Occam or Ockham may refer to: People: *

William of Ockham William of Ockham, OFM (; also Occam, from la, Gulielmus Occamus; 1287 – 10 April 1347) was an English Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher, apologist, and Catholic theologian, who is believed to have been born in Ockham, a small vil ...

(c. 1287–1347), English friar, philosopher and theologian, after whom Ockham's Razor is named *

Byron King-Noel, Viscount Ockham Byron King-Noel, 12th Baron Wentworth, styled Viscount Ockham (12 May 1836 – 1 September 1862) was a British peer and the eldest of the three legitimate grandchildren of George Gordon, Lord Byron. Lord Ockham was the eldest son of William King- ...

(1836–1862), British peer * Peter King, 1st Baron King of Ockham (1669–1734), English lawyer, politician, Lord Chancellor of England Places: *

Ockham, Surrey Ockham is a rural and semi-rural village in the borough of Guildford in Surrey, England. The village starts immediately east of the A3 but the lands extend to the River Wey in the west where it has a large mill-house. Ockham is between Cobha ...

, England, a village believed to be the birthplace of William of Ockham * Ockham Park, seventeenth century English country house in Ockham, Surrey Other: * HMS Ockham (M2714), one of 93 ships of the Ham-class of inshore minesweepers *

occam (programming language) occam is a programming language which is concurrent and builds on the communicating sequential processes (CSP) process algebra, Inmos document 72 occ 45 03 and shares many of its features. It is named after philosopher William of Ockham after wh ...

, also named after William of Ockham OCCAM as acronym: * Observatory for Cultural and Audiovisual Communication in the Mediterranean, established in 1996 by UNESCO in Milan *

Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine The Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM) is an office of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis. OCCAM was founded in 1998 and is responsible for NCI's research agenda in ...

, an office of the National Cancer Institute * Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics, a research centre at the University of Oxford

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