Kirkham is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Charles B. Kirkham, American pioneer aero engine and plane builder
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Don Kirkham
Don Kirkham (February 11, 1908 – March 7, 1998) was an American soil scientist regarded as the founder of mathematical soil physics. His special interest was the flow of water through soils and drainage of agricultural land. He was awarded the ...
, American soil scientist
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Don Kirkham (cyclist)
Duncan "Don" Kirkham (23 July 1887 - 30 April 1930) was an Australian racing cyclist. Kirkham was a regular competitor in Australian long distance cycling races. He won the Goulburn to Sydney Classic in 1910, riding off scratch and setting the ...
, Australian cyclist
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Frances Kirkham, British judge
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Fred Kirkham
Fred Kirkham (born Frederick Angus Benfield; 5 April 1937 – 25 October 2007) was an Australian Olympic medal winning rower, songwriter and judge.
Early life
Kirkham was born in Leichhardt, New South Wales and attended Newington College ( ...
(1937–2007), Australian rower, songwriter and judge
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Fred Kirkham (football manager)
Frederick Thomas Kirkham (died 1949) was an English domestic and international football referee, and briefly the football manager for Tottenham Hotspur between 1907 and 1908.
Career as referee
Kirkham was a well-known domestic referee who also ...
(died 1949), English football referee and manager of Tottenham Hotspur
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Glenn Kirkham, English hockey player
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Ian Kirkham
Ian Kirkham (born 9 March 1963 in Preston, Lancashire''The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll'' - 3rd Edition) is an English saxophonist, best known for his playing with Simply Red from 1986 until the band retired in 2010. He reprised h ...
(born 1963), English saxophonist
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John Kirkham (adventurer) John Charles Kirkham (c. 1835 – June 1876) was a British adventurer, hotelier and ship's steward who fought beside William Walker in Nicaragua and Charles George Gordon in China during the Taiping Rebellion before landing in Ethiopia
Ethi ...
(c. 1830 – 1876), British adventurer
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Jon Kirkham (born 1984), British motorcycle racer
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Kathleen Kirkham
Kathleen Kirkham Woodruff (April 15, 1895 – November 7, 1961) was an American actress on stage and in silent films.
Career
Kathleen Kirkham was born on April 15, 1895 to Mrs. L.B. Kirkham, who was a stage actress prior to her marriage.
Kirkh ...
(1895–1961), silent film actress
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Millie Kirkham
Millie Kirkham (born Mildred Eakes; June 24, 1923 – December 14, 2014) was an American singer who was featured on many classic hit recordings from the mid-1950s through the 1980s.
Early life
Kirkham was born Mildred Eakes in Hermitage, Tenne ...
, American backing singer
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Oscar A. Kirkham (1880–1958), leading figure in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Paul Kirkham (born 1969), English footballer
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Peter Kirkham, English footballer
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Reg Kirkham
Reginald Kirkham (8 May 1919 – 1999) was an English footballer who played as full back for Burnley Football Club between 1947 and 1951. He played 15 games for Burnley and played in the Central League championship side of 1949. He scored one ...
(1919–1999), English footballer
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Richard Kirkham
Richard Ladd Kirkham (born June 18, 1955) is an American philosopher. Among his published works are ''Theories of Truth'' (his most-cited work, published by MIT Press in 1992), "Does the Gettier Problem Rest on a Mistake?" ''Mind'' (1984. Vol. 93 ...
(born 1955), American philosopher
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Rick Kirkham, American journalist
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Stanton Davis Kirkham (1868–1944), American naturalist, philosopher, ornithologist and author
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Tom Kirkham
Thomas Kirkham was an English Association football, football Referee (association football), referee.
In 1894 he officiated (most of) the 'Game of three halves' between Sunderland A.F.C., Sunderland and Derby County F.C., Derby County on the ope ...
, English football referee
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Tommy Kirkham
Tommy Kirkham is a Northern Ireland loyalist political figure and former councillor. Beginning his political career with the Democratic Unionist Party, he was then associated with the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Ulster Political Resea ...
, Northern Ireland loyalist politician
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Tony Kirkham
Tony Kirkham MBE VMH is the former Head of Arboretum, Gardens & Horticulture Services, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Career
Born in Lancashire, Tony Kirkham moved to Surrey to become, aged 16, a forestry apprentice with Tilhill Forestry Nurseries ...
(born 1957), English botanist
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Wilf Kirkham
Wilfred Thomas Kirkham (26 November 1901 – 20 October 1974) was an English footballer who holds four goalscoring records at Port Vale. His 153 league goals and 164 goals in all competitions are both records, as his tally of 38 goals in the ...
(1901–1974), English footballer
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