Needham (surname)
Needham is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alicia Adélaide Needham, Irish composer
- Arthur Needham, Washington State pioneer
- Ben Needham, British infant missing since 1991
- Col Needham, co-founder of the Internet Movie Database
- David Needham, English football player
- Elizabeth Needham, English procuress and brothel-keeper of 18th-century London
- Ernest Needham, English football player
- Francis Needham, 3rd Earl of Kilmorey, 3rd Earl of Kilmorey
- Sir Frederick Needham, English physician
- George Needham (teacher), Australian teacher
- Hal Needham, American stuntman
- Henry Beach Needham, American journalist
- Jack Needham, English football player
- James Needham (mycologist), English mycologist
- James George Needham, American entomologist
- Jimmy Needham, American contemporary Christian singer songwriter and musician
- John Needham, British biologist and Roman Catholic priest who believed in the theory of spontaneous generation
- Joseph Needham, British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist
- Joseph Needham (cricketer), English cricketer
- Joseph Needham (politician), English-born Saskatchewan politician, clergyman and public administrator
- Marchamont Needham, English journalist, publisher and political pamphleteer
- Nik Needham, American football player
- Richard Needham, 6th Earl of Kilmorey, British politician
- Richard J. Needham, Canadian newspaper columnist and humorist
- Rodney Needham, British social anthropologist
- Roger Needham, British computer scientist
- Samuel Needham VC, British soldier
- Tom Needham, Irish baseball player
- Tracey Needham, American actress
- Tristan Needham, British mathematician
- Violet Needham, British author