Meakin

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Meakin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Alf Meakin (born 1938), retired track and field athlete
  • Breanne Meakin (in marriage Breanne Knapp) (born 1990), Canadian female curler
  • Douglas Meakin (1929–1998), English cricketer
  • Harry Meakin (1919–1986), footballer who played in The Football League for Stoke City
  • Lewis Henry Meakin (1850–1917), American Impressionist landscape artist born in Newcastle, England, moving to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1863
  • Peter Meakin, Australian journalist and the head of news and current affairs at the Seven Network
  • Rob Meakin (born 1964), Canadian curler and coach

See also[edit]

  • J. & G. Meakin, English pottery manufacturing company founded in 1851 and based in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
  • Mohan Meakin Brewery, large group of companies started with Asia's first brewery incorporated in 1855
  • Janet Meakin Poor (born 1929), landscape design specialist based out of Winnetka, Illinois