Wilkes (surname)
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Wilkes is a surname
of English
origin. Its origin is as a variant of the name William
. At the time of the British Census of 1881 http://www.britishsurnames.co.uk/surnames/WILKES/1881census, its relative frequency was highest in Staffordshire
(9.5 times the British average), followed by Worcestershire
, Shropshire
, Warwickshire
, Flintshire
, Gloucestershire
, Herefordshire
, Montgomeryshire
and Anglesey
. In all other British counties, its relative frequency was below national average. The name Wilkes may refer to:
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
of English
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
origin. Its origin is as a variant of the name William
William (name)
William is a popular given name of old Germanic origin. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066, and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era...
. At the time of the British Census of 1881 http://www.britishsurnames.co.uk/surnames/WILKES/1881census, its relative frequency was highest in Staffordshire
Staffordshire
Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. Part of the National Forest lies within its borders...
(9.5 times the British average), followed by Worcestershire
Worcestershire
Worcestershire is a non-metropolitan county, established in antiquity, located in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire" NUTS 2 region...
, Shropshire
Shropshire
Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...
, Warwickshire
Warwickshire
Warwickshire is a landlocked non-metropolitan county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, although the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare...
, Flintshire
Flintshire (historic)
Flintshire , also known as the County of Flint, is one of thirteen historic counties, a vice-county and a former administrative county, which mostly lies on the north east coast of Wales....
, Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....
, Herefordshire
Herefordshire
Herefordshire is a historic and ceremonial county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire" NUTS 2 region. It also forms a unitary district known as the...
, Montgomeryshire
Montgomeryshire
Montgomeryshire, also known as Maldwyn is one of thirteen historic counties and a former administrative county of Wales. Montgomeryshire is still used as a vice-county for wildlife recording...
and Anglesey
Anglesey
Anglesey , also known by its Welsh name Ynys Môn , is an island and, as Isle of Anglesey, a county off the north west coast of Wales...
. In all other British counties, its relative frequency was below national average. The name Wilkes may refer to:
- Annie WilkesAnnie WilkesAnne Marie Wilkes Dugan, usually known as Annie Wilkes, is a fictional character and the antagonist/main villain in the 1987 novel Misery, by Stephen King. In the 1990 film adaptation of the novel, Annie Wilkes was portrayed by Kathy Bates, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal...
, fictional character from Misery - Ashley WilkesAshley WilkesGeorge Ashley Wilkes is a fictional character in the Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind and the later film of the same name. The character also appears in the 1991 book Scarlett, a sequel to Gone with the Wind written by Alexandra Ripley, and in Rhett Butler's People by Donald...
, fictional character from Gone with the WindGone with the WindThe slaves depicted in Gone with the Wind are primarily loyal house servants, such as Mammy, Pork and Uncle Peter, and these slaves stay on with their masters even after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 sets them free... - Benjamin WilkesBenjamin WilkesBenjamin Wilkes was an 18th-century artist and naturalist in London. Wilkes' profession was 'painting of History Pieces and Portraits in Oyl'. When a friend invited him to a meeting of the Aurelian Society, where he first saw specimens of butterflies and moths, he became convinced that nature...
, British entomological painter - Brent A. WilkesBrent A. WilkesBrent Ashley Wilkes is the current National Executive Director of the League of United Latin American Citizens.-Personal life:Brent Ashley Wilkes graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH...
, executive director of LULAC - Brent R. Wilkes, American defense contractor
- Cathy WilkesCathy WilkesCathy Wilkes is an artist from Northern Ireland, who creates video installations. She is a 2008 Turner Prize nominee.-Life and work:...
, Artist - Charles WilkesCharles WilkesCharles Wilkes was an American naval officer and explorer. He led the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 and commanded the ship in the Trent Affair during the American Civil War...
, American naval officer (Wilkes Expedition) - Clint Wilkes, American politician
- Debbi WilkesDebbi WilkesDebbi Wilkes is a Canadian former pair skater. Competing with Guy Revell, she captured two Canadian titles, the 1963 North American Championship, and won the bronze medal at the 1964 Winter Olympics....
, Canadian figure skater and author of books on figure skating - Del WilkesDel WilkesDel Wilkes is a former American professional wrestler. Over the span of 14 years, he performed in various promotions such as American Wrestling Association, All Japan Pro Wrestling...
, American wrestler - Edwin "Big Ed" Wilkes"Big Ed" WilkesEdwin "Ed" Wilkes , known professionally as Big Ed Wilkes, was a popular radio personality in Lubbock, Texas, who combined humor with hard news reporting on his own morning talk show on station KRFE ....
, Texas radioRadioRadio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
broadcaster - Faas WilkesFaas WilkesServaas "Faas" Wilkes was a Dutch football forward, who earned a total of 38 caps for the Dutch national team, in which he scored 35 goals...
