Henderson is a common Scottish

Scottish surnames

Scottish surnames are surnames currently found in Scotland, or surnames that have a historical connection with the country.-History:The earliest surnames found in Scotland occur during the reign of David I, King of Scots...

 surname

Surname

A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

. The name is derived from patronymic form of the name Hendry

Hendry

Hendry is a surname:*Hendry is a surname of the Scottish Clan HendersonPersons with a Hendry surname:*Billy Hendry, Scottish former football player*Charles Hendry, English politician*Colin Hendry, Scottish former professional football player...

, which is a Scottish form of Henry

Henry (surname)

Henry is an English male given name and a surname, borrowed from Old French, originally of Germanic origin from the elements haim and ric...

. Some Hendersons also derive their name from Henryson.http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Henderson-family-history.ashx

The surname Henderson is borne by numerous unrelated families in Scotland. For example, the Hendersons of Fordell, in Fifeshire, were the chief Lowland

Scottish Lowlands

The Scottish Lowlands is a name given to the Southern half of Scotland.The area is called a' Ghalldachd in Scottish Gaelic, and the Lawlands ....

 family of the name. This family descended from a family of Henrysons, from Dumfriesshire. A branch of Clan Gunn

Clan Gunn

Clan Gunn is a Scottish clan associated with northeastern Scotland, including Caithness and Sutherland as well as the Orkney Islands.The clan's origins stretch over the sea to Norway, and the Clan Gunn themselves claim descent from the legendary viking Sweyn Asleifsson, the progenitor of the clan,...

 also bears the name. According to tradition, this family descends from Henry Gunn, a younger son of a chief

Scottish clan chief

The Scottish Gaelic word clann means children. In early times, and possibly even today, clan members believed themselves to descend from a common ancestor, the founder of the Scottish clan. From its perceived founder a clan takes its name. The clan chief is the representative of this founder, and...

 of the Gunns who lived in the 15th century. The Hendersons of Glencoe derive their surname from the Gaelic MacEanruig.

The surname was unknown in England prior to the 17th century and is first mentioned in a marriage document between one of the Borders Hendersons and the daughter of a Carlisle merchant at Hexham

Hexham

Hexham is a market town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, located south of the River Tyne, and was the administrative centre for the Tynedale district from 1974 to 2009. The three major towns in Tynedale were Hexham, Prudhoe and Haltwhistle, although in terms of population, Prudhoe was...

. The surname is rendered in Scottish Gaelic as: MacEanraig or MacEanruig (masculine), and NicEanraig or NicEanruig (feminine).

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• Ainslie Henderson
  Ainslie Henderson
  Ainslie Thomas Henderson is a Scottish singer-songwriter. He is best known for his appearance on the BBC's television programme, Fame Academy, and his subsequent Top 5 UK single, "Keep Me A Secret"...
  
   (born 1979), Scottish singer-songwriter
• Alan Henderson
  Alan Henderson
  Alan Lybrooks Henderson is an American former professional basketball player of the NBA. He stands 6'9" tall. Henderson attended Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in Indianapolis, Indiana. They lost the Indiana State title game his senior year to Glenn Robinson's Gary Roosevelt squad...
  
   (born 1972), African-American basketball player
• Alexander Henderson (disambiguation), one of several people including:
  • Alexander Henderson (theologian)
    Alexander Henderson (theologian)
    Alexander Henderson was a Scottish theologian, and an important ecclesiastical statesman of his period. He is considered the second founder of the Reformed Church in Scotland, and its Presbyterian churches are largely indebted to him for the forms of their dogmas and organization.-Life:He was born...
    
     (1583–1646), Scottish theologian.
  • Alexander Henderson (photographer) (1831–1913), Scots-Quebecer merchant and photographer
  • Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon
    Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon
    Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon, CH , known as Sír Alexander Henderson, 1st Baronet, from 1902 to 1916, was a British financier and Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament.- Biography :...
    
    
  • Alexander Henderson (politician)
    Alexander Henderson (politician)
    Alexander Henderson was a lawyer, judge and political figure in British Columbia and Yukon. He represented New Westminster City in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1898 to 1900...
    
    , historical Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada
  • Alexander Henderson (Virginia)
    Alexander Henderson (Virginia)
    Alexander Henderson was a colonial merchant, born in Glasgow, Scotland who came to Colchester, Virginia in 1756. He served in the Virginia militia during the American Revolution. He was a member of the Virginia General Assembly and a Virginia delegate to the Mount Vernon Conference in 1785 which...
    
     (1738–1815), Scottish merchant and politician in Virginia, United States
  • Alexander D. Henderson (businessman)
    Alexander D. Henderson (businessman)
    Alexander Dawson Henderson was a businessman, philanthropist, and Vice-President and Treasurer of the California Perfume Company , which later became Avon Products, Inc.-Early life:...
    
    , Vice-President of California Perfume Company
• Alice Henderson, one of several people including:
  • Alice Henderson
    Alice Henderson
    Alice Henderson is an American author originally from Kirkwood, Missouri and currently residing in San Francisco, California.-Buffyverse:Novels relating to the fictional universe established by Buffy and Angel:*Night Terrors...
    
    , American novelist
  • Alice Corbin Henderson
    Alice Corbin Henderson
    Alice Corbin Henderson was an American poet, author and poetry editor.Alice Corbin was born in St. Louis, Missouri...
    
    , American poet and editor
  • Alice Faye Henderson, African-American singer Alice Wonder Land
    Alice Wonder Land
    Alice Wonder Land was the pseudonym of Alice Faye Henderson, a one-hit wonder who recorded a hit 1963 song, "He's Mine."The name refers to Lewis Carroll's classic book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland....
    
    
• Alistair Donald Henderson of Fordell, Australian environmental engineer, inventor, and Chief of the Clan Henderson
  Clan Henderson
  The Clan Henderson is a Scottish clan with members living throughout the world. The clan rose to prominence in Glen Coe with branches in Fife, the Borders, Caithness and the Shetland Islands...
  
