Sykes

Sykes may refer to:

People

 * Sir Alan Sykes, 1st Baronet, businessman and British politician
 * Annette Sykes, New Zealand human rights lawyer and Māori activist
 * Bob Sykes (American football), American football player
 * Bob Sykes (baseball), American baseball pitcher
 * Bob Sykes (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player
 * Bobbi Sykes, Australian author and land rights activist
 * Bryan Sykes, British academic and geneticist
 * Christopher Sykes (author), British author
 * Christopher Sykes (politician), British politician
 * Diane S. Sykes, judge on the United States Court of Appeals
 * Edmund Sykes, Catholic martyr
 * Emilia Sykes, American politician
 * Eric Sykes, comedic writer and actor
 * Eric A. Sykes, developer of the Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife
 * Ernest Sykes (VC), recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * Ernest Ruthven Sykes (1867–1954), malacologist from Great Britain
 * Eugene O. Sykes (1876–1945), justice on the Mississippi Supreme Court
 * Frederick Henry Sykes (1863–1917), Canadian-American educator and college president
 * Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes, British military officer and politician
 * George Sykes, U.S. Army general
 * Gresham Sykes (1922–2010), American sociologist and criminologist
 * Homer Sykes, Canadian-born British photographer
 * Congressman James Sykes (Continental Congress), lawyer and American politician
 * Governor James Sykes (governor), physician and American politician
 * Rod Sykes, Canadian politician
 * John Sykes, rock musician
 * John Sykes (American football) (1949–2019), American football player
 * John Sykes (composer) (1909–1962), English composer and music teacher, born in India
 * John Sykes (politician), British politician
 * John H. Sykes Tampa Bay area businessman and founder of Sykes inc.
 * Keifer Sykes (born 1993), American basketball player
 * Sir Mark Sykes, British politician and diplomatic advisor
 * Melanie Sykes (born 1970), English television and radio presenter, and model
 * Nathan Sykes (born 1993), member of boy band The Wanted
 * Norman Sykes (1936–2009), English footballer
 * Oliver Sykes, frontman of Bring Me the Horizon
 * Paul Sykes (boxer) (1946–2007), English heavyweight boxer of the 1970s and 1980s
 * Paul Sykes (businessman) (born 1943), English Eurosceptic businessman, and political donor
 * Paul Sykes (rugby league) (born 1981), rugby league footballer of the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s
 * Paul Sykes (singer), American folksinger of the 1960s
 * Sir Percy Sykes, British soldier, geographer and travel writer
 * Peter Sykes (director) (1939–2006), Australian/British film director
 * Peter Sykes (chemist) (1923–2003), British chemist
 * Sir Richard Sykes (biochemist), businessman and university rector
 * Sir Richard Sykes (diplomat), diplomat assassinated in 1979
 * Richard Sykes (rugby union), Rugby player and Dakota landowner
 * Stephen Sykes, ecclesiologist
 * Sykes family of Sledmere
 * Tatton Sykes (disambiguation)
 * Thomas Sykes (Mississippi politician), African-American legislator in Mississippi during Reconstruction
 * Thomas A. Sykes, African-American legislator in North Carolina and Tennessee during Reconstruction
 * Thomas Hardcastle Sykes, businessman
 * Timothy Sykes (born 1981), penny stock trader
 * Tom Sykes, British motorcycle racer
 * Wanda Sykes, comedian and actress
 * William Sykes (1852–1910), English businessman
 * Colonel William Henry Sykes, military officer, politician, and ornithologist
 * William Robert Sykes, British railway signal engineer

Companies

 * Sykes Bleaching Company
 * Sykes Enterprises, Incorporated, a family of global companies delivering business process outsourcing services

Characters

 * Bill Sykes, antagonist from the animated Disney film Oliver & Company
 * Fredrick Sykes, one of the main antagonists of the 1993 action film The Fugitive
 * Mr. Sykes, a character from the film Shark Tale, voiced by Martin Scorsese
 * Sgt. Michael "Psycho" Sykes, the main character in the game Crysis Warhead, and a secondary character in Crysis
 * Reverend Sykes, a character from Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird
 * Robert "Pliers" Sykes, character in the game Wing Commander IV

Places

 * Sykes, Lancashire, England
 * Sykesville, Maryland, USA
 * Forward Operating Base Sykes, a U.S. military base in Iraq
 * Sykes Camp, a campground in California

Other

 * 4438 Sykes, an asteroid
 * Sykes (dog), a dog actor from Clifton, Oxfordshire, England
 * Sykes (TV series), a British sitcom that aired on BBC 1 from 1972 to 1979
 * Sykes baronets, four separate baronetcies of Great Britain or the United Kingdom