Hunter is an English unisex given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Hunter Abbott (born 1980), British racing driver and businessman
- Hunter Andrews (1921–2005), American politician
- Hunter Armstrong (born 2001), American swimmer
- Hunter Azure (born 1992), American professional mixed martial artist
- Hunter Biden (born 1970), American lawyer and son of U.S. president Joe Biden
- Hunter Bishop (born 1998), American baseball player
- Hunter Bradley (American football) (born 1994), American football player
- Hunter Bryant (born 1998), American football player
- Hunter Burgan (born 1976), American bassist
- Hunter Carpenter (1883–1953), American football player
- Hunter Davies (born 1936), British writer
- Hunter Dekkers (born 2001), American football player
- Hunter Dickinson (born 2000), American basketball player
- Hunter Doohan (born 1994), American actor
- Hunter Foster (born 1969), American actor
- Hunter J. Francois (1924–2014), Saint Lucian politician
- Hunter Freeman (born 1985), American soccer player
- Hunter Gomez (born 1991), American actor
- Hunter Greene (born 1999), American baseball player
- Hunter Greene, American basketball player
- Hunter Hayes (born 1991), American country music singer
- Hunter Hearst Helmsley (born 1969), ring name of American wrestler Paul Levesque
- Hunter Hillenmeyer (born 1980), American football player
- Hunter Johnson (disambiguation), multiple people
- Hunter Kampmoyer (born 1998), American football player
- Hunter King (born 1993), American actress
- Hunter Lewis (born 1947), American economist
- Hunter Liggett (1857–1935), American general
- Hunter Long (born 1998), American football player
- Hunter Lovins (born 1950), American author, educator and promoter
- Hunter Luepke (born 2000), American football player
- Hunter Mahan (born 1982), American golfer
- Hunter Meighan (1914–2008), American politician
- Hunter Moore (born 1986), American revenge porn hacker and convicted felon
- Hunter McGuire (1835–1900), American physician
- Hunter Niswander (born 1994), American football player
- Hunter Nourzad (born 2000), American football player
- Hunter Pitts O'Dell (1923–2019), American activist
- Hunter Parrish (born 1987), American actor
- Hunter Pence (born 1983), American baseball player
- Hunter Renfrow (born 1995), American football player
- Hunter Reynolds (1959–2022), American visual artist and AIDS activist
- Hunter Schafer (born 1998), American fashion model, actress, artist, and LGBT rights activist
- Hunter Shinkaruk (born 1995), Canadian ice hockey player
- Hunter Smith (born 1977), American football player
- Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005), American writer
- Hunter Tylo (born 1962), American actress
- Hunter Wendelstedt (born 1971), American baseball umpire
Pronunciation | /ˈhʌntər/ HUN-tər |
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Gender | Gender-neutral (usually male) |
Origin | |
Word/name | England |
Meaning | Hunter pursuer |
Other names | |
Variant form(s) | Hunt |
Fictional characters
edit- Hunter, a character from Neil Gaiman's 1996 novel Neverwhere
- Hunter, a character from The Owl House
- Hunter, a character who is the gender-swapped and real world version of Huntress Wizard in Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake
- Hunter Bradley, a character in Power Rangers: Ninja Storm
- Hunter Clarington, a character in Glee
- Hunter Hollingsworth, a character from Degrassi
- Hunter the Cheetah, a character from Spyro
- Hunter Thibodeaux, a boss character in Dead Rising 3 and main character in one of its DLCs
- Hunter Throbheart, a character from WordGirl
- Hunter Van Pelt, a character from the 1995 film Jumanji
- Hunter Zolomon, a DC Comics supervillain known as Zoom
- Hunter, the sergeant of the titular squad from Star Wars: The Bad Batch