Dunham (surname)

Dunham (surname)

Dunham is a surname of English origins and may refer to:

  • Ann Dunham, Anthropologist and pioneer in the field of microfinance in Southeast Asia for whom the Ann Dunham Soetoro Endowed Fund at the University of Hawaii is named, mother of U.S. President Barack Obama and Maya Soetoro-Ng
  • Archie W. Dunham, former President and Chief Executive Officer of Conoco Inc., and Horatio Alger Award recipient
  • Cyrus Livingston Dunham, American Civil War Colonel, U.S. Representative from Indiana
  • Deacon John Dunham, Prominent early American settler, Deputy in the Legislative Assembly of the Plymouth Colony
  • Jason L. Dunham, United States Marine Corps Corporal awarded the Medal of Honor by President George W. Bush posthumously, for whom the United States Navy destroyer USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109) is named
  • Jeff Dunham, American ventriloquist and comedian
  • Jeremiah Dunham Botkin, U.S. Representative from Kansas
  • Jonathan Singletary Dunham, Member of the New Jersey Provincial Congress, President Barack Obama’s eighth great-grandfather, and the first of Obama’s ancestors to be born in North America
  • Katherine Dunham, American choreographer
  • Sir Kingsley Charles Dunham, British geologist
  • Lena Dunham, New York-based filmmaker
  • Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham and Stanley Armour Dunham, Grandparents of President Barack Obama who helped in raising him as a youngster in Honolulu, Hawaii
  • Mark Wentworth Dunham, known for the introduction and breeding of Percheron horses in America
  • Mike Dunham, American ice hockey player
  • Ransom W. Dunham, U.S. Representative from Illinois
  • William Riley Dunham, member of the Indiana General Assembly, and great-great-great uncle of President Barack Obama

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