Newcombe is a British surname of

Brythonic Brittonic or Brythonic may refer to: *Common Brittonic, or Brythonic, the Celtic language anciently spoken in Great Britain *Brittonic languages, a branch of the Celtic languages descended from Common Brittonic *Britons (Celtic people) The Br ...

origin, "''-combe''" or "''-coombe''" being cognate with the Welsh "''cwm''" meaning valley.

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Anton Newcombe Anton Alfred Newcombe (born August 29, 1967) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and founder of the music group The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Newcombe was the subject of the 2004 documentary film '' Dig!'', along ...

(born 1967), American musician *

Bertha Newcombe Bertha Newcombe (17 February 1857 – 11 June 1947) was an English artist and suffrage activist. The fourth of seven children of an entrepreneurial father with an interest in education and art, she grew up mainly in Surrey. Aged 19, she entere ...

(1857–1947), English artist and suffrage activist *

Bobby Newcombe Robert Wundu Sowa Newcombe (born August 8, 1979) is a former American football quarterback that started for the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Collegiate career As a sophomore in 1998, Bobby Newcombe started at quarterback and led his team to a 9-4 recor ...

(born 1979), American football player *

Charles F. Newcombe Charles Frederick Newcombe (15 September 1851 – 19 October 1924) was a British botanist and ethnographic researcher. He is known for his studies of the First Nations or native people of Canada. Biography Newcombe was born in Newcastle-upon- ...

(1851–1924), British botanist *

Don Newcombe Donald Newcombe (June 14, 1926 – February 19, 2019), nicknamed "Newk", was an American professional baseball pitcher in Negro league and Major League Baseball who played for the Newark Eagles (1944–45), Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers (1949–1 ...

(1926–2019), American baseball player *

Edmund Leslie Newcombe Edmund Leslie Newcombe, (February 17, 1859 – December 9, 1931) was a Canadian lawyer, civil servant, and Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Early life Born in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, the son of John Cumming Newcombe and Abigail ...

(1859–1931), Canadian lawyer and Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada *

Frederick Charles Newcombe Frederick Charles Newcombe (1858–1927) was an American botanist, and the first editor-in-chief of the ''American Journal of Botany'' Newcombe was born in Flint, Michigan, May 11, 1858, to parents Thomas and Eliza (Gayton) Newcombe, who had emi ...

(1858–1927), American botanist *

Hanna Newcombe Hanna Newcombe (February 5, 1922 – April 10, 2011) was the co-founder of Peace Research Abstracts and Peace Research Reviews, was the recipient of the 1997 Pearson Medal of Peace and was elected a member of the Order of Canada in 2007 for her wo ...

(1922–2011), Canadian co-founder of Peace Research Abstracts and Peace Research Reviews *

John Newcombe John David Newcombe AO OBE (born 23 May 1944) is an Australian former professional tennis player. He is one of the few men to have attained a world No. 1 ranking in both singles and doubles. At the majors, he won seven singles titles, a fo ...

(born 1944), Australian tennis player *

Kim Newcombe Kim Newcombe (2 January 1944 – 14 August 1973), was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from New Zealand. Biography Born in Nelson, Newcombe grew up in Auckland, then moved to Australia (first Brisbane, then Melbourne) in 1963, and subsequent ...

(1944–1973), Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from New Zealand *

Nora Newcombe Nora S. Newcombe (born 1951 in Toronto) is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology and the James H. Glackin Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Temple University. She is a Canadian-American researcher in cognitive development, cognitive psychology ...

(born 1951), Canadian-American psychologist *

S.F. Newcombe Lt Col. Stewart Francis Newcombe (1878–1956) was a British army officer and associate of T. E. Lawrence. He was commissioned in the Royal Engineers in 1898 and fought in the Second Boer War. He served with the Egyptian army from May 1901 un ...

(1878–1956), British army officer and surveyor

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* Rural Municipality of Newcombe No. 260, Saskatchewan, Canada *

Operation Newcombe Operation Newcombe was the code name for two separate and concurrent British non-combat military operations in Mali. One operation involved logistical and airlift support for the French-led Operation Barkhane (previously Operation Serval), whil ...

, the British contribution in 2013 to French-led military involvement in Mali

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