Hank

Hank is a male given name. It may have been inspired by the Dutch name Henk, itself a short form of Hendrik and thus related to Harry & Harvey.

Given name or nickname

 * Hank Aaron (1934-2021), Hall of Fame baseball player
 * Hank Aguirre (1931–1994), Major League Baseball pitcher
 * Hank Allen (born 1940), Major League Baseball outfielder
 * Hank Anderson (1920–2005), American college basketball coach
 * Hank Azaria (born 1964), American actor, director, voice actor and comedian best known for his voice work on The Simpsons
 * Hank Ballard (1927–2003), American R&B singer and songwriter, born John Henry Kendricks
 * 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 Biasatti (1922–1996), Italian-Canadian baseball and basketball player
 * 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 Brown (American football), American college football player
 * Hank Burnine (1932–2020), American National Football League player
 * Hank Earl Carr (1968–1998), American convicted criminal who committed suicide
 * Hank Cochran (1935–2010), American country music singer and songwriter
 * Harry "Hank" Feldman (1919–1962), Major League Baseball pitcher
 * Hank Garland (1930–2004), American studio musician
 * Hank Gathers (1967–1990), basketball player
 * Hank Green (born 1980), video blogger
 * Hank Goldup (1918–2008), Canadian National Hockey League player
 * Hank Greenberg (1911–1986), Hall-of-Fame Major League Baseball player
 * Hank Johnson (born 1954), U.S. Representative from Georgia
 * Hank Johnson (baseball) (1906–1982), American Major League Baseball pitcher
 * Hank Jones (1918–2010), American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger, and composer
 * Henry Iba (1904–1993), American Hall-of-Fame college basketball head coach
 * Hank Ketcham (1920–2001), American cartoonist who created Dennis the Menace
 * Hank Ketcham (American football) (1891–1986), American college football player
 * Hank Kuehne (born 1975), American former professional golfer
 * Hank Locklin (1918–2009), American country music singer and songwriter
 * Hank Marvin, English musician, singer and songwriter born Brian Robson Rankin in 1941
 * 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 National Hockey League player
 * Henry Paulson (born 1946), former Secretary of the Treasury
 * Hank Pfister (born 1953), American retired tennis player
 * Hank Sauer (1917–2001), Major League Baseball player
 * Henrik Sedin (born 1980), Swedish National Hockey League player
 * Hank Snow (1914–1999), Canadian-American country music artist and songwriter
 * Hank Stackpole (1935–2020), retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant general
 * Hank Steinbrenner (1957–2020), part-owner of the New York Yankees
 * Hank Stram (1923–2005), American National Football League head 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 Wangford (born 1940), English country musician and psychiatrist
 * Hank Williams (1923–1953), American country music singer, songwriter and musician
 * Hank Williams Jr. (born 1949), American country music singer, songwriter and musician, son of Hank Williams
 * Hank Williams III (born 1972), American musician and singer, son of Hank Williams Jr.
 * Hank Worden (1901–1992), American actor born Norton Earl Worden
 * Henrik Zetterberg (born 1980), National Hockey League player from Sweden
 * Henrik Lundqvist (born 1982) National Hockey League player from Sweden
 * Hank (dog), a dog rescued by the Milwaukee Brewers named after Hank Aaron
 * Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, a nickname of entertainer Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr.

Surname

 * Carlos Hank González (1927–2001), Mexican politician and businessman
 * Carlos Hank González (businessman, born 1971) (born 1971), Mexican businessman
 * Carlos Hank Rhon, Mexican businessman
 * Jorge Hank Rhon (born 1956), Mexican businessman and former municipal president of Tijuana
 * William Hank (1902–1942), World War II US Navy officer

Fictional characters

 * Hank Anderson, a character in the game Detroit: Become Human
 * Hank Dearborn, protagonist of the 1965 TV series Hank
 * Hank Gannon, from the soap opera One Life to Live
 * Hank Hall, a DC Comics character
 * Hank Henshaw, DC Comics villain
 * Hank Thunderman, from the tv show, The Thundermans
 * Hank, from the 2003 film Cheaper by the Dozen
 * Hank Hill, protagonist of the animated TV series King of the Hill
 * Hank Jennings, from the TV show Twin Peaks
 * Hank Lawson, protagonist of TV series Royal Pains
 * Hank McCoy, a superhero, The Beast, from the Marvel comic series "X-Men"
 * Hank Moody, protagonist of the TV series Californication
 * Hank Morgan, the Yankee in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
 * Hank Pym (aka Ant-Man, Giant-Man, Goliath, and Yellowjacket), fictional character in the Marvel Universe
 * Hank Rearden, a central character in the novel Atlas Shrugged
 * Hank Schrader, from the TV show Breaking Bad
 * Hank Venture, fictional character in The Venture Bros.
 * Hank Voight, police sergeant in Chicago P.D.
 * Hank Zipzer, fictional character from the TV series Hank Zipzer
 * Talking Hank, one of the main characters of Talking Tom and Friends
 * Hank, main character in the Hank the Cowdog series of children's novels
 * Hank, one of the two beavers in Pajanimals
 * Hank, a giant Pacific octopus with a missing tentacle in the 2016 Disney/Pixar animated film Finding Dory
 * Hank the American Engine, one of the characters in the twelfth series of Thomas and Friends
 * Hank, the younger half brother of the titular character in The Bed and Breakfast Star by Jacqueline Wilson
 * Hank, an epic brawler from the mobile game Brawl Stars developed by Supercell