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Origin:
English
57 famous people named Wyndham found on Wikipedia.
61 male in US.
Most recent ranking:
13141-th in year 2004
Best ranking:
3488-th in year 1920
The Wyndham family are descended from Sir John Wyndham (1443–1503) and his wife Margaret (1443–1524) daughter of John Howard, Duke of Norfolk. Succeeding generations have played an important role in English politics, the law, the military and the arts.
Branches of the family are styled variously as Earl of Egremont, Earl of Thomond and Baron Ibracken, Baron Wyndham, Baron Leconfield and Baron Egremont, Wyndham baronets of Trent, Wyndham baronets of Pilsden Court, and Wyndham baronets of Orchard Wyndham:
The senior line of the Wyndham family is today represented by Max Wyndham, Baron Egremont who lives at the family seat of Petworth House in Sussex.
Notable Wyndhams include:
Thomas Wyndham (navigator), (1508–1554), English soldier and sailor.
Sir John Wyndham (1558-1645) of Orchard Wyndham, Somerset, English defence organiser. Son of Florence Wadham, Lady Wyndham (died 1596).
Sir Hugh Wyndham, (1602–1684), English judge
Sir Wadham Wyndham (judge), (1609–1668), English judge
Sir William Wyndham, 1st Baronet, of Orchard Wyndham (c. 1632–1683), English politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for Somerset 1656–1658 and for Taunton 1660–1679.
Sir Edward Wyndham, 2nd Baronet (c. 1667–1695), English politician
Thomas Wyndham, 1st Baron Wyndham, (1681–1745) title in the Peerage of Ireland
Charles William Wyndham (1760–1828), English Member of Parliament (MP) for Midhurst 1790–95, New Shoreham 1795–1802, and Sussex 1807–1812
Sir Charles Wyndham (1638–1706), MP for Southampton (1679–1689 and 1689–1698) and St Ives (1698–1701)
Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet, (1687–1740), English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1713–1714
Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, (1710–1763), British peer
Percy Wyndham-O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond, (c. 1713–1774), MP and Irish peer
Henry Penruddocke Wyndham, (1736–1819), British politician and topographer
Wadham Wyndham (army officer), (1737–1812), English colonel and bon vivant
William Windham, (1750–1810), British Whig statesman
George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751–1837), British peer
Wadham Wyndham (parliamentarian) (1773–1843), MP for Salisbury 1818–1833, 1835–1843
George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield (1787–1869), British peer
Henry Wyndham (1790–1860), MP for West Cumberland 1857–1860
Wadham Wyndham (political supporter) (1793–1849), DL, JP, and political supporter
William Wyndham (1796-1862), MP for South Wiltshire 1852–1859
Charles Wyndham (1796-1866), English Member of Parliament for West Sussex 1841–1847
Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield (1830–1901), British peer
Percy Wyndham (1835–1911), British politician
Sir Hugh Wyndham (1836–1916), British minister to Brazil
George Wyndham (1863–1913), British political figure and writer
Lt Col Guy Wyndham (1865–1941), soldier
Charles Wyndham, 3rd Baron Leconfield (1872–1952), British peer
Dr Sir Harold Wyndham (1903–1988), prominent Australian educator and public servant
John Wyndham, 6th Baron Leconfield (1920–1972), British peer
Max Wyndham, 2nd Baron Egremont (born 1948), British author
Elizabeth Geraldine Wyndham (15 Dec 1922 – 13 May 2008), civil servant and socialite, adopted daughter of Charles Wyndham, 3rd Baron Leconfield. A polyglot, during the Second World War, she worked as a linguist in the British codebreaking department at Bletchley Park.
Winda's water meadow, Wyman's Town; from the windy village.
Popularity | Name | Birth Year | Description |
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1 | Victoria Wyndham | 1945 | American actress |
2 | Alex Wyndham | 1981 | British actor |
3 | Wyndham Halswelle | 1882 | British athlete |
4 | Anne Wyndham | 1951 | American actress |
5 | Wyndham Wise | Canadian film historian, critic and publisher | |
6 | Wyndham Deedes | 1883 | British Army general |
7 | Wyndham Robertson | 1803 | Governor of Virginia |
8 | Wyndham Standing | 1880 | Actor |
9 | Wyndham Lewis | 1780 | British politician |
10 | Dennis Wyndham | 1887 | Actor |
11 | Olivia Wyndham | 1897 | British photographer |
12 | Wyndham Portal, 1st Viscount Portal | 1885 | British noble |
13 | Henry Wyndham | 1790 | British politician |
14 | Wyndham Goldie | 1897 | British actor |
15 | Harold Wyndham | 1903 | Director General of Education in New South Wales |
16 | Percy Wyndham | 1833 | American soldier |
17 | Wyndham Mortimer | 1884 | American labor leader |
18 | Wyndham Evans | 1951 | Welsh footballer |
19 | Thomas Wyndham, 1st Baron Wyndham | 1681 | Lord Chancellor of Ireland |
20 | Guy Wyndham | 1865 | British diplomat |
21 | Henry Penruddocke Wyndham | 1736 | British politician |
22 | Wyndham Childs | 1876 | British Army general |
23 | Wyndham Hazelton | 1894 | Cricketer |
24 | Edmund Wyndham | 1600 | English politician who fought for the Royalist army in the English Civil War |
25 | Wyndham Gittens | 1885 | Screenwriter |
26 | Charles William Wyndham | 1760 | Politician, died 1828 |
27 | Robert Wyndham | 1814 | British actor and theatre manager |
28 | Wyndham Knatchbull-Hugessen, 3rd Baron Brabourne | 1885 | British Army officer |
29 | Wyndham Davies | 1926 | British politician |
30 | Wyndham Guise | 1859 | British actor |
31 | John Wyndham | English gentry of Somerset | |
32 | Wyndham Hill-Smith | 1909 | Australian cricketer |
33 | William Frederick Wyndham | 1763 | English diplomat |
34 | Percy Charles Wyndham | 1757 | |
35 | Wyndham Knatchbull-Wyndham | 1737 | British politician |
36 | Thomas Wyndham | 1763 | British politician |
37 | Wyndham Emery | 1897 | Welsh rugby league player |
38 | Wyndham Thomas | 1911 | English cricketer |
39 | Wyndham Meredith Manning | 1890 | South Carolina politician |
40 | Wyndham Dunstan | 1861 | British psychiatrist |
41 | Wadham Wyndham | 1773 | British politician (1773-1843) |
42 | Wyndham Harding | 1817 | Civil Engineer |
43 | Wyndham Knatchbull | 1844 | British politician |
44 | Hugh Wyndham | ||
45 | Francis Wyndham | English judge | |
46 | Richard Wyndham | ||
47 | Charles Wyndham | 1796 | British politician |
48 | Wyndham Cook | 1943 | |
49 | George Wyndham | ||
50 | Joan Wyndham | 1911 | |
51 | Elizabeth Wyndham | ||
52 | Percy Charles Hugh Wyndham | 1864 | British diplomat (1864-1944) |
53 | Wyndham D. Miles | 1916 | American historian and chemist |
54 | Blanche Wyndham | 1827 | Daughter of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield |
55 | Wyndham Hayward | 1903 | Botanist (1903-1980) |
56 | Maria Anne Wyndham | 1819 | |
57 | Wyndham Beawes | British diplomat |