Bingham (surname)
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Bingham is a surname of English origin. People surnamed Bingham include:
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Aristocrats:
- Earls of LucanEarl of LucanEarl of Lucan was a title in the Peerage of Ireland which has been possessed by two related Irish families in creations of 1691 and 1795. The current holder is presumed to be Richard Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, who vanished in 1974....
, including:- Richard Bingham, 7th Earl of LucanRichard Bingham, 7th Earl of LucanRichard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan , popularly known as Lord Lucan, as Lord Bingham before 1964, and sometimes colloquially called "Lucky" Lucan, was a British peer, who disappeared in the early hours of 8 November 1974, following the murder of Sandra Rivett, his children's nanny, the previous...
, the infamous "Lord Lucan" who disappeared after murdering his nanny when intending to murder his wife
- Richard Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan
Publishers:
- Barry Bingham, Sr.Barry Bingham, Sr.George Barry Bingham, Sr., CBE, was the patriarch of a family that dominated local media in Louisville for several decades in the 20th century....
, owner & publisher of Pulitzer Prize winning Courier-Journal newspaper of Louisville, Kentucky - Barry Bingham, Jr.Barry Bingham, Jr.George Barry Bingham, Jr. was an American newspaper publisher and television and radio executive...
, editor & publisher of Pulitzer Prize winning Courier-Journal newspaper of Louisville, Kentucky - Robert Bingham, American writer
- Robert Worth BinghamRobert Worth BinghamRobert Worth Bingham was a politician, judge, newspaper publisher and United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. He attended the University of North Carolina and University of Virginia but did not graduate. He moved to Louisville in the 1890s and received a law degree from the University of...
, lawyer, US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, and owner of the Courier-Journal newspaper of Louisville, Kentucky
Military men:
- Arthur BinghamArthur BinghamArthur Batt Bingham was an officer in the Royal Navy, rising to the rank of post captain. He is remembered chiefly for his command of HMS Little Belt, when the Little Belt Affair occurred, just prior to the War of 1812.-Family and early life:...
, Captain in the Royal Navy - Edward BinghamEdward BinghamRear Admiral The Honourable Edward Barry Stewart Bingham VC, OBE served in the Royal Navy during the First World War and was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in engaging the German fleet during the Battle of Jutland.Bingham, the son of Lord Clanmorris, entered the Royal Navy in 1895...
, Rear-Admiral of the British Royal Navy during the First World War - Henry H. BinghamHenry H. BinghamHenry Harrison Bingham was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, who received the United States Military's highest award for valor, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of the Wilderness....
, United States Civil War Hero and Congressman from Pennsylvania - Hiram Bingham IVHiram Bingham IVHiram "Harry" Bingham IV was an American diplomat. He served as a Vice-Consul in Marseille, France, during World War II, and helped over 2,500 Jews to flee from France as Nazi forces advanced.-Early life:...
, US Vice Consul in Marseille, France, during World War II, who rescued Jews from the Holocaust - Theodore A. BinghamTheodore A. BinghamGeneral Theodore A. Bingham was the New York City Police Commissioner from 1906 to 1909.-References:...
, General and in New York Police - Marvin Bingham, US Staff Sergeant during the Vietnam conflict
Missionaries:
- Hiram Bingham IHiram Bingham IHiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham I , was leader of the first group of Protestant missionaries to introduce Christianity to the Hawaiian islands.-Life:...
, missionary to the Kingdom of Hawai'i - Hiram Bingham IIHiram Bingham IIHiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham II , was a Protestant Christian missionary to Hawaii and the Gilbert Islands....
, missionary to the Kingdom of Hawai'i
Politicians:
- Hiram Bingham IIIHiram Bingham IIIHiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham III, was an academic, explorer, treasure hunter and politician from the United States. He made public the existence of the Quechua citadel of Machu Picchu in 1911 with the guidance of local indigenous farmers...
, U.S. Senator from Connecticut and explorer born in Honolulu, Hawai'i - John BinghamJohn BinghamJohn Armor Bingham was a Republican congressman from Ohio, America, judge advocate in the trial of the Abraham Lincoln assassination and a prosecutor in the impeachment trials of Andrew Johnson...
, U.S. Representative from Ohio during the Reconstruction - Jonathan Brewster BinghamJonathan Brewster BinghamJonathan Brewster Bingham was an American politician and diplomat...
, U.S. Representative from New York - Kinsley S. BinghamKinsley S. BinghamKinsley Scott Bingham was a U.S. Representative, a U.S. Senator, and the 11th Governor of the state of Michigan.-Early life in New York:...
, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Michigan - William BinghamWilliam BinghamWilliam Bingham was an American statesman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 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...
, Senator in the early USA - William Bingham (Pittsburgh)William Bingham (Pittsburgh)William Bingham , served as Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1856 to 1857.William Bingham was born in 1808 and for most of his life was involved in the transportation business. The Bingham Brothers Company was a prosperous firm in the freight delivery industry...
, Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1856 to 1857.
Film industry workers:
- J. Michael Bingham, pseudonym of D. C. FontanaD. C. FontanaDorothy Catherine "D. C." Fontana is an American television script writer and story editor, best known for her work on the original Star Trek series.-Work with Gene Roddenberry:...
, screenplay writer - Traci BinghamTraci BinghamTraci Bingham is an American actress, model and television personality who is best known for playing Jordan Tate on the television series Baywatch between 1996 and 1998.-Personal life:...
, American actress & model
Athletes:
- Billy BinghamBilly BinghamWilliam Laurence "Billy" Bingham, MBE is a former international footballer and football manager. He is currently a scout for English Football League Championship side Burnley....
, Northern Irish footballer - Craig BinghamCraig BinghamCraig Bingham , is a Scottish footballer. He was a midfielder.Bingham joined Clyde in the summer of 2000, signing from his hometown junior side Irvine Meadow. Bingham spent two seasons at Broadwood Stadium, but never really established himself in the first team...
, Scottish footballer - Craig Bingham (American football)Craig Bingham (American football)Craig Marlon Bingham is a former American football linebacker who played five seasons in the NFL with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the San Diego Chargers.-Early life:...
, Jamaican-born American football player - Stuart BinghamStuart BinghamStuart Bingham is an English professional snooker player. He was the 1996 English Amateur and World Amateur champion, but for many years was something of a journeyman professional. He had a run of strong results in late 2005, to earn him a top 32 world rankings place he has yet to lose...
, an English Snooker player
Others:
- Charles Thomas BinghamCharles Thomas BinghamCharles Thomas Bingham was an Irish military officer and entomologist.Bingham’s military career began in India where he was a soldier in the Bombay Staff Corps and later with the Bengal Staff Corps...
(1848–1908), Irish Army officer, entomologist and naturalist in India - Christopher BinghamChristopher BinghamChristopher 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.-External links:* faculty web page...
, American statistician who introduced the Bingham distribution and jointly with other introduced complex demodulation into Fourier analysis of time series - Eugene C. BinghamEugene C. BinghamEugene Cook Bingham was a professor and head of the Department of Chemistry at Lafayette College. Bingham made many contributions to rheology, a term he is credited with introducing. He was a pioneer in both its theory and practice...
, a professor at Lafayette College who coined the term rheology - George Caleb BinghamGeorge Caleb BinghamGeorge Caleb Bingham was an American artist whose paintings of American life in the frontier lands along the Missouri River exemplify the Luminist style. Left to languish in obscurity, Bingham's work was rediscovered in the 1930s...
, 19th-century American realist artist - Joseph BinghamJoseph BinghamJoseph Bingham , English scholar and divine, was born at Wakefield in Yorkshire.He was educated at University College, Oxford, of which he was made fellow in 1689 and tutor in 1691...
(1668–1723), English scholar and divine - Mark BinghamMark BinghamMark Kendall Bingham 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 - Nicholas BinghamNicholas BinghamNicholas Hugh Bingham is a British mathematician working in the field of probability theory, stochastic analysis and analysis more generally....
(1945), British mathematician - Thomas Bingham, Baron Bingham of CornhillThomas Bingham, Baron Bingham of CornhillThomas Henry Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill, KG PC QC FBA , was a British judge and jurist. He served in the highest judicial offices of the United Kingdom as Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice and as Senior Law Lord before his retirement, when he focused his work as a teacher and lecturer...
, one of the most senior judges in the United Kingdom - Paul M. BinghamPaul M. BinghamPaul Montgomery Bingham is an American molecular biologist and evolutionary biologist, Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Stony Brook University...
is an American molecular biologist and evolutionary theorist - Stephen BinghamStephen BinghamStephen Mitchell Bingham, a legal services and civil rights attorney, was tried and acquitted in 1986 for his alleged role in Black Panther George Jackson's attempted escape fifteen years earlier from San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California, in 1971.-Early life and education:Stephen...
is a progressive activist and legal services attorney in San Francisco - Tyler BinghamTyler BinghamTyler "The Hulk" Bingham is a lieutenant in the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. Bingham, along with three other leaders, including Barry Mills, was prosecuted on racketeering and conspiracy charges for ordering killings and beatings from his cell....
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