Hopeful Gibbons MBE (4 October 1856 – 25 June 1947), known as Hope Gibbons, was a New Zealand businessman, philanthropist and local politician.

Born in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia on 4 October 1856 he arrived in New Zealand in 1862.

He started in business on his own in 1879 by buying a run-down brewery but his principal businesses were the supply and distribution of bicycles and motorcycles throughout the country and Colonial Motor Company, which held the Ford franchise for the country and assembled their cars.

[1] From 1936 it ceased assembly but retained most metropolitan dealerships.

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