Henson (name)

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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
  • 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
  • Keith Henson (born 1942), American science and science-fiction writer and activist against the Church of Scientologys
  • 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 (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
  • Nicky Henson (1945–2019), British actor, son of Leslie Henson
  • Richard A. Henson (1910-2002), an American test pilot, flight school operator, and founder of the modern "commuter airline" concept
  • Shandelle Henson (born 1964), American mathematician
  • Taraji P. Henson (born 1970), American actress and singer
  • (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

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