  
• Ann Henderson-Sellers
  Ann Henderson-Sellers
  Professor Ann Henderson-Sellers was the Director of the World Climate Research Programme in 2006 and 2007 and was the Director of the Environment Division at ANSTO from 1998 to 2005. She was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology from 1996-1998...
  
  , climatologist
• Anthony Henderson, African-American rapper Krayzie Bone
  Krayzie Bone
  Anthony Henderson better known as Krayzie Bone, is an American rapper and is a former member of the rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.-Solo career:Krayzie Bone recorded his solo debut, Thug Mentality 1999, in 1998...
  
  
• Archibald Henderson
  Archibald Henderson
  Archibald Henderson was the longest-serving Commandant of the Marine Corps, serving from 1820 to 1859. He is often referred to as the "Grand old man of the Marine Corps," serving in the United States Marine Corps for 53 years.-Biography:Born in Colchester, Fairfax County, Virginia to successful...
  
   (1783–1859), fifth Commandant of the US Marine Corps
• Archibald Henderson (politician)
  Archibald Henderson (politician)
  Archibald Henderson was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Williamsboro, Granville County, North Carolina, August 7, 1768; attended the common schools, and was graduated from Springer College; moved to Salisbury, North Carolina, about 1790; studied law; was admitted to...
  
  , United States Congressman from North Carolina
• Arthur Henderson (disambiguation)
  Arthur Henderson (disambiguation)
  Arthur Henderson was a British politician and union leader, Leader of the Labour Party.Arthur Henderson may also refer to:*Arthur Henderson , British Army officer...
  
  , one of several people including:
  • Arthur Henderson
    Arthur Henderson
    Arthur Henderson was a British iron moulder and Labour politician. He was the 1934 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and he served three short terms as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1908–1910, 1914–1917 and 1931-1932....
    
     (1863–1935), British union leader, politician, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
  • Arthur Henderson (VC)
    Arthur Henderson (VC)
    Arthur Henderson VC, MC was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
    
     (1894–1917), British Army officer
  • Arthur Henderson, Baron Rowley
    Arthur Henderson, Baron Rowley
    Arthur Henderson, Baron Rowley, PC was a British Labour Party politician.Arthur Henderson was the son of Arthur Henderson, who was Leader of the Labour Party between 1908-1910, 1914-17 and 1931-1932.-Parliament:...
    
     (1893–1968), British Labour Party politician

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• Barrington "Bo" Henderson, African-American singer
• Barry Henderson
  Barry Henderson
  James Stewart Barry Henderson, usually known as Barry Henderson was a British Conservative Party politician who served in the House of Commons for two periods, February to October 1974 and 1979 to 1987, both for Scottish constituencies.Henderson was educated at Stowe...
  
  , Conservative member of the House of Commons
• Biff Henderson
  Biff Henderson
  James Jackson "Biff" Henderson, Jr. is an American comedian and television personality best known for his work on The Late Show with David Letterman. He is the show's stage manager and appears in occasional humorous segments, often involving interviewing people he meets in public places or at...
  
  , American television personality
• Bill Henderson (novelist)
  Bill Henderson (novelist)
  Bill Henderson is an American author whose writing has explored the mutual influences of popular culture and literature, and the dark side of celebrity...
  
  , (William McCranor Henderson) American novelist, author of I Killed Hemingway
• Bill Henderson (Canadian singer), singer and songwriter
• Billy Henderson
  Billy Henderson
  William "Billy" Henderson was an English professional footballer. He was born in Whitburn, County Durham.Billy Henderson, a right-back, began his career with his local side Whitburn from whom he joined Brighton & Hove Albion...
  
  , English footballer
• Bobby Henderson
  Flying Spaghetti Monster
  The Flying Spaghetti Monster is the deity of the parody religion the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster or Pastafarianism...
  
  , American creator of the satirical parody religion Flying Spaghetti Monsterism
• Brian Henderson (disambiguation)
• Brodie Henderson
  Brodie Henderson
  Brodie Henderson is a professional rugby union player who has represented Canada and Canada Sevens...
  
  , Canadian rugby player
• Brodie Henderson (engineer)
  Brodie Henderson (engineer)
  Sir Brodie Haldane Henderson was a British civil engineer. Henderson was primarily a railway engineer who worked for many railroad corporations across South America, Australasia and Africa. He was the consultant for the Dona Ana Bridge which, when it was built in 1935, was the longest railway...
  
  , British civil engineer
• Bruce Henderson
  Bruce Henderson
  Bruce Doolin Henderson was the founder of the Boston Consulting Group . Henderson founded BCG in 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts.- Biography :...
  
  , American management consultant

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• Camille Henderson
  Camille Henderson
  Camille Henderson , is a Canadian pop singer.She played the role of Shirley in the classic Canadian movie My American Cousin in 1985, and then went on to become part of the Vancouver-based pop group West End Girls from 1991 to 1993...
  
  , Canadian singer
• Caspar Henderson
  Caspar Henderson
  Caspar Henderson is a journalist and writer living in Oxford, England.He was educated at Westminster School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge....
  
  , British journalist
• Charles Henderson
  Charles Henderson
  Charles Henderson was the 35th Governor of Alabama from 1915 to 1919 and a member of the Democratic Party. Before serving as governor, Henderson was mayor of Troy, Alabama from 1886 to 1906 and played a key role in Troy’s business and civic development. After his term as governor, Henderson...
  
  , American politician
• Charles G. Henderson
  Charles G. Henderson
  Charles Gordon Henderson was a historian and antiquarian of Cornwall.Charles Henderson's only quarrel with Cornwall was that it had given him no more than a quarter of his blood. His father, Major J. S. Henderson, was half Scottish and half of the Irish family of Newenham: his mother was a...
  
