Sir Francis Stanhope Hanson (3 October 1868 – 17 February 1910) was a merchant and local politician. He was the second son of Sir Reginald Hanson Baronet, sometime Lord Mayor of London and member of parliament for the City of London. He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He joined the family firm of Samuel Hanson & Company, wholesale grocers, becoming head of the company in 1905. In 1897 he married Pearl Norcott Winter of Kensington, and they had a son and daughter.