Horatio

Horatio is a male given name, derived from the Latin name (nomen) Horatius, from the Roman gens (clan) Horatia.

Horatio may refer to:

People

• Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832–1899), American author
• Horatio Allen (1802–1889), American civil engineer and inventor
• Horatio Thomas Austin (1801–1865), British Royal Navy officer and arctic explorer
• Horatio Barber (1875–1964), early British aviation pioneer
• Horatio Bottomley (1860–1932), English swindler, publisher and politician
• Horatio Bridge (1806–1893), American naval commodore
• Horatio Brown (1854–1926), Scottish historian
• Horatio Caro (1862–1920), English chess player
• Horatio Chriesman (1797–1878) American surveyor, mayor in Mexican Texas and participant in the Texas Revolution.
• Horatio Clare (born 1973), British author
• Horatio Davies (1842–1912), London businessman, politician and magistrate
• Horatio Dresser (1866–1945), New Thought religious leader and author
• Horatio Earle (1855–1935), American road advocate
• Horatio Gates (c. 1727–1806), American general
• Horatio Greenough (1805–1852), American sculptor
• Horatio Hale (1817–1896), American-Canadian ethnologist, philologist and businessman
• Horatio Hocken (1857–1937), Canadian politician, social reformer and a founder of what became the Toronto Star newspaper
• Horatio Nelson Jackson (1872–1955), American automobile pioneer and physician
• Horatio King (1811–1897), American politician, Postmaster General of the United States
• Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850–1916), British field marshal
• Horatio Luro (1901–1991), thoroughbred horse racing trainer
• Horatio Mann (1744–1814), English politician
• Horatio McCulloch (1806–1867), Scottish landscape painter
• Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758–1805), British admiral
• Horatio Parker (1863–1919), American composer
• Horatio Frederick Phillips (1845–1924), early aviation pioneer from the United Kingdom
• Horatio Potter (1802–1887), Episcopal bishop in the Diocese of New York
• Horatio Ross (1801–1886), Scottish sportsman and pioneering amateur photographer
• Horatio Sanz (born 1974), Chilean-born American comedian
• Horatio Seymour (1810–1886), American politician, 18th governor of New York
• Horatio Seymour (Vermont) 1778-1857), United States senator from Vermont
• Horatio Sharpe (1718–1790), 22nd Proprietary Governor of Maryland
• Horatio Spafford (1828–1888), lawyer, hymn writer
• Horatio Torromé, Argentinian figure skater
• Horatio Townshend, 1st Viscount Townshend (1630–1687), English politician
• Horatio Walker (1858–1938), Canadian painter
• Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole (1678–1757), English diplomat
• Horace Walpole (1717–1797), also known as Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, English author, art historian, antiquarian and politician
• Horatio Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (1723–1809), British politician, son of the 1st baron Walpole
• Horatio Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford (1752–1822), English politician, son of the 1st earl
• Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford (1783–1858), British politician, son of the 2nd earl
• Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (second creation) (1813–1894), British politician, son of the 3rd earl
• Horatio Wills (1811–1861), Australian pastoralist and politician
• Horatio Wright (1820–1899), American engineer and American Civil War Union Army General
• Horatio Hill, (1971- ), American entrepreneur, U.S. Navy and Army Veteran

Fiction

• Horatio (character), character in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• Horatio Caine, police lieutenant in the television series CSI: Miami
• Horatio Hellpop, character in the comic book series Nexus
• Horatio Hornblower, naval hero in the novels of C. S. Forester
• Cap'n Horatio Crunch, the mascot of Cap'n Crunch cereal
• Cap'n Turbot, a main character in the TV show PAW Patrol, whose first name is "Horatio"
• Horatio 2.0, a robotic tarsier in the television series The Nutshack

Places

• Horatio, Arkansas, a city
• Horatio, Ohio, an unincorporated community
• Horatio, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
• Horatio, South Carolina, an unincorporated community

Other uses

• Horace (65 BC–8 BC), Roman poet
• Horatio, a faction in the strategy game, Endless Space
• Horatius Cocles, legendary Roman defender of the Pons Sublicius bridge

See also

See also the similarly spelled name Horacio