Hank
For other uses, see Hank (disambiguation).
Hank is both a masculine given name and a surname. It is a pet form of the name Henry, influenced by the Dutch name Henk, that is mainly used in the United States. Notable people with the name include:
Given name:
- Hank Aaron (born 1934), Hall of Fame baseball player
- Hank Aguirre (1931-1994), Major League Baseball pitcher
- Hank Allen (born 1940), Major League Baseball outfielder
- Hank Azaria (born 1964), American actor, director, voice actor and comedian best known for his voice work on The Simpsons
- Hank Ballard (1927-2003), rhythm and blues singer and songwriter
- Hank Bauer (1922-2007), American Major League Baseball right fielder and manager
- Hank Bauer (American football) (born 1954), National Football League running back and television and radio broadcaster
- Hank Blalock (born 1980), Major League Baseball player
- Hank Borowy (1916-2004), Major League Baseball pitcher
- Hank Brown (born 1940), American retired politician and former senator from Colorado
- Hank Burnine (born 1932), American football player
- Hank Cochran (1935-2010), American country music singer and songwriter
- Hank Feldman, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Hank Garland (1930-2004), American studio musician
- Hank Gathers (1967-1990), basketball player
- Hank Goldup (1918-2008), National Hockey League player
- Hank Greenberg (1911-1986), Hall of Fame baseball player
- Hank Johnson (born 1954), U.S. Representative from Georgia
- Hank Jones (1918-2010), American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger, and composer
- Hank Ketcham (1920-2001), American cartoonist who created Dennis the Menace
- Hank Kuehne (born 1975), American former professional golfer
- Hank Locklin (1918-2009), American country music singer and songwriter
- Hank Marvin, guitarist
- Hank Mobley (1930–1986), American hard bop and soul jazz saxophonist and composer
- Hank Norberg (1920–1974), American football player
- Hank Nowak (born 1950), Canadian born National Hockey League player
- Hank Pfister (born 1953), American retired tennis player
- Hank Sauer (1917-2001), Major League Baseball left fielder
- Hank Snow (1914-1999), Canadian-American country music musician and songwriter
- Hank Steinbrenner (born 1957), part-owner of the New York Yankees
- Hank Stram (1923-2005), American National Football League coach
- Hank Thompson (baseball) (1925-1969), baseball player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball
- Hank Thompson (musician) (1925-2007), American country music singer and songwriter
- Hank Williams (1923-1953), country musician
- Hank Williams, Jr. (born 1949), country musician, son of Hank Williams
- Hank Williams III (born 1972), country musician, son of Hank Williams, Jr.
- Hank Worden (1901-1992), American actor
- Hank (dog), a dog rescued by the Milwaukee Brewers named after Hank Aaron
Nickname:
- Hank Green (born 1980), video blogger
- Henrik Sedin, Swedish hockey player
- Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish hockey player
- Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, a nickname of entertainer Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr.
Surname:
- Jorge Hank Rhon, former Municipal President of Tijuana
- Carlos Hank González, his father
Fictional characters:
- Hank McCoy, a superhero, The Beast, from the Marvel comic series "X-Men"
- Henry Charles "Hank" Chinaski, alter ego of and character in many stories by Charles Bukowski
- Hank Gannon, from the soap opera One Life to Live
- Hank Hall, a DC Comics character
- Hank Henshaw, DC Comics villain
- Hank, a character from the 2003 film Cheaper by the Dozen
- Hank Hill, protagonist of the TV series King of The Hill
- Hank Jennings, from the TV show Twin Peaks
- Hank Moody, protagonist of the TV series Californication
- Hank or Henry Pym (aka Ant-Man, Giant-Man, Goliath, and Yellowjacket), fictional character in the Marvel Universe
- Hank Rearden, fictional character in Atlas Shrugged
- Hank Schrader, from the TV show Breaking Bad
- Hank Venture, fictional character in The Venture Bros.
- Henry "Hank" Lawson, protagonist of TV series Royal Pains
- Hank, main character in the Hank the Cowdog series of children's novels
- Henry "Hank" Zipzer, fictional character from the TV series Hank Zipzer
- Hank, an octopus with a missing tentacle in the animated film Finding Dory
- Hank Halverson a side character from the 2008 film Tropic Thunder
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