Hovey (surname)
Appearance
Hovey is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alvin Peterson Hovey (1821–1891), American Civil War Union general, governor of Indiana and Indiana Supreme Court justice
- Charles Edward Hovey (1827–1897), educator, college president and general in the U.S. Army
- Charles Fox Hovey (1807–1859), businessman in Boston, Massachusetts
- Charles Mason Hovey (1810–1887), American nurseryman, seed merchant, journalist and author
- Charles Hovey (naval officer) (1885–1911), U.S. Navy officer
- Chester Ralph Hovey (1872–1953), Associate Justice of the Washington Supreme Court
- Elliot Hovey (born 1983), American Olympic rower
- Frederick Hovey (1868–1945), American tennis player
- George Rice Hovey (1860–1943), American university president, minister, professor and author
- Natasha Hovey (born 1967), Italian actress
- Richard Hovey (1864–1900), American poet, songwriter and playwright
- Serge Hovey (1920–1989), American composer and ethnomusicologist
- William Hovey (1786-1855), early American industrialist and inventor; builder in 1824 of the "Upper and Lower Mills" and of the Hovey Dam in North Grafton, MA, which dam supplied water to the nascent Blackstone Canal