Holden (surname)

**Holden** is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

## A–E

- Alexandra Holden (born 1977), American actress
- Albert Fairchild Holden (1866–1913), founder of Holden Arboretum in Kirtland, Ohio
- Amanda Holden (born 1971), English actress
- Amanda Holden (writer) (born 1948), British music writer and translator
- Andy Holden (footballer) (born 1962), Welsh footballer
- Andy Holden (artist) (born 1982), English artist
- Andy Holden (athlete) (1948–2014), English long-distance runner John Andrew Holden
- Anthony Holden (born 1947), British journalist
- Arthur Holden (footballer), English footballer
- Beverly Holden, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
- Bill Holden (baseball) (1889–1971), American baseball player
- Bill Holden (footballer) (1928–2011), English footballer
- Bill Holden (ice hockey) (born 1949), Canadian ice hockey player
- Bill Holden (schoolteacher) (born 1948), American schoolteacher and juvenile diabetes activist
- Bob Holden (born 1949), Governor of Missouri
- Bob Holden (racing driver) (born 1932), Australian racing driver
- Charles Holden (1875–1960), British architect
- Cliff Holden (born 1919), English painter, designer, and silk-screen printer
- Clive Holden, Canadian multimedia artist and poet
- Constance Holden (1941–2010), American science journalist
- Craig Holden (born 1957), Australian rules footballer
- David Holden (1924–1977) British writer, journalist, and broadcaster
- David Holden (screenwriter) American TV producer and playwright
- Dean Holden (born 1979), Northern Irish professional football player
- Doug Holden (1930–2021), English footballer
- Edith Holden (1871–1920), British artist and art teacher
- Edward Holden (disambiguation)

## F–J

- Frances Gillam Holden (1843–1924), Australian nurse, suffragist and writer
- Frankie J. Holden aka Frank Holden (born 1952), Australian entertainer
- Genevieve Holden (1919–2007), American novelist
- Gina Holden (born 1975), Canadian actress
- Gloria Holden (1908–1991), English actress
- Helge Holden (born 1956), Norwegian mathematician
- Henry Holden (police officer) (1823–1900), English police officer and cricketer
- Henry James Holden (1859–1926), South Australian mayor and businessman whose company became the car maker Holden
- Hubert Ashton Holden (1822–1896), English classical scholar
- Isaac Holden (1807–1897), Scottish inventor and manufacturer
- Jack Holden (disambiguation)
- James Holden (disambiguation)
- Jan Holden (1931–2005), English actress
- Jennifer Holden (born 1936), American actress
- Joanne M. Holden (born 1974), American food scientist
- Jody Holden (born 1968), Canadian beach volleyball player
- John Holden (disambiguation)
- Jon Robert Holden (born 1976), US-born naturalized Russian basketball player
- Jonathan Holden, poet laureate of Kansas
- Josh Holden (born 1978), Canadian professional ice hockey center

## K–P

- Kip Holden (born 1952), American politician Melvin Lee Holden
- Kisha B. Holden, American professor of psychiatry
- Laurie Holden (born 1972), American actress
- Les Holden, Australian aviator
- Lewis Holden, New Zealand economist
- Mari Holden (born 1971), American cycle racer
- Marjean Holden, American actress
- Mark Holden (born 1954), Australian singer and television personality
- Max Holden (1884–1949), American stage magician and vaudeville performer
- Mel Holden (1954–1981), Scottish footballer
- Michael Holden (born 1968), British heavyweight boxer
- Moses Holden (1777–1864), English astronomer
- Nate Holden (born 1929), served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1987 to 2002
- Nick Holden (born 1987), Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman
- Oliver Holden (1765–1844), American composer and compiler of hymns
- P. J. Holden (born 1969), Northern Irish comic artist
- Perry Greeley Holden (1865–1959), first professor of agronomy in the United States

## R–S

- Randall Holden, founding settler of both Portsmouth and Warwick, Rhode Island
- Rebecca Holden (born 1958), American actress, singer, and entertainer
- Reuben A. Holden III (1890–1967), American tennis player
- Richard Holden (dancer) (born 1927), American dancer and choreographer
- Richard Holden (Canadian politician) (1931–2005), Canadian lawyer and member of the National Assembly of Quebec
- Richard Holden (British politician), MP from 2019
- Rick Holden (born 1964), English football player
- Rob Holden (born 1956), British accountant
- Robert Holden (disambiguation)
- S. D. Holden (1870–1917), British engineer, son of engineer James Holden
- Stewart Holden (born 1979), British competitive Scrabble player
- Stuart Holden (born 1985), Scottish/American football player
- Svein Holden, Norwegian criminal prosecutor

## T–W

- Thomas Holden (disambiguation)
- Tim Holden (born 1957), United States politician Thomas Timothy Holden
- Tony Holden (director), television producer and director
- Tore Holden (born 1946), Norwegian ice hockey referee and television personality
- Wendy Holden (author, born 1961), British journalist and author
- Wendy Holden (author, born 1965), British author of humorous novels
- Will Holden (American football) (born 1993), American football offensive tackle
- William Holden (disambiguation)

## Fictional characters

- Caroline Holden, in the television series _Baywatch_, portrayed by Yasmine Bleeth
- Claudia Joy Holden, from _Army Wives_
- Jim Holden, in _The Expanse_ science fiction novel series
- Judge Holden, in Cormac McCarthy's novel _Blood Meridian_
- Martha Holden, in the soap opera _Home and Away_, portrayed by Jodi Gordon
- Michael Holden (character), in the television series _Army Wives_
- The Holdens, one of the _One Life to Live_ minor families
- Tony Holden, in the Australian television soap opera _Home and Away_, portrayed by Jon Sivewright
- Will Holden (EastEnders), in the soap opera _EastEnders_

## Related pages

- Holden (disambiguation)