Hew is a masculine given name, and may refer to the following:

• 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) (c. 1740–1774), 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 (born 1962), 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 (born 1926), retired British officer and former Lord Lieutenant of East Lothian
• Hew Locke (born 1959), British-Guyanese sculptor and visual artist
• Hew Lorimer (1907–1993), Scottish sculptor
• Hew Pike (born 1943), 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 (born 1949), Scottish military historian

The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), also known as the Health Department, is a cabinet-level department of the U.S. federal government with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. Its motto is "Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America". Before the separate federal Department of Education was created in 1979, it was called the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW).