Hunt (surname)
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Hunt is an occupational surname originating in England
England
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 and Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

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People with the surname Hunt

  • Aaron Hunt
    Aaron Hunt
    Aaron Hunt is a German footballer who plays for Werder Bremen.-Club career:After spending his first season at Werder Bremen in the reserves, in the year the side achieved the double, Hunt made his first division debut on 18 September 2004, as a substitute against Hannover 96...

     (born 1986), German football player
  • Albert Hunt
    Albert Hunt
    Albert Hunt was the inventor of the wigwag, a grade crossing signal used in transportation. Hunt was a mechanical engineer from Southern California. He invented the wigwag in 1909 out of the necessity for a safer railroad grade crossing. Hunt was associated with the Pacific Electric interurban...

    , American engineer, inventor of the wigwag
    Wigwag (railroad)
    Wigwag is the nickname given to a type of railroad grade crossing signal once common in North America, named for the pendulum-like motion it used to signal the approach of a train...

  • Alfred Hunt (steel magnate)
    Alfred Hunt (steel magnate)
    Alfred Hunt was the first president of Bethlehem Iron Company, precursor of Bethlehem Steel Corporation. He was elected president on July 15, 1860 by the board of directors of the fledgling Bethlehem Iron Company...

     (1817-1888), American industrialist, first president of Bethlehem Iron Company
  • Alfred E. Hunt (1855-1899), a founder of the company that became the aluminum company Alcoa
  • Arthur Surridge Hunt, English egyptologist
  • Ben Hunt
    Ben Hunt (baseball)
    Benjamin Franklin Hunt was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals . Listed at 6' 5", 190 lb., Hunt batted and threw left-handed...

     (1888-1927), Major League Baseball player
  • Bonnie Hunt
    Bonnie Hunt
    Bonnie Lynne Hunt is an American actress, comedian, writer, director, television producer and daytime television host.- Early life :...

     (born 1964), American writer and actress
  • Charles Cooke Hunt
    Charles Cooke Hunt
    Charles Cooke Hunt was an explorer who led four expeditions into the interior of Western Australia between 1864 and 1866. He died in Geraldton....

     Australian explorer
  • Chris Hunt
    Chris Hunt
    Chris Hunt is a magazine editor, journalist and author. He has worked in journalism for over twenty years, most often writing about football or rock music. He was managing editor of Match from 1993 to 2001, a period that saw the weekly title become Britain's biggest selling football magazine...

     Journalist and author
  • Chris Hunt
    Chris Hunt (badminton)
    -Career:Hunt won the gold medal at the European Badminton Championships in men's doubles with Simon Archer in 1994 and 1998. In 1996 they won the bronze medal....

     English badminton player
  • David Hunt
    David Hunt (disambiguation)
    David Hunt or Dave Hunt may refer to:* David Hunt , British actor* David Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral , British Conservative politician* David Hunt , English botanist and taxonomist...

     or Dave Hunt, any of various people
  • E. Howard Hunt
    E. Howard Hunt
    Everette Howard Hunt, Jr. was an American intelligence officer and writer. Hunt served for many years as a CIA officer. Hunt, with G...

     (1918-2007), Watergate figure and author of spy novels
  • Ernie Hunt
    Ernie Hunt
    Roger Patrick "Ernie" Hunt is an English former footballer who played in the Football League for Swindon Town, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Everton, Coventry City, Doncaster Rovers and Bristol City, and for the Los Angeles Wolves in the United Soccer Association. At international level, he was capped...

     (born 1943), English footballer whose clubs included Swindon Town and Coventry City
  • Esther Hunt
    Esther Hunt
    Esther Hunt was a pioneer who lived on America's frontier as a wife, a mother and a leader in her Quaker faith.-Early life at Moorestown:...

     (1751-1820), a pioneer who lived on America's frontier as a wife, a mother and a leader in her Quaker faith.
  • Francesca Hunt
    Francesca Hunt
    Francesca Hunt is a British actress. She has starred in two television drama series for the BBC, Roughnecks and Strathblair, as well as the sitcom A Prince Among Men and several one-off dramas including Over Here. In between TV appearances, she has also managed to play some of Britain's most...

