Hawes (surname)

Hawes is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Arts and Entertainment

• Hampton Hawes (1928–1977), African American jazz pianist
• James Hawes, the director and producer
• John Hawes (1876–1956), architect and priest
• Keeley Hawes (b. 1976), English actress
• Patrick Hawes (b. 1958), British composer
• Stanley Hawes (1905–1991), British documentary film producer and director
• William Hawes (1785–1846), English musician

Authors

• Charles Boardman Hawes (1889–1923), American writer
• Gilbert Ray Hawes (1854–1923), American lawyer, academic, and writer
• James Hawes (b. 1960), British novelist
• Louise Hawes, American academic and author
• Mary Jane Holmes (1825–1907), American novelist
• Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune (1830–1922), wrote under the penname Marion Harland
• Peter Hawes (1947–2018), New Zealand playwright, novelist, and scriptwriter
• Stephen Hawes ( – 1523), English poet during the Tudor period

Military

• James Morrison Hawes (1824–1889), 19th century brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
• Richard E. Hawes (1894–1968), 20th century United States naval officer

Politicians

• Albert Gallatin Hawes, 19th-century U.S. Representative from Kentucky
• Aylett Hawes, 19th-century American politician and planter from Virginia
• Aylett Hawes Buckner, 19th-century U.S. Representative from Missouri
• Sir Benjamin Hawes, 19th-century British Whig politician, known in UK parliament as "Hawes the Soap-Boiler"
• Harry Bartow Hawes, 20th-century Democratic member of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate from Missouri
• Richard Hawes, 19th-century United States Representative from Kentucky and second Confederate Governor of Kentucky
• William Hawes (1772 - after 1850), business owner and member of the Maine House of Representatives

Sportspeople

• Ben Hawes (born 1980), English field hockey player
• Emma Jean Hawes (1912–1987), American bridge player
• Jackson Hawes (born 2000), American football player
• Matthew Hawes (born 1986), Canadian backstroke swimmer
• Spencer Hawes (born 1988), American basketball player
• Steven Sherburne Hawes (born 1950), American basketball player

Other people

• Harriet Boyd Hawes (1871–1945), pioneering American archaeologist, nurse and relief worker
• Jason Hawes (b. 1971), co-founder of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS), based in Warwick, Rhode Island
• Rodney A. Hawes Jr. (b. 1939), American business executive and philanthropist.