Ben Hawkins (Carnivàle)
Ben Hawkins may refer to: *Benjamin Hawkins (1754–1818), U.S. statesman *Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807–1894), English sculptor and natural history artist * Ben Hawkins (''Carnivàle''), the protagonist in ''Carnivàle'' *Ben Hawkins (American football) Benjamin Charles Hawkins a.k.a. "the Hawk" (March 22, 1944 – October 9, 2017) was a professional American football wide receiver most notably for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL) from 1966 to 1973. He later played ...

Benjamin Hawkins
Benjamin Hawkins (August 15, 1754June 6, 1816) was an American planter, statesman and a U.S. Indian agent He was a delegate to the Continental Congress and a United States Senator from North Carolina, having grown up among the planter elite. Appointed by George Washington in 1796 as one of three commissioners to the Creeks, in 1801 President Jefferson named him "principal agent for Indian affairs south of the Ohio iver, and was principal Indian agent to the Creek Indians. Hawkins established the Creek Agency and his plantation near present-day Roberta, Georgia, in what became Crawford County. He learned the Muscogee language, and had a Creek woman, Lavinia Downs, as common-law wife, who, in the Creek's matrilineal society, provided an entry into that world. He had seven children with her, although he resisted Creek pressure to marry her until near the end of his life. He wrote extensively about the Creek and other Southeast tribes: the Choctaw, Cherokee and Chickasaw. He e ...
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Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (8 February 1807 – 27 January 1894) was an English sculptor and natural history artist renowned for his work on the life-size models of dinosaurs in the Crystal Palace Park in south London. The models, accurately made using the latest scientific knowledge, created a sensation at the time. Hawkins was also a noted lecturer on zoological topics. Education and early career Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins was born in Bloomsbury, London on 8 February 1807, the son of Thomas Hawkins, an artist, and Louisa Anne Waterhouse, the daughter of a Jamaica plantation family of apparent Catholic sympathies. He studied at St. Aloysius College, and learned sculpture from William Behnes. At the age of 20, he began to study natural history and later geology. He contributed illustrations to ''The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle''. During the 1840s, he produced studies of living animals in Knowsley Park, near Liverpool for Edward Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby. The ...
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Ben Hawkins (Carnivàle)
Ben Hawkins may refer to: *Benjamin Hawkins (1754–1818), U.S. statesman *Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807–1894), English sculptor and natural history artist * Ben Hawkins (''Carnivàle''), the protagonist in ''Carnivàle'' *Ben Hawkins (American football) Benjamin Charles Hawkins a.k.a. "the Hawk" (March 22, 1944 – October 9, 2017) was a professional American football wide receiver most notably for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL) from 1966 to 1973. He later played ...