Hastings


Gender:
Origin: English
157 famous people named Hastings found on Wikipedia.
31 male, 5 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 11212-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 2397-th in year 1912

Meanings

Hastings is a surname of English and Irish origin, and is used also as a given name.

Town in Sussex, site of the great battle in the Norman conquest of England (Oct. 14, 1066), Old English Hæstingas "The Hastings; settlement of the family or followers of a man called *Hæsta;" literally "Hæsta's People." The Hæstingas were an important tribal group referred to in an 8th cent. Northumbrian chronicle as the gens Hestingorum which seems to have kept a separate identity as late as the early 11th cent. ["Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names"]

Haest's people. Son of the austere man.

Famous People: 157 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Reed Hastings 1960 Entrepreneur and education philanthropist
2 Lady Flora Hastings 1806 British aristocrat and lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria's mother
3 Warren Hastings 1732 Governor-General of India
4 Bob Hastings 1925 American radio, film, and television character actor
5 Alcee Hastings 1936 Member of the US House of Representatives and former federal judge
6 Hastings Banda 1898 First president of Malawi
7 Max Hastings 1945 British journalist, editor, historian and author
8 Natasha Hastings 1986 American sprinter
9 Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay 1887 Army officer
10 William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings 1431 English nobleman
11 Gavin Hastings 1962 Rugby union player from Scotland
12 Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings 1754 Governor-General of India
13 Jordan Hastings 1982 Drummer
14 Don Hastings 1934 American actor
15 Amy Hastings 1973 American long distance runner
16 Melissa Hastings
17 Lansford Hastings 1819 American explorer
18 Jackson Hastings 1996 Australian rugby league player
19 Drew Hastings 1954 American comedian and mayor of Hillsboro, Ohio
20 James F. Hastings 1926 American politician
21 Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford 1888 British ornithologist
22 Doc Hastings 1941 American politician
23 Pye Hastings 1947 British musician
24 Katherine Neville, Baroness Hastings 1442 English baroness
25 Nathan Hastings
26 Beatrice Hastings 1879 British writer
27 Kevin Hastings 1957 Australian rugby league player
28 Patrick Hastings 1880 British politician
29 Hastings Ndlovu 1961 South African activist
30 Hastings Arthur Wise 1954 American mass murderer
31 George Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings 1808 British noble
32 Christopher Hastings 1983 American comics artist
33 Adrian Hastings 1929 Roman Catholic priest, historian and author
34 Edward Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings 1466 English noble
35 Thomas Hoo, Baron Hoo and Hastings English peer
36 Jimmy Hastings 1938 British saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist
37 Serranus Clinton Hastings 1814 19th century politician
38 Andre Hastings 1971 American football player
39 Macdonald Hastings 1909 British journalist
40 John Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings 1262 English noble
41 Hastings Lees-Smith 1878 British politician
42 Hastings Rashdall 1858 British philosopher
43 Henry Rawdon-Hastings, 4th Marquess of Hastings 1842 4th Marquess of Hastings
44 Delaval Astley, 23rd Baron Hastings 1960 British actor
45 Sean Hastings 1968 American businessman
46 Richard Hastings 1977 Canadian-English footballer
47 Hastings Keith 1915 American politician
48 Joel Hastings 1969 Canadian musician
49 Henry de Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings 1235 English nobleman
50 Stephen Hastings 1921 British war hero, MI6 operative, author and British Conservative Party politician
51 Hastings Gilford 1861 Surgion
52 Seth Hastings 1762 American politician
53 Flora Mure-Campbell, Marchioness of Hastings 1780 British noble
54 Frank Abney Hastings 1794 British naval officer and Philhellene
55 Milo Hastings 1884 American inventor
56 Michael Hastings 1938 Writer
57 Priscilla Hastings 1920 British racehorse owner
58 Selina Shirley Hastings 1945
59 Daniel H. Hastings 1849 American politician
60 Amy-Joyce Hastings 1980 Irish actress
61 William Soden Hastings 1798 American politician
62 John Woodland Hastings 1927 American biologist
63 Hastings Yelverton 1808 First Sea Lord
64 Edward Astley, 22nd Baron Hastings 1912 British Baron
65 Daniel O. Hastings 1874 American politician
