Hudson (surname)
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Hudson is an English
surname. Notable persons with that surname include:
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
surname. Notable persons with that surname include:
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- Andrew HudsonAndrew HudsonAndrew Charles Hudson was a South African Test and ODI cricketer. The right-handed batsman played 35 Tests and 89 One Day Internationals for South Africa in the 1990s. His career spanned 16 consecutive summers, playing for both his country and his province KwaZulu-Natal...
, South African test cricketer - Austin Hudson, 1st Baronet (1897–1956), British Conservative politician
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- Ben HudsonBen HudsonBen Hudson is an Australian rules footballer who played 143 games for the Adelaide Crows and Western Bulldogs and currently plays for the Brisbane Lions.-Early life:...
, Australian AFL player - Bill Hudson (photographer)Bill Hudson (photographer)Bill Hudson was an American photojournalist for the Associated Press who was best known for his photographs taken in the Southern United States during the civil rights era...
(born 1932), American photojournalist - Bill Hudson (singer) (born 1949), American musician, on of the Hudson Brothers
- Brett HudsonBrett HudsonBrett Hudson musician, singer/songwriter, possibly best known as the youngest of the 1970s group the Hudson Brothers, is now a TV producer and writer living in Malibu, California. Hudson formed the production company Frozen Pictures with Burt Kearns...
(born 1953), American musician, singer, and songwriter, one of the Hudson Brothers
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- Dave HudsonDave HudsonDavid Richard "Huddy" Hudson is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 409 games in the National Hockey League in the 1970s. In his career he scored 59 goals 124 assists and 183 points. He played for the New York Islanders, Kansas City Scouts, and Colorado Rockies.- External links :...
(born 1974), American artist, musician, boxer and wrestler, - David Hudson (musician)
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- Fernando Tobias de CarvalhoFernando Tobias de CarvalhoFernando Tobias de Carvalho known as Hudson is a Brazilian football player currently playing for SK Dynamo České Budějovice.-External links:...
, another Brazilian footballer commonly known as Hudson - Francisco HudsonFrancisco Hudsonthumb|right|250px|Map showing in yellow the main route used to reach [[Punta Arenas]] by sea from [[Ancud]], and in orange Hudson's proposed route. The red dot shows the 20 km wide [[Ofqui Isthmus]] the only obstacle that makes this route intransitable....
(1826–1859), Chilean navy officer and hydrographer
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- Garth HudsonGarth HudsonEric Garth Hudson is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist. As the organist, keyboardist and saxophonist for Canadian-American rock group The Band, he was a principal architect of the group's unique sound...
(born 1937), Canadian musician - George HudsonGeorge HudsonGeorge Hudson , English railway financier, known as "The Railway King", was born, the fifth son of a farmer, in Howsham, in the parish of Scrayingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire, north of Stamford Bridge, east of York. He is buried in Scrayingham...
(1800–1871), English railway financier - George Vernon HudsonGeorge Vernon HudsonGeorge Vernon Hudson was an English-born New Zealand entomologist and astronomer.Born in London, Hudson was the sixth child of Charles Hudson, an artist and stained-glass window designer. By the age of 14 he had built up a collection of British insects, and had published a paper in The Entomologist...
(1867–1946), New Zealand entomologist - Grant M. HudsonGrant M. HudsonGrant Martin Hudson was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Hudson was born in Eaton Township, Lorain County, Ohio. He attended the common schools and graduated from Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan. He also attended the University of Chicago...
(1868–1955), U.S. Representative from Michigan
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- Henry HudsonHenry HudsonHenry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a prospective Northeast Passage to Cathay via a route above the Arctic Circle...
(d. 1611), English sea explorer and navigator - Hosea HudsonHosea HudsonHosea Hudson was an African American labor leader in the Southern United States.Hudson was born in Wilkes County, Georgia...
(1898–1988), African-American labor leader and civil rights activist - Hudson Luis Silva de Souza, a Brazilian footballer commonly known as Hudson
- Hudson TaylorHudson TaylorJames Hudson Taylor , was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China, and founder of the China Inland Mission . Taylor spent 51 years in China...
missionary to China - Hugh HudsonHugh HudsonHugh Hudson is an English film director. His best-known international success is the 1981 multiple Academy Award-winning film, Chariots of Fire.- Early life :...
