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Dawkins
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 * Egber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dion Dawkins
Dion Dawkins (born April 26, 1994) is an American professional American football, football offensive tackle for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Temple Owls football, Temple Owls. Early life and education Dawkins attended Rahway High School in Rahway, New Jersey where he earned the nickname "the Shnowman." After originally committing to the Cincinnati Bearcats, Dawkins signed with Temple Owls football, Temple in January 2013. College career Dawkins played at Temple from 2013 to 2016, starting 41 of 44 career games. Dawkins was named a First-team All-2016 American Athletic Conference football season, American Athletic Conference selection after his senior year. Professional career Dawkins received an invitation to the 2017 Senior Bowl, Senior Bowl and started at guard for the North team. The North lost 16–15 to the South and he was named the Senior Bowl's top offensive lineman. He improved his draft stock after practici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darryl Dawkins
Darryl R. Dawkins (January 11, 1957 – August 27, 2015) was an American professional basketball player and coach. He was particularly known for his tenure with the National Basketball Association's Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Nets, although he also played briefly for the Detroit Pistons and Utah Jazz late in his career. His nickname, "Chocolate Thunder", was bestowed upon him by Stevie Wonder. He was known for his powerful dunks, which led to the NBA adopting breakaway rims due to him shattering a backboard on two occasions in 1979. Dawkins averaged double figures in scoring nine times in his 14 years in the NBA, often ranking among the league leaders in field-goal percentage. He also played in the NBA Finals three times as a member of the Philadelphia 76ers in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He also won an NBA Championship in 1989 with the Detroit Pistons even though he only played 14 games for the team that season. Dawkins set an NBA record for fouls in a season (386 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dawkins
John Sydney "Joe" Dawkins (born 2 March 1947) is an Australian former politician who was Treasurer in the Keating Labor government from December 1991 to December 1993. He is notable for his reforms of tertiary education as Minister for Employment, Education and Training, his period as Treasurer when he attempted to increase taxes in order to balance the budget and his abrupt exit from politics. Early life Dawkins was born in Perth on 2 March 1947. He is the son of Muriel () and Alec Letts Dawkins. His father, originally from Adelaide, was an orthopaedic surgeon and military physician during World War II with the rank of brigadier. His maternal grandfather Sir Ernest Augustus Lee Steere was a prominent pastoralist and businessman in Western Australia, while his uncle Sir Ernest Henry Lee-Steere served as Lord Mayor of Perth in the 1970s. Dawkins attended primary school in Cottesloe and went on to attend Scotch College, Perth. After leaving school he moved to South Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Dawkins
Brian Patrick Dawkins Sr. (born October 13, 1973), nicknamed "Weapon X", is an American former professional football player who was a safety for 16 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Philadelphia Eagles. He played college football for the Clemson Tigers and was selected by the Eagles in the second round of the 1996 NFL draft. In his last three seasons, he played for the Denver Broncos. Regarded as one of the greatest safeties of all time, Dawkins was viewed as the leader of the Eagles defense, named to nine Pro Bowls and five All-Pro teams during his career. He also made one Super Bowl appearance with the Eagles in XXXIX, which was played in his home city of Jacksonville, Florida. In addition to his playing career, Dawkins served the Eagles as an executive of football operations for player development from 2016 to 2018 and was with the organization when they won Super Bowl LII. He was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2018. High schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aubrey Dawkins
Aubrey Lafell Dawkins (born May 8, 1995) is an American professional basketball player for Würzburg Baskets of the Basketball Bundesliga. He played college basketball for the UCF Knights, transferring to UCF after completing his sophomore season for the 2015–16 Michigan Wolverines. He is the son of Johnny Dawkins who became the UCF coach following the 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Dawkins was raised in North Carolina until spending his high school years in Northern California at St. Francis High School and Palo Alto High School and a postgraduate year in New England at New Hampton Prep. As a collegiate freshman for the 2014–15 Wolverines, he began the season on the bench, but became a starter when injuries plagued the team in January 2015. In his more prominent role later in the season, Dawkins led the 2014–15 Big Ten Conference in effective field goal percentage and true shooting percentage during conference play. Early life Dawkins was born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Dawkins
Paul Lamar Dawkins (June 10, 1957 – March 25, 2019) was an American-Turkish professional basketball player, who played for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA), appearing in 57 games. He was inducted into the Northern Illinois University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1991. In 2007, he was also inducted into the Saginaw County Sports Hall of Fame. Early years Dawkins was the third of five siblings born in 1957 in Saginaw, Michigan to parents Willie and Ollie Dawkins. Growing up on Saginaw's east side, he attended Heavenrich Elementary along with older siblings Willie and Patricia, and younger brother Robert. Paul developed a love for basketball early on at the age of 9, but his only opportunities to play were at the school's gym. So he fashioned a rim out of coat hangers, attached a net and hung it inside of the family's garage. It was inside the garage where Paul developed his sweet left-handed shooting touch, spending countless hours swishing a volleyball t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Dawkins (musician)
