Dunham (surname)
Dunham is a surname of Anglo-Saxon origination.
The origins of the name may be in the Britannic place name “de Dinan” (Dinan is a walled town in North West France). Alan, Barron de Dinan of Scotland carried the name to the United Kingdom with the William the Conquer in 1066. Denham is another variation.
In 1630 Deacon John Dunham emigrated from England to the American Continent and became a deputy in the Legislative Assembly elected to represent the Plymouth Colony.[1][2]
Variations
Variations in spelling of surname Dunham are found across England, including: in Kent County, Denham; in Devonshire and Nottingham, Douham; in Norfolk, Downham; and in Dorsetshire, Dynham.[3]
List of people
Individuals with the surname Dunham include:
- Ann Dunham, Anthropologist and pioneer in the field of microfinance in Southeast Asia for whom the Ann Dunham Soetoro Endowed Fund at the University of Hawaii is named, mother of U.S. President Barack Obama and Maya Soetoro-Ng
- Archie W. Dunham, former President and Chief Executive Officer of Conoco Inc., and Horatio Alger Award recipient
- Cyrus Livingston Dunham, American Civil War Colonel, U.S. Representative from Indiana
- Deacon John Dunham, Prominent early American settler, Deputy in the Legislative Assembly of the Plymouth Colony
- Jason L. Dunham, United States Marine Corps Corporal awarded the Medal of Honor by U.S. President George W. Bush posthumously, for whom the United States Navy destroyer USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109) is named
- Jeff Dunham, American ventriloquist and prop-comedian
- Jeremiah Dunham Botkin, U.S. Representative from Kansas
- Jonathan Singletary Dunham, Member of the New Jersey Provincial Congress, U.S. President Barack Obama’s eighth great-grandfather, and the first of Obama’s ancestors to be born in North America
- Katherine Dunham, American choreographer
- Sir Kingsley Charles Dunham, British geologist
- Lena Dunham, New York-based filmmaker
- Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham and Stanley Armour Dunham, grandparents of U.S. President Barack Obama who helped in raising him as a child in Honolulu, Hawaii
- Mark Wentworth Dunham, known for the introduction and breeding of Percheron horses in America
- Mike Dunham, American ice hockey player
- Ransom W. Dunham, U.S. Representative from Illinois
- William Dunham (mathematician)
- William Riley Dunham, member of the Indiana General Assembly, and great-great-great uncle of President Barack Obama
In fiction
- Olivia Dunham, FBI agent on TV series Fringe
See also
References
- ↑ Ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer (1968). Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England.
- ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles (1995). The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633: Great Migration Study Project (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society.
- ↑ Isaac Watson Dunham (1907). Dunham Genealogy: English and American Branches of the Dunham Family.
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