Graham

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Graham or Graeme is a name of Scottish origin. Meaning grey house^{[citation needed]}, grey armour and well health, it is the name of a famous family in Scotland, Clan Graham. (The 'h' is often silent, giving a pronunciation like 'grayum'.) In common with many Scottish names, it may be used as a surname or boy's first name.

Contents 1 People 2 Geography 2.1 United States 3 Other uses 4 See also

[edit] People

Only famous people with the given name 'Graham' or 'Graeme' are listed here, for people with the surname 'Graham' or 'Graeme' see Graham (surname).

• Alexander Graham Bell
• Graham Barnfield, English pundit and academic
• Graeme Base, Australian author and artist
• Graem Bauer, character on the television series 24
• Graham Bonnet, English rock vocalist
• Graham Chapman, late member of the Monty Python comedy troupe
• Graham Colton, boyfriend of singer, Kelly Clarkson
• Graham Coxon, English singer-songwriter
• Graeme Devine, computer game designer and programmer
• Graham Greene, English novelist
• Graham Gooch, England cricketer
• Graham Hancock, British writer
• Graeme Hick, Zimbabwe-born England cricketer
• Graham Hood, Canadian middle-distance runner
• Graham Hill, racing driver in the 1960s and early 1970s
• Graham Kerr, English cooking personality
• Graeme Le Saux, retired English footballer for Chelsea
• Graham McNamee, pioneering broadcaster in the 1920s and 1930s
• Graham McPherson, known by stagename Suggs, singer of the ska band Madness
• Graham Nash, member of The Hollies and Crosby, Stills & Nash
• Graham Norton, Irish comedian
• Graeme Obree, Scottish cyclist
• Graham Rahal, American race car driver in the IRL IndyCar Series.
• Graham Reynolds, American composer
• Graeme Smith, South-African cricketer
• Graham Welbourn, Canadian swimmer

[edit] Geography

• Graham Land, Antarctica

[edit] United States

• Graham, Georgia
• Graham, Daviess County, Indiana
• Graham, Missouri
• Graham, North Carolina
• Graham, Texas
• Graham, Washington
• Graham County, Arizona
• Graham County, Kansas
• Graham County, North Carolina
• Graham Township, Indiana
• Graham Township, Kansas
• Graham Township, North Dakota
• Graham Township, Minnesota
• Graham Township, Pennsylvania
• Graham Lakes Township, Minnesota

[edit] Other uses

• Graham (hill), a class of hill in Scotland
• Graham flour, a type of flour similar to whole wheat flour
  • Graham cracker, a baked good made from Graham flour
• Graham factors, factors for determining ambiguity in US patent law (see Inventive step and non-obviousness)
• Graham Island
  • Graham Island, the former English name for Ferdinandea, a sea volcano off the south coast of Sicilia
  • Graham Island, a member of the Charlotte Island group off the coast of British Columbia, Canada
  • Graham Island, Nunavut, a Canadian arctic island in Nunavut, Canada
• Graham's number, the largest number that has ever been seriously used in a mathematical proof
• Graham scan, a method of computing a convex hull
• Graham and Graham-Paige, automobile makers in Detroit, USA, between 1928 and 1940

[edit] See also

• Gram
• Gramm