Backhouse (surname)
Backhouse is a surname, and may refer to:
- Constance Backhouse, CM OOnt FRSC, a Canadian legal scholar and historian, specializing in gender and race discrimination,
- Edmund Backhouse, English banker, J.P., and MP for Darlington; son of Jonathan Backhouse.
- Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet, British would-be oriental scholar and literary forger; son of Jonathan Backhouse.
- Elizabeth Backhouse, Australian novelist, scriptwriter and playwright
- Flower Backhouse, Countess of Clarendon, First Lady of the Bedchamber; daughter of William Backhouse
- James Backhouse, English botanist and Quaker missionary; a first cousin of Jonathan Backhouse
- James Backhouse , botanist, archaeologist, and geologist; son of James Backhouse
- Sir John Backhouse, English landowner and royalist; son of Samuel Backhouse
- Jonathan Backhouse, banker
- Jonathan Backhouse, British baronet and banker; son of Edmund Backhouse
- Robert Backhouse, well-known horticulturist and British archer in the 1908 Olympics; great-nephew of Jonathan Backhouse.
- Roger Backhouse, British admiral of the Royal Navy, First Sea Lord 1939; son of Jonathan Backhouse
- Roger Backhouse, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics at the University of Birmingham
- Samuel Backhouse, English merchant and politician
- Tony Backhouse, New Zealand musician
- William Backhouse, English alchemist and teacher of Elias Ashmole; son of Samuel Backhouse
- William Ormston Backhouse, English agriculturalist and geneticist. Son of Robert Backhouse.
