Bingham (surname)

Bingham is a surname of English origin, ultimately deriving from the toponym of Melcombe Bingham in Dorset. The name was taken to Ireland in the 16th century, by Richard Bingham, a native of Dorset who was appointed governor of Connaught in 1584. There is another Bingham in Nottinghamshire.

People surnamed Bingham include:

British

Aristocrats:

• Bingham Baronets, of Castlebar (created 1634)
  • Sir Henry Bingham, 1st Baronet (1573-c.1658)
  • Sir George Bingham, 2nd Baronet (c.1625-1682)
  • Sir Henry Bingham, 3rd Baronet (died c.1714)
  • Sir George Bingham, 4th Baronet (died c.1730)
  • Sir John Bingham, 5th Baronet (c.1696-1749)
  • Sir John Bingham, 6th Baronet (1730-1750)
  • Sir Charles Bingham, 7th Baronet (1735–1799)
• Earls of Lucan (second creation (1795)
  • Charles Bingham, 1st Earl of Lucan (1735–1799)
  • Richard Bingham, 2nd Earl of Lucan (1764–1839)
  • George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan (1800–1888)
  • Charles Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan (1830–1914)
  • George Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan (1860–1949)
  • George Bingham, 6th Earl of Lucan (1898–1964)
  • Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (b. 1934, missing since 1974, presumed dead) the infamous "Lord Lucan" who disappeared after murdering his nanny when intending to murder his wife
• Baron Clanmorris (created 1800)
  • John Bingham, 1st Baron Clanmorris (1762–1821)
  • Charles Barry Bingham, 2nd Baron Clanmorris (1796–1829)
  • Denis Arthur Bingham, 3rd Baron Clanmorris (1808–1847)
  • John Charles Robert Bingham, 4th Baron Clanmorris (1826–1876)
  • John George Barry Bingham, 5th Baron Clanmorris (1852–1916)
  • Arthur Maurice Robert Bingham, 6th Baron Clanmorris (1879–1960)
  • John Michael Ward Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris (1908–1988), MI5 spy and novelist
  • Simon John Ward Bingham, 8th Baron Clanmorris (b. 1937)
  • Robert Derek de Burgh Bingham (b. 1942)

Law:

• Thomas Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill, one of the most senior judges in the United Kingdom
• Peregrine Bingham the elder, biographer and poet
• Peregrine Bingham the younger, English legal writer

Mathematics and Science:

• Nicholas Bingham (1945), British mathematician

Military & Navy:

• Arthur Bingham, Captain in the Royal Navy
• Cecil Edward Bingham, General in the British Army
• Charles Thomas Bingham (1848–1908), Irish Army officer, entomologist and naturalist in India
• Edward Bingham, Rear-Admiral of the British Royal Navy during the First World War
• Edward W. Bingham, polar explorer
• Peregrine Bingham the elder, biographer and poet
• Richard Bingham (soldier)

Religion:

• Joseph Bingham (1668–1723), English scholar and divine

Sport:

• Billy Bingham, Northern Irish footballer
• Craig Bingham, Scottish footballer
• Stuart Bingham, an English Snooker player, world snooker champion 2015

American

Artists & Writers:

• George Caleb Bingham, 19th-century American realist artist
• Howard Bingham, photographer
• Robert Bingham, American writer

Film industry workers:

• J. Michael Bingham, pseudonym of D. C. Fontana, screenplay writer
• Traci Bingham, American actress & model

Law:

• Robert Worth Bingham, lawyer, US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, and owner of the Courier-Journal newspaper of Louisville, Kentucky
• Stephen Bingham is a progressive activist and legal services attorney in San Francisco
• Theodore A. Bingham, General and in New York Police
• Gwen Bingham, first female Commanding Officer of TACOM

Mathematics & Science:

• Caroline Priscilla Bingham (née Lord 1831–1932), American botanist
• Christopher Bingham, American statistician who introduced the Bingham distribution and jointly with other introduced complex demodulation into Fourier analysis of time series
• Hiram Bingham III, explorer and U.S. Senator, best known as rediscoverer of sacred Inca city of Machu Picchu
• Eugene C. Bingham, a professor at Lafayette College who coined the term rheology
• Paul M. Bingham is an American molecular biologist and evolutionary theorist

Missionaries:

• Hiram Bingham I, missionary to the Kingdom of Hawai'i
• Hiram Bingham II, missionary to the Kingdom of Hawai'i

Politicians:

• Henry H. Bingham, United States Civil War Hero and Congressman from Pennsylvania
• Hiram Bingham IV, US Vice Consul in Marseille, France, during World War II, who rescued Jews from the Holocaust
• John Bingham, U.S. Representative from Ohio during the Reconstruction
• Jonathan Brewster Bingham, U.S. Representative from New York
• Kinsley S. Bingham, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Michigan
• William Bingham, Senator in the early USA
• William Bingham (Pittsburgh), Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1856 to 1857.

Publishers:

• Barry Bingham, Sr., owner and publisher of Pulitzer Prize–winning Courier-Journal newspaper of Louisville, Kentucky
• Barry Bingham, Jr., editor and publisher of Pulitzer Prize–winning Courier-Journal newspaper of Louisville, Kentucky

Sports:

• Craig Bingham (American football), Jamaican-born American football player
• Dave Bingham, American college baseball coach
• Don Bingham, American football player

Others

• Max Bingham, Australian politician in the Tasmanian House of Assembly
• Mark Bingham, a leader of the attempted passenger revolt against hijackers aboard United Airlines Flight 93
• Tyler Bingham, US-American Criminal

See also

• Bingham (disambiguation)