title: Hotchkiss (surname)
text: # Hotchkiss (surname)
  
  Hotchkiss is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Avis Hotchkiss, early American motorcycle traveler with her daughter Effie
  * Benjamin B. Hotchkiss (1826–1885), 19th-century American engineer
  * E.H. Hotchkiss, an inventor of the stapler
  * Effie Hotchkiss, pioneering American motorcyclist with her mother Avis
  * George Hotchkiss (1906–1989), American professional basketball coach
  * George W. Hotchkiss (1831–1926), American businessman
  * Giles W. Hotchkiss (1815–1878), American politician
  * Harley Hotchkiss (1927–2011), Canadian businessman
  * Herman Hotchkiss (1765–1836), American settler
  * Jedediah Hotchkiss (1828–1899), cartographer for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War
  * Julius Hotchkiss (1810–1878), American politician
  * L. D. Hotchkiss (1893–1964), American journalist
  * Maria Bissell Hotchkiss (1827–1901), wife of Benjamin B. Hotchkiss and founder of The Hotchkiss School and Hotchkiss Library
  * Merritt Hotchkiss, Canadian politician
  * Ralf Hotchkiss, American inventor
  * Rollin Hotchkiss (1911–2004), American biochemist
  * Sylvester Hotchkiss, American architect
  * William Horace Hotchkiss (1864–?), American writer
  * William O. Hotchkiss (1878–1954), American geologist
  * William Hotchkiss III (born 1943), former commanding general of the Philippine Air Force
  * W.R. Hotchkiss, founder of what would become the Deluxe Corporation
  