title: Bingham (surname)
text: # Bingham (surname)
  
  Bingham is a surname of English origin, ultimately deriving from the toponym of Melcombe Bingham in Dorset. 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.
  
  People surnamed Bingham include:
  
  ## British
  
  Aristocrats:
  
  * 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 (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 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, General in the British Army
  * Charles Thomas Bingham (1848–1908), Irish Army officer, entomologist and naturalist in India
  * Edward Bingham, 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)
  
  Religion:
  
  * Joseph Bingham (1668–1723), English scholar and divine
  
  Sport:
  
  * Billy Bingham (1931-2022), Northern Irish footballer
  * Craig Bingham, Scottish footballer
  * Stuart Bingham, an English Snooker player, world snooker champion 2015
  
  Writers
  
  * Madeleine Bingham, Baroness Clanmorris (1912-1988), English writer and wife of 7th Baron
  
  ## American
  
  Artists & Writers:
  
  * George Caleb Bingham, 19th-century American realist artist
  * Henrietta A. Bingham (1841–1877), American writer, editor, preceptress
  * Howard Bingham, photographer
  * Jennie M. Bingham, American writer
  * Robert Bingham, American writer
  
  Film industry workers:
  
  * J. Michael Bingham, pseudonym of D. C. Fontana, screenplay writer
  * Traci Bingham, American actress & model
  
  Law:
  
  * Robert Worth Bingham, 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 and New York City Police Commissioner
  * Gwen Bingham, first female Commanding Officer of TACOM
  
  Mathematics & Science:
  
  * Caroline Priscilla Bingham (née Lord 1831–1932), American botanist
  * Christopher Bingham, 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, explorer and U.S. Senator, best known as rediscoverer of sacred Inca city of Machu Picchu
  * Eugene C. Bingham, a professor at Lafayette College who coined the term rheology
  * Millicent Todd Bingham, Geographer, first woman to receive a doctorate in geology and geography from Harvard University
  * Paul M. Bingham is an American molecular biologist and evolutionary theorist
  
  Missionaries:
  
  * Hiram Bingham I, missionary to the Kingdom of Hawai'i
  * Hiram Bingham II, 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, 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, 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, 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., editor and publisher of Pulitzer Prize–winning Courier-Journal newspaper of Louisville, Kentucky
  * Henrietta Bingham, 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, American football player
  * Marcus Bingham Jr. (born 2000), American basketball player
  
  ## Others
  
  * Max Bingham, Australian politician in the Tasmanian House of Assembly
  * Mark Bingham, a leader of the attempted passenger revolt against hijackers aboard United Airlines Flight 93
  * Tyler Bingham, US-American Criminal
  