Pelham (name)
Pelham is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Surname
; British aristocratic Whig politicians- Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham, father of two British Prime Ministers:
- * Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
- * Henry Pelham
;Other people :
- Charles Pelham (congressman), U.S. Representative from Alabama
- Francis Pelham, 5th Earl of Chichester, British nobleman and amateur cricketer
- Frederick Thomas Pelham, Royal Navy officer and Second Naval Lord
- George F. Pelham, American architect
- Henry Francis Pelham, English scholar and historian
- John Pelham (bishop), Bishop of Norwich in 1857–1893
- John Pelham (officer), Confederate artillery officer during the American Civil War
- Moses Pelham, German rapper and musician
- Peregrine Pelham, British Member of Parliament
- Richard Pelham, American blackface performer
- Thomas Pelham (disambiguation), various people
- William Pelham (Medal of Honor), American Union Navy sailor, recipient of Medal of Honor
- Bertie Pelham, a character on the television drama Downton Abbey and its film adaptation
First name
- Pelham Horton Box, British historian
- Pelham Humfrey, English Baroque composer
- Sir Pelham Warner, English test cricketer
- P. G. von Donop, English footballer, soldier and railway inspector, godfather to P. G. Wodehouse
- P. G. Wodehouse, English author, lyricist, playwright