Dawkins is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Aubrey Dawkins (born 1995), American basketball player
  • Ben Dawkins, Australian politician
  • Benjamin C. Dawkins Jr. (1911–1984), US District Judge in Louisiana
  • Benjamin C. Dawkins Sr. (1881–1966), US District Judge in Louisiana
  • Boyd Dawkins (1917–1966) South Australian sheep breeder and politician
  • Brian Dawkins (born 1973), American football Safety for the Philadelphia Eagles and Denver Broncos
  • Cecil Dawkins (1927–2019), North American author, also known for her personal correspondence with Flannery O'Connor
  • Sir Charles Tyrwhitt Dawkins (1858–1919), British Army officer
  • Sir Clinton Edward Dawkins (1859–1905), British businessman and civil servant
  • Dalyn Dawkins (born 1994), American football player
  • Darryl Dawkins (1957–2015), American basketball player and coach
  • Derek Dawkins (born 1959), English footballer
  • Dion Dawkins (born 1994), American football player
  • Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III (born 1979) a.k.a. Aloe Blacc, American soul singer and musician
  • James Dawkins (antiquarian) (1722, Jamaica – 6 September 1757, Sutton's Plantation, Jamaica) was a British antiquarian and Jacobite.
  • Jimmy Dawkins, (1936–2013) Chicago blues musician
  • John Sydney "Joe" Dawkins (born 1947), Australian politician, instigator of educational reforms known as the Dawkins Revolution
  • John Dawkins (born 1954), Australian politician, member of South Australian Legislative Council
  • Johnny Dawkins (born 1963), American basketball player and coach
  • Marian Dawkins (born 1945), professor of animal behaviour at Oxford, ex-wife of Richard Dawkins
  • Nick Dawkins (born 2002), American football player
  • Noah Dawkins (born 1997), American football player
  • Paul Dawkins (1957–2019), American-Turkish basketball player
  • Peter Dawkins (musician) (1946–2014), New Zealand record producer and musician
  • Pete Dawkins (Peter Miller Dawkins, born 1938), former US Army Brigadier General and vice chairman of Citigroup Private Bank
  • Phyllis Worthy Dawkins, American academic administrator
  • Richard Dawkins (born 1941), British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and noted atheist
  • Richard MacGillivray Dawkins (1871–1955), British archaeologist
  • Riley Collier-Dawkins (born 2000), Australian football player
  • Sean Dawkins (born 1971), American football player
  • Travis Dawkins (born 1979), baseball player
  • William Boyd Dawkins (1837–1929), British geologist and archaeologist

Fictional characters

  • Jack Dawkins a.k.a. The Artful Dodger, in Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist
  • Hugh Dawkins, alter ego of Tasmanian Devil in the DC Comics universe
  • Cassius Dawkins, a prisoner and a reoccurring character on the ABC series For Life, played by 50 Cent.

See also

  • Josh Dawkin (born 1992), British footballer

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