     (born c. 1964), British actress
  • Frank W. Hunt
    Frank W. Hunt
    Frank Williams Hunt was the fifth Governor of Idaho from 1901 until 1903....

     (1871-1906), former Governor of Idaho
  • Gareth Hunt
    Gareth Hunt
    Alan Leonard Hunt was an English actor, known as Gareth Hunt, best remembered for playing the footman Frederick Norton in Upstairs, Downstairs and Mike Gambit in The New Avengers.-Early life:...

     (1942-2007), British actor
  • George W. P. Hunt (1859-1934), first Governor of the State of Arizona
  • George Ward Hunt
    George Ward Hunt
    George Ward Hunt was a British Conservative Party politician and statesman, Chancellor of the Exchequer and First Lord of the Admiralty in 1st and 2nd ministries of Benjamin Disraeli.-Background:...

     (1825-1877), British politician
  • Greg Hunt
    Greg Hunt
    Gregory Andrew Hunt , an Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since November 2001, representing the Division of Flinders, Victoria....

     (born 1965), Australian politician
  • Henry George Bonavia Hunt
    Henry George Bonavia Hunt
    The Rev'd Henry George Bonavia Hunt was the founder of the Trinity College of Music in London, one of the London conservatoires of music and an International Examining Institutions....

     1847-1917, founder of the Trinity College of Music, London
  • H. Guy Hunt
    H. Guy Hunt
    Harold Guy Hunt was an American politician who served as the 49th Governor of Alabama from 1987 to 1993. He was the first Republican to serve as governor of the state since Reconstruction.- Early life :...

     (born 1933), Baptist preacher and former Governor of Alabama
  • H. L. Hunt
    H. L. Hunt
    Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, Jr. , known throughout his life as "H. L. Hunt," was a Texas oil tycoon and conservative activist. He built one of the world's largest fortunes by trading poker winnings for oil rights, ultimately securing title to much of the East Texas Oil Field, one of the world's very...

     (1889-1974), American oil tycoon and patriarch of a prominent family of American businessmen:
    • Nelson Bunker Hunt
      Nelson Bunker Hunt
      Nelson Bunker Hunt is an American oil company executive. He is best known as a former billionaire whose fortune collapsed after he and his brother William Herbert Hunt tried but failed to corner the world market in silver. He is also a successful thoroughbred horse breeder.-Personal:Hunt was born...

       (born 1926), son of H. L., financier who cornered the world silver market in 1980
    • Lamar Hunt
      Lamar Hunt
      Lamar Hunt was an American sportsman and promoter of American football, soccer, basketball, and ice hockey in the United States and an inductee into three sports' halls of fame. He was one of the founders of the American Football League and Major League Soccer , as well as MLS predecessor the...

       (1932-2006), son of H. L., sports executive
      • Clark Hunt
        Clark Hunt
        Clark Knobel Hunt is Chairman and CEO of the National Football League's Kansas City Chiefs and a founding investor-owner in Major League Soccer. Hunt also serves as Chairman of Hunt Sports Group, where he oversees the operations of FC Dallas and the Columbus Crew of MLS He is the son of Lamar Hunt...

         (born 1965), son of Lamar, sports executive
  • Helen Hunt
    Helen Hunt
    Helen Elizabeth Hunt is an American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She starred in the sitcom Mad About You for seven years, before being cast in the romantic comedy As Good as It Gets...

     (born 1963), American actress
  • Henry Hunt (politician)
    Henry Hunt (politician)
    Henry "Orator" Hunt was a British radical speaker and agitator remembered as a pioneer of working-class radicalism and an important influence on the later Chartist movement. He advocated parliamentary reform and the repeal of the Corn Laws.Hunt was born in Upavon, Wiltshire and became a prosperous...

