Samuel Bingham (1845 – 16 June 1905) was the Mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada between 1897 and 1898.

[1] He was born in Bytown's Lower Town to Irish Catholic parents in 1845.

As a young man, he worked on the log drives on the Gatineau River.

Bingham believed that English speaking citizens of Ottawa should learn French.

In 1893, an attempt to rename the Cummings Bridge over the Rideau River after the former mayor was thwarted by residents of Sandy Hill.