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
- Arthur Hinton, English composer
- Carma Hinton, Chinese documentary filmmaker, daughter of William Hinton
- Charles Howard Hinton, British mathematician and science fiction author, coiner of the word "tesseract"
- Christopher Hinton (disambiguation), several people
- Craig Hinton, British writer who authored several Doctor Who novels
- Dan Hinton, Canadian ice hockey player
- Darby Hinton, American actor
- Deane R. Hinton, American diplomat
- Denis Hinton, Australian politician
- Denise Hinton, United States deputy surgeon general
- Ed Hinton (sportswriter), American motor racing sportswriter
- Ed Hinton (actor), American actor
- Eddie Hinton, American songwriter and session musician
- Eddie Hinton (American football), American football player
- Geoffrey Hinton, British-Canadian computer scientist
- Howard Hinton (art patron), Australian art patron and benefactor
- Howard Hinton, British entomologist
- Jack Hinton, New Zealand soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
- James Hinton (disambiguation), several people
- * James Myles Hinton, African American businessperson, civil rights leader
- Joan Hinton, American nuclear physicist who lived in China after 1949
- Joe Hinton, American soul singer
- John Hinton (disambiguation), several people
- J. M. Hinton (philosopher), also known as Michael Hinton, Oxford philosopher, first modern proponent of disjunctive view of perception
- Joseph Hinton (composer), British composer and organist
- Kendall Hinton, American football player
- Kyle Hinton, American football player
- Leanne Hinton, American linguist
- Marcus Hinton, American football player
- Martin Hinton, English zoologist
- Martin Hinton (judge), Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
- Marvin Hinton, English footballer
- Mary Hinton (academic), American academic
- Mary Hilliard Hinton, American anti-suffragist and historian
- Milt Hinton, American jazz double bassist
- Myles Hinton, American football player
- Nate Hinton, American basketball player
- Paula Hinton, English ballet dancer
- Primrose Rupp Hinton, American journalist
- Ronald Hinton, American serial killer
- S. E. Hinton, American author of young adult novels
- Tracey Hinton, Welsh athlete
- William A. Hinton (politician), American politician
- William Augustus Hinton, American bacteriologist, first African American professor at Harvard
- William H. Hinton, American Marxist who chronicled the Chinese Communist Revolution, most notably in his work ''Fanshen''
Given name
- Hinton Battle, American actor, dancer, and dance teacher
- Hinton James, several people
- Hinton Rowan Helper, American anti-slavery writer
- Arthur Hinton Rosenfeld, American physicist