Henson (name)

Henson is a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname

• Adam Henson (born 1966), British television presenter
• Ant Henson (born 1989), British singer-songwriter
• Basil Henson (1918–1990), British actor
• Bill Henson (born 1955), Australian photographer
• Brian Henson (born 1963), American puppeteer, director, and producer
• Christian Henson (born 1971), British composer
• David Henson (born 1984), British athlete
• Deborah Henson-Conant (born 1953), American harpist
• Dinah Henson (1948–2020), English amateur golfer
• Drew Henson (born 1980), former Major League Baseball player and American football quarterback
• Elden Henson (born 1977), American actor
• Gavin Henson (born 1982), Welsh rugby union player, son of Alan Henson
• Gladys Henson (1897–1982), British actress
• Herbert Hensley Henson (1863–1947), British bishop
• Jane Henson (1934–2013), American puppeteer, wife of Jim Henson
• Jim Henson (1936–1990), American puppeteer and creator of the Muppets, as well as the organizations below that bear his name
• Jim Henson (escaped slave), American slave who escaped and settled in Canada
• Joe Henson (1932–2015), British conservationist
• John Henson (born 1967), American TV show host
• John Henson (puppeteer) (1965–2014), American puppeteer, son of Jim Henson
• Josiah Henson (1789–1883), famed fugitive American slave
• Josh Henson (born 1975), American football coach
• Keith Henson (born 1942), American science and science-fiction writer and activist against the Church of Scientology
• Leslie Henson (1891–1957), British actor
• Lisa Henson (born 1960), American television and movie producer
• Lou Henson (1932–2020), American college basketball coach
• Martin Henson (computer scientist) (born 1954), British computer scientist
• Matthew Henson (1866–1955), an American explorer who may have been the first to reach the geographic North Pole with Robert Peary in 1909
• Mishavonna Henson, American Idol contestant
• Mickie Henson (1963–2022), American professional wrestling referee
• Nicky Henson (1945–2019), British actor, son of Leslie Henson
• Olivia Grace Henson (born 1992), the Duchess of Westminster
• Richard A. Henson (1910–2002), an American test pilot, flight school operator, and founder of the modern "commuter airline" concept
• Rozia Henson, American politician
• Shandelle Henson (born 1964), American mathematician
• Taraji P. Henson (born 1970), American actress and singer
• Tim Henson (born 1980), American host of popular podcast Distorted View Daily
• William Henson (Australian politician) (1826–1903), New South Wales politician
• William Samuel Henson (1812–1888), British aviation pioneer

Given name

• Henson P. Barnes (1934–2015), American politician
• Henson Cargill (1941–2007), American country music singer
• Henson Moore (born 1939), American politician

See also

• Hanson (surname)