Hornblower (surname)
Appearance
Hornblower is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
People
[edit]- Edward Thomas Hornblower (1828–1901), U.S. investment banker, son of Henry, partner in Hornblower & Weeks, namesake of Edward Hornblower House and Barn
- Henry Hornblower (1863–1941), U.S. investment banker, founder of Hornblower & Weeks
- Jabez Carter Hornblower (1744–1814), pioneer steam engineer
- Joseph Hornblower (1696?–1762), steam pioneer who installed Newcomen engines in Cornwall
- Joseph Coerten Hornblower (1777–1864), American lawyer and Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
- Joseph Coerten Hornblower (architect) (1848–1908), American architect
- Josiah Cheston Hornblower (born 1975), heir of Vanderbilt/Whitney family
- Josiah Hornblower (1729-1809), steam pioneer and American politician
- Jonathan Hornblower (1753-1815), Cornish engineer and inventor
- Jonathan Hornblower (1717) (1717-1780), steam pioneer, father of Jonathan and Jabez Hornblower
- Lewis Hornblower (1823-1879), Liverpool architect
- Margot Hornblower (born 1950; née Roosevelt), U.S. journalist, ex-wife of Ralph Hornblower III
- Ralph Hornblower (1891–1960), American business executive
- Ralph Hornblower III (born 1948), American lawyer and operatic tenor
- Simon Hornblower (born 1949), Professor of Classics at University College London
- William B. Hornblower (1851-1914), New York jurist
Pseudonyms, stagenames
[edit]- Nathanial Hörnblowér, a pseudonym of the musician Adam Yauch
Fictional people
[edit]- Horatio Hornblower, fictional Napoleonic Wars–era Royal Navy officer, the protagonist of a series of novels and stories by C. S. Forester
- Hornblower, the DC Comics superhero alter-ego of Mal Duncan
See also
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