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
• Alistair Hinton (born 1950), Scottish composer
• Berry Hinton (1910–2000), college baseball coach
• Carma Hinton, Chinese documentary film-maker, daughter of William Hinton (see below)
• Charles H. Hinton, son-in-law of George Boole, author of An Episode of Flatland, coined the word tesseract
• Christopher Hinton (disambiguation), multiple people
• Craig Hinton, a British writer, whose work includes several Doctor Who novels
• Ed Hinton (sportswriter) (born 1948), a motor racing sportswriter
• Ed Hinton (actor) (1919–1958), American actor
• Eddie Hinton (1944–1995), a US songwriter and session musician
• Geoffrey Hinton, a British computer scientist
• Gerry E. Hinton (1930–2000), a Louisiana state senator and pioneer of the chiropractic profession
• Howard Hinton (1912–1977), a British entomologist and Fellow of the Royal Society
• James Hinton (1822–1875), an English surgeon and author
• Joan Hinton, a US nuclear physicist who has lived in China for many years
• Joe Hinton, soul singer
• John Hinton (disambiguation), multiple people
• J. M. Hinton, also known as "Michael Hinton", Oxford philosopher, first modern proponent of disjunctive view of perception
• Joseph Hinton (died 1884), after whom the community of Hintonburg, Ontario, is named
• Joseph Hinton (composer) (1862–after 1909), British composer and organist
• Leanne Hinton, an American linguist
• Marcus Hinton, American football player
• Martin Hinton (1883–1961), English zoologist
• Milt Hinton (1910–2000), jazz double bassist
• S. E. Hinton (born 1948), an American author of young adult novels
• Tracey Hinton, Welsh athlete
• William A. Hinton (politician), an American politician
• William H. Hinton (1919–2004), an 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