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15 famous people named Hew found on Wikipedia.
Hew is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
Hew Ainslie (1792–1878), Scottish poet
Hew Dalrymple, Lord North Berwick (1652–1737), Scottish judge and politician
Sir Hew Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet (1712-1790), Scottish politician, grandson of the above
Hew Dalrymple (advocate) (c. 1740–1774), Scottish advocate, poet and Attorney-General of Grenada
Sir Hew Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet (1746–1800), Scottish politician, son of the 2nd Baronet
Sir Hew Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, of High Mark (1750–1830), British Army general
Hew Hamilton Dalrymple (1857–1945), Scottish politician
Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe (1860-1957), British Army First World War general
Hew Fraser (1877-1938), British field hockey player and politician
Hew Raymond Griffiths (born 1962), a ring leader of DrinkOrDie or DOD, an underground software piracy network
Sir Hew Dalrymple-Hamilton, 4th Baronet (1774–1834), British politician
Sir Hew Hamilton-Dalrymple, 10th Baronet (born 1926), retired British officer and former Lord Lieutenant of East Lothian
Hew Locke (born 1959), British-Guyanese sculptor and visual artist
Hew Lorimer (1907–1993), Scottish sculptor
Hew Pike (born 1943), retired British Army lieutenant-general
Hew Dalrymple Ross (1779–1868), British Army field marshal
Hew Scott (1791–1872), minister of the Church of Scotland
Hew Strachan (born 1949), Scottish military historian
Old English heawan "to chop, hack, gash, strike with a cutting weapon or tool" (class VII strong verb; past tense heow, past participle heawen), earlier geheawan, from Proto-Germanic *hawwan (source also of Old Norse hoggva, Old Frisian hawa, Old Saxon hauwan, Middle Dutch hauwen, Dutch houwen, Old High German houwan, German hauen "to cut, strike, hew"), from PIE *kau- "to hew, strike," a root more widely developed in Slavic (source also of Old Church Slavonic kovo, Lithuanian kauti "to strike, beat, fight;" Polish kúc "to forge," Russian kovat' "to strike, hammer, forge;" Latin cudere "to strike, beat;" Middle Irish cuad "beat, fight"). Weak past participle hewede appeared 14c., but hasn't yet entirely displaced hewn. Seemingly contradictory sense of "hold fast, stick to" (in phrase hew to), 1891, developed from earlier figurative phrase hew to the line "stick to a course," literally "cut evenly with an axe or saw." Related: Hewed; hewing.
Soul, mind, intellect. Variant of Hugh, means: heart, mind, spirit.
| Popularity | Name | Birth Year | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hew Strachan | 1949 | British historian |
| 2 | Hew Pike | 1943 | British Army general |
| 3 | Hew Locke | 1959 | Sculptor and contemporary visual artist of Guyanese and British parentage |
| 4 | Hew Raymond Griffiths | 1962 | Australian criminal |
| 5 | Hew Lorimer | 1907 | Scottish sculptor |
| 6 | Hew Dalrymple, Lord North Berwick | 1652 | Scottish judge and politician |
| 7 | Hew Dalrymple Ross | 1779 | British Field Marshal |
| 8 | Sir Hew Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, of High Mark | 1750 | British Army general |
| 9 | Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe | 1860 | British general |
| 10 | Hew Scott | 1791 | British minister, born 1791 |
| 11 | Hew Ainslie | 1792 | Poet |
| 12 | Hew Dalrymple | Scottish advocate and poet, Attorney-General of Grenada | |
| 13 | Hew Fraser | 1877 | Scottish field hockey player |
| 14 | Hew Hamilton Dalrymple | 1857 | British politician |
| 15 | Hew Butler | 1922 |