Dixon (surname)

Dixon is a surname, and may refer to

Disambiguation pages

• Ben Dixon (disambiguation), multiple people
• Cecil Dixon (disambiguation), multiple people
• Charles Dixon (disambiguation), multiple people
• Don Dixon (disambiguation), multiple people
• George Dixon (disambiguation), multiple people
• John Dixon (disambiguation), multiple people
• Larry Dixon (disambiguation), multiple people
• Michael Dixon (disambiguation), multiple people
• Paul Dixon (disambiguation), multiple people
• Richard Dixon (disambiguation), multiple people
• Robert Dixon (disambiguation), multiple people
• Stephen Dixon (disambiguation) or Steve Dixon, multiple people
• Thomas Dixon (disambiguation), multiple people
• Tom Dixon (disambiguation), multiple people

Arts and writing

• Alesha Dixon, British singer
• Alice Dixon, English photographer
• Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, English photographer and archaeologist
• Andrew Graham-Dixon, British art critic
• Annie Dixon, English painter
• Bill Dixon, American jazz musician
• Chuck Dixon, American comic book writer
• Colton Dixon, American musician
• David Dixon, British actor and screenwriter
• Dean Dixon, American conductor
• Donna Dixon, American actress
• Eugene Dixon, birth name of American singer Gene Chandler
• Floyd Dixon, American R&B pianist
• Franklin W. Dixon, pseudonym used for Hardy Boys novel authors
• Ivan Dixon, American actor
• James Dixon (conductor), American conductor
• Jerry Dixon (musician), American musician
• Jerry Dixon (actor), American actor, director, choreographer and composer
• Jessy Dixon, gospel singer
• Joan Dixon, American actress
• Lee Dixon (actor), American actor and singer
• Leslie Dixon, American screenwriter
• Maxwell Dixon, American rapper known as Grand Puba
• Mort Dixon (1892–1956), American lyricist
• Reginald Dixon, British theatre organist
• Richard Watson Dixon, English poet
• Sonny Dixon, American TV anchorman
• Wheeler Winston Dixon, American film director
• Willie Dixon, American blues musician

Barons Glentoran

• Daniel Dixon, 2nd Baron Glentoran
• Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran
• Robin Dixon, 3rd Baron Glentoran (born 1935)

Politics, law, and government

• Aaron Dixon, American activist
• Abram Dixon (1787–1875), New York politician
• Alan J. Dixon, American senator
• Archibald Dixon, American politician
• Arrington Dixon, American politician
• Clay Dixon, American politician
• Sir Daniel Dixon, 1st Baronet (1844–1907), mayor of Belfast
• Frank M. Dixon, American politician
• Fred Dixon, Canadian politician
• Isaiah Dixon (1923–2013), American politician
• Joseph M. Dixon, American politician
• Julian C. Dixon, Californian politician
• Monica Dixon, American political organiser
• Sir Owen Dixon, Chief Justice of Australia
• Piers Dixon (1928–2017), British politician
• Sharon Pratt Dixon, later Sharon Pratt Kelly, mayor of Washington, D.C.
• Sheila Dixon, mayor of Baltimore
• Thomas Homer-Dixon, Canadian political scientist

Sciences, medicine, and mathematics

• Adrian Dixon, radiologist and Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge
• Alfred Dixon, mathematician
• Arthur Lee Dixon, mathematician, younger brother of Alfred Dixon
• Dougal Dixon, Scottish geologist
• Hal Dixon (biochemist) (1928–2008), Irish biochemist
• Henry Horatio Dixon, Irish biologist
• James R. Dixon, American herpetologist
• Lisa Dixon, American psychiatry professor

Sports

• Antonio Dixon, American football player
• Colin Dixon, Welsh rugby league footballer
• Dennis Dixon, American football player
• George Dixon (rugby league), rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s
• Hal Dixon (umpire) (1920–1966), American baseball umpire
• Hanford Dixon, American footballer
• Henry Hall Dixon, British sporting writer
• Hewritt Dixon, American football running back
• Ida Dixon (1854-1916), American golf course architect
• Jamie Dixon (born 1965), American basketball coach
• Juan Dixon, American basketball player
• Kerry Dixon, English footballer
• Lee Dixon, English footballer
• Maggie Dixon (1977–2006), American basketball coach (sister of Jamie Dixon)
• Marcus Dixon, American football player
• Medina Dixon, American basketball player
• Rap Dixon, American baseball player
• Reg Dixon, Canadian sailor
• Rod Dixon, New Zealand runner
• Ron Dixon, American footballer
• Scott Dixon, racing driver from New Zealand
• Scott Dixon (boxer), Scottish boxer of the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s
• Stan Dixon (1894–1979), English footballer
• Waliyy Dixon (born 1974), American streetball player

Other

• Ambrose Dixon, 17th-century American pioneer
• Amzi Dixon, American preacher
• Cromwell Dixon, American aviation pioneer
• Fitz Eugene Dixon Jr., American philanthropist, owner of the Philadelphia 76ers
• Geoff Dixon, Australian CEO
• Jane Holmes Dixon, Bishop of Washington
• Jeane Dixon, American astrologer
• Jeremiah Dixon, surveyor on the Mason–Dixon line
• Matthew Charles Dixon, recipient of the Victoria cross
• Patrick Dixon, British business analyst and author
• R. M. W. Dixon (Robert Malcolm Ward Dixon), Australian linguist
• William Hepworth Dixon, British historian

Fictional characters

• Marcus Dixon (Alias), fictional character from the TV series Alias
• Daryl Dixon and Merle Dixon, fictional characters from the TV series The Walking Dead

Dixon has also occasionally been used as a given or christian name.

See also

• Dixon v. Alabama, a landmark civil-rights case, appellant St. John Dixon
• Dixon (disambiguation)
• Dickson (surname)