William Cuningham, also known asKenningham, was a 16th-century English physician,astrologer, andengraver. He practised atNorwich around 1559. Cunningham published his workThe Cosmographical Glasse that year. It contains manywoodcuts and an aerial view map of Norwich.

On 15 May 1551, Cuningham was admitted toCorpus Christi College, Cambridge. In 1557 he received his MB at Cambridge, then studied medicine for seven years. Cuningham also studied at theUniversity of Heidelberg. It is supposed that he was received his MD at Heidelberg about 1559, at which period he changed his name from Keningham to Cuningham.

Cuningham built a reputation as a physician in London, he was also noted for his skill in I astrology. In 1563, he was appointed public lecturer atSurgeons' Hall.

Cuningham's death date is unknown.

• 1558:A New Almanacke and Prognostication (new edition 1565)^[1]
• 1559:The Cosmographical Glasse, conteinyng the Pleasant Principles of Cosmographie, Geographie, Hydrographie or Navigation
• 1560:An Invective Epistle in Defense of Astrologers

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•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Bryan, Michael (1886)."Cuningham, William". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.).Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
• 1888:Dictionary of National Biography, Vol XIII This article incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain.

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