Bingham ( ) is a surname of English origin, ultimately deriving from the toponym of Melcombe Bingham in

Dorset Dorset ( ; Archaism, archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, t ...

. 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 Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated ''Notts.'') is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. The county is bordered by South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. Th ...

. People surnamed Bingham include:

British

Peerage: *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 George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, (16 April 1800 – 10 November 1888), styled Lord Bingham before 1839, was an Anglo-Irish peer and military officer. He was one of three men, along with Louis Nolan and Lord Raglan, responsible for t ...

(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 – death certificate issued 2016) the infamous "Lord Lucan" who disappeared after murdering his nanny when intending to murder his wife ** George Charles Bingham, 8th Earl of Lucan (born 1967) * 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 (born 1937) **Robert Derek de Burgh Bingham (born 1942) Law: * Tom 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 *

Lady Camilla Bingham Lady Camilla Bingham ; (born 30 June 1970) is a British barrister. Her practice is in corporate and commercial law, in litigation and arbitration, specialising in jurisdiction and conflict of laws. She works mostly in England and Wales and is a ...

KC (born 1970) Mathematics and science: * Nicholas Bingham (1945), British mathematician * Dame Kate Bingham, bioscientist, venture capitalist and Head of UK's

Vaccine Taskforce The Vaccine Taskforce in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was set up in April 2020 by the Second Johnson ministry, in collaboration with Chief Scientific Advisor Patrick Vallance and Chief Medical Officer Professor Chr ...

Military: *

Arthur Bingham Arthur Batt Bingham (1784–1830) was an officer in the Royal Navy, rising to the rank of post captain. He is remembered chiefly for his command of HMS ''Little Belt'', when the Little Belt affair occurred, just prior to the War of 1812. Fam ...

, Captain in the Royal Navy *

Cecil Edward Bingham Major-General Sir Cecil Edward Bingham (7 December 1861 – 31 May 1934) was a British Army officer who held high command during World War I. Military career Born the son of Charles Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan,''Burke's Peerage and Baronet ...

, General in the British Army *

Charles Thomas Bingham Charles Thomas Bingham (16 April 1848 – 18 October 1908) was an Irish military officer and entomologist. Bingham was born in India of an old Irish family, and he was educated in Ireland.Kirby, W.F , 1909 Obituary correction ''Entomologists mo ...

(1848–1908), Irish Army officer, entomologist and naturalist in India *

Edward Bingham Rear-Admiral The Honourable Edward Barry Stewart Bingham, VC, OBE (26 July 1881 – 24 September 1939) served in the Royal Navy during the First World War and was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in engaging the German fleet dur ...

, 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) Sir Richard Bingham (1528 – 19 January 1599) was an English soldier and naval commander. He served under Queen Elizabeth I during the Tudor conquest of Ireland and was appointed governor of Connacht. Early life and military career Bingham ...

Religion: *

Joseph Bingham Joseph Bingham (September 1668 – 17 August 1723) was an English scholar and divine, who wrote on ecclesiastical history. Life He was born at Wakefield in Yorkshire. He was educated at Wakefield Grammar School and University College, Ox ...

(1668–1723), English scholar and divine Sport: *

Billy Bingham William Laurence Bingham (5 August 1931 – 9 June 2022) was a Northern Ireland international footballer and manager. As a player, his first professional club was Glentoran, for whom he played between 1948 and 1950. Making a move to England, ...

(1931–2022), Northern Irish footballer * Craig Bingham, Scottish footballer *

Stuart Bingham Stuart Bingham (born 21 May 1976) is an English professional snooker player who is a former World Champion and Masters winner. Bingham won the 1996 World Amateur Championship but enjoyed little sustained success in the early part of his pro ...

, an English

Snooker Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sport played on a rectangular Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets: one at each corner and ...

player,

world snooker champion The World Snooker Championship is an annual snooker tournament founded in 1927, and played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England since 1977. The tournament is now played over seventeen days in late April and early May, and is chronologica ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

Writers * Madeleine Bingham, Baroness Clanmorris (1912–1988), English writer and wife of 7th Baron

American

Artists and writers: *

George Caleb Bingham George Caleb Bingham (March 20, 1811 – July 7, 1879) was an American artist, soldier and politician known in his lifetime as "the Missouri Artist". Initially a Whig, he was elected as a delegate to the Missouri legislature before the American C ...

, 19th-century American realist artist *

Henrietta A. Bingham Henrietta A. Bingham (, Burrington; December 29, 1841 – February 18, 1877) was a 19th-century American writer, editor, and preceptress. She succeeded Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford as the editor of the ''The Universalist and Ladies' Repository, Ladi ...

(1841–1877), American writer, editor, preceptress * Howard Bingham, photographer * Jennie M. Bingham, American writer * Robert Bingham, American writer Business *

Anna Bingham Anna Dix Bingham (3 August 1745 – 1829) was an American businesswoman and innkeeper. Born Anna Dix in Watertown, Massachusetts, she was well educated compared to most women of the time. She had a baby out of wedlock and was convicted of forni ...

(1745–1829), businesswoman and innkeeper Stage and Film industry workers: * Bob Bingham (1946–2025), American actor and singer * J. Michael Bingham, pseudonym of D. C. Fontana, screenplay writer *

Traci Bingham Traci A. Bingham (born January 13, 1968)McCann, Bob. (2022). ''Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television''. McFarland. pp. 47-48. is an American actress, model, and television personality. Beginning her professional care ...

, American actress & model Law: *

Robert Worth Bingham Robert Worth Bingham (November 8, 1871 – December 18, 1937) was an American politician, judge, newspaper publisher and the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1933 to 1937. Background Bingham attended the University of North Ca ...

