Putnam (surname)
Putnam is a surname.
The old colonial American and Puritan Putnam family was founded by John and Priscilla Gould Putnam in the 17th century, in Salem, Massachusetts. Many notable individuals are descendants of this family, including most of those listed below.
- Adam Putnam (born 1974), American politician
- Ann Putnam, Jr. (1679–1716), an accuser in the Salem witch trials
- Ashley Putnam (born 1952), opera singer
- Benjamin A. Putnam (fl. 1810s), American soldier and politician
- Brenda Putnam (1890–1975), sculptor
- Calvin Richard Putnam (??–??), mathematician
- Carleton Putnam (c. 1902 – 1998), aviator, activist and author
- Charles Flint Putnam (1854–1882), US naval officer, polar explorer
- Chris Putnam, former Facebook employee
- Lloyd Putnam, (1975-Present), Actor in adult movies
- David Putnam (1898–1918), WWI air ace
- Edson A. Putnam (1832-1917), American politician
- Frederic Ward Putnam (1839–1915), American anthropologist, Harvard University
- George Putnam (1914–2008), journalist
- George Haven Putnam (1844–1930), book entrepreneur and publishing-family member
- George Palmer Putnam (1814–1872), book entrepreneur
- George P. Putnam (1887–1950), publisher, author, explorer, and publishing-family and aviation-family member
- Harvey Putnam (1793–1855), U.S. Congressman from New York
- Herbert Putnam (1861–1955), American library administrator and publishing-family member
- Hilary Putnam (1926–2016), philosopher
- Howard Putnam, travel business manager
- Israel Putnam (1718–1790), American general
- James Putnam (disambiguation), several people
- Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906), American physician
- Michael Putnam (born 1983), American professional golfer
- Palmer Cosslett Putnam (1900–1984), wind power pioneer and author, builder of the Smith-Putnam wind turbine
- Phelps Putnam, poet and member of the Yale secret society Skull and Bones
- Robert D. Putnam, political scientist
- Roger Putnam (1892–1972), American politician and industrialist
- Rufus Putnam (1738–1824), American soldier
- Seth Putnam, musician
- Thomas Putnam (1651–1699), landowner and accuser in Salem, Massachusetts, during the Salem witch trials
- Tracy Putnam (1894–1975), medical researcher, co-discoverer of Phenytoin
- William LeBaron Putnam (1835–1918), American jurist and politician
- William Lowell Putnam (1861–1923), American jurist and banker
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