Backhouse (surname)
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Backhouse is a surname, and may refer to:
- Edmund Backhouse (1824–1906), English banker, J.P., and MP for Darlington
- Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet (1873–1944), British would-be oriental scholar and literary forger
- James Backhouse (1794–1869), English botanist and Quaker missionary
- James Backhouse (iv), botanist, archaeologist, and geologist
- Jonathan Backhouse (1849–1918), British baronet and banker
- Robert Backhouse (fl. early 20th century), British archer in the 1908 Olympics
- Roger Backhouse (1878–1939), British admiral of the Royal Navy, First Sea Lord 1939
- Tony Backhouse (born 1947), New Zealand musician
- William Ormston Backhouse (1885–1962), English agriculturalist and geneticist