Peter William Dawkins (27 November 1946 – 3 July 2014) was a New Zealand record producer and musician, best known for his late-1960s to mid-1970s New Zealand hits and his 1970s productions for Australian-based pop artists, including Dragon, Australian Crawl and Air Supply. He won multiple production awards, including the Countdown Producer of the Year. In the late 1980s, he developed Parkinson's disease. Early days Born in Timaru, New Zealand, Dawkins started in the music business as a drummer in his teens; he toured Europe in the mid-1960s with his freakbeat bands Me and the Others, and The New Nadir. In London they jammed at The Speakeasy with Jimi Hendrix, which eventually led to the recording of a lost 7" acetate for the UK Polydor Records label. Over 40 years later, in 2009 a whole album of 1966 – 1967 recordings by Me and the Others and The New Nadir was finally released by Feathered Apple Records. After the breakup of The New Nadir, guitarist and lead vocalist Ed Cart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Dawkins
Peter Miller Dawkins (born March 8, 1938) is an American business executive and former college football player, hockey player, military officer, and political candidate. Dawkins attended the United States Military Academy, where he played as a halfback for the Army Cadets football team from 1956 to 1958. As a senior in 1958 he won the Heisman Trophy, the Maxwell Award, and was named as a consensus All-American. After graduating from the Military Academy in 1959, he studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Dawkins served as an officer in the United States Army until he retired in 1983 with the rank of brigadier general. He received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Bernard W. Rogers, USA in 1983. He was a Republican candidate for United States Senate in 1988. Dawkins has held executive positions with Lehman Brothers, Bain & Company, Primerica, and Cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis Worthy Dawkins
Phyllis Worthy Dawkins (born 1953) is an American academic administrator who served as the 18th president of Bennett College from 2017 to 2019. She was previously the provost at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania where she also served as the acting president in 2014. Life Phyllis Delores Worthy was born in 1953. She earned a B.S. at Johnson C. Smith University. She completed a M.A. from University of Michigan. She earned a Ph.D. from Ohio State University. Her 1984 dissertation was titled, ''An Analysis of Fundamental Motor Skills of Urban Black and Urban White Children of Middle Childhood Age''. Walter F. Ersing was her doctoral advisor. Dawkins worked at Johnson C. Smith University for over 28 years. Roles she held there included chief academic/administrative officer/dean of the College of Professional Studies, interim vice president for academic affairs, and professor of physical education. She joined Dillard University in 2009 where she served as the provost, senior vice p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biology, evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author. He is an Oxford fellow, emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, Professor for Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008, and is on the advisory board of the University of Austin. His book ''The Selfish Gene'' (1976) popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and coined the word ''meme''. Dawkins has won several academic and writing awards. A vocal Atheism, atheist, Dawkins is known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. He wrote ''The Blind Watchmaker'' (1986), in which he argues against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a creator deity based upon the Evolution of biological complexity, complexity of living organisms. Instead, he describes evolutionary processes as analogous to a ''blind'' watc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MC Romeo
Marvin Dawkins (born 30 January 1980), better known by his stage name Romeo, Nigel, or MC Romeo, is a British rapper and MC. Biography Romeo first found fame in the garage group So Solid Crew, having grown up on and around the notorious Surrey Lane, Winstanley and Badric Court estates of Battersea. He subsequently had a solo career. He got his name Romeo due to his smoothness with the ladies. Romeo released his solo album ''Solid Love'' in November 2002, through Relentless records, the label that So Solid had just left for Independiente. He enjoyed two top 10 singles, "Romeo Dunn'em" which reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart in 2002, and secondly a duet with Christina Milian, " It's All Gravy", which reached No. 9 in the UK Singles Chart in the same year. However, only a disappointing 40,000 copies sold of his album, peaking at No. 46 in the UK Albums Chart. In March 2003, Relentless filed for bankruptcy with debts of £3m. In 2004, Romeo appeared in the reality show '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard MacGillivray Dawkins
Richard MacGillivray Dawkins FBA (24 October 1871 – 4 May 1955) was a British archaeologist. He was associated with the British School at Athens (BSA), of which he was Director between 1906 and 1913. Early life Richard MacGillivray Dawkins was the son of the Royal Navy officer Rear-Admiral Richard Dawkins of Stoke Gabriel and his wife Mary Louisa McGillivray, only surviving daughter of Simon McGillivray. He was educated at Marlborough College and at King's College, London where he trained as an electrical engineer. Academic career He took part in the BSA's excavations at Palaikastro, and the survey of Lakonia (see Artemis Orthia and Menelaion, Sparta); also at Rhitsona. He undertook linguistic fieldwork in Cappadocia from 1909 to 1911, which resulted in a basic work on Cappadocian Greek. Then, he led a dig at Phylakopi from 1911. Dawkins was a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was director of the British School at Athens from 1906 to 1913. During the First Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
