Fawkes is a surname ofNorman-French origin, first appearing in theBritish Isles after theNorman Conquest of England in 1066.^[1] The surname may be a corruption of the Norman surnameVaux, 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 ofFalco (laterFaulques) 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, agiven name.

• 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

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

• Guido Fawkes, a pseudonym of British right-wing political bloggerPaul Staines

• Jamison Fawkes (aka Junkrat), playable character in the 2016 video gameOverwatch
• Darien Fawkes, main character of the television seriesThe Invisible Man
• Fawkes, Dumbledore'sphoenix in theHarry Potter books
• Fawkes, on the web seriesThe Guild, portrayed byWil Wheaton
• Fawkes, aSuper Mutant character from the 2008 video gameFallout 3

• Vaulx (disambiguation)
• Vaux (disambiguation)

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