Bascom

Bascom, Bascomb, or Bascome may refer to:

Programming Language

• BASCOM, a BASIC compiler by MCS Electronics, Holland, with a similar source language to MBASIC

Places and sites

United States

• Bascom, Florida
• Bascom, Ohio
• Bascom Hill, University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Bascom Maple Farms, Inc., Alstead, New Hampshire
• Bascom (VTA), LRT station in San Jose, California
• Fort Bascom, New Mexico

Extraterrestrial

• 6084 Bascom, discovered in 1985, a minor planet named for the American geologist Florence Bascom

Surname

Bascom

• Bernadette Bascom, American R&B singer, actress
• Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995), artist, inventor, rodeo cowboy, Canadian Rodeo Hall of Fame, Father of Modern Rodeo, Mormon Bishop
• Florence Bascom (1862–1945), geologist
• George Nicholas Bascom (1837-1862), U.S. army officer who arrested Apache Chief Cochise which started the Apache Wars, American Civil War officer
• Henry Bidleman Bascom (1796–1850), religious leader, circuit rider, Congressional Chaplain, college president, author, Methodist Bishop
• John Bascom (1827–1911), educator, author, President of the University of Wisconsin
• John L. Bascom, American politician, Iowa lawyer and state legislator
• Kerry Bascom, basketball high school All-American, Connecticut Women's Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, World University Games gold medal winner (1991), played professionally in Spain and France.
• Oliver Bascom (1815–1869), New York businessman, politician and Erie Canal Commissioner
• Marion C Bascom, Reverend, civil-rights activist, museum board member
• Ruth Bascom (1926-2010), American politician, mayor of Eugene, Oregon
• William Bascom (1912–1981), folklorist, anthropologist, ethnologist, museum director

Bascomb

• Dud Bascomb, jazz trumpeter
• Paul Bascomb, jazz saxophonist
• Wilbur "Bad" Bascomb, jazz musician

Bascome

• David Bascome, professional soccer player
• Oronde Bascome, Bermuda cricketer

Given name

• Bascom S. Deaver
• Bascom Giles
• B. R. Lakin (Bascom Ray Lakin, 1901–1984), American evangelical preacher
• Bascom Lamar Lunsford (1882–1973), lawyer, folklorist, musician, author of song "Good Old Mountain Dew"
• C. Bascom Slemp (1870–1943), Virginia congressman, secretary to President Calvin Coolidge
• John Bascom Wolfe, (1904-1988)

Historical events

• Bascom Affair, triggered the beginning of the Apache Wars in 1861