Holmes (given name)
Holmes is the given name of:
- Holmes Alexander, American historian, journalist, syndicated columnist and politician
- Holmes Beckwith, American political scientist and professor who killed his dean and then himself
- Holmes Colbert, Native American leader of the Chickasaw Nation and writer of the Chickasaw Nation's constitution in the 1850s
- Holmes Conrad, American politician, lawyer and military officer
- Holmes Herbert, English character actor
- Holmes Osborne, American actor
- Holmes Rolston III, philosopher, author and professor
- Holmes Tuttle, American businessman and political adviser to Ronald Reagan