     (1773-1835), radical British speaker
  • Henry Thomas Hunt
    Henry Thomas Hunt
    Henry Thomas Hunt was the reform-minded mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio from 1912 to 1913. Hunt, 33 years old when he took office, quickly became known as the Boy Mayor...

     (1878-1956), mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio from 1912 to 1913
  • Henry Jackson Hunt
    Henry Jackson Hunt
    Henry Jackson Hunt was Chief of Artillery in the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. Considered by his contemporaries the greatest artillery tactician and strategist of the war, he was a master of the science of gunnery and rewrote the manual on the organization and use of artillery...

     (1819-1889), American Civil War commander
  • James Hunt
    James Hunt
    James Simon Wallis Hunt was a British racing driver from England who won the Formula One World Championship in . Hunt's often action packed exploits on track earned him the nickname "Hunt the Shunt." After retiring from driving, Hunt became a media commentator and businessman...

     (1947-1993), British Formula One race car driver
  • James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), English critic, essayist, and poet
  • Jerry Hunt
    Jerry Hunt
    Jerry Hunt was an American composer who created works using live electronics partly controlled by his ritualistic performance techniques, influenced by his interest in the occult. He committed suicide in response to terminal cancer...

     (born 1943), American composer
  • Jim Hunt
    Jim Hunt
    James Baxter Hunt Jr. is an American politician who was the 69th and 71st Governor of the state of North Carolina . He is the longest-serving governor in the state's history.-Early life:...

     (born 1937), former Governor of North Carolina
  • John Hunt, any of various people
  • John Hunt (Quaker exile)
    John Hunt (Quaker exile)
    John Hunt was one of the Virginia Exiles, a group of Philadelphia Quakers that were forcibly exiled to Winchester, Virginia during the Revolutionary War.John Hunt was a merchant and Quaker minister from London, England...

     (1712-1778), Quaker minister from London, England, one of the Virginia Exiles
  • John Hunt (Quaker minister)
    John Hunt (Quaker minister)
    John Hunt was a prominent Quaker minister and journalist from Moorestown Township, New Jersey. He kept a diary, most of which has been preserved, from 1770 to 1824. The diary relates Hunt's personal activities, concerns and beliefs. It is also a concise source of primary evidence that documents...

     (1740-1824), Quaker minister from New Jersey
  • Jonathan Hunt, any of various people
  • Karmichael Hunt
    Karmichael Hunt
    Karmichael Neil Matthew Hunt is an Australian professional multi-code football player, currently playing Australian rules football for the newly formed Gold Coast Suns in the Australian Football League ....

     (born 1986), Australian player of multiple football codes
  • Kathryn Hunt
    Kathryn Hunt
    Kathryn Hunt is a British actress best known for her roles as Angela Harris in Coronation Street and Val Lorrimer in Series 1-2 of Fat Friends. She also appeared in Waterloo Road and The Royal....

    , British actress
  • Kenneth Hunt
    Kenneth Hunt
    Reverend Kenneth Reginald Gunnery Hunt was an English amateur football player, Oxford Blue, F.A...

    , English amateur football player who competed in the Olympics
  • Kimberly Hunt
    Kimberly Hunt
    Kimberly Hunt is an Emmy Award winning San Diego news anchor/reporter for KGTV. During her career Hunt has interviewed sitting Presidents, Oprah Winfrey, and other military, political and business leaders...

    , award-winning news anchor, San Diego, California
  • Lester C. Hunt
    Lester C. Hunt
    Lester Callaway Hunt was a Democratic politician and dentist from the state of Wyoming. He served as the 19th Governor of Wyoming from 1943 to 1949 and as United States Senator from January 3, 1949 until his suicide on June 19, 1954....

     (1892–1954), American politician
  • Linda Hunt
    Linda Hunt
    Linda Hunt is an American film, stage and television actress. After making her film debut playing Mrs. Oxheart in Popeye , Hunt portrayed Billy Kwan, her breakthrough performance in The Year of Living Dangerously...