, lawyer, US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, and owner of the ''Courier-Journal'' newspaper of Louisville, Kentucky *

Stephen Bingham Stephen Mitchell Bingham (born April 23, 1942) is an inactive American legal services and civil rights attorney who, after being a fugitive from justice from 1971 to 1984, was tried and acquitted in 1986 for his alleged role in Black Panther Ge ...

is a progressive activist and legal services attorney in San Francisco * Theodore A. Bingham, Brigadier General and New York City Police Commissioner *

Gwen Bingham Lieutenant General Gwendolyn Bingham (born 1959) is a retired officer of the United States Army who served as the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management from 2016 to 2019. Bingham previously served as the Commander of the TACOM Lif ...

, first female Commanding Officer of

TACOM The United States Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM), and its subordinate Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC),

Mathematics and science: * Caroline Priscilla Bingham (née Lord 1831–1932), American botanist *

Christopher Bingham Christopher Bingham is an American statistician who introduced the Bingham distribution. In joint work with C. M. D. Godfrey and John Tukey he introduced complex demodulation into the analysis of time series. The Kent distribution, ...

, American statistician who introduced the Bingham distribution and jointly with other introduced complex demodulation into Fourier analysis of time series *

Eula Bingham Eula Bingham (July 9, 1929 – June 13, 2020) was an American scientist, best known as an Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) during the Presidency of Jimmy Carter. During her tenure as the head of OSHA, she el ...

, American scientist and head of the Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA) under Jimmy Carter * Harold Clyde Bingham, psychologist and primatologist *

Hiram Bingham III Hiram Bingham III (November 19, 1875 – June 6, 1956) was an American academic, explorer and politician. In 1911, he publicized the existence of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu which he rediscovered with the guidance of local indigenous farm ...

, explorer and U.S. Senator, best known as rediscoverer of sacred Inca city of

Machu Picchu Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at . Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire. It is located in the ...

* Eugene C. Bingham, a professor at Lafayette College who coined the term rheology *

Millicent Todd Bingham Millicent Todd Bingham (1880–1968) was an American geographer and the first woman to receive a doctorate in geology and geography from Harvard. She was also a leading expert on the poet Emily Dickinson. Biography Born Millicent Todd on Feb ...

, Geographer, first woman to receive a doctorate in geology and geography from

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

* Paul M. Bingham is an American molecular biologist and evolutionary theorist Missionaries: *

Hiram Bingham I Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham I (October 30, 1789 – November 11, 1869), was the leader of the first group of American Protestant missionaries to introduce Christianity to the Hawaiian Islands. Like most of the missionaries, he was fr ...

, missionary to the Kingdom of Hawai'i *

Hiram Bingham II Hiram Bingham II (August 16, 1831 – October 25, 1908) was a Protestant Christian missionary to Hawaii and the Gilbert Islands. Life and career Born in Honolulu, Bingham was the sixth child of early missionary Hiram Bingham I (1789&ndas ...

, missionary to the Kingdom of Hawai'i Pioneers: * Erastus Bingham, Latter Day Saint Pioneer, wagon train leader, founder of Bingham's Fort, early settler of Ogden, Utah, first LDS bishop of Ogden. Politicians: * E. Volney Bingham (1844–1922), Indiana state legislator * Henry H. Bingham, United States Civil War Hero and Congressman from Pennsylvania *

Hiram Bingham IV Hiram "Harry" Bingham IV (July 17, 1903 – January 12, 1988) was an American diplomat. He served as a Vice Consul in Marseille, France, during World War II, and, along with several humanitarian organizations, helped more than 2,500 refugees, mos ...

, US Vice Consul in Marseille, France, during World War II, who rescued Jews from the Holocaust * James Bingham, Indiana Attorney General * James M. Bingham, Wisconsin state legislator *

John Bingham John Armor Bingham (January 21, 1815 – March 19, 1900) was an American politician who served as a Republican representative from Ohio and as the United States ambassador to Japan. In his time as a congressman, Bingham served as both assis ...

, 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 * Stan Bingham, North Carolina state legislator *

William Bingham William Bingham (March 8, 1752February 7, 1804) was an American statesman from Philadelphia. He was a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress from 1786 to 1788 and served in the United States Senate from 1795 to 1801. Bingham was o ...

, 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. George Barry Bingham Jr. (September 23, 1933 – April 3, 2006 in Louisville, Kentucky) was an American newspaper publisher and television and radio executive. He was the third and last generation of the Bingham family that controlled Louisville' ...

, editor and publisher of Pulitzer Prize–winning ''Courier-Journal'' newspaper of Louisville, Kentucky *

Henrietta Bingham Henrietta Bingham (January 3, 1901 – June 17, 1968) was a wealthy American journalist, newspaper executive and horse breeder. When she was twelve, she was present when her mother was killed in a road accident which traumatized the whole famil ...

, American journalist and horse breeder associated with Bloomsbury Group Sports: * Craig Bingham (American football), Jamaican-born American football player * Dave Bingham, American college baseball coach *

Don Bingham Donald Dean Bingham (November 7, 1929 – July 17, 1997) was an American professional football halfback and return specialist who played one season with the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Sul ...

, American football player * Marcus Bingham Jr. (born 2000), American basketball player

Others

* Max Bingham, Australian politician in the Tasmanian House of Assembly *

Mark Bingham Mark Kendall Bingham (May 22, 1970 – September 11, 2001) was an American public relations executive who founded his own company, the Bingham Group. During the September 11 attacks in 2001, he was a passenger on board United Airlines Flight 93. ...

, a leader of the attempted passenger revolt against hijackers aboard United Airlines Flight 93 * Tyler Bingham, US-American criminal

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