Dalton is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Dalton Bales
Dalton Arthur Bales (February 21, 1920 – October 30, 1979) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1963 to 1975 who represented the riding of York Mills. He was ...
, Ontario cabinet minister and lawyer
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Dalton Bell
Dalton Bell (born March 9, 1983) is a former Canadian football quarterback.. He was signed by the Carolina Panthers as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He was later signed by the Seattle Seahawks. He signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 200 ...
, Canadian football quarterback
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Dalton Camp
Dalton Kingsley Camp, (September 11, 1920 – March 18, 2002) was a Canadian journalist, politician, political strategist and commentator, and supporter of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Although he was never elected to a sea ...
, Canadian journalist, politician, political strategist and commentator
* Dalton Castle, ring name of
Brett Giehl
Brett Giehl (born March 4, 1986), better known by the ring name Dalton Castle, is an American professional wrestler who is best known for his tenure in Ring of Honor (ROH) where he was a ROH World Champion.
Giehl is a two-time ROH World Six- ...
(born 1986), American professional wrestler
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Dalton Conley
Dalton Clark Conley (born 1969) is an American sociologist. Conley is a professor at Princeton University and has written eight books, including a memoir and a sociology textbook.
Education
Conley attended Stuyvesant High School. He subsequentl ...
(born 1969), American sociologist
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Dalton Grant
Dalton Grant (born 8 April 1966) is a former high jumper.
Athletics career
Grant won a total number of four national titles for Great Britain (AAA Championships) in the men's high jump event. His personal best jump is 2.36 metres, achieved ...
, British high jumper
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Dalton Guthrie
Dalton Guthrie (born December 23, 1995) is an American professional baseball infielder and outfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball for the Florida Gators. Guthrie was selected in the 6th ...
(born 1995), American Major League Baseball player
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Dalton Hilliard
Dalton Andrea Hilliard (born January 21, 1964) is an American former professional American football, football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for the New Orleans Saints from 1986-1993. He played his entire NFL ...
, former professional American football running back
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Dalton Jones
James Dalton Jones (born December 10, 1943) is a former Major League Baseball player who played nine seasons in the big leagues for the Boston Red Sox (–), Detroit Tigers (–), and Texas Rangers (1972).
Biography
Born in McComb, Mississippi ...
, former Major League Baseball player
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Dalton Keene
Dalton Keene (born April 14, 1999) is an American football tight end for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Virginia Tech.
Early life and high school
Keene grew up in Littleton, Colorado and ...
(born 1999), American football player
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Dalton Kellett
Dalton Kellett (born August 19, 1993) is a Canadian racing driver from Stouffville, Ontario. He competes in the IndyCar Series, driving for A. J. Foyt Racing.
Racing career Early years
Kellett started his racing career in snowmobile racing at the ...
, Canadian racing driver
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Dalton Lindo, reggae artist popularly known as "Screwdriver"
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Dalton McCarthy
Dalton McCarthy (October 10, 1836 – May 11, 1898), or D'Alton McCarthy, was a Canadian lawyer and parliamentarian. He was the leader of the "Orange" or Protestant Irish, and fiercely fought against Irish Catholics as well as the French C ...
, Canadian lawyer and parliamentarian
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Dalton McGuinty
Dalton James Patrick McGuinty Jr. (born July 19, 1955) is a former Canadian politician who served as the 24th premier of Ontario from 2003 to 2013. He was the first Liberal leader to win two majority governments since Mitchell Hepburn nearl ...
, former Ontario premier
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Dalton Alan Munaretto
Dalton Alan Munaretto or simply Dalton (born September 8, 1986 in Chapecó), is a Brazilian goalkeeper who plays for Vitória.
Dalton played for Figueirense in the 2009 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B.
He was in 2010 on a trial with Azerbaijani ...
, Brazilian footballer
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Dalton Philips
Timothy David Dalton Philips (born 18 February 1968) is an Irish businessman. He was the CEO of the UK supermarket chain Morrisons from January 2010 until March 2015, when he was succeeded by David Potts. He is currently the chief executive of ...
, Irish businessman
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Dalton Prejean
Dalton Prejean (December 10, 1959 – May 18, 1990) was one of 22 people in the United States executed for crimes committed as a juvenile prior to the decision '' Roper v. Simmons'' in 2005. He was tried, convicted, and executed in the electric c ...
, American murderer executed by the electric chair in Louisiana in 1990
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Dalton Pritchard
Dalton H. Pritchard (September 1, 1921 - April 18, 2010), was one of the early color television systems pioneers, working at RCA Laboratories.
Early life
Dalton Pritchard earned a BSEE degree in Electronics from Mississippi State University in ...
, early color television systems pioneer at
RCA Laboratories
The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded as the Radio Corporation of America in 1919. It was initially a patent trust owned by General Electric (GE), Westinghouse, AT&T Corporation and United Fruit Comp ...
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Dalton Risner
Dalton William Risner (born July 13, 1995) is an American football guard for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Kansas State Wildcats.
Early years
Risner attended Wiggins High School ...
(born 1995), American football player
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Dalton Schultz
Dalton Chase Schultz (born July 11, 1996) is an American football tight end for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Stanford.
Early years
Schultz attended Bingham High School in South Jordan ...
, American football player
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Dalton Trevisan
Dalton Jérson Trevisan (born 14 June 1925) is a Brazilian author of short stories. He has been described as an "acclaimed short-story chronicler of lower-class mores and popular dramas." Trevisan won the 2012 Prémio Camões, the leading Portug ...
, Brazilian author of short stories
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Dalton Trumbo
James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter who scripted many award-winning films, including ''Roman Holiday'' (1953), ''Exodus'', ''Spartacus'' (both 1960), and ''Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo'' (1944) ...
(1905–1976), American screenwriter and author
See also
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Danton (name) Danton is a French given name that is a form of Antoine, Titouan, D'Anton and Antonin used in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, West Greenland, Haiti, French Guiana, Madagascar, Benin, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Senegal, Maurit ...
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