Pelham

Pelham may refer to:

People

Surname

British Whig politicians

• Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham (1653–1712), father of two British Prime Ministers:
  • Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1693–1768)
  • Henry Pelham (1694–1754)

American artistic family

• Peter Pelham (c.1695-1751), artist
• Peter Pelham (composer) (1721–1805)
• Henry Pelham (engraver) (1748/49-1806)
• William Pelham (bookseller) (1759–1827)

Other people (in alphabetical order)

• Charles Pelham (congressman) (1835–1908), U.S. Representative from Alabama
• Francis Pelham, 5th Earl of Chichester (1844–1905), British nobleman and amateur cricketer
• Frederick Thomas Pelham (1808 – 1861), Royal Navy officer and Second Naval Lord
• George F. Pelham (1857–1937), American architect
• John Pelham (officer) (1838–1863), Confederate artillery officer during the American Civil War
• John Thomas Pelham (1811–1894), Bishop of Norwich in 1857-1893
• Peregrine Pelham, British Member of Parliament
• Richard Pelham (1815–1876), American blackface performer
• Thomas Pelham (disambiguation) – various people
• William Pelham (Medal of Honor recipient) (1845/47-1933), American Union Navy sailor, recipient of Medal of Honor

First name

• Pelham Humfrey (1647–1674), English Baroque composer
• P. G. Wodehouse (Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse) (1881–1975), English comic writer
• Pelham von Donop (1851–1921), English footballer, soldier and railway inspector, godfather to P. G. Wodehouse
• Plum Warner (Sir Pelham Francis Warner), English test cricketer
• P. M. H. Wilson, British mathematician

Places

In Canada

• Pelham, Ontario
• Pelham Range, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia

In South Africa

• Pelham, Pietermaritzburg, a suburb within Pietermaritzburg

In the United Kingdom

• Pelham, Birmingham, a suburb within Birmingham

In the United States

In New York

• The Pelhams, New York, a colloquial name for an area of towns of Westchester County
  • Pelham, New York, a town in Westchester County
    • Pelham Manor, New York, a village within the above town
    • Pelham (village), New York, within the above town
    • North Pelham, New York, former village within the above town, and now neighborhood within Village of Pelham
• Pelham Parkway, Bronx, a neighborhood
• Pelham Gardens, Bronx, a neighborhood
• Pelham Bay (disambiguation)

Elsewhere

• Pelham, Alabama
• Pelham, Georgia
• Pelham, Massachusetts
• Pelham, New Hampshire
• Pelham, North Carolina
• Pelham, Tennessee

Other uses

• Pelham, a novel written in 1828 by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (disambiguation), a novel by Morton Freedgood, and its three film adaptations
• Pelham bit, a type of curb bit used while riding horses
• Pelham Puppets, an English toy-making company
• A type face in the Times Roman family
• Pelham Books, London publisher active at least 1967–1986