Dawes (surname)

Dawes is a surname.

Notable people with the surname include

 * Al-Amir Dawes (born 2001), American basketball player
 * Albert Dawes (1907–1973), English association footballer
 * Andrew Dawes (1940–2022), Canadian violinist
 * Belle Dawes (born 2001), Australian rules footballer
 * Beman Gates Dawes (1870–1953), politician and oil executive who served two terms as a Republican Congressman from Ohio
 * Caro Dawes (1866 — 1957) wife of Vice President Charles G. Dawes, second lady of the United States from 1925 to 1929
 * Charles G. Dawes (1865–1951), banker, politician and 30th Vice President of the United States
 * Christie Dawes (born 1980), Australian wheelchair racer
 * Christopher Dawes (disambiguation), multiple people
 * David Dawes (born 1964), one of the founders of the XFree86 project
 * Dominique Dawes (born 1976), United States gymnast
 * Edward Dawes (1805–1856), British Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for the Isle of Wight 1851–1852
 * Eva Dawes (1912–2009), Canadian track and field athlete
 * Fred Dawes (1911–1989), English association footballer
 * Henry L. Dawes (1816–1903), United States Senator of Massachusetts, who sponsored the Dawes Act
 * Henry May Dawes (1877–1952), American businessman and banker from a prominent Ohio family
 * Ian Dawes (born 1963), former professional footballer
 * James W. Dawes (1844–1918), Republican Nebraska politician best known as the sixth governor of Nebraska
 * John Dawes (1940–2021), Welsh rugby union player
 * Johnny Dawes (born 1964), British rock climber
 * Julian Dawes (born 1942), English composer
 * Karl Friedrich Griffin Dawes (1861–1941), Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party
 * Kwame Dawes (born 1962), poet, actor, editor, critic, musician and professor of English at the University of South Carolina in Columbia
 * Marylou Dawes (1933–2013), Canadian pianist
 * Melanie Dawes (born 1966), British economist and civil servant
 * Neville Dawes (1926–1984), novelist and poet born in Nigeria of Jamaican parentage
 * Nigel Dawes (born 1985), Canadian ice hockey left winger
 * Richard Dawes (disambiguation)
 * Rufus Dawes (1838–1899), U.S. military officer in the American Civil War
 * Rufus C. Dawes (1867–1940), American businessman from a prominent Ohio family
 * Sophie Dawes, Baronne de Feuchères (c. 1795–1840), English-born adventuress best known as a mistress of Louis Henry II, Prince of Condé
 * Thomas Dawes (1731–1809), American soldier, colonel in the American Revolution
 * William Dawes (1745–1799), American activist in the American Revolution
 * William Dawes (bishop) (1671–1724), 3rd Baronet Dawes, bishop of Chester from 1708 to 1714
 * William Dawes (British Marines officer) (1762–1836), Australian pioneer and scientist
 * William Rutter Dawes (1799–1868), British astronomer
 * Zach Dawes (born 1985), 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