  , British antiquarian, historian of Cornwall
• Charles Roy Henderson
  Charles Roy Henderson
  Charles Roy Henderson was a statistician and a pioneer in animal breeding — the application of quantitative methods for the genetic evaluation of domestic livestock. He developed mixed model equations to obtain best linear unbiased predictions of breeding values and, in general, any random effect...
  
  , American geneticist and statistician
• Charlie Butler-Henderson
  Charlie Butler-Henderson
  Charlie Butler-Henderson is a British auto racing driver who now works as a racing instructor and presenter. He is part of a family which are strongly involved with motorsport...
  
  , British motor racing driver
• Chris Henderson
  Chris Henderson
  Christopher "Chris" Henderson is a former American soccer midfielder who earned 79 caps with the U.S. national team. He was part of the U.S...
  
  , American soccer player
• Christopher Henderson, fictional character portrayed by Peter Weller on the television series 24
• Claude Henderson
  Claude Henderson
  Claude William Henderson is a South African cricketer who bowls left-arm spin and played in seven Tests and four ODIs from 2001 to 2002...
  
  , South African cricketer

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• Dan Henderson
  Dan Henderson
  Daniel Jeffery Henderson, is an American mixed martial artist and former Olympic wrestler, who competes as a middleweight and light heavyweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is the former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion and was the last Welterweight and Middleweight champion...
  
  , American martial arts fighter
• Darius Henderson
  Darius Henderson
  Darius Alexis Henderson is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Millwall.-Reading:...
  
   (born 1981), Watford F.C. football (soccer) player
• David Henderson (disambiguation), one of several people including:
  • David Henderson (basketball)
    David Henderson (basketball)
    David McKinley Henderson is a retired American basketball player and a present day basketball coach....
    
    , head basketball coach at the University of Delaware
  • David Henderson (British Army officer), senior British Army and, later, RAF officer
  • David Henderson (economist)
    David Henderson (economist)
    David Henderson is an economist. He was the Head of the Economics and Statistics Department at the OECD in 1984–1992. Before that he worked as an academic economist in Britain, first at Oxford and later at University College London ; as a British civil servant David Henderson (born 1927)...
    
    , chief economist at the OECD in Paris from 1984 to 1992
  • David B. Henderson
    David B. Henderson
    David Bremner Henderson , a ten-term Republican Congressman from Dubuque, Iowa, was the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1899 to 1903...
    
    , prominent U.S. politician of the 1890s and 1900s
  • David N. Henderson
    David N. Henderson
    David Newton Henderson was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.Born on a farm near Hubert, North Carolina, HendersonB.S., Wallace High School, Wallace, North Carolina, 1938....
    
     (1921–2004), U.S. Representative from North Carolina
  • Dave Henderson
    Dave Henderson
    David Lee Henderson , nicknamed Hendu, is an American former Major League Baseball player who played for the Seattle Mariners , Boston Red Sox , San Francisco Giants , Oakland Athletics and Kansas City Royals . He batted and threw right-handed...
    
    , African-American Major League Baseball player
  • Dave Henderson (footballer)
    Dave Henderson (footballer)
    Dave Henderson , is a former Irish professional footballer goalkeeper who played in the League of Ireland from 1978 until his retirement in 1998. He also played two seasons in the North American Soccer League.-Career:...
    
    , Irish football (soccer) player
• Sir Denys Henderson
  Denys Henderson
  Sir Denys Henderson was chairman of ICI from 1987 to 1995.-Early life:Henderson was born on 11 October 1932, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where his father was a tea planter. The family returned to Scotland and Henderson went to school in Aberdeen and graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 1955 in...
  
   (born 1932), chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries from 1987 to 1995
• Devery Henderson
  Devery Henderson
  -New Orleans Saints:On November 5, 2006, Devery had his best day as a professional in a game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he caught 3 passes for 111 yards and 2 touchdowns. Henderson had 158 receiving yards on 5 catches, including a 76 yard touchdown, against the Atlanta Falcons on November...
  
  , American football player
• Dickie Henderson
  Dickie Henderson
  Dickie Henderson, OBE was a London-born entertainer.-Early years:His father, Dick Henderson was a music hall comedian and singer famous for his short, rotund appearance, bowler hat and beautiful singing voice...
  
  , British comedian
• Don Henderson
  Don Henderson
  Don Henderson was an English actor whose film and TV work covered many years but is best remembered for his role as the fictional detective George Bulman...
  
  , British actor
• Donald Henderson
  Donald Henderson
  Donald Ainslie Henderson, known as D.A. Henderson, is an American physician and epidemiologist, who headed the international effort during the 1960s to eradicate smallpox. , he is a Distinguished Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Center for Biosecurity and a professor of...
  
  , American epidemiologist who led the World Health Organization's successful World Smallpox Eradication Campaign
• Donnie Henderson
  Donnie Henderson
  Donnie Henderson is an American football coach. He is currently the Defensive Backs Coach for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League.-Biography:...
  
  , American football figure
• Doug Henderson
  Doug Henderson
  Douglas John "Doug" Henderson is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Newcastle North from 1987 until 2010.-Early life:...
  
   (b. 1949), British politician
• Douglas Henderson
  Douglas Henderson
  Douglas Henderson was a Scottish politician. He served as a Member of Parliament for the Scottish National Party , representing the East Aberdeenshire constituency from February 1974 to March 1979, and held virtually every national office in the SNP, short of party leader...
  
   (1935-2006), British politician

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• Sir Edmund Henderson
  Edmund Henderson
  Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edmund Yeamans Walcott Henderson KCB was an officer in the British Army who was Comptroller-General of Convicts in Western Australia from 1850 to 1863, Home Office Surveyor-General of Prisons from 1863 to 1869, and Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London...
  
  , head of London Metropolitan Police
• Edward Elers Delaval Henderson
  Edward Elers Delaval Henderson
  Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Elers Delaval Henderson VC was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.Henderson was educated at Dunstable Grammar School...
  
