Putnam (surname)
Putnam or Puttnam is a surname. Notable people with the surnames include:
- Adam Putnam, American politician
- Ann Putnam, Jr., an accuser in the Salem witch trials
- Ashley Putnam, American opera singer
- Brenda Putnam, American sculptor
- Carleton Putnam, American aviator, activist and author
- Charles Flint Putnam, US naval officer, polar explorer
- David Putnam, American World War I air ace
- David Puttnam, British film producer
- Douglas Putnam, American military officer
- Edson A. Putnam, American politician
- Frank W. Putnam, American biologist
- Frederic Ward Putnam, American anthropologist, Harvard University
- George Putnam, American journalist
- George Haven Putnam, American book entrepreneur and publishing-family member
- George Palmer Putnam, American book entrepreneur
- George P. Putnam, American publisher, author, explorer, and publishing-family and aviation-family member
- Harvey Putnam, U.S. Congressman from New York
- Herbert Putnam, American library administrator and publishing-family member
- Hilary Putnam, American philosopher
- Howard Putnam, American travel business manager
- Israel Putnam, American general
- James Putnam, several people
- Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi, American physician
- Michael Putnam, American professional golfer
- Palmer Cosslett Putnam, American wind power pioneer and author, builder of the Smith–Putnam wind turbine
- Phelps Putnam, American poet
- Robert D. Putnam, American political scientist
- Roger Putnam, American politician and industrialist
- Rufus Putnam, American soldier
- Ruth Putnam, several people
- Ruth Anna Putnam, American philosopher
- Seth Putnam, American musician
- Thomas Putnam, landowner and accuser in Salem, Massachusetts, during the Salem witch trials
- Tracy Putnam, medical researcher, co-discoverer of Phenytoin
- William Putnam, several people
