Wyndham



Gender:
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

Meanings

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.

Famous People: 57 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
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