Pelham (name)

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

Surname

 * British aristocratic Whig politicians :
 * Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham (1653–1712), father of two British Prime Ministers:
 * Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693–1768)
 * Henry Pelham (1694–1754)
 * American artistic family:
 * Peter Pelham (c. 1695 – 1751), artist
 * Peter Pelham (composer) (1721–1805)
 * Henry Pelham (engraver) (1748/49–1806)
 * William Pelham (bookseller) (1759–1827)
 * Other people (in alphabetical order):
 * Charles Pelham (congressman) (1835–1908), U.S. Representative from Alabama
 * Francis Pelham, 5th Earl of Chichester (1844–1905), British nobleman and amateur cricketer
 * Frederick Thomas Pelham (1808–1861), Royal Navy officer and Second Naval Lord
 * George F. Pelham (1857–1937), American architect
 * Henry Francis Pelham (1846-1907), English scholar and historian
 * John Pelham (bishop) (1811–1894), Bishop of Norwich in 1857–1893
 * John Pelham (officer) (1838–1863), Confederate artillery officer during the American Civil War
 * Moses Pelham (born 1971), German rapper and musician
 * Peregrine Pelham (died 1650), British Member of Parliament
 * Richard Pelham (1815–1876), American blackface performer
 * Thomas Pelham (disambiguation), various people
 * William Pelham (Medal of Honor) (1845/47–1933), American Union Navy sailor, recipient of Medal of Honor
 * Fictional characters:
 * Bertie Pelham, a character on the television drama Downton Abbey and its film adaptation

First name

 * Pelham Horton Box (1898-1937), British historian
 * Pelham Humfrey (1647–1674), English Baroque composer
 * Sir Pelham Warner ("Plum Warner", 1873–1963), English test cricketer
 * P. G. von Donop (Pelham George von Donop, 1851–1921), English footballer, soldier and railway inspector, godfather to P. G. Wodehouse
 * P. G. Wodehouse (Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, 1881–1975), English author, lyricist, playwright