title: Hitchens
text: # Hitchens
  
  Hitchens is a surname of early medieval English origin. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Alfred Hitchens (1861–1942), English painter
  * Anthony Hitchens (born 1992), American football linebacker
  * Bob Hitchens (1952–2020), American college football player
  * Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011), British-American author, journalist and broadcaster
  * Dolores Hitchens (1907–1973), American mystery novelist
  * Gerry Hitchens (1934–1983), English footballer
  * Ivon Hitchens (1893–1979), English painter
  * John Hitchens (born 1940), English painter
  * Keith Hitchins (1931–2020), American historian
  * Peter Hitchens (born 1951), British author, journalist and broadcaster
  * Robert Hichens (disambiguation), various people
     * Robert Smythe Hichens (1864–1950), English writer, known as Robert Hichens
     * Robert Hichens (RMS Titanic) (1882–1940), quartermaster on the RMS Titanic
     * Robert Peverell Hichens (1909–1943), RNVR officer in the Second World War
  * Tim Hitchens (born 1962), British diplomat
  
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  ## Others
  
  * Hitchens's razor, an epistemological razor asserting that the burden of proof regarding the truthfulness of a claim lies with the one who makes the claim, and if this burden is not met, the claim is unfounded, and its opponents need not argue further in order to dismiss it
  * Hitchens Pond, pond located east of Barber Point, New York
  