  , British Army officer

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• Fergus Henderson
  Fergus Henderson
  Fergus Henderson is an English chef who founded the St John restaurant in St John St, London. He is often noted for his use of offal and other neglected cuts of meat as a consequence of his philosophy of Nose To Tail Eating. Following in the footsteps of his parents, Brian and Elizabeth...
  
  , British chef
• Fletcher Henderson
  Fletcher Henderson
  James Fletcher Hamilton Henderson, Jr. was an American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer, important in the development of big band jazz and swing music. His was one of the most prolific black orchestras and his influence was vast...
  
   (1897–1952), African-American jazz and swing musician
• Florence Henderson
  Florence Henderson
  Florence Agnes Henderson is an American actress and singer. She is perhaps best known for her role of Carol Brady on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch from 1969 to 1974...
  
   (b. 1934), American television actress
• Frank Henderson
  Frank Henderson
  Frank Henderson is an American professional poker player from Houston, Texas.Henderson was the runner-up to Johnny Chan in the 1987 World Series of Poker $10,000 no limit hold'em main event. He also finished in the money of the same event in 1996....
  
  , American poker player
• Frederick Henderson
  Frederick Henderson
  Frederick Arthur "Fritz" Henderson was President and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors. Prior to his appointment as CEO on March 31, 2009, Henderson was the Vice President of General Motors and has been with the company since 1984...
  
  , CEO of General Motors

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• George Henderson (disambiguation), one of several people including:
  • George Henderson (Australian politician)
    George Henderson (Australian politician)
    Christopher George Henderson was a Scottish-born Australian politician. Born in Clackmannanshire, he received a primary education before migrating to Australia in 1885. He was a coal miner in New South Wales and general secretary of the Illawarra Miners' Union...
    
    , Australian politician
  • George Henderson (Manitoba politician)
    George Henderson (Manitoba politician)
    George Lindsay Henderson was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1969 to 1977....
    
     (born 1916), former MLA in Manitoba
  • George Henderson (Prince Edward Island politician)
    George Henderson (Prince Edward Island politician)
    George Roland Henderson was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a shellfish technician, farmer, electrical engineer and businessman by career....
    
    , former Member of Parliament in Canada
  • George Francis Robert Henderson
    George Francis Robert Henderson
    Colonel George Francis Robert Henderson CB was a British soldier and military author.- Early life :Henderson was born in Jersey in 1854. Educated at Leeds Grammar School, of which his father, afterwards Dean of Carlisle, was headmaster, he was early attracted to the study of history, and obtained...
    
     (1854–1903), British soldier and military author
  • George Raymond Henderson
    George R. Henderson
    Vice Admiral George Raymond Henderson was a World War II-era officer in the United States Navy.-Biography:Henderson was born in on July 6, 1893 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. He graduated from the University of Maine in 1916 and was a member of the Theta Chi fraternity.-Naval Aviator:On July 17,...
    
     (1893-1964), World War II-era officer in United States Navy
  • George Stuart Henderson
    George Stuart Henderson
    Captain George Stuart Henderson VC DSO & Bar MC was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:Henderson was 26 years old, and a captain in the 2nd...
    
     (c. 1894–1920), recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • George Wylie Henderson
    George Wylie Henderson
    George Wylie Henderson was an author of the Harlem Renaissance.He was born in Alabama, and went to the Tuskegee Institute. He published two books, Ollie Miss and Jule, and many short stories in Redbook Magazine....
    
     (1904–1965), American author of the Harlem Renaissance
  • Krazy George Henderson
    Krazy George Henderson
    Krazy George Henderson is a professional cheerleader and claimed inventor of the audience wave.Krazy George began cheerleading while a student at San Jose State in 1968, where he was also a member of the National Championship winning judo team...
    
    , American cheerleader
• Gerald Henderson
  Gerald Henderson
  Jerome McKinley "Gerald" Henderson, Sr. is a retired American basketball player. He was a shooting guard who had a 13-year career in the NBA from 1979 until 1992. He played for the Boston Celtics, Seattle SuperSonics, New York Knicks, Philadelphia 76ers, Milwaukee Bucks, Detroit Pistons, and...
  
  , American basketball
• Gerard Henderson
  Gerard Henderson
  Gerard Henderson is a conservative Australian newspaper columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald.. He is also Executive Director of the Sydney Institute, a privately funded current affairs forum. His wife Anne Henderson is Deputy Director.-Education:Henderson attended the Jesuit Xavier College in...
  
  , Australian journalist and commentator
• Girard B. Henderson
  Girard B. Henderson
  Girard Brown Henderson, , founder of the Alexander Dawson Schools, was a businessman, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.-Early life:...
  
  , CEO of Alexander Dawson, Inc.
• Greg Henderson
  Greg Henderson
  Gregory Henderson is a professional track and road racing cyclist who rides for , but who will ride for Lotto in 2012. His career includes winning the 15 km scratch race at the 2004 world championships and, in road cycling, winning the points competition at the 2005 Tour de Georgia. He...
  
  , a professional New Zealand track and road racing cyclist
• Gordon Henderson (disambiguation), one of several people including:
  • Gordon Henderson (lawyer), Canadian lawyer
  • Gordon Henderson (politician)
    Gordon Henderson (politician)
    Gordon Henderson is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for the Sittingbourne and Sheppey constituency in Kent, having won the seat at the since 2010 general election.-Professional career:...
    
    , British Conservative Member of Parliament
• Gus Henderson
  Gus Henderson
  Elmer Clinton "Gloomy Gus" Henderson was an American football coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Southern California , the University of Tulsa , and Occidental College , compiling a career college football record of 126–42–7...
  
  , American football coach
• Grace Henderson
  Grace Henderson
  Grace Henderson was a stage actress and prolific performer in silent motion pictures. She made her professional debut at McKiver's Theatre in Chicago, Illinois in 1877....
  
