Babbage (surname)

Babbage is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Benjamin Herschel Babbage (1815–1878), Australian engineer
• Bob Babbage (b. 1951), American politician
• Charles Babbage (1791–1871), English mathematician, mechanical engineer, and pioneering computer scientist
• Charles Whitmore Babbage (1842–1923), Australian embezzler and prominent citizen of Wanganui, New Zealand
• Dennis Babbage (1909–1991), English mathematician
• Dugald Bromhead Babbage (1823–1881), Australian surveyor
• Eden Herschel Babbage (1844?–1924), prominent citizen of Roseville, New South Wales, Australia
• Frank Babbage (1858–1916), English animal painter and wood-engraver
• Herbert Ivan Babbage (1875–1916), New Zealand artist
• Ross Babbage (b. 1949), defense analyst
• Stuart Babbage (1916–2012), Anglican priest