66 Hastings Wyman 1939 South Carolina political consultant, author, and publisher
67 John Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings 1287 English noble
68 Barbara Rawdon-Hastings, Marchioness of Hastings 1810 British fossil collector and geological author
69 William Wirt Hastings 1866 American politician
70 Hastings Shade 1941 Fullblood Cherokee traditionalist and fluent speaker, former deputy chief of the Cherokee Nation
71 Alan Hastings Theoretical ecologist
72 Joe Hastings 1987 American football player
73 Mike Hastings 1966 Ice hockey coach and general manager
74 Joe R. Hastings 1925 United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
75 Michel Hastings
76 W. K. Hastings 1930 Canadian statistician
77 George Fowler Hastings 1814 Officer of the British Royal Navy
78 Ralph Hastings Third son of Sir Leonard Hastings
79 Julie Hastings 1975 Canadian curler
80 Jeff Hastings 1959 Ski jumper
81 Somerville Hastings 1878 British politician
82 Hastings Harrington 1906 Australian admiral
83 Francis Hastings, Lord Hastings 1560 English noble
84 Andy Hastings 1893 American football player
85 Norman Frederick Hastings 1879 New Zealand recipient of the Legion d'honneur
86 Charles S. Hastings 1848 American physicist
87 Ned Hastings 1966 American television producer
88 Gilbert of Hastings Bishop of Lisbon
89 Alexander Hastings 1912 Scottish footballer
90 Lennie Hastings 1925 British musician
91 Henry Hastings 1551 English landowner and eccentric country sportsman
92 Lucy Hastings 1613 British writer
93 John Simpson Hastings 1898 United States federal judge
94 Hastings Anderson 1872 British Army general
95 Jacob Astley, 16th Baron Hastings 1797 British politician
96 Don Ryder, Baron Ryder of Eaton Hastings 1916 British businessman
97 Brian Hastings
98 Jane Hastings 1928 Architect
99 Alison Hastings British broadcasting executive
100 Charles Hastings 1858 Canadian obstetrician and public health pioneer
101 S. U. Hastings 1916 First Jamaican bishop of the Moravian Church in Jamaica
102 David Hastings Member of Maine State Senate
103 Katherine Hastings American poet
104 David de Hastings Norman Knight
105 Scott Hastings 1847 Major League Baseball player
106 George Manners Astley, 20th Baron Hastings 1857 British noble
107 Harold Hastings 1916 Composer and conductor
108 Kelly Hastings 1961 American politician
109 Hastings Bwalya 1985 Zambian boxer
110 Paul P. Hastings 1872 American businessman
111 Charlie Hastings 1870 American baseball player
112 H. de C. Hastings 1902 British architect
113 Bill Hastings 1888 English footballer
114 Susan Hastings 1954 German author
115 Frederick Hastings 1838 Congregationalist minister
116 Samuel D. Hastings 1816 Wisconsin businessman, politician
117 Smith H. Hastings 1843
118 Hastings Edward Harrington 1832 Recipient of the Victoria Cross
119 Joan Hastings 1925 New Zealand swimmer
120 Clifford C. Hastings 1882 New York politician
121 Chris Hastings 1964 American skier
122 Lydia Hastings 1990 American association football player
123 John Ambrose Hastings 1900 American politician
124 Earl Hastings 1924 Canadian politician
125 Jane Hope Hastings 1902 American actress
126 Timothy Hastings 1992 British motorcycle racer
127 Frank Hastings
128 F. W. Hastings 1848 American politician
129 Adam Hastings
130 Basil Macdonald Hastings 1881 British author
131 Guy Hastings
132 Gary Hastings 1956
133 Thomas Hastings 1865
134 Jack Hastings 1858 Irish footballer
135 Spencer Hastings
136 Fred W. Hastings 1882 American politician
137 Thomas N. Hastings 1858 American architect and politician
138 Errol Hastings 1994
139 James Hastings Irish dean
140 Francis Hastings 1560 English politician
141 Sue Hastings 1884 Known for popularizing the ancient art of puppetry in the 1930s and 1940s. She was a protege of Tony Sarg. She known for her large collection of marionettes, which she made with her team of assistants
142 William Granville Hastings 1868 American sculptor
143 Justine Hastings American economist, academic, and policy advisor
144 Bradford Hastings 1920
145 Hastings Capot de Feuillide 1786
146 Hastings Woolley 1884
147 Albert Baird Hastings 1895 American biochemist and physiologist
148 Hastings Elwin 1776
149 Judson Worthington Hastings 1853 Physician
150 Hugh Hastings 1310 English administrator and soldier
151 Mark Hastings 1968 New Zealand cricketer
152 John Hastings 1927 English composer
153 Edward Hastings 1382 English soldier and litigant
154 Hugh Hastings, 10th Baron Hastings
155 Daniel E. Hastings
156 George Hastings 1588
157 Geoffrey Hastings English mountaineer