Hornblower (surname)
Hornblower is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Jabez Carter Hornblower, pioneer steam engineer
- Joseph Hornblower, steam pioneer who installed Newcomen engines in Cornwall
- Joseph Coerten Hornblower, American lawyer and Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
- Josiah Hornblower, steam pioneer and American politician
- Jonathan Hornblower, Cornish engineer and inventor
- Jonathan Hornblower , steam pioneer, father of Jonathan and Jabez Hornblower
- Lewis Hornblower, Liverpool architect
- Ralph Hornblower III, American lawyer and operatic tenor
- Simon Hornblower, Professor of Classics at University College London
- William B. Hornblower, New York jurist
- Nathanial Hörnblowér, a pseudonym of the musician Adam Yauch
Fictional people include:
- Horatio Hornblower, fictional Napoleonic Wars–era Royal Navy officer, the protagonist of a series of novels and stories by C. S. Forester
