title: Hildreth (name)
text: # Hildreth (name)
  
  Hildreth is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
  
  Surname:
  
  * Ellen Hildreth, co-inventor of the Marr–Hildreth algorithm in machine vision.
  * Horace A. Hildreth, governor of Maine, 1945–1949
  * James Hildreth, cricketer
  * Lee Hildreth, footballer
  * Lou Wills Hildreth (1928–2019), American Southern gospel performer, songwriter, talent agent and television host
  * Mark Hildreth, wrestler, known as Van Hammer
  * Mark Hildreth (actor)
  * Richard Hildreth, journalist, historian
  * Sam Hildreth, racehorse trainer
  * Samuel Hildreth (American Revolution) (1750–1823), a surgeon in the Massachusetts militia and aboard Massachusetts naval privateers during the American Revolutionary War
  * Samuel Prescott Hildreth (1783–1863), a pioneer physician, scientist, and historian in Ohio and the Northwest Territory
  * Wes Hildreth, or E. W. Hildreth, a notable USGS geologist
  
  Given name:
  
  * Hildreth Frost, Colorado National Guardsman and lawyer
  * Hildreth Glyn-Jones (1895–1980), British barrister
  * Hildreth Meière, artist
  