    , (born 1945), American actress
  • Margus Hunt
    Margus Hunt
    Margus Hunt is an Estonian multi-sport athlete who competes in the discus throw and shot put in addition to playing college football. He is the former world junior record holder in discus throw.-Athletics:...

    , (born 1987), Estonian discus thrower
  • Mark Hunt
    Mark Hunt
    Mark Hunt ; is a New Zealand kickboxer and mixed martial artist of Samoan descent, currently living in Sydney, Australia. Hunt competes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and is known for his raw strength, iron chin and knockout power. He won the K-1 World Grand Prix 2001 Final...

    , (born 1974), kickboxer and mixed martial artist from New Zealand
  • Marsha Hunt (US actress) (born 1917), American actress
  • Marsha Hunt (singer and novelist)
    Marsha Hunt (singer and novelist)
    Marsha Hunt is an American singer, novelist, actress and model.-Early life:Hunt was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1946 and lived in North Philadelphia near 23rd and Columbia then in Germantown and Mount Airy for the first 13 years of her life...

     (born 1946), singer (Hair) and novelist
  • Noel Hunt
    Noel Hunt
    Noel Hunt is an Irish footballer, who currently plays as a striker for Football League Championship side Reading. His brother is Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C...

    , (Born 1982), Republic of Ireland and Reading F.C. footballer
  • Paul Hunt, any of various people
  • Sir Peter Hunt, British Army officer
  • Peter R. Hunt
    Peter R. Hunt
    Peter R. Hunt was an English film editor, television producer and director. Hunt was known for his work on the James Bond films with his innovative editing style.-Career:...

     (1925-2002), director and film editor
  • Ralph Hunt (colonist)
    Ralph Hunt (Colonist)
    Ralph Hunt was a founding colonist of what is today known as Long Island.- Biography :Ralph Hunt was an early colonist in Long Island, New York. He was said to be born in London, England in 1613. The first record of him was when he arrived to Long Island in 1652 with a boat of Englishmen...

      (1613-1677), local leader in early Long Island
  • Ray C. Hunt
    Ray C. Hunt
    Ray C. Hunt was a staff sergeant in the United States Army Air Corps stationed in the Philippines at the beginning of World War II. After the surrender at Bataan, where he fought as a infantryman, he was forced to take the Bataan Death March with many other American and Filipinos. During the March,...

    , U.S. Army sergeant/captain, World War II guerrilla leader in Philippines
  • Rex Hunt
    Rex Hunt
    Rex James Hunt is an Australian television and radio personality, and a former Australian rules football player. He is an Australian rules football commentator, currently on the 1116 SEN radio station with son in law Lee Raynor conducting a program called Off The Hook. He is better known around...

    , Australian television and radio personality
  • Rex Hunt (governor), British diplomat
  • Richard Morris Hunt
    Richard Morris Hunt
    Richard Morris Hunt was an American architect of the nineteenth century and a preeminent figure in the history of American architecture...

     (1827-1895), US architect
  • Robert Hunt, any of various people
  • Roger Hunt
    Roger Hunt
    Roger Hunt, MBE is an English former footballer. He was a member of the England team which won the 1966 World Cup.-Club career:...

    , MBE (born 1938), English footballer, 1966 FIFA World Cup’s winner
  • Ron Hunt
    Ron Hunt
    Ronald Kenneth Hunt is a former Major League Baseball player. A second baseman who also played third base sparingly, Hunt played for the New York Mets , Los Angeles Dodgers , San Francisco Giants , Montreal Expos and St...

     (born 1941), former Major League Baseball player
  • Stephen Hunt, any of various people
  • Swanee Hunt
    Swanee Hunt
    Swanee Grace Hunt , Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, is the founding director of the at the Kennedy School, and former United States Ambassador to Austria....

    , American ambassador, academic, daughter of H. L. Hunt
  • Thomas Hunt, any of various people
  • Tristram Hunt
    Tristram Hunt
    Tristram Julian William Hunt, FRHistS MP is a British politician, historian, broadcaster and newspaper columnist, who is currently the Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central. He also teaches and lectures on Modern British History at Queen Mary, University of London in Mile End, East London...

