Hinton (name)
Hinton is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:Surname
- Alan Hinton, British soccer player, coach, and broadcaster
- Algia Mae Hinton, American singer
- Alistair Hinton, Scottish composer
- Amir Hinton, American basketball player
- Berry Hinton, college baseball coach
- Carma Hinton, Chinese documentary filmmaker, daughter of William Hinton
- Charles Howard Hinton, son-in-law of George Boole, author of An Episode of Flatland, coiner of the word "tesseract"
- Christopher Hinton, multiple people
- Craig Hinton, British writer who authored several Doctor Who novels
- Deane R. Hinton, American diplomat
- Denis Hinton, Australian politician
- Ed Hinton , motor racing sportswriter
- Ed Hinton , American actor
- Eddie Hinton, American songwriter and session musician
- Eddie Hinton , American football player
- Geoffrey Hinton, a British computer scientist
- Gerry E. Hinton, Louisiana state senator and pioneer of the chiropractic profession
- Howard Hinton , Australian art patron and benefactor
- Howard Hinton, British entomologist
- Jack Hinton, New Zealand soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
- James Hinton, several people, including:
- *James Hinton , English surgeon and author
- Joan Hinton, American nuclear physicist who lived in China after 1949
- Joe Hinton, soul singer
- John Hinton, multiple people
- J. M. Hinton, also known as "Michael Hinton", Oxford philosopher, first modern proponent of disjunctive view of perception
- Joseph Hinton, after whom the community of Hintonburg, Ontario, is named
- Joseph Hinton , British composer and organist
- Kyle Hinton, American football player
- Leanne Hinton, American linguist
- Marcus Hinton, American football player
- Martin Hinton, English zoologist
- Martin Hinton, Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
- Milt Hinton, jazz double bassist
- Paula Hinton, English ballet dancer
- Primrose Rupp Hinton, American journalist
- S. E. Hinton, American author of young adult novels
- Tracey Hinton, Welsh athlete
- William A. Hinton, American politician
- William Augustus Hinton, bacteriologist and first African American professor at Harvard
- William H. Hinton, American Marxist who chronicled the Chinese Revolution, most notably in his work Fanshen
Given name
- Hinton Battle, American actor, dancer, and dance teacher
- Hinton James, one-term US congressman
- Hinton Rowan Helper, US writer
