Dawes (surname)
Dawes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Albert Dawes, English association footballer
- Andrew Dawes, Canadian violinist
- Beman Gates Dawes, politician and oil executive who served two terms as a Republican Congressman from Ohio
- Charles G. Dawes, banker, politician and 30th Vice President of the United States
- Christie Dawes, Australian wheelchair racer
- Christopher Dawes, multiple people
- David Dawes, one of the founders of the XFree86 project
- Dominique Dawes, United States gymnast
- Edward Dawes, British Liberal Member of Parliament for the Isle of Wight 1851–1852
- Eva Dawes, Canadian track and field athlete
- Fred Dawes, English association footballer
- Henry L. Dawes, United States Senator of Massachusetts, who sponsored the Dawes Act
- Henry May Dawes, American businessman and banker from a prominent Ohio family
- Ian Dawes, former professional footballer
- James W. Dawes, Republican Nebraska politician best known as the sixth governor of Nebraska
- John Dawes, Welsh rugby union player
- Johnny Dawes, British rock climber
- Julian Dawes, English composer
- Karl Friedrich Griffin Dawes, Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party
- Kwame Dawes, poet, actor, editor, critic, musician and professor of English at the University of South Carolina in Columbia
- Marylou Dawes, Canadian pianist
- Melanie Dawes, British economist and civil servant
- Neville Dawes, novelist and poet born in Nigeria of Jamaican parentage
- Nigel Dawes, Canadian ice hockey left winger
- Richard Dawes, English classical scholar
- Rufus Dawes, U.S. military officer in the American Civil War
- Rufus C. Dawes, American businessman from a prominent Ohio family
- Sophie Dawes, Baronne de Feuchères, English-born adventuress best known as a mistress of Louis Henry II, Prince of Condé
- Thomas Dawes, American soldier, colonel in the American Revolution
- William Dawes, American activist in the American Revolution
- William Dawes , 3rd Baronet Dawes, bishop of Chester from 1708 to 1714
- William Dawes , Australian pioneer and scientist
- William Rutter Dawes, British astronomer
- Zach Dawes American Musician
Fictional characters
- George Dawes, a character from Shooting Stars portrayed by Matt Lucas
- Marjorie Dawes, a character from Little Britain portrayed by Matt Lucas
- Nancy Dawes, a character in the novel series The Baby-sitters Club and Baby-sitters Little Sister
- Rachel Dawes, a character in the film Batman Begins