     (born 1974), British historian
  • Walter Hunt
    Walter Hunt
    Walter Hunt was an American mechanic. He lived and worked in New York state. Through the course of his work he became renowned for being a prolific inventor, notably of the lockstitch sewing machine , safety pin , a forerunner of the Winchester repeating rifle, a successful flax spinner, knife...

    , American inventor
  • Washington Hunt
    Washington Hunt
    Washington Hunt was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He moved to Lockport, New York in 1828 to study law, was admitted to the bar in 1834, and opened a law office on Market Street in 1835...

     (1811-1867), former Governor of New York
  • William Hunt, any of various people
  • William Henry Hunt (judge)
    William Henry Hunt (judge)
    William Henry Hunt was a state and federal judge and a territorial governor of Puerto Rico.-Early law practice:...

     (1857–1949), American judge and commonwealth governor
  • William Henry Hunt (painter)
    William Henry Hunt (painter)
    William Henry Hunt , was an English watercolour painter.He was born near Long Acre and was a resident of Marchmont Street, London, and was apprenticed in about 1805 to John Varley, the landscape-painter, with whom he remained five or six years. He exhibited three oil pictures at the Royal Academy...

     (1790–1864), English painter
  • William Holman Hunt
    William Holman Hunt
    William Holman Hunt OM was an English painter, and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.-Biography:...

     (1827-1910), British Pre-Raphaelite painter
  • William Morris Hunt
    William Morris Hunt
    William Morris Hunt , American painter, was born at Brattleboro, Vermont to Jane Maria Hunt and Hon. Jonathan Hunt, who raised one of the preeminent families in American art...

     (1824-1879), American painter

Fictional characters

  • Blanche Hunt
    Blanche Hunt
    Blanche Hunt is a fictional character from the ITV soap opera Coronation Street. She was originally played by Patricia Cutts; however, the actress committed suicide after appearing in just two episodes in 1974. Maggie Jones took over the role, playing Blanche in over 830 episodes between 1974 and...

    , a character in Coronation Street
    Coronation Street
    Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...

    , mother of Deirdre.
  • Dylan Hunt
    Dylan Hunt
    Dylan Hunt is the name of two fictional characters created for television by Gene Roddenberry.Both characters are men who unwittingly move forward in time by hundreds of years, finding themselves trapped in a post-apocalyptic "Dark Age"...

    , two television characters
  • Deirdre Hunt in Coronation Street, daughter of Blanche
    Blanche Hunt
    Blanche Hunt is a fictional character from the ITV soap opera Coronation Street. She was originally played by Patricia Cutts; however, the actress committed suicide after appearing in just two episodes in 1974. Maggie Jones took over the role, playing Blanche in over 830 episodes between 1974 and...

    .
  • Ethan Hunt
    Ethan Hunt
    Ethan Hunt is the central protagonist in the Mission: Impossible film series.-Mission: Impossible:In Mission: Impossible, Hunt acts as the IMF point man for an established and experienced field team, led by veteran Jim Phelps, with whom he has a particularly close bond...

    , main character in Mission Impossible movies
  • Gene Hunt
    Gene Hunt
    DCI Gene Hunt is a fictional character in BBC One's science fiction/police procedural drama Life on Mars and its sequel, Ashes to Ashes. The character is portrayed by Philip Glenister in both Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, whereas in the American version he is portrayed by Harvey Keitel.The...

    , main character in Life on Mars
    Life on Mars (TV series)
    Life on Mars is a British television series broadcast on BBC One between January 2006 and April 2007. The series combines elements of science fiction and police procedural....

     and Ashes to Ashes
    Ashes to Ashes (TV series)
    Ashes to Ashes is a British science fiction and police procedural drama television series, serving as the sequel to Life on Mars.The series began airing on BBC One in February 2008. A second series began broadcasting in April 2009...

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