Horton

Horton, from Old English, a common place-name usually meaning "muddy farmstead" ¹, may refer to:

in Canada:

• The Township of Horton, Ontario

In the United Kingdom:

• Horton, Berkshire
• Horton, Buckinghamshire
• Horton, Dorset
• Horton, Gloucestershire
• Horton, Lancashire
• Horton, Northamptonshire
• Horton, Shropshire
• Horton, Somerset
• Horton, Staffordshire
• Horton, Surrey
• Horton, Swansea
• Horton, Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire
• Horton-cum-Studley, Oxfordshire, near Oakley, Buckinghamshire
• Horton in Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire

In the United States:

• Horton, Alabama
• Horton, Kansas
• Horton Township, Michigan

Surname

• Aaron Horton, American musician
• Africanus Horton
• Alonzo Horton
• Benjamin Jason Horton
• Brian Horton
• Claude Wendell Horton, Jr. Physicist
• Claude Wendell Horton, Sr. (1915-2001), Physicist
• Christiana Horton
• Desiree Horton
• Edward Everett Horton
• Ed Horton
• Frank Horton (1919–2004), American politician
• Frank Reed Horton
• George Horton
• George Moses Horton
• Hamilton C. Horton, Jr.
• Henry Hollis Horton
• Jacob Horton
• James Horton, fictional character
• Jerry Horton
• Jody Horton (1969), Internet design and multimedia pioneer
• Johnny Horton (1925–1960), American country music singer
• Joshua Horton
• Lester Horton (1906–1953), American dancer
• Martin Horton
• Mary Ann Horton
• Matt Horton
• Max Kennedy Horton
• Michael Horton
• Mickey Horton, fictional character
• Mildred McAffee Horton
• Myles Horton
• Nathan Horton
• Peter Horton
• Richard Horton
• Sir Robert Horton (born 1939), British businessman
• Robert E. Horton (1875-1945), American hydrologist
• Robert Horton (actor)
• Robert John Wilmot-Horton, 3rd Baronet
• Robert Forman Horton
• Samuel Dana Horton
• Sarah Horton, fictional character
• Scott Horton
• Shirley Horton
• Stanley M. Horton
• Thomas Horton
• Tim Horton (1930-1974), Canadian ice hockey player and coffee shop chain founder
• Tommy Horton
• Tony Horton
• Big Walter Horton
• William Horton (cricketer)
• Willie Horton
• Willie Horton (baseball player)
• Wilmot Horton, 19th century English thinker who proposed the idea of 'assisted emigration'

See also

• Horton's syndrome, another name for cluster headache
• Horton, fictional elephant character in Horton Hatches the Egg (1940) and Horton Hears A Who (1954), by Dr. Seuss
• Hawton