  , American silent movie and stage actress

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• Hamish Henderson
  Hamish Henderson
  Hamish Scott Henderson, was a Scottish poet, songwriter, soldier, and intellectual....
  
  , Scottish poet
• Harold Lloyd Henderson
  Harold Lloyd Henderson
  Rev. Harold Lloyd Henderson was a Presbyterian minister and politician in Manitoba, Canada.H. Lloyd Henderson was born in Freeland, Prince Edward Island, and attended schools in Freeland, Summerside, Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and at McGill University and...
  
  , Canadian Presbyterian minister and politician
• Hazel Henderson
  Hazel Henderson
  Hazel Henderson is a futurist and an economic iconoclast. In recent years she has worked in television, and she is the author of several books including Building A Win-Win World, Beyond Globalization, Planetary Citizenship , and Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy.- Career :Henderson is now...
  
  , British futurist writer
• Herb Henderson
  Herb Henderson
  Herb Henderson is a former Australian rules footballer who was recruited by Footscray Football Club , in the Victorian Football League, now AFL from Mildura Imperials for the 1950 season...
  
  , Australian rules footballer
• Herbert Stephen Henderson
  Herbert Stephen Henderson
  Herbert Stephen Henderson VC was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
  
  , British soldier
• Horace Henderson
  Horace Henderson
  Horace W. Henderson Born in Cuthbert, Georgia , younger brother of Fletcher Henderson, was an American jazz pianist, organist, arranger, and bandleader....
  
  , American jazz musician, brother of Fletcher Henderson

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• Ian Henderson (disambiguation), one of several people including:
  • Ian Henderson (footballer), current Northampton Town F.C. football player
  • Ian Henderson (news presenter), Australian news presenter
  • Ian Henderson (police officer), former head of secret police in Bahrain, accused of torture
• Isaac Henderson
  Isaac Henderson
  Isaac Austin Henderson was an American newspaperman and writer.-Life:After an early education in private schools and under tutors, he graduated from Williams College with the degrees of Bachelor and Master of Arts, and Doctor of Civil Law...
  
  , American writer
• Ivan Henderson
  Ivan Henderson
  Ivan John Henderson is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament for Harwich from 1997 to 2005.-Early life:...
  
  , British politician

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• J. W. Henderson
  J. W. Henderson
  James Wilson Henderson was the fourth Governor of Texas from November 23, 1853 to December 21, 1853.Born on August 15, 1817 in Sumner County, Tennessee, Henderson moved to Texas when he was 19 to join the struggle for independence, but he arrived too late to participate. He settled in Harris...
  
  , fourth governor of Texas
• Jackie Henderson
  Jackie Henderson
  John Gillespie "Jackie" Henderson was a Scottish international footballer who played in the Football League for Portsmouth, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Arsenal and Fulham.-Club career:...
  
   (1932–2005), Scottish football (soccer) player
• James Henderson (disambiguation), one of several people including:
  • James Henderson (footballer)
    James Henderson (footballer)
    James Henderson was a Scottish footballer.Henderson was born in Thornhill, Dumfries, and first played for the 5th Kirkcudbright Rifle Volunteers and then Rangers; he was a squad player in Rangers 1890-91 Scottish League-title winning season. In 1892 he moved south to London, signing for Woolwich...
    
    , footballer for Woolwich Arsenal
  • James Pinckney Henderson
    James Pinckney Henderson
    James Pinckney Henderson was a United States and Republic of Texas lawyer, politician, soldier, and the first Governor of the State of Texas....
    
    , first governor of Texas
• Jim Henderson (politician) (D. James Henderson), Canadian politician
• Joe Henderson
  Joe Henderson
  Joe Henderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than forty years Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent labels, including Blue Note.-Early life:From a very large family with five sisters and nine...
  
  , American jazz saxophonist
• Joe Henderson (runner)
  Joe Henderson (runner)
  Joe Henderson is an American runner, running coach, writer, and former chief editor of Runner's World magazine. He currently writes for Marathon & Beyond magazine, and since 1982, a weekly column entitled "Joe Henderson's Running Commentary"...
  
  
• Joseph Henderson (pilot)
  Joseph Henderson (Pilot)
  Joseph Henderson was an early American harbor pilot. He was well known for being one of the oldest and wealthiest pilots in the New York Sandy Hook service. -Early life:...
  
  , early American harbor pilot
• John Henderson (disambiguation), one of several people including:
  • John Henderson (defensive tackle) (born 1979), American football player
  • John Henderson (director)
    John Henderson (director)
    John Henderson is a British film and television director His first directing job was for Spitting Image on ITV, which won him a BAFTA...
    
    , British film and television director
  • John Henderson (Australian rules footballer), Australian rules footballer
  • John Henderson (ice hockey)
    John Henderson (ice hockey)
    John Henderson is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played 46 games for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League as part of a professional career that spanned from 1953 to 1970....
    
    , Canadian ice hockey player
  • John Henderson (Mississippi politician)
    John Henderson (Mississippi politician)
    John Henderson was a lawyer and U.S. Senator from Mississippi.Born in Cumberland County, New Jersey, Henderson worked as a flatboatman on the Mississippi River and studied law. He moved to Mississippi and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice in Woodville, Mississippi...
    
     (1797–1857), U.S. senator from Mississippi
  • John Henderson (Scottish politician)
    John Henderson (Scottish politician)
    Sir John Henderson DL JP was a Scottish Conservative party politician.The son of John Henderson and Ellen Shiels, Henderson was educated at the Martyrs' Public School, Glasgow....
    
     (1888–1975), Conservative MP for Glasgow Cathcart 1946–1964
  • John B. Henderson
    John B. Henderson
    John Brooks Henderson was a United States Senator from Missouri and a co-author of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution....
    
