# Hirst (surname)

Hirst is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Sir Amos Brook Hirst, OBE (6 December 1878[1] – 26 November 1955) chairman of The Football Association (FA) from 1941 to 1955.
* Arthur Stanley Hirst (1883–1930), British entomologist
* Barton Cooke Hirst (1861-1935), American obstetrician
* Ben Hirst, English footballer
* Christopher Hirst (born 1947), British cricketer and educator
* Claude Raguet Hirst (1855–1942), American painter
* Damien Hirst (born 1965), English artist
* David Hirst
** David Hirst (arachnologist), described many species of huntsman spider, based at the South Australian Museum in Adelaide
** David Hirst (footballer) (born 1967), English professional footballer
** David Hirst (journalist) (born 1936), British journalist based in Beirut
** David Hirst (judge) (1925–2011), British Lord Justice of Appeal from 1992 to 1999
* Derek Hirst (born 1948), British historian
* Sir Edmund Langley Hirst (1898–1975), British chemist
* Edward Hirst (1857–1914), British cricketer
* Elín Hirst (born 1960), Icelandic politician
* Emily Hirst (born 1993), Canadian actress
* Ernest Hirst (1855–1933), British cricketeer
* Francis Wrigley Hirst (1873–1953), British journalist and editor of The Economist
* Geoffrey Hirst (1904–1984), British industrialist and politician
* George Hirst
** George Henry Hirst (1879–1933), British politician
** George Herbert Hirst (1871–1954), English professional cricketer
** George Littlewood Hirst (1890–1967), Welsh international rugby union player
** George Hirst (virologist) (1909–1994), American virologist
** George Hirst (footballer) (born 1999), English footballer
* G. M. Hirst (1869–1962), English-American classicist
* Grace Hirst (1805–1901), New Zealand businesswoman
* Henry Hirst (1838–1911), New Zealand politician
* Henry Beck Hirst (1813–1874), American poet
* Hugo Hirst (1863-1943), British industrialist
* Ivan Hirst (1916–2000), British Army officer instrumental in reviving Volkswagen in post-war Germany
* Jack Hirst, British rugby player
* Jack Hirst (1936–2012), British rugby player
* Jemmy Hirst (1738–1829), English eccentric
* Joe Hirst (born 1987), British rugby player
* Joseph Hirst (1863–1945), British architect
* John Hirst
** John Hirst (born 1947), British businessman
** John Hirst (born 1950), British killer and campaigner for prisoners' rights
** John Hirst, Australian academic and historian.
* John Malcolm Hirst (1921–1997), British aerobiologist, agricultural botanist, and mycologist
* Judy Hirst, British biologist
* Kenneth Hirst (1940–2008), British rugby league footballer
* Keegan Hirst (born 1988), British rugby league footballer
* Larry Hirst (born 1951), British businessman
* Marie Boaze Hirst (1920–2012), American lineage society leader
* Mark Hirst, British journalist
* Maude Hirst, English Actress
* Michael Hirst (1933–2017), British art historian.
* Michael Hirst (born 1946), Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party politician
* Michael Hirst (born 1952), English screenwriter
* Nicky Hirst (born 1963), English sculptor and artist
* Olive Hirst (1912–1994), English advertising agent
* Paul Hirst (1947–2003), British sociologist
* Rob Hirst (born 1956), Australian musician
* Shakespeare Hirst (1841–1907), British actor and author
* Shari Decter Hirst, Canadian politician
* Stephanie Hirst (born 1975), British radio presenter
* Thomas Hirst (1865–1927), British cricketer
* Thomas Archer Hirst (1830–1892), British mathematician
* Tony Hirst (born 1967), British actor and stage director
* Tony Hirst, British academic and blogger
* Ursula Hirst (1909–2002), British actress
* William Hirst (1873–1946), British politician