Bainbridge is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname

Beryl Bainbridge Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English writer from Liverpool. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. Bainbridge won the ...

(1932–2010), English novelist *

Beverley Bainbridge Beverley Ann Bainbridge (née Spargo; 28 January 1940 – 9 May 2016) was an Australian swimmer. She competed in the women's 100 metre butterfly at the 1956 Summer Olympics The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of t ...

(1940-2016), Australian Olympic swimmer *

Bill Bainbridge William Bainbridge (9 March 1922 – 1966) was an English footballer who played as a forward for Manchester United, Bury and Tranmere Rovers in the Football League. Born in Gateshead, County Durham, Bainbridge began his career with Ashingt ...

(born 1922), English footballer * Bob Bainbridge, English footballer *

Christopher Bainbridge Christopher Bainbridge ( 1462/1464 – 14 July 1514) was an English Cardinal of the Catholic Church. Of Westmorland origins, he was a nephew of Bishop Thomas Langton of Winchester, represented the continuation of Langton's influence and teachin ...

(1464?–1514), Archbishop of York and Cardinal *

Dave Bainbridge Dave Bainbridge is an English guitarist and keyboard player who has played with The Strawbs since 2015. With Dave Fitzgerald, Dave co-founded the Christian progressive and Celtic folk themed band Iona. Biography Born in Darlington, England ...

, English progressive guitarist and keyboardist * David Bainbridge (artist), English writer *

Dionne Bainbridge Dionne Estelle Bainbridge (later Coluccio, born 18 March 1978) is an Olympic swimmer from New Zealand. Bainbridge was born in 1978 in Auckland, New Zealand. Bainbridge was one of the 14 swimmers who represented New Zealand at the 1996 Summer O ...

(born 1978), New Zealand Olympic swimmer * Emerson Bainbridge (1845–1911), British mining engineer and MP * Gilbert Ronald Bainbridge (1925–2003), British nuclear physicist and engineer *

Joe Bainbridge Joe Bainbridge (11 March 1888 – 1954) was an English professional footballer. He spent ten years at Blackpool in the 1900s, making over 100 Football League appearances for the club. He played as a centre-forward. Blackpool Bainbridge made h ...

, English footballer *

Kenneth Bainbridge Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge (July 27, 1904 – July 14, 1996) was an American physicist at Harvard University who did work on cyclotron research. His precise measurements of mass differences between nuclear isotopes allowed him to confirm Albert ...

, American physicist, director of the Trinity test during the Manhattan Project *

Lisanne Bainbridge Ironies of Automation is a research paper written by Lisanne Bainbridge and published in ''Automatica'' in 1983, and has been widely recognized as a pioneering statement of the problems inherent in automation. Barry Strauch analyzes the paper's sig ...

, cognitive psychologist * Merril Bainbridge, Australian musician * Robert S. Bainbridge (1913–1959), New York state senator *

Simon Bainbridge Simon Bainbridge (30 August 1952 – 2 April 2021) was a British composer. He was also a professor and head of composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and visiting professor at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, in the United S ...

, English composer *

Simpson Bainbridge Simpson Bainbridge (3 April 1895 – 12 November 1988) was an English professional footballer who played as an outside forward in the Football League for Leeds City, Preston North End and South Shields. Personal life Bainbridge served as a p ...

(1895–1988), English footballer * Stephen Bainbridge, American corporate law professor at UCLA and blogger *

William Bainbridge (disambiguation) William Bainbridge (1774–1833) was a commodore in the U.S. Navy. William Bainbridge may also refer to: * Bill Bainbridge (1922–1966), English footballer *William G. Bainbridge (1925–2008), U.S. Army officer *William Sims Bainbridge (born 19 ...

, several people

Given name

Bainbridge Colby Bainbridge Colby (December 22, 1869 – April 11, 1950) was an American politician and attorney who was a co-founder of the United States Progressive Party and Woodrow Wilson's last Secretary of State. Colby was a Republican until he helped co-f ...

(1869–1950), US Secretary of State *

Bainbridge Wadleigh Bainbridge Wadleigh (January 4, 1831January 24, 1891) was a United States senator from New Hampshire. Born in Bradford, he attended the common schools and Kimball Union Academy ( Meriden, New Hampshire). He studied law, was admitted to the bar ...

, United States senator from New Hampshire {{given name, type=both English-language surnames English toponymic surnames