title: Beckingham (surname)
text: # Beckingham (surname)
  
  Beckingham or De Beckingham is a surname of English origin, derived from the parishes of the same name in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.
  
  People with the surname include:
  
  * Charles Beckingham (1699–1731), English poet and dramatist
  * Charles Fraser Beckingham, British orientalist
  * Elias Beckingham (died 1307), English judge
  * John Beckingham (1510–1566), English politician, MP for Salisbury
  * Peter Beckingham (born 1949), British diplomat and Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands
  * Steven Beckingham (born 1978), English actor
  * Stuart Beckingham (born 1981), Australian figure skater
  
  People born with the surname but known by other names include:
  
  * Anne Dudley (born 1956), musician (Art of Noise) and film score composer, born Anne Beckingham
  * Simon Pegg (born 1970), English actor, born Simon Beckingham
  * Bobby Valentino (British musician), born Robert Beckingham
  