Lista de Personas Famosas con el apellido Rockingham

Charles Watson-Wentworth, II marqués de Rockingham, KG, PC, conocido como el Hon. Charles Watson-Wentworth antes de 1733, el vizconde Higham entre 1733 y 1746, conde de Malton entre 1750 fue un estadista británico Whig más conocido por sus dos mandatos como Primer Ministro de Gran Bretaña.

Lewis Watson, 1st Baron Rockingham was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1624. From 1621 to 1645 when he received his peerage he was known as Sir Lewis Watson, 1st Baronet. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War and as a result was created Baron Rockingham. Watson was the son of Sir Edward Watson of Rockingham Castle and his wife, Anne Digby, daughter of Kenelm Digby of Stoke Dry, Rutland. He was baptised at Rockingham on 14 July 1584. He matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, on 24 May 1590. On 19 August 1608, he was knighted at Grafton. He succeeded to Rockingham Castle, which was leased from the crown, on the death of his father on 4 March 1616 and later acquired the fee of the castle and its lands from the crown.

Lewis Watson, 1st Earl of Rockingham was an English peer and politician.