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

Dorset Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset (unitary authority), Dors ...

. The name was taken to Ireland in the 16th century, by Richard Bingham, a native of Dorset who was appointed governor of

Connaught Connacht ( ; ga, Connachta or ), is one of the provinces of Ireland, in the west of Ireland. Until the ninth century it consisted of several independent major Gaelic kingdoms (Uí Fiachrach, Uí Briúin, Uí Maine, Conmhaícne, and Delbh ...

in 1584. There is another Bingham in

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The traditi ...

. People surnamed Bingham include:

British

Aristocrats: *Bingham Baronets, of Castlebar (created 1634) **

Sir Henry Bingham, 1st Baronet Sir Henry Bingham, 1st Baronet (1573 – c. 1658) was an Irish politician. Born at Milton Abbas, he was the son of Sir George Bingham, brother of Richard Bingham (soldier), Sir Richard Bingham, and his wife Cicely Martin, daughter of Robert Mart ...

(1573 – c. 1658) **

Sir George Bingham, 2nd Baronet Sir George Bingham, 2nd Baronet (c. 1625 – 1682) was an Irish politician and baronet. He was the only son of Sir Henry Bingham, 1st Baronet and his wife Catherine Byrne, daughter of John Byrne. In 1658, Bingham succeeded his father as baronet. ...

(c. 1625 – 1682) **

Sir Henry Bingham, 3rd Baronet Sir Henry Bingham, 3rd Baronet (1654 – 5 July 1714) was an Irish politician and baronet. He was the eldest son Sir George Bingham, 2nd Baronet and his first wife, Anne Partiger. In 1682, he succeeded his father as baronet. Bingham was educated ...

(died c. 1714) ** Sir George Bingham, 4th Baronet (died c. 1730) **

Sir John Bingham, 5th Baronet Sir John Bingham, 5th Baronet (1690 – 21 September 1749) was an Irish politician. He was the eldest son of Sir George Bingham, 4th Baronet, and his first wife Mary Scott. Bingham was educated at the Middle Temple. He was appointed High Sheriff ...

(c. 1696 – 1749) **

Sir John Bingham, 6th Baronet Sir John Bingham, 6th Baronet (November 1728 – 27 November 1750) was an Irish politician and baronet. He was the oldest son of Sir John Bingham, 5th Baronet and his wife Anne Vesey, daughter of Agmondisham Vesey. In 1749, Bingham succeeded hi ...

(1730–1750) ** Sir Charles Bingham, 7th Baronet (1735–1799) *

Earls of Lucan Earl of Lucan is a title which has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland for related families. History Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan, Patrick Sarsfield was one of the senior commanders of James II of England, James VII & II ...

(second creation (1795) **

Charles Bingham, 1st Earl of Lucan Charles Bingham, 1st Earl of Lucan (22 September 1735 – 29 March 1799), known as Sir Charles Bingham, 7th Baronet, from 1750 until 1776, was an Irish peer and politician. Background He was the second son of Sir John Bingham, 5th Baronet, and ...

(1735–1799) **

Richard Bingham, 2nd Earl of Lucan Richard Bingham, 2nd Earl of Lucan (4 December 1764 – 30 June 1839), styled The Honourable from 1776 to 1795 and subsequently Lord Bingham until 1799, was an Irish peer and Tory politician. Background He was the only son of Charles Bingham, 1 ...

(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 aristocrat and British Army officer. He was one of three men, along with Captain Nolan and Lord Raglan, respon ...

(1800–1888) ** Charles Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan (1830–1914) **

George Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan Colonel George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan, 1st Baron Bingham, (13 December 1860 – 20 April 1949), known by the courtesy title of Lord Bingham from 1888 to 1914, was a British soldier and Conservative politician. Early life Lucan was ...

(1860–1949) **

George Bingham, 6th Earl of Lucan George Charles Patrick Bingham, 6th Earl of Lucan Military Cross, MC (24 November 1898 – 21 January 1964), known as Lord Bingham from 1914 to 1949, was an Peerage of Ireland, Irish peer, British soldier and Labour Party (UK), Labour politician. ...

(1898–1964) **

Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (born 18 December 1934 – disappeared 8 November 1974, declared dead 3 February 2016), commonly known as Lord Lucan, was a British peer who disappeared after being suspected of murder. He was an Anglo-I ...

(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 Baron Clanmorris, of Newbrook in the County of Mayo, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 6 August 1800 for John Bingham. He was a descendant of John Bingham of Foxford in County Mayo, whose brother Sir Henry Bingham, 1st Baro ...

(created 1800) **

John Bingham, 1st Baron Clanmorris John Bingham, 1st Baron Clanmorris (1762 – May 1821) was an Ireland, Irish Peerage, peer. Bingham was the son of Henry Bingham and his wife Letitia (née Daly). He was elected to the Irish House of Commons for Tuam (Parliament of Ireland consti ...

(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 Sir Thomas Henry Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill, (13 October 193311 September 2010), was an eminent British judge who was successively Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice and Senior Law Lord. He was described as the greatest lawyer of ...

, one of the most senior judges in the United Kingdom *

Peregrine Bingham the Elder Peregrine Bingham, the elder (1754–1826) was an English biographer and poet. __NOTOC__ Life Of the gentry family of Bingham of Melcombe Bingham, Dorset,A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, 1838, ed. ...

, biographer and poet * Peregrine Bingham the Younger, English legal writer * Lady Camilla Bingham KC (born 1970) Mathematics and Science: * Nicholas Bingham (1945), British mathematician * Dame Kate Bingham, bioscientist, venture capitalist and Head of UK's Vaccine Taskforce Military & Navy: * Arthur Bingham, 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 Barone ...

