Hitchens
Appearance
Hitchens is a surname of early medieval English origin.[1] 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
Characters
- Grace Hitchens, character in Glee
Others
[edit]- 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 to dismiss it; introduced by and named after Christopher Hitchens
- Hitchens Pond, pond located east of Barber Point, New York