Dixie (name)

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Dixie is a feminine given name, nickname or stage name, and surname. It may refer to:

People with the surname[edit]

  • Lady Florence Dixie (1855–1905), Scottish traveller, war correspondent, writer and feminist
  • Mark Dixie, a chef convicted of a 2005 murder
  • Wolstan Dixie (1524 or 1525–1594), English merchant and administrator, Lord Mayor of London in 1585
  • Sir Wolstan Dixie of Appleby Magna (1576–1650), High Sheriff of Leicestershire, Member of Parliament and founder of the Dixie Grammar School, great-nephew of the above

People with the given name[edit]

  • Dixie Browning (born 1930), American artist and romance novelist
  • Dixie Bull (fl. 1631–1632), English sea captain and pirate
  • Dixie Carter (1939–2010), American stage and television actress
  • Dixie Carter (wrestling), American former promoter and businesswoman
  • Dixie D'Amelio (born 2001), American social media personality and singer, also known by the stage name Dixie
  • Dixie Dean William Ralph "Dixie" Dean (22 January 1907–1 March 1980) was an English footballer who played as a centre forward.
  • Dixie Bibb Graves (1882–1965), wife of Alabama Governor Bibb Graves and first woman United States Senator from Alabama
  • Dixie Haygood (1861–1915), American stage magician
  • Dixie L. Leavitt (born 1929), American entrepreneur and politician
  • Dixie Selden (1868–1935), American painter
  • Dixie Tan (1935–2014), Singaporean cardiologist and politician
  • Dixie Willis (born 1941), Australian former middle distance runner

People with the nickname or stage name[edit]

  • Dixie Brown, English boxer Anthony George Charles (1900–1957)
  • Dixie Davis (1905–1969), American lawyer for gangster Dutch Schultz
  • Dixie Davis (baseball) (1890–1944), American Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Dixie Dean (1907–1980), English footballer
  • Dixie Deans (born 1946), Scottish former footballer
  • Dixie Deans (RAF airman) (1913–1989), British Second World War bomber pilot and prisoner of war camp leader
  • Dixie Dunbar (1919–1991), American actress
  • Dixie Dynamite (born 1959), ring name of American professional wrestler Scott Armstrong
  • Dixie Evans (1926–2013), American burlesque dancer and stripper
  • Dixie Garr (born 1956), African-American computer engineer
  • Dixie Gilmer (1901–1954), American politician
  • Dixie Howell (1912–1971), American football and baseball player and coach, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
  • Dixie Howell (catcher) (1920–1990), American Major League Baseball catcher
  • Dixie Howell (pitcher) (1920–1960), American Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Dixie Lee (1911–1952), American actress, dancer, and singer born Wilma Wyatt, first wife of singer Bing Crosby
  • Dixie Leverett (1894–1957), American Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Dixie McNeil (born 1947), English former footballer and manager
  • Dixie Walker (1910–1982), American Major League Baseball player
  • Dixie Walker (pitcher) (1887–1965), American Major League Baseball pitcher, father of the above
  • Richard L. Walker (1922–2003), American scholar, author, and ambassador to South Korea

Fictional[edit]

  • Dixie, a character in the 1987 American buddy cop action movie Lethal Weapon
  • Dixie Clemets, in the video games Rumble Roses and Rumble Roses XX
  • Dixie Cooney, on the daytime television show All My Children
  • the title character of Dixie Dugan, an American nationally syndicated comic strip from 1929 to 1966
  • Dixie Flatline, in William Gibson's 1984 cyberpunk novel Neuromancer
  • Dixie Kong, an animated game character from Nintendo's Donkey Kong series
  • Dixie McCall, the senior nurse at Rampart General Hospital on the television show Emergency!, played by Julie London

See also[edit]