, General in the British Army *

Charles Thomas Bingham Charles Thomas Bingham (16 April 1848, India – 18 October 1908 West Kensington, London) 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 Obitua ...

(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 Surgeon Captain Edward W. Bingham , was a British Royal Navy officer and polar explorer who had the rare third clasp added to his Polar Medal. Biography Edward (Ted) William Bingham was born on 2 January 1901 in Dungannon, County Tyrone, the s ...

, polar explorer *

, 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, Oxf ...

(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 football manager. As a player, his first professional club was Glentoran, whom he played for between 1948 and 1950. Making the move ...

(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 and Masters champion. Bingham won the 1996 World Amateur Championship but enjoyed little sustained success in the early part of his professional ...

, an English

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

player, world snooker champion

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

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

American

Artists & 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 Party (United States), Whig, he was elected as a delegate to the Missouri legisl ...

, 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, Ladies ...

(1841–1877), American writer, editor, preceptress *

Howard Bingham Howard Leonid Bingham (May 29, 1939December 15, 2016) was a biographer of Muhammad Ali and a professional photographer.Deford, FranYou don't know Muhammad Ali until you know his best friend''Sports Illustrated''. March 11, 2016 Bingham was born in ...

, photographer * Jennie M. Bingham, American writer * Robert Bingham, American writer Film industry workers: * J. Michael Bingham, pseudonym of

D. C. Fontana Dorothy Catherine Fontana (March 25, 1939 – December 2, 2019) was an American television script writer and story editor, best known for her work on the original '' Star Trek'' franchise and several Western television series. After a shor ...

, screenplay writer *

Traci Bingham Traci A. Bingham is an American actress, model, and television personality. Beginning her professional career in the early 1990s, Bingham is best known for her role as Jordan Tate on the NBC action drama television series ''Baywatch'' (1996–19 ...

, American actress & model Law: *

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

, 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 Brigadier General Theodore Alfred Bingham (May 14, 1858 – September 6, 1934) was the New York City police commissioner from 1906 to 1909. Early life Bingham was born at Andover, Connecticut on May 14, 1858, to Joel Foote Bingham (1827–1914), ...

, 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 Life ...

, 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 & 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 * 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. He made public the existence of the Inca Empire, Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in 1911 with the guidance of local indigenous farmers. Late ...

, 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 range.UNESCO World Heritage Centre. It is located in the Machupicchu District within Urubamba Province above the Sacred Valley, which ...

* 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 Febr ...

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

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

* 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 leader of the first group of American Protestant missionary, missionaries to introduce Christianity to the Hawaiian islands. Like most of the missionaries, he w ...

, 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 (1789–186 ...

, missionary to the Kingdom of Hawai'i Politicians: *

E. Volney Bingham E. Volney Bingham (August 1, 1844 – April 23, 1922) was a politician and lawyer from Indiana. He served in the Indiana Senate from 1893 to 1895 and 1907 to 1909. Early life and education E. Volney Bingham was born on August 1, 1844, in Penn T ...

(1844–1922), Indiana state legislator *

Henry H. Bingham Henry Harrison Bingham (December 4, 1841 – March 22, 1912) was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district from 1879 to 1912. He w ...

, 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 Marseilles, France, during World War II, and, along with Varian Fry, helped over 2,500 Jews to flee from France as Nazi forc ...

, US Vice Consul in Marseille, France, during World War II, who rescued Jews from the Holocaust *

James Bingham James Bingham may refer to: * James Bingham (artist), Belfast-based painter * James Bingham (Indiana politician) James Bingham (March 16, 1861 – August 19, 1940) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the nineteenth Indiana Atto ...

, 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 assist ...

, U.S. Representative from Ohio during the Reconstruction *

Jonathan Brewster Bingham Jonathan Brewster Bingham (April 24, 1914 – July 3, 1986) was an American politician and diplomat. He was the US delegate to the United Nations General Assembly and was elected to Congress from The Bronx, serving in the House of Representatives ...

, U.S. Representative from New York *

Kinsley S. Bingham Kinsley Scott Bingham (December 16, 1808October 5, 1861) was a U.S. Representative, a U.S. Senator, and the 11th governor of Michigan. Early life in New York Bingham (whose first name is sometimes spelled ''Kingsley'') was born to the farmer f ...

, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Michigan *

Stan Bingham Stanley Walker Bingham (December 29, 1945 – October 27, 2022) was an American politician, a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's thirty-third Senate district, including constituents in Davidson an ...

, 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. George Barry Bingham Sr. (February 10, 1906 – August 15, 1988) was the patriarch of a family that dominated local media in Louisville for several decades in the 20th century. Family and career George Barry Bingham Sr. was born on February 10 ...

, 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 *

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) Craig Marlon Bingham (born September 26, 1959) is a former American football linebacker who played five seasons in the NFL with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the San Diego Chargers. He is distinguished as being the first Jamaican to play i ...

, 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 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 Ross State Un ...

, American football player *

Marcus Bingham Jr. Marcus Jerome Bingham Jr. (born July 14, 2000) is an American basketball player for Hapoel Haifa of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He played college basketball for the Michigan State Spartans. High school career Bingham stood 6 ft 2 in ( ...

(born 2000), American basketball player

Others

Max Bingham Sir Eardley Max Bingham (18 March 1927 – 30 November 2021), was an Australian politician. He was Deputy Premier and Opposition Leader of Tasmania, who represented the electorate of Denison for the Liberal Party in the Tasmanian House of As ...

, 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 The Aryan Brotherhood, also known as the Brand or the AB, is a Neo-Nazism, neo-Nazi prison gang and an organized crime syndicate which is based in the United States and has an estimated 15,000–20,000 members both inside and outside prisons. Th ...

, US-American Criminal

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