Hugh John Simpson Gibson MBE (born 10 August 1946) is a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician in Northern Ireland who was a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Strangford from 2010 to 2011.
Gibson studied at Saintfield Secondary School and Shaftesbury House Tutorial College, before working as a farmer and becoming a member of the Orange Order.
[1] He joined the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and was elected to Ards Borough Council in 1981.
[6] In August 2010, Gibson was appointed to the Northern Ireland Assembly as the replacement for Jim Shannon.
[7] He did not stand in the 2011 Assembly election in which the DUP held three of its four seats, losing Gibson's to the Ulster Unionist Party.