Dickinson (name)
Dickinson is a surname and, rarely, a given name.
People surnamed Dickinson
(The list is sorted by year of birth)
- Born 1600–1699
- Nathaniel Dickinson (1601-1676), Pioneer in America, A Founder of Hadley, Massachusetts
- Jonathan Dickinson (1663-1722), Philadelphia mayor
- Born 1700–1799
- John Dickinson (1732–1808), U.S. solicitor, politician and Founding Father
- Philemon Dickinson (1739–1809), American lawyer, politician and soldier
- John Dean Dickinson (1767–1841), U.S. lawyer, banker and politician
- Charles Dickinson (historical figure) (1780–1806), American attorney and duelist
- John Dickinson (inventor) (1782–1869), British inventor of a continuous mechanised papermaking process
- Born 1800–1899
- Almaron Dickinson (1800-1836), Texian soldier, died defending the Alamo
- Daniel S. Dickinson (1800–1866), U.S. Senator from New York
- Andrew B. Dickinson (1801–1873), New York politician, U.S. Minister to Nicaragua
- Edward Dickinson (1803–1874), U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts, father of poet Emily Dickinson
- David W. Dickinson (1808–1845), U.S. Congressman from Tennessee
- Susanna Dickinson (1814–1883), Alamo survivor, wife of Almaron Dickinson
- George Dickinson (Canterbury cricketer) (1828–1913), New Zealand cricketer
- Edward F. Dickinson (1829–1874), American lawyer, soldier and politician
- Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), American poet
- Lavinia Norcross Dickinson (1833-1899), sister of Emily who enabled her publication
- Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (1842-1932), American politician, orator, lecturer on abolition of slavery and discrimination against women
- Donald M. Dickinson (1846–1917), American lawyer and politician, 34th US Postmaster General
- John Dickenson (Canadian politician) (1847–1932)
- Willoughby Dickinson, 1st Baron Dickinson (1859-1943), British politician, supporter of women's suffrage, peace activist
- Robert Latou Dickinson (1861–1950), American obstetrician, gynecologist, surgeon, maternal health educator, artist, sculptor, medical illustrator, and research scientist
- Fairleigh S. Dickinson (c.1862–1948), American co-founder of the medical technology company Becton Dickinson
- Lester J. Dickinson (1873-1968), American politician, senator from Iowa
- Marvin M. Dickinson (1877–1951), American football and baseball player and coach
- George Sherman Dickinson (1888–1964), American developer of the Dickinson library classification system for musical compositions
- Edwin Dickinson (1891–1978), American painter and draftsman
- Velvalee Dickinson (1893–c.1980), American World War II spy for Japan
- Jacob M. Dickinson (1851-1928), U.S. Secretary of War under President Taft, Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient, founder of Sigma Alpha Epsilon
- Born 1900–1949
- George Dickinson (1903–1978), New Zealand international cricketer and rugby union player
- William Boyd Dickinson (1908-1978), U.S. war correspondent, editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin
- Jacob Alan Dickinson (1911-1971), U.S. lawyer, desegregation advocate, President of the Topeka Board of Education
- Ben Dickinson (1912–2000), full name Samuel Benson Dickinson, Australian geologist and Director of Mines in South Australia
- Basil Dickinson (1915–2013), Australian athlete
- Peter Dickinson (architect) (1925–1961), British-Canadian architect
- Jimmy Dickinson (1925–1982), English football player
- William Louis Dickinson (born 1925), US representative for Alabama
- Peter Dickinson (1927–2015), English author and poet
- William R. Dickinson (born 1930), American geologist, geoscientist and academic
- Angie Dickinson (born 1931), American actress
- Nate Dickinson (born 1932), American wildlife biologist
- David Dickinson (born 1941), English antiques expert and television presenter
- Jim Dickinson (1941-2009) American record producer, pianist, and singer
- Terence Dickinson (born 1943), Canada
- Linda (Dickinson) Spalding, U.S. and Canadian author
- Jess H. Dickinson (born 1947), Presiding Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
- Sandra Dickinson (born 1948), American-British actress
- Born 1950–1999
- Charles Dickinson (writer) (born 1951), American writer
- Q. Todd Dickinson (1952-2020), American lawyer
- Janice Dickinson (born 1955), American model, photographer, author and talent agent
- Arlene Dickinson (born 1956), South African Canadian businesswoman, investor, author, and television personality
- Bruce Dickinson (born 1958), British vocalist for the heavy metal band Iron Maiden
- Amy Dickinson (born 1959), American newspaper columnist
- Brian Dickinson (born 1961), Canadian pianist
- Rob Dickinson (born 1965), British musician and singer-songwriter
- Helen Dickinson (born 1966), British chief executive
- Brian Dickinson (climber) (born 1974), American mountain climber
- Oliver Dickinson (born 1980), Anglo-French documentary film director
- Carl Dickinson (born 1987), English footballer
- Jason Dickinson (born 1995), professional ice hockey player
- Ellie Dickinson (born 1998), English cyclist
Pseudonyms and aliases
- Angie Dickinson, born 'Angeline Brown' in 1931, United States
- Christine Arnothy (born 1934), Hungary, used the pen name 'William Dickinson'
See also
Human name disambiguation pages
People sharing the given name Dickinson
- Dickinson W. Richards (1895–1973), United States
Notes
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