Fawkes

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FawkesPronunciation| Fawks, IPA: [fɔːks]

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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
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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]

It is also, less frequently, a given name.

## People

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### Surname

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* 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

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

### Pseudonym

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

## Fictional characters

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* 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

## See also

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* Vaulx (disambiguation)
* Vaux (disambiguation)

## References

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1. ^ a b c d "Last name: Fawkes". The Internet Surname Database. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
2. ^ a b "Fawkes". British Surnames. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
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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