Walsingham is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Thomas Walsingham, (died ) an English chronicler Robert Walsingham (shipwright), coxswain of the Sea Venture and shipwright of the Patience Thomas Walsingham (literary patron), a patron of Christopher Marlowe Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham (1843–1919), British politician and amateur entomologist Francis Walsingham, (1532–1590) the spymaster of Queen Elizabeth I of England Robert Walsingham (pirate), 17th-century Anglo-Turkish English pirate Robert Boyle-Walsingham (1736–1780), also known as Robert Walsingham, English politician, MP for Fowey and Knaresborough Any of the Barons Walsingham Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham, an illegitimate daughter of King George I of Great Britain and Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal and Munster Edmund Walsingham ( – 1550), Lieutenant of the Tower of London during the reign of King Henry VIII English toponymic surnames