Wyndham (surname)

Wyndham is a surname, and may refer to:

Wyndham family of England

• Sir Thomas Wyndham of Felbrigg (c. 1466 – c. 1522), English sea captain and vice-admiral
• Thomas Wyndham (Royal Navy officer) (1508–1554), English soldier and sailor
• Sir John Wyndham (1558–1645) of Orchard Wyndham, Somerset, English defence organiser; son of Florence Wadham, Lady Wyndham (died 1596)
• Sir Hugh Wyndham (judge) (1602–1684), English judge
• Sir Wadham Wyndham (judge) (1609–1668), English judge
• Sir William Wyndham, 1st Baronet, of Orchard Wyndham (c. 1632–1683), English politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for Somerset 1656–1658 and for Taunton 1660–1679
• Thomas Wyndham (c. 1642–1689) of Witham Friary, Somerset, MP for Wells, Somerset
• Sir Edward Wyndham, 2nd Baronet (c. 1667–1695), English politician
• Thomas Wyndham, 1st Baron Wyndham (1681–1745) title in the Peerage of Ireland
• Charles William Wyndham (1760–1828), English Member of Parliament (MP) for Midhurst 1790–95, New Shoreham 1795–1802, and Sussex 1807–1812
• Sir Charles Wyndham (1638–1706), MP for Southampton (1679–1689 and 1689–1698) and St Ives (1698–1701)
• Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet (1687–1740), English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1713–1714
• Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont (1710–1763), British peer
• Percy Wyndham-O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond (c. 1713–1774), MP and Irish peer
• Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (1736–1819), British politician and topographer
• Wadham Wyndham (army officer) (1737–1812), English colonel and bon vivant
• William Windham (1750–1810), British Whig statesman
• George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751–1837), British peer
• Dr Thomas Wyndham (1772-1862), English clergyman
• Wadham Wyndham (parliamentarian) (1773–1843), MP for Salisbury 1818–1833, 1835–1843
• George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield (1787–1869), British peer
• Henry Wyndham (1790–1860), MP for West Cumberland 1857–1860
• Wadham Wyndham (political supporter) (1793–1849), DL, JP, and political supporter
• William Wyndham (1796–1862), MP for South Wiltshire 1852–1859
• Charles Wyndham (1796–1866), MP for West Sussex 1841–1847
• Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield (1830–1901), British peer
• Percy Wyndham (1835–1911), British politician
• Sir Hugh Wyndham (1836–1916), British diplomat
• Lt-Colonel Alfred Wyndham (1836-1914), British and Canadian army officer, pioneering rancher in Ontario and Alberta, Canada
• George Wyndham (1863–1913), British political figure and writer
• Lt.-Col. Guy Wyndham (1865–1941), soldier
• Charles Wyndham, 3rd Baron Leconfield (1872–1952), British peer
• Dr. Sir Harold Wyndham (1903–1988), Australian educator and public servant
• John Wyndham, 6th Baron Leconfield (1920–1972), British peer
• Francis Wyndham (writer) (1924–2017), British author and journalist, son of Lt Col Guy Wyndham
• Max Wyndham, 2nd Baron Egremont (born 1948), British author

Others with the surname

• Anne Wyndham (born 1951), American television actress
• Charles Wyndham (actor) (1837–1919), English actor (who assumed the name) and founded Wyndham's Theatre in the West End
• Dennis Wyndham (1887–1973), South African-born actor in Britain
• Frederick W. Wyndham (1853–1930), British actor and producer, managing director of Howard & Wyndham theatres in Scotland and England
• John Wyndham, pen name of English author John Wyndham Harris (1903–1969)
• Martyn Wyndham-Read, musician
• Robert Henry Wyndham (1814–1894), British actor-manager, father of Frederick W. Wyndham
• Valerie Wyndham, ring name of American professional wrestling valet Paige Mayo (born 1986)
• Victoria Wyndham (born 1945), Mexican-American actress

See also

• Windham (surname)