Newcombe is a British surname of Brythonic origin, "-combe" or "-coombe" being cognate with the Welsh "cwm" meaning valley. People Anton Newcombe (born 1967), American musician Bertha Newcombe (1857–1947), English artist and suffrage activist Bobby Newcombe (born 1979), American football player Charles F. Newcombe (1851–1924), British botanist Don Newcombe (1926–2019), American baseball player Edmund Leslie Newcombe (1859–1931), Canadian lawyer and Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Frederick Charles Newcombe (1858–1927), American botanist Hanna Newcombe (1922–2011), Canadian co-founder of Peace Research Abstracts and Peace Research Reviews John Newcombe (born 1944), Australian tennis player Kim Newcombe (1944–1973), Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from New Zealand Nora Newcombe (born 1951), Canadian-American psychologist S.F. Newcombe (1878–1956), British army officer and surveyor Other Rural Municipality of Newcombe No. 260, Saskatchewan, Canada Operation Newcombe, the British contribution in 2013 to French-led military involvement in Mali See also Newcomb (surname) Newcome, name