     (1826–1913), U.S. senator from Missouri and author of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
  • John D. Henderson
    John D. Henderson
    John D. "Colonel Jack" Henderson was an American editor, rancher, businessman, and pro-slavery politician in the Kansas Territory.John D. Henderson was born in Pennsylvania....
    
     ("Colonel Jack" Henderson), American editor and pro-slavery politician
  • John E. Henderson
    John E. Henderson
    John Earl Henderson was an American politician of the Republican party who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1955 to 1961....
    
    , American politician
  • John Ronald Henderson
    John Ronald Henderson
    Major John Ronald Henderson, CVO, MBE, JP was an English soldier and Aide-de-camp to Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein....
    
     (1920–2003), British Army officer
• Jordan Henderson
  Jordan Henderson
  Jordan Brian Henderson is an English footballer who plays for Premier League club Liverpool and the England national team as a midfielder. He had a loan spell at Coventry City in 2009. He earned his first international cap for England, having previously played for the under-19, under-20 and...
  
   (born 1990), English footballer
• Joseph Welles Henderson
  Joseph Welles Henderson
  Joseph Welles Henderson , born in Montgomery, Pennsylvania, was acting president of Bucknell University from 1953–54.-Education:Henderson received his A.B...
  
  , lawyer and Bucknell University president
• Josh Henderson
  Josh Henderson
  Joshua Baret "Josh" Henderson is an American actor and singer. He rose to fame as one of the male members of Scene 23, a pop singing group that were selected as the winners of The WB's singing competition Popstars 2. After the group disbanded, he began focusing on an acting career...
  
  , American actor

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• Karen L. Henderson
  Karen L. Henderson
  Karen LeCraft Henderson is a United States federal judge who was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in July 1990, by President George H. W. Bush.-Early life, education, and career:...
  
  , American judge
• Keith Henderson
  Keith Henderson
  Keith Henderson is a former American football running back who played for the San Francisco 49ers and Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League....
  
  , American football player
• Kelson Henderson
  Kelson Henderson
  Kelson Henderson is a well versed Stage, TV & Film actor from New Zealand. He has appeared briefly in various shows but most famous are his roles in Power Rangers. He has both played and voiced roles for Power Rangers since 2004's Dino Thunder.Henderson was a guest at the Power Morphicon in June...
  
  , Australian actor

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• Larry Henderson
  Larry Henderson
  Larry Henderson was the first regular newsreader on the CBC Television's The National News, later rebranded as The National, from 1954 to 1959. He was born in Montreal....
  
  , Canadian television journalist
• Laura Henderson
  Laura Henderson
  Laura Henderson rose to prominence in the 1930s when, as a wealthy and eccentric widow, she founded the Windmill Theatre in London's Great Windmill Street in partnership with Vivian van Damm; they went on to turn it into a British institution, famed for its pioneering tableaux vivants of...
  
  , English theatrical promoter
• Lawrence Joseph Henderson
  Lawrence Joseph Henderson
  Lawrence Joseph Henderson was a physiologist, chemist, biologist, philosopher, and sociologist. He became one of the leading biochemists of the first decades of the 20th century.Lawrence Henderson graduated from Harvard College in 1898 and from Harvard Medical School in 1902, receiving the M. D...
  
  , American scientist
• Les Henderson
  Les Henderson
  Les Henderson is a Canadian consumer fraud author and webmaster of Crimes of Persuasion, a consumer-fraud awareness site.Henderson published two books, "Crimes Of Persuasion" and "Under Investigation". His first book "Crimes Of Persuasion" describes a large variety of 'schemes, scams and frauds'...
  
  , Canadian consumer-fraud author
• Lofton R. Henderson
  Lofton R. Henderson
  Lofton R. Henderson was a naval aviator in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. He was the commanding officer of VMSB-241 at the Battle of Midway and is recognized as the first Marine aviator to die during that battle while leading his squadron to attack the Japanese carrier...
  
  , World War II aviator
• Lois T. Henderson
  Lois T. Henderson
  Lois T. Henderson is an American author of Christian novels, many of which are dramatizations of Biblical narratives about women.-Fiction:*The Holy Experiment: a Novel About the Harmonist Society ISBN 0-682-48115-7...
  
  , novelist
• Lucius J. Henderson
  Lucius J. Henderson
  Lucius J. Henderson was an American silent film director of the early silent period involved in over 70 film productions.-Biography:A classically trained musician, Lucius J...
  
  , American silent film director
• Luther Henderson
  Luther Henderson
  Luther Henderson was an African American arranger, composer, orchestrator, and pianist.Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he was educated at the Juilliard School of Music where he received a B.S. in 1942...
  
  , American arranger
• Logan Henderson
  Logan Henderson
  Logan Phillip Henderson is an American actor, dancer, rapper and singer-songwriter. He is best known for his starring role as Logan Mitchell on the Nickelodeon series, Big Time Rush, as well as being a member of the Big Time Rush band itself.-Early life:Henderson was born and raised in North...
  
  , American actor/singer

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• Marjorie Lyman Henderson, the cartoonist Marge
• Mark Henderson (disambiguation)
  Mark Henderson (disambiguation)
  Mark Henderson may refer to:* Mark Henderson , Broadway lighting designer* Mark Henderson , American swimmer* Mark Henderson, Big Brother 2011 contestant, see List of Big Brother 2011 housemates #Mark...
  
  , one of several people
• Martin Henderson
  Martin Henderson
  Martin Henderson is a New Zealand actor, well known to American audiences for his starring role in the ABC TV series Off the Map, while remaining known in his home country for his teenage role as Stuart Neilson in the soap opera Shortland Street.-Life and career:Henderson was born in Auckland, New...
  
  , New Zealand actor
• Mary Henderson, writer Mary Eastman
• Mary Foote Henderson
  Mary Foote Henderson
  Mary Foote Henderson was born in Seneca Falls, New York, the daughter of Eunice Newton and Elisha Foote, a prominent lawyer and judge, and the niece of Senator Samuel Foote of Connecticut...
  
