Needham (surname)
Needham is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alicia Adélaide Needham, Irish composer
- Ben Needham, British infant missing since 1991
- Col Needham, co-founder of the Internet Movie Database
- David Needham, English football player
- Elizabeth Needham, English procuress and brothel-keeper of 18th-century London
- Ernest Needham, English football player
- Francis Needham, 3rd Earl of Kilmorey, 3rd Earl of Kilmorey
- Sir Frederick Needham, English physician
- George Carter Needham, American writer and namesake of the needham
- Hal Needham, American stuntman
- Henry Needham, British Major-General and staff officer
- Jack Needham, English football player
- James George Needham, American entomologist
- Jimmy Needham, American contemporary Christian singer songwriter and musician
- John Needham, British biologist and Roman Catholic priest who believed in the theory of spontaneous generation
- Joseph Needham, British biochemist and sinologist
- Marchamont Needham, English political pamphleteer
- Nik Needham, American football player
- Richard Needham, 6th Earl of Kilmorey, British politician
- Richard J. Needham, Canadian newspaper columnist and humorist
- Rodney Needham, British social anthropologist
- Roger Needham, British computer scientist
- Samuel Needham VC, British soldier
- T. Needham, English cricketer
- Tom Needham, Irish baseball player
- Tracey Needham, American actress
- Tristan Needham, British mathematician
