Hinton (name)

Hinton is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname

• Alan Hinton (born 1942), British soccer player, coach, and broadcaster
• Algia Mae Hinton (1929–2018), American singer
• Alistair Hinton (born 1950), Scottish composer
• Amir Hinton (born 1997), American basketball player
• Arthur Hinton (1869–1941), English composer
• Carma Hinton, Chinese documentary filmmaker, daughter of William Hinton
• Charles Howard Hinton (1853–1907), British mathematician and science fiction author, coiner of the word "tesseract"
• Christopher Hinton (disambiguation), several people
• Craig Hinton (1964–2006), British writer who authored several Doctor Who novels
• Dan Hinton (1953–1994), Canadian ice hockey player
• Darby Hinton (born 1957), American actor
• Deane R. Hinton (1923–2017), American diplomat
• Denis Hinton (born 1939), Australian politician
• Denise Hinton, United States deputy surgeon general
• Ed Hinton (sportswriter) (born 1948), American motor racing sportswriter
• Ed Hinton (actor) (1919–1958), American actor
• Eddie Hinton (1944–1995), American songwriter and session musician
• Eddie Hinton (American football) (born 1947), American football player
• Geoffrey Hinton (born 1947), British-Canadian computer scientist
• Howard Hinton (art patron) (1867–1948), Australian art patron and benefactor
• Howard Hinton (1912–1977), British entomologist
• Jack Hinton (1909–1997), New Zealand soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
• James Hinton (disambiguation), several people
• James Myles Hinton (1891–1970), African American businessperson, civil rights leader
• Joan Hinton, American nuclear physicist who lived in China after 1949
• Joe Hinton (1929–1968), American soul singer
• John Hinton (disambiguation), several people
• J. M. Hinton (philosopher) (1923–2000), also known as Michael Hinton, Oxford philosopher, first modern proponent of disjunctive view of perception
• Joseph Hinton (composer) (1862 – after 1909), British composer and organist
• Kendall Hinton (born 1997), American football player
• Kyle Hinton (born 1998), American football player
• Leanne Hinton, American linguist
• Marcus Hinton (born 1971), American football player
• Martin Hinton (1883–1961), English zoologist
• Martin Hinton (judge), Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
• Marvin Hinton (1940–2025), English footballer
• Mary Hinton (academic), American academic
• Mary Hilliard Hinton (1869–1961), American anti-suffragist and historian
• Milt Hinton (1910–2000), American jazz double bassist
• Myles Hinton (born 2002), American football player
• Nate Hinton (born 1999), American basketball player
• Paula Hinton (1924–1996), English ballet dancer
• Primrose Rupp Hinton (1889–1969), American journalist
• Ronald Hinton (born 1972), American serial killer
• S. E. Hinton (born 1948), American author of young adult novels
• Tracey Hinton (born 1970), Welsh athlete
• William A. Hinton (politician), American politician
• William Augustus Hinton, American bacteriologist, first African American professor at Harvard
• William H. Hinton (1919–2004), American Marxist who chronicled the Chinese Communist Revolution, most notably in his work Fanshen

Given name

• Hinton Battle (1956–2024), American actor, dancer, and dance teacher
• Hinton James, several people
• Hinton Rowan Helper (1829–1909), American anti-slavery writer
• Arthur Hinton Rosenfeld (1926-2017), American physicist