List of Famous people named Hugh

Similar names: Hugo, Hughie, Hughe. Here are some famous Hughs:

Hugh Jackman

Hugh Michael Jackman
First Name Hugh
Born on October 12, 1968 (age 56)
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, and producer. He is best known for playing Wolverine/Logan in the X-Men film series (2000–2017), a role for which he holds the Guinness World Record for "longest career as a live-action Marvel superhero".

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Hugh Grant

Hugh John Mungo Grant
First Name Hugh
Born on September 9, 1960 (age 64)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Hugh John Mungo Grant is an English actor. His awards include a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award and an Honorary César. As of 2018, his films have grossed a total of nearly US$3 billion worldwide from 29 theatrical releases.

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Hugh Freeze

First Name Hugh
Born on September 27, 1969 (age 55)

Danny Hugh Freeze Jr. is an American football coach. He is currently the head football coach at Liberty University.

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Hugh Laurie

James Hugh Calum Laurie
First Name Hugh
Born on June 11, 1959 (age 66)
Height 189 cm | 6'2

James Hugh Calum Laurie is an English actor, director, singer, musician, comedian and author, who is known for portraying the title character on the medical drama television series House (2004–2012), for which he received two Golden Globe Awards and nominations for numerous other awards. He was listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records as the most watched leading man on television and was one of the highest-paid actors in a television drama, earning £250,000 ($409,000) per episode of House. His other television credits include arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper in the miniseries The Night Manager (2016), for which he won his third Golden Globe Award, and Senator Tom James in the HBO sitcom Veep (2012–2019), for which he received his 10th Emmy Award nomination.

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Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster

Hugh Richard Louis Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor
First Name Hugh
Born on January 29, 1991 (age 34)

Hugh Richard Louis Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster, styled as Earl Grosvenor until August 2016, is a British aristocrat, billionaire, businessman, and owner of Grosvenor Group. He became Duke of Westminster on 9 August 2016, on the death of his father Gerald Grosvenor.

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Hugh Keays-Byrne

First Name Hugh
Born on May 18, 1947
Died on December 2, 2020 (aged 73)

Hugh Keays-Byrne was a British-Australian actor and film director. A former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he was best known for playing the main antagonist in two films from the Mad Max franchise: Toecutter in Mad Max (1979), and Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). He also played Toad in the 1974 biker film Stone, and Grunchlk on the science fiction series Farscape.

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Hugh Bonneville

Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams
First Name Hugh
Born on November 10, 1963 (age 61)
Height 187 cm | 6'2

Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams, is an English film and television actor. He is best known for playing Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham in the ITV historical drama series Downton Abbey. His performance on the show earned him a nomination at the Golden Globes and two consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

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Hugh Dancy

Hugh Michael Horace Dancy
First Name Hugh
Born on June 19, 1975 (age 50)
Height 177 cm | 5'10

Hugh Michael Horace Dancy is an English actor who rose to prominence for his role as the titular character in the television film adaptation of David Copperfield (2000) as well as for roles in feature films as Sfc. Kurt Schmid in Black Hawk Down (2001) and Prince Charmont in Ella Enchanted (2004). Other film roles include Joe Conner in Shooting Dogs (2005), Grigg Harris in The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), Luke Brandon in Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), Adam Raki in Adam (2009) and Ted in Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011). On television, he portrayed criminal profiler Will Graham in the NBC television series Hannibal (2013–2015), Cal Roberts in the Hulu original series The Path (2016–2018) and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex in the Channel 4 miniseries Elizabeth I (2005), the latter role earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

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Hugh Skinner

First Name Hugh
Born on January 6, 1985 (age 40)
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Hugh William Skinner is an English actor.

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Hugh Hewitt

First Name Hugh
Born on February 22, 1956 (age 69)

Hugh Hewitt is an American radio talk show host with the Salem Radio Network and an attorney, academic, and author. A conservative, he writes about law, society, politics, and media bias in the United States. Hewitt is president and CEO of the Richard Nixon Foundation, a law professor at Chapman University School of Law, a columnist for The Washington Post, and a regular political commentator on NBC News and MSNBC.

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