Hornblower (surname)

Hornblower is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

People

• 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 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

• Nathanial Hörnblowér, a pseudonym of the musician Adam Yauch

Fictional people

• 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

• Justice Hornblower (disambiguation)