  , socialite and wife of Missouri senator John Brooks Henderson
• Matt Henderson
  Matt Henderson
  Matthew Henderson was a cricketer who played for Wellington and New Zealand.Henderson was a left-arm fast bowler and toured England with the 1927 team under Tom Lowry...
  
  , New Zealand cricketer
• Meredith Henderson
  Meredith Henderson
  Meredith Henderson is a Canadian actress best known for playing the title role in The Adventures of Shirley Holmes....
  
  , Canadian actress
• Monique Henderson
  Monique Henderson
  Monique Henderson is a track and field athlete, competing internationally for the United States. She was a gold medalist in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China....
  
  , American athlete
• M R Henderson
  M R Henderson
  Murray Ross Henderson was a Scottish botanist who did most of his botanical work in the Straits Settlements and South Africa. He took a position as a botanist in Malaya in 1921 and became curator of the herbarium in the Singapore Botanical Gardens in 1924.On the invasion of British Malaya by Japan...
  
  , Scottish botanist

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• Nevile Henderson
  Nevile Henderson
  Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson, KCMG , was the third child of Robert and Emma Henderson and was born at Sedgwick Park near Horsham, West Sussex. Ambassador of Great Britain to Germany from 1937 to 1939, he believed that Adolf Hitler could be controlled and pushed toward peace and cooperation with...
  
  , British Ambassador to Germany 1937–1939
• Nicholas Henderson
  Nicholas Henderson
  Sir John Nicolas Henderson, GCMG, KCVO was a distinguished British career diplomat and writer, who served as British Ambassador to the United States from 1979 to 1982....
  
  , British diplomat

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• Paul Henderson (disambiguation)
  Paul Henderson (disambiguation)
  Paul Henderson is a retired Canadian ice hockey player.Paul Henderson may also refer to:*Paul Henderson , English cricketer*Paul Henderson , Australian football goalkeeper...
  
  , one of several people including:
  • Paul Henderson
    Paul Henderson
    Paul Henderson is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. A left winger, Henderson played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs and Atlanta Flames...
    
     (born 1943), Canadian ice hockey player
  • Paul Henderson (cricketer)
    Paul Henderson (cricketer)
    Paul Henderson was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. Henderson played first-class and List A cricket for Durham in 1992...
    
    , English cricketer
  • Paul Henderson (footballer)
    Paul Henderson (footballer)
    Paul John Henderson is an Australian football goalkeeper who is currently playing for Sydney Olympic.-Club career:Henderson started his career in club football in Australia...
    
     (born 1976), Australian football goalkeeper

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• Ray Henderson
  Ray Henderson
  Ray Henderson , was an American songwriter.Born Raymond Brost in Buffalo, New York, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley...
  
   (born Raymond Brost), American songwriter
• Richard Henderson (disambiguation), one of several people including:
  • Richard Henderson (American pioneer)
    Richard Henderson (American pioneer)
    Richard Henderson was an American pioneer and merchant who attempted to create a colony called Transylvania just as the American Revolutionary War was starting.-Early life:Henderson was born in Hanover County, Virginia...
    
    
  • Richard Henderson (molecular biologist)
    Richard Henderson (molecular biologist)
    Richard Henderson FRS is a Scottish molecular biologist and pioneer in the field of electron microscopy of biological molecules.-Career:...
    
    
• Rickey Henderson
  Rickey Henderson
  Rickey Henley Henderson is a former Major League Baseball left fielder who played for nine teams from 1979 to 2003, including four stints with his original team, the Oakland Athletics. Nicknamed The Man of Steal, he is widely regarded as the sport's greatest leadoff hitter and baserunner...
  
   (born 1958), American baseball player
• Robert Henderson (disambiguation), one of several people including:
  • Robert Henryson
    Robert Henryson
    Robert Henryson was a poet who flourished in Scotland in the period c. 1460–1500. Counted among the Scots makars, he lived in the royal burgh of Dunfermline and is a distinctive voice in the Northern Renaissance at a time when the culture was on a cusp between medieval and renaissance sensibilities...
    
     (c 1425 - c 1500), Scottish poet
  • Robert Henderson (cricketer)
    Robert Henderson (cricketer)
    Robert Henderson was a Welsh cricketer, a right-hand batsman and right-arm slow bowler.- Brilliant Debut Season in 1883 :...
    
     (1851–1931), English cricketer
  • Robert Henderson (writer) (born 1947), English political writer
  • Rob Henderson
    Rob Henderson
    Robert Alexander James Henderson is a rugby union footballer who plays at centre for Esher RFC. He has represented Ireland with 32 caps and toured with the 2001 British and Irish Lions....
    
     (born 1972), English and Irish rugby union footballer

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• Saffron Henderson
  Saffron Henderson
  Saffron Henderson is a Canadian voice actress and singer and the daughter of Bill Henderson of Chilliwack fame. She has voiced various characters from anime series...
  
  , Canadian actress
• Sam Henderson
  Sam Henderson
  Sam Henderson is an American cartoonist, writer and expert on American comedy history.Henderson attended Boiceville, New York's Onteora High School, graduating in 1987, and the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he graduated in 1991.Henderson has been self-publishing xeroxed minicomics...
  
  , American comics artist
• Sara Henderson
  Sara Henderson
  Sara Jane Henderson was an Australian pastoralist and author.She was named Businesswoman of the Year in 1991 for managing the Bullo River cattle station, 360 kilometres south-west of Darwin in the Northern Territory...
  
  , Australian writer
• Scott Henderson
  Scott Henderson
  Scott Henderson is a fusion and blues guitarist best known for his work with the band Tribal Tech.-Early days:Born in West Palm Beach, Florida, Henderson began playing guitar at an early age...
  
