Ockham

Occam or Ockham may refer to:

People

 * William of Ockham (c. 1287–1347), English friar, philosopher and theologian
 * Ockham's Razor, named after him
 * Byron King-Noel, Viscount Ockham (1836–1862), British peer
 * Peter King, 1st Baron King of Ockham (1669–1734), English lawyer, politician, Lord Chancellor of England

Places

 * Ockham, Surrey, England, a village believed to be the birthplace of William of Ockham
 * Ockham Park, seventeenth century English country house in Ockham, Surrey

Other

 * HMS Ockham (M2714), one of 93 ships of the Ham-class of inshore minesweepers
 * occam (programming language), also named after William of Ockham

OCCAM as acronym

 * Observatory for Cultural and Audiovisual Communication in the Mediterranean, established in 1996 by UNESCO in Milan
 * Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, an office of the National Cancer Institute
 * Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics, a research centre at the University of Oxford