elizabeth Needham, English procuress and brothel-keeper of 18th-century London
 * Ernest Needham (1873–1936), English football player
 * Francis Needham, 3rd Earl of Kilmorey (1842–1915), 3rd Earl of Kilmorey
 * Sir Frederick Needham (1835–1924), English physician
 * George Carter Needham (1840–1902), American writer and namesake of the needham
 * Hal Needham, American stuntman
 * Henry Needham (1876–1965), British Major-General and staff officer
 * Jack Needham, English football player
 * James Needham (1849–1913), English mycologist
 * James George Needham (1868–1957), American entomologist
 * Jimmy Needham (born 1985), American contemporary Christian singer songwriter and musician
 * John Needham (1713–1781), British biologist and Roman Catholic priest who believed in the theory of spontaneous generation
 * Joseph Needham (1900–1995), British biochemist and sinologist
 * Marchamont Needham, English political pamphleteer
 * Nik Needham (born 1996), American football player
 * Richard Needham, 6th Earl of Kilmorey (born 1942), British politician
 * Richard J. Needham (1912–1996), Canadian newspaper columnist and humorist
 * Rodney Needham (1923–2006), British social anthropologist
 * Roger Needham, British computer scientist
 * Samuel Needham VC, British soldier
 * T. Needham, English cricketer
 * Tom Needham, Irish baseball player
 * Tracey Needham, American actress
 * Tristan Needham, British mathematician
 * Violet Needham, British author