  , American guitarist
• Sean Henderson
  Sean Henderson
  Sean Henderson is a former a U.S. soccer midfielder who spent two seasons in Germany, three in Major League Soccer and five in the USL A-League...
  
  , American soccer player
• Shirley Henderson
  Shirley Henderson
  Shirley Henderson is a Scottish actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Moaning Myrtle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire .-Early life:...
  
  , Scottish actress
• Skitch Henderson
  Skitch Henderson
  Lyle Russell Cedric “Skitch” Henderson was a pianist, conductor, and composer. His nickname reportedly derived from his ability to quickly "re-sketch" a song in a different key.- Biography :...
  
   (1918–2005), musician and band leader

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• Thelton Henderson
  Thelton Henderson
  Thelton Eugene Henderson is currently a federal judge in the Northern District of California. He has played an important role in the field of civil rights as a lawyer, educator, and jurist.-Career:...
  
  , federal judge
• Thomas Henderson (disambiguation), one of several people including:
  • Thomas Henderson (1874–1951), Scottish Liberal Member of Parliament for Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire 1922–1923
  • Thomas Henderson (American football), NFL football player
  • Thomas Henderson (New Jersey)
    Thomas Henderson (New Jersey)
    Thomas Henderson was a United States Representative from New Jersey.Born in Freehold, he attended the public schools and was graduated from Princeton College in 1761. He studied medicine and practiced first in Freneau, and afterwards in Freehold, about 1765...
    
    , U.S. congressman
  • Thomas Henderson (New Zealand)
    Thomas Henderson (New Zealand)
    Thomas Maxwell Henderson was a New Zealand politician. He was one of the earliest settlers in Auckland. He was a significant entrepreneur, and the Auckland suburb of Henderson bears his name.-Early life:...
    
    , New Zealand politician
  • Thomas Henderson (politician) (1867–1960), Scottish Labour Cooperative politician
  • Thomas Finlayson Henderson (1844–1923), Scottish author
  • Thomas J. Henderson (activist)
    Thomas J. Henderson (activist)
    Thomas J. Henderson was an American activist and business manager.Henderson was born in Winona, Minnesota and attended Amherst College before receiving a BS and MS from MIT. He worked in the construction trade for many years, becoming CEO of Guy F. Atkinson Co...
    
    , American businessman
  • Thomas J. Henderson (politician)
    Thomas J. Henderson (politician)
    Thomas Jefferson Henderson was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Brownsville, Tennessee, Henderson moved with his parents to Illinois at the age of eleven. He served as clerk of the Board of Commissioners of Stark County, Illinois from 1847 to 1849. and as clerk of the court of Stark...
    
    , United States congressman from Illinois
  • Thomas James Henderson
    Thomas James Henderson
    Thomas James Alan Henderson was a Scottish astronomer noted for being the first person to measure the distance to Alpha Centauri, the major component of the nearest stellar system to Earth, and for being the first Astronomer Royal for Scotland.-Early life:Born in Dundee, Scotland, he was educated...
    
     (1798–1844), Scottish Astronomer Royal
  • Tommy Henderson
    Tommy Henderson
    Thomas Gibson Henderson was an Ulster independent Unionist politician. He served in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland from 1925 to 1953 in vigorous opposition to the Unionist governments on all issues other than the partition of Ireland, and is famous for having at one stage spoken for...
    
    , Northern Ireland politician

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• Valerie Henderson
  Valerie Henderson
  Valerie Kay "Val" Henderson is an American soccer goalkeeper currently playing for the Philadelphia Independence of Women's Professional Soccer....
  
  , American footballer
• Vicki Butler-Henderson
  Vicki Butler-Henderson
  Victoria "Vicki" Butler-Henderson is a racing driver and television presenter.-Biography:Butler-Henderson was born into a racing family. Her grandfather used to race a Frazer Nash at Brooklands, her father was in the British karting team and her brother Charlie is a racing driver. She has an older...
  
  , British racing driver and television presenter
• Virginia Henderson
  Virginia Henderson
  Virginia Henderson, FRCN was a nurse, researcher, theorist and author. She was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the fifth of eight children of Lucy Abbot Henderson and Daniel B. Henderson. She graduated from the Army School of Nursing, Washington, D.C. in 1921. She graduated from Teachers College,...
  
  , American nurse

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• Wayne Henderson (disambiguation), one of several people including:
  • Wayne Henderson (footballer), Irish football player
  • Wayne Henderson (musician)
    Wayne Henderson (musician)
    Wayne Henderson is a soul-jazz and hard bop trombonist and record producer. In 1961, he co-founded the soul jazz/hard bop group The Jazz Crusaders...
    
    , American jazz trombonist
• William Henderson (disambiguation)
  William Henderson (disambiguation)
  William Henderson, Willie Henderson, Bill Henderson or Billy Henderson may refer to:-Writers:*Bill Henderson , American author...
  
  , one of several people including:
  • William Henderson, American football player
  • William James Henderson
    William James Henderson
    William James Henderson was an American musical critic and scholar, born at Newark, New Jersey.-Biography:...
    
    , American music critic
  • William Penhallow Henderson
    William Penhallow Henderson
    William Penhallow Henderson was an American painter, architect, and furniture designer....
    
    , American painter, architect and furniture designer
  • William W. Henderson
    William W. Henderson
    William Williams Henderson was an early influential American educator in Utah. He was principal of Weber Academy in Ogden, Utah from 1909 to 1913, president of Brigham Young College in Logan, Utah from 1919 to 1926, and head of the zoology and entomology department at Utah State Agricultural...
    
    , American educator
  • Inspector William Henderson
    Inspector William Henderson
    Inspector William Henderson is a supporting character in Superman comics published by DC Comics.Inspector Henderson first appeared in the 1940s radio series The Adventures of Superman, in which he was Superman's police contact. He was subsequently introduced in a similar role in the 1950s...
    
    , fictional character from DC Comics