Fawkes

Fawkes
Pronunciation	Fawks, IPA: [fɔːks]
Language(s)	Norman
Origin
Meaning	Valley or Falcon
Region of origin	British Isles
Other names
Variant form(s)	Fakes, Faulks, Faulkes, Fawks, Fawlks, Fawlkes, Foulks, Foulkes, Fowkes

Last updated March 16, 2025

Fawkes is a surname of Norman-French origin, first appearing in the British Isles after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.^[1] The surname may be a corruption of the Norman surname Vaux, which means valley.^[2] Notably, Guy Fawkes was sometimes recorded as Guy Vaux.^[3] An alternative origin for the surname is that it originates from the pre-6th century Germanic given name of Falco (later Faulques) meaning "falcon".^[1] The first recorded spelling of the surname in England is that of one Geoffrey Faukes in 1221.^[1]

People

Surname

Barbara Fawkes (1914–2002), British nurse and nursing educator
Francis Fawkes (1721–1777), English poet and translator
Frederick Fawkes (1870–1936), British Conservative Party politician
George Fawkes (1903–1967), British admiral
Guy Fawkes (1570–1606), English revolutionary
Isaac Fawkes (1675?–1732), English conjurer and showman
John Fawkes (born 1933), English cricketer
Judith Poxson Fawkes (1941–2019), American tapestry weaver
Madeleine Charlotte Fawkes (1880–1954), English botanical illustrator
Marion Fawkes (born 1948), British female racewalker
Randol Fawkes (1924–2000), Bahamian civil rights activist, author, musician
Richard Fawkes (1944–2020), British writer and director
Sandy Fawkes (1929–2005), British journalist
Wally Fawkes (1924–2023), British-Canadian jazz clarinetist and cartoonist
Walter Fawkes (1769–1825), British landowner and politician, patron of painter J. M. W. Turner
Wilmot Fawkes (1846–1926), Royal Navy officer, Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth

Given name

Fawkes de Breauté, (died 1226), Anglo-Norman soldier who served in the First Barons' War

Pseudonym

Guido Fawkes, a pseudonym of British right-wing political blogger Paul Staines

Fictional characters

Jamison Fawkes (aka Junkrat), playable character in the 2016 video game Overwatch
Darien Fawkes, main character of the television series The Invisible Man
Fawkes, Dumbledore's phoenix in the Harry Potter books
Fawkes, on the web series The Guild , portrayed by Wil Wheaton
Fawkes, a Super Mutant character from the 2008 video game Fallout 3

References

1 2 3 4 "Last name: Fawkes". The Internet Surname Database. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
1 2 "Fawkes". British Surnames. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
↑ Howe, N.G. (21 February 2019). Statesmen in Caricature: The Great Rivalry of Fox and Pitt the Younger in the Age of the Political Cartoon. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 1786736713.

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[surnamedb-1] 1 2 3 4 "Last name: Fawkes". The Internet Surname Database. Retrieved 5 November 2011.

[BritishSurname1-2] 1 2 "Fawkes". British Surnames. Retrieved 14 April 2020.

[Caricature1-3] Howe, N.G. (21 February 2019). Statesmen in Caricature: The Great Rivalry of Fox and Pitt the Younger in the Age of the Political Cartoon. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 1786736713.

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