Notable People With The Surname Gibson
- Alexander Gibson (botanist) (1800–1867), Scottish surgeon and botanist who worked in India
- Alexander Gibson (conductor) (1926–1995), Scottish composer and music director
- Alexander Gibson (industrialist) (1819–1913), Canadian industrialist
- Alfred Gibson (died 1874), Australian explorer
- Althea Gibson (1927–2003), African-American tennis player
- Aubrey Gibson (1901–1973), Australian businessman and patron of the arts
- Bob Gibson (born 1935), American baseball pitcher
- Bob Gibson (musician) (1931–1996), American folksinger
- Brian Gibson (director), English film director
- Brian Gibson (Australian politician), Australian Senator
- Bryan Gibson (born 1947), Canadian boxer
- Carleton B. Gibson (1863–1927), first President of the Rochester Institute of Technology
- Charles Gibson (born 1943), an American television journalist
- Charles Dana Gibson (1867–1944), American graphic artist, creator of the Gibson Girl
- Charles H. Gibson (1842–1900), United States Senator from Maryland
- Clifford Gibson (1901–1963), American blues singer and guitarist
- Colin Gibson (footballer) (born 1961), English footballer
- Colin Gibson (musician), English bass guitarist
- Daniel Gibson, American basketball coach and university professor
- Darron Gibson (born 1987), Irish footballer
- Daniel Gibson (born 1986), American professional basketball player
- David Gibson, several people
- Deborah Gibson (born 1970), singer, Broadway performer, and former teen idol; credited as Debbie Gibson during her teen idol days
- Don Gibson (1928–2003), American country musician
- Don Gibson (footballer) (born 1929), English footballer
- Edmund Gibson (1669–1748), English divine and jurist
- Edward Gibson (born 1936), American astronaut
- Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne (1837–1913), Irish lawyer and Lord Chancellor of Ireland
- Eleanor J Gibson (1910–2002) eminent American psychologist
- Elspeth Gibson (born 1963), British fashion designer
- George Ernest Gibson (1884–1959) Scottish American chemist
- Gordon Gibson (born 1937), Canadian political columnist, author, and politician
- Guy Gibson (1918–1944), Royal Air Force officer and commander of the 'Dambusters' squadron
- Henry Gibson (born 1935), American comedic actor, film & television (Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In)
- Hoot Gibson (1892–1962), rodeo champion, pioneer cowboy film actor, film director, and producer
- Hugh S. Gibson (1883–1954), American diplomat
- Hutton Gibson (born 1918), father of actor Mel Gibson and a writer on religion
- Ian Gibson (artist), British comic book artist
- Ian Gibson (born 1943), English footballer
- J. J. Gibson (1904–1979), American psychologist influential in the field of visual perception
- Jabbar Gibson, Hurricane Katrina bus driver
- Jack Gibson (rugby league), Australian rugby league coach
- James Gibson (professional wrestler), stage name of American professional wrestler James Howard, also known under the ringname Jamie Noble
- Jill Gibson (born 1942), singer and artist who sang briefly in The Mamas & the Papas
- John Gibson (sculptor) (19 June 1790 - 27 January 1866(1866-01-27), Welsh sculptor.
- John Gibson (Indiana), American territorial governor of the Indiana Territory (1800–1816)
- John Gibson (media host) (born 1946), American conservative commentator and author
- John Bannister Gibson (1780–1853), Pennsylvania attorney and judge
- John Douglas Gibson (c. 1925 – 1984), Australian ornithologist and albatross expert
- John H. Gibson, Texas businessman and senior Defense Department official
- Jon Gibson (minimalist musician) (born 1940) is a flautist, saxophonist, and composer
- Josh Gibson (1911–1947), Baseball Hall of Fame member and player in the Negro Leagues
- Kelly Gibson (born 1964), American professional golfer
- Kenny Gibson (born 1961), Scottish politician
- Kenneth A. Gibson (born 1932), American politician; mayor of Newark New Jersey
- Kirk Gibson (born 1957), American baseball slugger
- Marcus Gibson (born 1973), Australian author
- Mel Gibson (born 1956), American-Australian film actor, director, and producer
- Michael Gibson (musician) (1944–2005), American film and stage musician and orchestrator
- Orville Gibson (1856–1918), American luthier and founder of Gibson Guitar Corporation
- Pandora Gibson was a Bahamian comedienne and storyteller
- Pat Gibson (born 1961), Irish quiz player.
- Paul Gibson (politician) (born 1944), Australian politician
- Ralph Gibson (born 1939), American awarded photographer
- Randall L. Gibson (1832–1892), U.S. Congressman and Senator from Louisiana
- Robert L. "Hoot" Gibson (born 1946), American astronaut
- Sir Robert Gibson (1863–1934), Chairman, Commonwealth Bank of Australia
- Steve Gibson (computer programmer) (born 1955), computer engineer and journalist, founder of Gibson Research Corporation
- Sharon Gibson (born 1961), English javelin thrower
- Thomas Milner Gibson (1806–1884), English politician
- Tyrese Gibson (born 1978), American R&B and hip hop singer, songwriter, rapper, actor, former fashion model and MTV VJ
- Violet Gibson (1876–1956), Irish would-be assassin of Benito Mussolini
- Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878–1962), British poet
- William Gibson (historian) (born 1959) Historian
- William Gibson (Canadian parliamentarian) (1849–1914), Canadian MP and Senator
- William Gibson (Catholic martyr) (died 1596), English Catholic martyr
- William Gibson (born 1948), American science fiction/cyberpunk and contemporary novelist, author of Neuromancer
- William Gibson (playwright) (born 1914), American playwright, author of The Miracle Worker
- William Hamilton Gibson (1850–1896), American illustrator, author and naturalist
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For he did great wrong, and maintained little right.”
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