Dickins is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Alan Dickins
Alan Roger Dickins was Arundel Herald of Arms Extraordinary from 1998 to 2016.
He was educated at Epsom College, Surrey and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a law degree in 1968. He qualified in 1972 as a solicitor of th ...
, Arundel Herald of Arms Extraordinary
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Barry Dickins
Barry Dickins (born 6 November 1949) is a prolific Australian playwright, author, artist, actor, educator and journalist, probably best known for his historical dramas and his reminisces about growing up and living in working class Melbourne. H ...
(born 1949), Australian author, artist and playwright
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Bruce Dickins
Bruce Dickins, FBA (26 October 1889 – 4 January 1978), a graduate of Magdalene College, Cambridge, was Professor of English Language at the University of Leeds from 1931 to 1946 (where he succeeded E. V. Gordon), teaching medieval English and Ol ...
FBA (1889–1978), Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Cambridge University
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Frederick Victor Dickins
Frederick Victor Dickins (24 May 1838 – 16 August 1915) was a British naval surgeon, barrister, orientalist and university administrator. He is now remembered as a translator of Japanese literature.
Life
Dickins was born at 44 Connaught Terrac ...
(1838–1915), British surgeon, barrister, orientalist and university administrator
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George Dickins
George Caldwell Dickins (17 November 1821 – 5 December 1903) was an English soldier and amateur cricketer. He played in seven first-class cricket matches between 1848 and 1864.John Dickins (1746–1798), early Methodist preacher in the United States
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Matt Dickins
Matthew James Dickins (born 3 September 1970) is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Career
Born in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, Dickins attended All Saints RC Comprehensive school on Granville Road.
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(born 1970), English professional goalkeeper
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Michael Dickins Ford
Michael Dickins Ford (11 June 1928 – 31 May 2018) was an English film art director and set decorator.
Life and career
Born in southern England, Ford trained as an illustrator at Goldsmiths College, London. He worked as a scenic artist ...
(born 1928), art director in film and commercial television
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Punch Dickins
Clennell Haggerston "Punch" Dickins (12 January 1899 – 2 August 1995) was a pioneering Canadian aviator and bush pilot.Rob Dickins
Rob Dickins (born July 1950, East Ham, London) is a British music industry executive, who currently holds a number of trustee and consultant positions in music and the arts in the United Kingdom. Dickins began his music industry career at Warner ...
(born 1950), formerly chairman of Warner Music UK, founder of Instant Karma and Dharma Music
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Zara Dickins
Dame Zara Kate Bate (; previously Fell and Holt; 10 March 190914 June 1989) was an Australian fashion entrepreneur. She was best known as the wife of Harold Holt, who was prime minister of Australia from 1966 until his disappearance in 1967. ...
DBE (1909–1989), Australian fashion designer, wife (later widow) of Prime Minister Harold Holt of Australia
See also
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Dickens (disambiguation)
Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was an English writer and social critic.
Dickens may also refer to:
People
* Dickens (surname)
* Dickens family, descendants of John Dickens, including his son Charles Dickens
Places
* Dickens (crater), a crater o ...
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...
, English writer
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Dickins & Jones
Dickins & Jones was a high-quality department store in London, England, which traded between 1835 and 2007, although tracing its origins to 1790. From 1835, the main store was in London's Regent Street. In its final years the store had branches a ...
or Dickins & Jones, high-quality department store in London, England
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Dickins Hill
Dickens Hill is a fictional prison in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''. The prison is part of a storyline that first aired between 1988 and 1989. The storyline centres on the popular character Den Watts and was filmed on location at Dartmoor ...
, fictional prison in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''
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Dillon & Dickins
Dillon & Dickins is a dance music production group based in London, England, and one of the many aliases used by house music producers and DJs Marc Dillon and Patrick Dickins who also founded the dance record company and music publishing compa ...