Hew is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:

• Hew Ainslie (1792–1878), Scottish poet
• Hew Dalrymple, Lord North Berwick (1652–1737), Scottish judge and politician
• Sir Hew Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet (1712-1790), Scottish politician, grandson of the above
• Hew Dalrymple (advocate), Scottish advocate, poet and Attorney-General of Grenada
• Sir Hew Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet (1746–1800), Scottish politician, son of the 2nd Baronet
• Sir Hew Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, of High Mark (1750–1830), British Army general
• Hew Hamilton Dalrymple (1857–1945), Scottish politician
• Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe (1860-1957), British Army First World War general
• Hew Fraser (1877-1938), British field hockey player and politician
• Hew Raymond Griffiths, a ring leader of DrinkOrDie or DOD, an underground software piracy network
• Sir Hew Dalrymple-Hamilton, 4th Baronet (1774–1834), British politician
• Sir Hew Hamilton-Dalrymple, 10th Baronet (1926–2018), retired British officer and former Lord Lieutenant of East Lothian
• Hew Locke, British-Guyanese sculptor and visual artist
• Hew Lorimer (1907–1993), Scottish sculptor
• Hew Pike, retired British Army lieutenant-general
• Hew Dalrymple Ross (1779–1868), British Army field marshal
• Hew Scott (1791–1872), minister of the Church of Scotland
• Hew Strachan, Scottish military historian