Hornby (surname)
Hornby is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- A. N. Hornby, English sportsman excelling in both rugby and cricket
- A. S. Hornby, English grammarian, lexicographer, and pioneer in the field of English language learning and teaching
- Andy Hornby, English businessman, chief executive of Alliance Boots
- Anna Hornby, N.E.A.C, English painter, calligrapher and member of the New English Art Club
- Ben Hornby, Australian rugby league player
- Clive Hornby, English actor
- D. Brock Hornby, United States federal judge
- Edmund Hornby , British politician
- Sir Edmund Grimani Hornby, Chief Judge of the British Supreme Consular Court in Constantinople and the British Supreme Court for China and Japan
- Edmund Phipps-Hornby VC, CB, CMG, DL, English recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Edward Kenworthy Hornby, Member of Parliament for Blackburn
- Frank Hornby, inventor of Meccano and Hornby Trains
- Geoffrey Thomas Phipps Hornby, British admiral of the fleet
- Hugh Leycester Hornby, Anglican clergyman
- James John Hornby, headmaster and, later, provost of Eton
- John Hornby, Canadian explorer
- Judy Hornby, British-American fashion designer
- Lesley Hornby, birth name of English model, actress, and singer better known as "Twiggy"
- Lord Hornby, Kurt William Hornby, Lord of Glencoe, Royal Guard in New Zealand
- Nick Hornby, author
- Nick Hornby , British artist
- Phil Hornby, British news reporter, working for ITV Meridian
- Phipps Hornby, British naval officer
- Phipps Hornby , English cricketer
- Richard Hornby, British Conservative Party politician and businessman
- Robert William Bilton Hornby, priest, antiquarian and lord of the manor from the City of York
- Ron Hornby, a British professional footballer
- Ross Hornby, Canada's current Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the European Union
- Warwick Hornby, Australian musician in the band The Whitlams
- Wilfrid Bird Hornby, an Anglican Colonial Bishop
- William Hornby , Governor of Bombay
- Sir William Hornby, 1st Baronet, son of William Henry Hornby, also an industrialist and politician
- William Henry Hornby , English industrialist and politician
