Popham

Popham may refer to:

People

• Alexander Popham, (c. 1595 – 1669), English Member of Parliament in the Long Parliament
• Alix Popham, (born 1979) Welsh rugby union player
• Arthur E. Popham, (1889–1970), British art historian
• Edward Popham, (1610–1651) General-at-Sea during the English Civil War on the Parliamentarian side
• Edward William Leybourne Popham of Littlecote House, Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1830
• Francis Popham of Littlecote House, Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1612
• Francis Popham of Littlecote House, died Hunstrete House in 1779
• Francis Leybourne Popham of Littlecote House, Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1853
• George Popham (1550–1608), a pioneering colonist in Maine born in Somerset, England
• Home Riggs Popham (1762–1820), British naval officer; inventor of a numeric code for signal flags
• John Popham (military commander), under Henry V, speaker of the House of Commons under Henry VI
• John Popham (Lord Chief Justice) (c. 1531–1607), Speaker of the House of Commons and Lord Chief Justice of England
• Lana Popham, (born 1968) Canadian politician in the 39th Parliament of British Columbia
• Mervyn Reddaway Popham, (1927–2000), British archaeologist and prehistorian (see Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)
• Sir Stephen Popham Kt., Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1434-1435
• Thurstan de Popham, Sheriff of Hampshire in 1150
• Robert Brooke-Popham (1878–1953), British air chief marshal

Places

• Popham, Hampshire, a small hamlet in the southern United Kingdom
• The Popham Colony, a short-lived English colonial settlement in North America

Ships

• HMS Popham (M2782), a minesweeper of the British Royal Navy
• USS Popham (PF-90), a United States Navy patrol frigate transferred to the United Kingdom while under construction which served in the Royal Navy as the frigate HMS Somaliland (K594)

Other

• Fort Popham, a coastal defense land battery at the mouth of the Kennebec River in Phippsburg, Maine, in the United States