Hawes (surname)
# Hawes (surname)

Hawes is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

## Politicians

* Albert Gallatin Hawes, 19th-century U.S. Representative from Kentucky
* Aylett Hawes, 19th-century American politician and planter from Virginia
* Aylett Hawes Buckner, 19th-century U.S. Representative from Missouri
* Sir Benjamin Hawes, 19th-century British Whig politician, known in UK parliament as "Hawes the Soap-Boiler"
* Harry Bartow Hawes, 20th-century Democratic member of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate from Missouri
* Richard Hawes, 19th-century United States Representative from Kentucky and second Confederate Governor of Kentucky
* William Hawes (miller), business owner and member of the Maine House of Representatives

## Directors

* James Hawes, the director and producer
* Stanley Gilbert Hawes, documentary film producer and director

## Authors

* Charles Boardman Hawes
* James Hawes (author), British novelist
* Louise Hawes
* Mary Jane Holmes
* Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune, wrote under the penname Marion Harland
* Peter Hawes, New Zealand playwright, novelist, and scriptwriter
* Stephen Hawes, English poet during the Tudor period

## Sportspeople

* Ben Hawes, English field hockey player
* Emma Jean Hawes, American bridge player
* Matthew Hawes, Canadian backstroke swimmer
* Spencer Hawes, American basketball player
* Steven Sherburne Hawes, American basketball player

## Musicians

* Hampton Hawes, African American jazz pianist
* Patrick Hawes, British composer
* William Hawes, English musician

## American soldiers

* James Morrison Hawes, 19th century brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
* Richard Ellington Hawes, 20th century United States naval officer

## Other people

* Harriet Boyd-Hawes, pioneering American archaeologist, nurse and relief worker
* Jason Conrad Hawes, co-founder of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS), based in Warwick, Rhode Island
* Monsignor John Hawes, architect and priest
* Keeley Hawes, English actress
* Rodney A. Hawes, Jr., American business executive and philanthropist.
