Eben Hopson

Eben Nanauq Hopson (November 7, 1922 – June 28, 1980) was an American politician in the state of Alaska.

An Iñupiaq, he was born and raised in Utqiaġvik (at the time known as Barrow) and was a heavy equipment operator.

[4] Hopson was the first person to be born in the Presbyterian mission hospital in Utqiaġvik in 1922.

[7] In 1979, Hopson represented the Inuit in a court case suing the US Secretary of Commerce Juanita Kreps on the grounds that the International Whaling Commission had no standing to regulate subsistence whaling for native peoples.

[10] The middle school serving Utqiaġvik is named after Hopson.