Hickling is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Archie Hickling, the English electrochemist who built the first three electrodes potentiostat in 1942 Billy Hickling, an English footballer Frank Hickling (born 1941), an Australian army officer Garett Hickling (1970–2025), a Canadian wheelchair rugby player Grace Hickling MBE (née Watt, 1908–1986), a British naturalist and ornithologist Henry George Albert Hickling FRS (1883–1954), a British geologist and palaeontologist Hugh Hickling (1920–2007), a British lawyer, colonial civil servant, law academic and author Ronald Hickling (1912–2006), a British ornithologist Thomas Hickling (born 1940), an English cricketer