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Bascom (name)

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Bascom is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:

  • Bernadette Bascom (born 1962), American R&B singer, actress
  • Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995), American-Canadian artist, inventor, rodeo cowboy, Mormon Bishop
  • Elva Bascom (1870–1944), librarian, school teacher, editor for the American Library Association
  • Emma Curtiss Bascom (1828–1916), American educator, suffragist and reformer
  • Florence Bascom (1862–1945), American geologist
  • George Nicholas Bascom (1837–1862), U.S. Army officer who arrested Chief Cochise, igniting the Apache Wars
  • Henry Bidleman Bascom (1796–1850), American religious leader, Congressional Chaplain, Methodist Bishop
  • Jeremy Bascom (born 1981), Guyanese sprinter
  • John Bascom (1827–1911), American educator, author, President of the University of Wisconsin
  • John L. Bascom (1860–1950), American lawyer, Iowa state legislator
  • John U. Bascom (1925–2013), American surgeon and researcher
  • Julia Bascom, American autism rights activist
  • Kerry Bascom (born c. 1968), American retired professional women's basketball player
  • Marion C. Bascom (1925–2012), American religious leader, civil-rights activist
  • Oliver Bascom (1815–1869), American businessman, Erie Canal Commissioner
  • Rose Bascom (1922–1993), Native American Hollywood actress, rodeo performer, hall of fame inductee
  • Rose Flanders Bascom (1880–1915), America's first female lion tamer
  • Ruth Bascom (1926–2010), American politician, mayor of Eugene, Oregon
  • Ruth Henshaw Bascom (1772–1848), American folk artist
  • Willard Bascom (1916–2000), American engineer, oceanographer, underwater archaeologist
  • William Bascom (1912–1981), American anthropologist, folklorist, ethnologist

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