Axon (surname)

Last updated July 21, 2019

Axon is an English surname. Notable people with this surname include the following:

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and eventually became a global lingua franca. It is named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to the area of Great Britain that later took their name, as England. Both names derive from Anglia, a peninsula in the Baltic Sea. The language is closely related to Frisian and Low Saxon, and its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages, particularly Norse, and to a greater extent by Latin and French.

Annemarie Carney Axon, American judge
David Axon (1951–2012), British astrophysicist
John Axon (1900–1957), English engine driver awarded the George Cross
John Axon (actor) (1960–2008), English actor; grandson of John Axon the engine driver
Rachael Axon (b. 1985), English footballer
William Axon (1846–1913), English antiquary

Annemarie Carney Axon is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.

David John Axon was a British astrophysicist specialising in observations of active galactic nuclei. He was a professor at the University of Hertfordshire and the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), and at the time of his death was Head of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Sussex.

John Axon GC was an English train driver from Stockport who died while trying to stop a runaway freight train on a 1 in 58 gradient at Chapel-en-le-Frith in Derbyshire after a brake failure. The train consisted of an ex-LMS Stanier Class 8F 2-8-0 No. 48188 hauling 33 wagons and a brake van.

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