Dawes (disambiguation)

Dawes may refer to:

People:
*Beman Gates Dawes, politician and oil executive who served two terms as a Republican Congressman from Ohio
*Bill Dawes, an Irish-American comedian, actor, and writer
*Charles G. Dawes, banker, politician and 30th Vice President of the United States
*Chris Dawes, a professional Jamaican footballer
*Christopher Dawes, a British journalist and book author
*Christie Dawes, an Australian wheelchair racer
*David Dawes, one of the founders of the XFree86 project
*Dominique Dawes, a United States gymnast
*Eva Dawes, a Canadian track and field athlete
*Henry L. Dawes, United States Senator of Massachusetts, who sponsored the Dawes Act
*Henry May Dawes, an American businessman and banker from a prominent Ohio family
*Ian Dawes, a former professional footballer
*James W. Dawes, a Republican Nebraska politician best known as the sixth governor of Nebraska
*John Dawes, a Welsh rugby union player
*Johnny Dawes, a British rock climber
*Julian Dawes, an English composer
*Karl Friedrich Griffin Dawes, a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party
*Kwame Dawes, a poet, actor, editor, critic, musician and professor of English at the University of South Carolina in Columbia
*Nigel Dawes, a Canadian ice hockey left winger
*Richard Dawes, an English classical scholar
*Rufus Dawes, a U.S. military officer in the American Civil War
*Rufus C. Dawes, an American businessman from a prominent Ohio family
*Simon Dawes, a rock band from southern California
*Sophie Dawes, Baronne de Feuchères, an English-born "adventuress" best known as a mistress of Louis Henry II, Prince of Condé
*Thomas Dawes, a Patriot who served as a colonel during the American Revolution
*William Dawes, an American notable for his actions in the American Revolution
*William Dawes (pioneer), an Australian pioneer and scientist
*William Rutter Dawes, a British astronomer
*William Dawes (bishop), 3rd Baronet Dawes, bishop of Chester from 1708 to 1714

Fictional people
*George Dawes, a fictional character from "Shooting Stars" portrayed by Matt Lucas
*Marjorie Dawes, a fictional character played by Matt Lucas
*Nancy Dawes, fictional character in the novel series "The Baby-sitters Club" and "Baby-sitters Little Sister"
*Rachel Dawes, a fictional character created for the 2005 Batman film "Batman Begins"

Places:
*Dawes Arboretum, an arboretum in Newark, Ohio
*Dawes County, Nebraska, a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska
*Dawes Middle School, a school in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
*Dawes Point, New South Wales, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia
*Dawes (lunar crater), a crater on the Moon
*Dawes (crater on Mars), a crater on Mars

Historical items:
*The Dawes Act, (also known as the General Allotment Act of 1887 or the "Dawes Severalty Act"), an act that authorized the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide the area into allotments for the individual Native Americans
*Dawes Commission, the commission responsible for the Dawes Rolls
*The Dawes Plan, an attempt following World War I for the Allies to collect war reparations debt from defeated post-World War I Germany
*Dawes Rolls, rolls of the members of the five tribes (Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole)

Other:
*Dawes, a British bicycle manufacturer
*Dawes' limit, a formula to express the maximum resolving power of a microscope or telescope
*Dawes USA assembles bicycles (no relation to the British manufacturer)

ee also

*Daw
*Dawe