(born 1937), English film director
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- James Hudson (rugby union) (born 1981), English rugby union footballer
- Jeffrey HudsonJeffrey HudsonJeffrey Hudson was an English court dwarf at the court of Queen Henrietta Maria. He was famous as the "Queen's dwarf" and "Lord Minimus", and was considered one of the "wonders of the age" because of his extreme but well-proportioned smallness...
(1619–1682), English dwarf in the court of Queen Henrietta Maria of England - Jennifer HudsonJennifer HudsonJennifer Kate Hudson is an American recording artist, actress and spokesperson. She came to prominence in 2004 as one of the finalists on the third season of American Idol coming in seventh place...
(born 1981), American singer - Joe HudsonJoe HudsonJoseph Paul Hudson is a former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from through for the Boston Red Sox and Milwaukee Brewers . Listed at 6' 1", 175 lb., Hudson batted and threw right-handed...
(born 1970), American baseball player - John Hudson (classicist) (1662–1719), English classical scholar
- Joseph Lowthian HudsonJoseph Lowthian HudsonJoseph Lowthian Hudson , aka J. L. Hudson, was the merchant who founded the Hudson's department store in Detroit, Michigan....
(1846–1912), aka J. L. Hudson, department store magnate and financier of the Hudson Motor Car Company
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- Karl Hudson-PhillipsKarl Hudson-PhillipsKarl Terrence Hudson-Phillips, ORTT, QC is a former Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago and a former judge of the International Criminal Court...
(born 1933), Trinidadian lawyer, judge of the International Criminal Court - Kate HudsonKate HudsonKate Garry Hudson is an American actress. She came to prominence in 2001 after winning a Golden Globe and receiving several nominations, including a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in Almost Famous. She then starred in the hit film How to Lose a Guy in 10...
(born 1979), American actress - Kirk HudsonKirk HudsonKirk Hudson is an English footballer currently playing for Brentford.- Youth football :Hudson played schoolboy and youth football at Ipswich Town before moving north of the border to join Celtic where he was a regular scorer as the Celtic youth team completed the Under-19 League and SFA Youth Cup...
(born 1986), English footballer
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- Mark Hudson (footballer born 1980), English footballer currently with Rotherham United
- Mark Hudson (footballer born 1982)Mark Hudson (footballer born 1982)Mark Alexander Hudson is an English footballer who is the current club captain of Football League Championship side Cardiff City. He plays as a centre half.-Career:...
, English footballer currently with Cardiff City - Mark Hudson (musician) (born 1951), American record producer, musician, and songwriter, one of the Hudson Brothers
- Murray Ken HudsonMurray Ken HudsonMurray Ken Hudson GC , was a Sergeant with the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment who lost his life when trying to protect soldiers under his command at Waiouru Military Camp in New Zealand...
(1938–1974), New Zealand soldier awarded the George Cross
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- Oliver HudsonOliver HudsonOliver Rutledge Hudson is an American actor. He is the son of Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson, and brother of Kate Hudson...
(born 1976), American actor - Orlando HudsonOrlando HudsonOrlando Thill Hudson is an American professional baseball second baseman with the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball.-Early life and high school career:...
, a current baseball player who used to be with the Minnesota Twins
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- Paul Hudson (Australian rules footballer)Paul Hudson (Australian rules footballer)Paul Hudson is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn, the Western Bulldogs and Richmond.-Playing career:...
(born 1970), Australian Rules Football player - Peter HudsonPeter HudsonPeter John Hudson AM is a former Australian Rules Football player, considered one of the greatest full-forwards in the game's history....
(born 1946), Australian Rules football player
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- Ray HudsonRay HudsonRay Hudson , is a retired professional football player and former coach who currently works as an English-language football commentator on Gol TV.-Career:...
(born 1955), English former football player and coach - Robert George Spencer HudsonRobert George Spencer HudsonRobert George Spencer Hudson was an English Geologist and Paleontologist. He was born in Rugby, Warwickshire, the eldest son of Robert Spencer Hudson....
, geologist and paleontologist - Robert H. HudsonRobert H. HudsonRobert Hudson is an American artist who was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and grew up in Richland, Washington. He received a B.F.A in 1961 and an M.F.A. in 1963, both from the San Francisco Art Institute....
