Horton (surname)

Horton is an Anglo-Saxon surname, deriving from the common English place-name Horton. It derives from Old English horu 'dirt' and tūn 'settlement, farm, estate', presumably meaning 'farm on muddy soil'.^[1]

List of people surnamed Horton

• Africanus Horton (1835–1883), scientist, soldier, writer and political thinker from Sierra Leone
• Alonzo Horton (1813–1909), American real estate developer
• Benjamin Jason Horton (1873–1963), Puerto Rican politician
• Brian Horton (born 1949), English footballer and football manager
• Charles Horton, American football player
• Claude Wendell Horton, Jr. (born 1942), American physicist
• Claude Wendell Horton, Sr. (1915–2001), American physicist
• Clinton T. Horton (1876–1953), New York politician and judge
• Christiana Horton (c. 1696 – c. 1756), English actress
• Desiree Horton (born 1971), American TV personality
• Dodie Horton, American politician
• Edward Everett Horton (1886–1970), American actor
• Ed Horton (born 1967), former American basketball player
• Frank Horton (disambiguation)
• George Horton (disambiguation)
• Hamilton C. Horton, Jr. (1931–2006), American politician from North Carolina
• Henry Hollis Horton (1866–1934), Governor of Tennessee (1927–33)
• Jacob Horton (died 1989), senior vice-president of Southern Company
• James Horton (disambiguation)
• Jerry Horton (born 1975), American musician
• John Horton (disambiguation)
• Johnny Horton (1925–1960), American country music singer
• Jonathan Horton (born 1985), American gymnast
• Kenneth Horton (disambiguation)
• Les Horton (1921–2008), English professional footballer
• Lester Horton (1906–1953), American dancer
• Lesley Horton, British novelist
• Mark Horton (archaeologist) (born 1956), British maritime archaeologist
• Mark Horton (bridge) (born 1950), British bridge player
• Martin Horton (born 1934), former English cricketer
• Mary Ann Horton (born 1955), American computer scientist
• Max Kennedy Horton (1883–1951), British submarine commander during the First World War, and admiral during the Second
• Michael Horton (disambiguation)
• Mike A. Horton (born 1973), American businessman
• Mildred McAffee Horton (1900–1994), American academic
• Myles Horton (1980–1990), American educator
• Nathan Horton (born 1985), Canadian ice hockey player
• Peter Horton (born 1953), American actor
• Richard Horton (editor), British editor of The Lancet medical journal
• Sir Robert Horton (businessman) (born 1939), British businessman
• Robert E. Horton (1875–1945), American hydrologist
• Robert Horton (actor) (1924–2016), American TV actor
• Robert John Wilmot-Horton, 3rd Baronet (1784–1841), British politician
• Robert Forman Horton (1835–1934), British Nonconformist scholar
• S. Wentworth Horton (1885–1960), New York state senator
• Samuel Dana Horton (1844–1895), American writer
• Scott Horton (disambiguation)
• Shirley Horton (born c. 1953), American politician
• Stanley M. Horton, American theologian
• Stuart Horton (born 1963), rugby league footballer of the 1980s, and '90s, and coach of the 1990s
• Thomas Horton (disambiguation)
• Tim Horton (1930–1974), Canadian ice hockey player and coffee shop chain founder
• Tommy Horton (born 1941), English professional golfer
• Tony Horton (baseball) (born 1944), former American Major League baseball player
• Big Walter Horton (1917–1981), American blues harmonica player
• William Horton (disambiguation)
• Willie Horton (born 1951), convicted felon from South Carolina
• Willie Horton (baseball player) (born 1942), American former Major League baseball player

Fictional characters

• James Horton (Highlander), character from Highlander: The Series
• Sarah Horton, character on the TV show Days of Our Lives

References

1. http://www.houseofnames.com/horton-family-crest; Victor Watts (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), s.v. HORTON.