title: Hawes (surname)
text: # Hawes (surname)
  
  Hawes is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  ## Politicians
  
  * Albert Gallatin Hawes, 19th-century U.S. Representative from Kentucky
  * Aylett Hawes, 19th-century American politician and planter from Virginia
  * Aylett Hawes Buckner, 19th-century U.S. Representative from Missouri
  * Sir Benjamin Hawes, 19th-century British Whig politician, known in UK parliament as "Hawes the Soap-Boiler"
  * Harry Bartow Hawes, 20th-century Democratic member of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate from Missouri
  * Richard Hawes, 19th-century United States Representative from Kentucky and second Confederate Governor of Kentucky
  * William Hawes (miller), business owner and member of the Maine House of Representatives
  
  ## Directors
  
  * James Hawes, the director and producer
  * Stanley Gilbert Hawes, documentary film producer and director
  
  ## Authors
  
  * Charles Boardman Hawes
  * James Hawes (author), British novelist
  * Louise Hawes
  * Mary Jane Holmes
  * Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune, wrote under the penname Marion Harland
  * Peter Hawes, New Zealand playwright, novelist, and scriptwriter
  * Stephen Hawes, English poet during the Tudor period
  
  ## Sportspeople
  
  * Ben Hawes, English field hockey player
  * Emma Jean Hawes, American bridge player
  * Matthew Hawes, Canadian backstroke swimmer
  * Spencer Hawes, American basketball player
  * Steven Sherburne Hawes, American basketball player
  
  ## Musicians
  
  * Hampton Hawes, African American jazz pianist
  * Patrick Hawes, British composer
  * William Hawes, English musician
  
  ## American soldiers
  
  * James Morrison Hawes, 19th century brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
  * Richard Ellington Hawes, 20th century United States naval officer
  
  ## Other people
  
  * Harriet Boyd-Hawes, pioneering American archaeologist, nurse and relief worker
  * Jason Conrad Hawes, co-founder of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS), based in Warwick, Rhode Island
  * Monsignor John Hawes, architect and priest
  * Keeley Hawes, English actress
  * Rodney A. Hawes, Jr., American business executive and philanthropist.
  