Henry Cotton may refer to:
- Henry Egerton Cotton (1929-1993), First Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University and former Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside
- Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton (1845–1915), British politician (also in India)
- Sir Henry Cotton (judge) (1821–1892), British judge (Lord Justice of Appeal), Privy Counsellor
- Henry Cotton (doctor) (1876–1933), American doctor
- Sir Henry Cotton (golfer) (1907–1987), English golfer
- Cotton Knaupp (Henry Antone Knaupp, 1889–1967), baseball player
- Henry Cotton (bishop) (c. 1545–1615), English bishop of Salisbury
- Harry Cotton (born 1882), English footballer
- Henry Cotton (divine) (1789–1879), Anglo-Irish ecclesiastical historian
Famous quotes containing the words henry and/or cotton:
“An Ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.”
—Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)
“It is remarkable with what pure satisfaction the traveler in these woods will reach his camping-ground on the eve of a tempestuous night like this, as if he had got to his inn, and, rolling himself in his blanket, stretch himself on his six-feet-by-two bed of dripping fir twigs, with a thin sheet of cotton for roof, snug as a meadow-mouse in its nest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)