(born 1938), an American artist - Robert Hudson (broadcaster)Robert Hudson (broadcaster)Robert Cecil Hudson was a broadcaster and administrator for the BBC, primarily on radio but also on television, between 1947 and 1981. He commentated on cricket and rugby union, as well as on many state occasions. He also covered a number of royal tours abroad...
, British broadcaster on cricket, rugby and state occasions - Robert Hudson, 1st Viscount HudsonRobert Hudson, 1st Viscount HudsonRobert Spear Hudson, 1st Viscount Hudson CH PC was a British Conservative Party politician who held a number of ministerial posts during the Second World War....
, UK politician - Robert Spear HudsonRobert Spear HudsonRobert Spear Hudson was an English businessman who popularised dry soap powder.-Early days:He was born in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, the third son and fourth child of John and Sarah Hudson. His father was minister at Mares Green Congregational Chapel in West Bromwich...
died 1884, popularized dry soap powder - Robert William HudsonRobert William HudsonRobert William Hudson was born in West Bromwich, the eldest son of Robert Spear Hudson who had founded a soap-flake manufacturing business. Hudson managed his father's company until it was taken over by Lever Brothers Ltd in 1908....
, (1856–1937), his son, soap manufacturer - Robin E. HudsonRobin E. HudsonRobin E. Hudson is an American jurist, currently serving as an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.Born in DeKalb County, Georgia, after studying philosophy and psychology at Yale University, Hudson earned a law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1976...
(born 1952), American judge, North Carolina Court of Appeals - Rock HudsonRock HudsonRoy Harold Scherer, Jr., later Roy Harold Fitzgerald , known professionally as Rock Hudson, was an American film and television actor, recognized as a romantic leading man during the 1950s and 1960s, most notably in several romantic comedies with Doris Day.Hudson was voted "Star of the Year",...
(1925–1985), American actor
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- Sarah Hudson (singer)Sarah Hudson (singer)Sarah Hudson is an American pop singer-songwriter, and creator of the club-pop music project Ultraviolet Sound. She is the daughter of record producer and 1970s television personality-pop singer Mark Hudson.-Early life:...
(born 1984), American singer-songwriter - Saul Hudson (born 1965), English-American Rock Guitarist. A.K.A Slash.
- Scott HudsonScott HudsonRaymond Scott Hudson is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Washington State University. Hudson was educated at Caltech, where he received his bachelor's degree in engineering and applied science in 1985, his master's degree in electrical engineering in 1986, and his PhD...
(contemporary), American astronomer
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- Thomas Hudson (painter)Thomas Hudson (painter)Thomas Hudson was an English portrait painter in the 18th century. He was born in 1701 in the West Country of the United Kingdom. His exact birthplace is unknown...
(1701–1779), British portrait painter - Thomas Jay Hudson (1834–1903), American lawyer, journalist, and psychic researcher
- Tim HudsonTim HudsonTimothy Adam Hudson is a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the Atlanta Braves. Hudson began his major league career with the Oakland Athletics and played his last two years of college eligibility at Auburn University...
, MLB pitcher - Troy HudsonTroy HudsonTroy Hudson is a former American professional basketball player at the point guard position.-Basketball career:After a college career at the University of Missouri and Southern Illinois University that finished in his junior year,Hudson was not selected in the 1997 NBA draft, and played his first...
, Former NBA player
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- William Henry HudsonWilliam Henry HudsonWilliam Henry Hudson was an author, naturalist, and ornithologist.- Life and work :Hudson was born in the Quilmes, a borough of the greater Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, son of settlers of U.S. origin...
, (1841–1922), Argentine-British author, naturalist, and ornithologist - William Hudson (botanist)William Hudson (botanist)William Hudson FRS was a British botanist and apothecary based in London. His main work was Flora Anglica, published in 1762. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1761.- Life and work :...
(1730–1793), British botanist and apothecary - William L. HudsonWilliam L. HudsonCaptain William Levereth Hudson, USN was a United States Navy officer in the first half of the 19th century.-Career:Hudson was born 11 May 1794 in Brooklyn...
(1794–1862), United States Navy officer in the 19th century - William Parker HudsonWilliam Parker HudsonWilliam Parker Hudson was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Hastings East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1883 to 1894 as a Conservative member....
(1841–1894), a Canadian businessman and politician