P. G. Wodehouse (Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse) (1881-1975), English comic writer

Pelham, New Hampshire

Pelham (village), New York, within the town of Pelham

Pelham, Ontario

Pelham, Massachusetts

Pelham, Alabama

Pelham (town), New York

Pelham, Georgia

Pelham, North Carolina

Pelham, Birmingham, a suburb within Birmingham

British Whig politicians: Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham (1653-1712) and his sons, both Prime Ministers of Great Britain: Henry Pelham (1694-1754) and his brother Thomas Pelham-Holles (1693-1768)

American artistic family: artist Peter Pelham (c.1695-1751) and his sons: composer Peter Pelham (1721-1805) and artist Henry Pelham (1748/49-1806).

Members of several British aristocratic families: see Earl of Chichester, Earl of Yarborough, Earl of Lincoln

Peregrine Pelham, British Member of Parliament

John Thomas Pelham (1811-1894), Bishop of Norwich in 1857-1893

John Pelham (officer) (1838-1863), Confederate artillery officer during the American Civil War

Richard Pelham (1815-1876), American blackface performer

Charles Pelham (1835-1908), U.S. Representative from Alabama

William R. Pelham (1845/47-1933), American Union Navy sailor, recipient of Medal of Honor

George F. Pelham (1857-1937), American architect

Charles Pelham (1885-1940), lifeboat captain and forester

Pelham Humfrey (1647-1674), English Baroque composer

Pelham Bay, Bronx, in New York City, and a number of places associated with it: see Pelham Bay (disambiguation)

Additionally, The Pelhams is a colloquial name for an area of towns of Westchester County, New York.

Pelham bit, a type of curb bit used while riding horses

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, a novel by Morton Freedgood, and its two film adaptations