Popham

For the town in England, see Popham, Hampshire.

Popham is a surname.

As a surname Popham may refer to:

• Alexander Popham, (c. 1595-1669), MP in the Long Parliament
• Alix Popham, (born 1979) Welsh rugby union player
• Arthur E. Popham, (1889-1970), British art historian
• Edward Popham, (1610-1651) General-at-Sea during the English Civil War on the Parliamentarian side
• Edward William Leybourne Popham, of Littlecote House, High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1830
• Francis Popham, of Littlecote House, High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1612
• Francis Popham, of Littlecote House, died Hunstrete House in 1779
• Francis Leybourne Popham, of Littlecote House, High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1853
• George Popham (1550-1608), a pioneering colonist in Maine, U.S.A., born in Somerset, England.
• Home Riggs Popham (1762–1820), British naval officer; inventor of a numeric code for signal flags
• John Popham (military commander), under Henry V, speaker of the House of Commons under Henry VI
• John Popham (Lord Chief Justice) (c. 1531–1607), Speaker of the House of Commons and Lord Chief Justice of England
• Lana Popham, (born 1968) Canadian politician in the 39th Parliament of British Columbia
• Mervyn Reddaway Popham, (1927–2000), British archaeologist and prehistorian (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)
• Sir Stephen Popham Kt., High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1434-1435
• Thurstan de Popham, High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1150
• Robert Brooke-Popham, British Air Chief Marshal

Also

• The Popham Colony, a short-lived English colonial settlement in North America.
• HMS Popham, one of 93 ships of the Ham-class of inshore minesweepers.
• Fort Popham, a coastal defense land battery at the mouth of the Kennebec River in Phippsburg, Maine, U.S.A.