Henry Hawkins (August 1790 — October 9, 1845) was an American politician from New York.
He was the son of Rodolphus Hawkins (c. 1758–1847), a soldier in the American Revolutionary War.
The family removed about 1791 from Coventry, Connecticut, to Whitestown, New York, and about 1809 to a place in Batavia, located in the area which was separated in 1812 as the Town of Alexander, in Genesee County, New York.
Henry Hawkins helped establish the first library and was among the founders of Alexander Classical School in 1834.
Henry and one of his brothers, Van Rensselaer, formed Hawkins & Company to handle their joint business interests, which included the purchase and sale of lands in New York and Michigan, the formation of the Exchange Bank of Genesee in 1838, the building of the Attica and Buffalo Railroad, and the building and leasing of commercial properties in several local communities.