, Dutch football (soccer) player - Frank WilkesFrank WilkesFrank Noel Wilkes AM , Australian politician, was Leader of the Labor Opposition in Victoria from 1977 to 1981. Wilkes was born in Melbourne and educated at Northcote Primary and Secondary Schools and Preston Technical College. During the Second World War he served in the southwest Pacific in the...
, Australian politician - India WilkesIndia WilkesIndia Wilkes is the sister of Ashley Wilkes and the rival of Scarlett O'Hara in the novel and film Gone with the Wind. She's a jealous character who despises Scarlett because Scarlett stole the attention of Stuart Tarleton, who courted India previously. India also resents Scarlett for marrying...
, fictional character from Gone with the WindGone with the WindThe slaves depicted in Gone with the Wind are primarily loyal house servants, such as Mammy, Pork and Uncle Peter, and these slaves stay on with their masters even after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 sets them free... - J. D. WilkesJ. D. WilkesJoshua "J. D." Wilkes , and now a resident of Paducah, Kentucky, is an American visual artist, musician, and amateur filmmaker...
, American musician - Jamaal WilkesJamaal WilkesJamaal Wilkes is a retired American basketball player who played the small forward position and won four NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors. Wilkes was also a key player in the run of NCAA championships accumulated during the John Wooden era of UCLA basketball...
, American basketball player - James Wilkes (disambiguation), one of several people with that name
- John WilkesJohn WilkesJohn Wilkes was an English radical, journalist and politician.He was first elected Member of Parliament in 1757. In the Middlesex election dispute, he fought for the right of voters—rather than the House of Commons—to determine their representatives...
(1725–1797), British radical journalist and politician - Jonathan WilkesJonathan WilkesJonathan Wilkes is an English television presenter, actor and musician. Jonny Wilkes is currently performing as Billy Flynn in Chicago at The Cambridge Theatre, London. He is also the best friend of singer Robbie Williams...
, English television presenter, actor and musician - Kathy WilkesKathy WilkesKathleen Vaughan Wilkes was an English philosopher and academic who played an important part in rebuilding the education systems of former Communist countries after 1990. She established her reputation as an academic with her contributions to the philosophy of mind in two major works and many...
, philosopher - Kyle Wilkes, American football player
- Mark Wilkes, speaker of the House of KeysHouse of KeysThe House of Keys is the directly elected lower branch of Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man, the other branch being the Legislative Council....
, Isle of ManIsle of ManThe Isle of Man , otherwise known simply as Mann , is a self-governing British Crown Dependency, located in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, within the British Isles. The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who holds the title of Lord of Mann. The Lord of Mann is... - Mary Allen WilkesMary Allen WilkesMary Allen Wilkes is a former computer programmer and hardware engineer, most known for her work with the LINC computer. She left computer science and became an attorney. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, class of 1959....
, first person to own a home computer, programmer for LINCLINCThe LINC was a 12-bit, 2048-word computer. The LINC can be considered the first minicomputer and a forerunner to the personal computer....
and author - Maurice Vincent WilkesMaurice Vincent WilkesSir Maurice Vincent Wilkes FRS, FREng, DFBCS was a British computer scientist credited with several important developments in computing. At the time of his death, Wilkes was an Emeritus Professor of the University of Cambridge...
, British computer scientist - Maya Wilkes, fictional character from GirlfriendsGirlfriendsGirlfriends is an American comedy-drama sitcom that premiered on September 11, 2000, on UPN and aired on UPN's successor network, The CW, before being cancelled in 2008...
- Melanie WilkesMelanie WilkesMelanie Hamilton Wilkes is a fictional character first appearing in the novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. In the 1939 film she was portrayed by Olivia de Havilland...
, fictional character from Gone with the WindGone with the WindThe slaves depicted in Gone with the Wind are primarily loyal house servants, such as Mammy, Pork and Uncle Peter, and these slaves stay on with their masters even after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 sets them free... - Oliver WilkesOliver WilkesOliver Wilkes, is an English born Scottish professional rugby league footballer for the Harlequins club of Super League...
, English born, Scottish rugby league player - Paget WilkesPaget Wilkesthumb|180px|[[Juji Nakada|NAKADA Juji]],Paget Wilkes,MITANI Tanekiti,1902Alpheus Paget Wilkes was an English evangelical Christian missionary to Japan who was one of the founders of the Japan Evangelistic Band in 1903...
, missionary in Japan - Paul WilkesPaul WilkesPaul Wilkes is an American writer of Slovak origin and filmmaker who is best known for his focus on religion, especially Roman Catholicism and its monastic tradition....
, American author on Catholicism - William WilkesWilliam WilkesWilliam Harry Walters Wilkes was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman who played 14 times for Worcestershire in their early years in first-class cricket....
, English cricketer - Baron Alexander Von Wilkes, Fashion Guru