Thomas Hawkins
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Thomas or Tom Hawkins may refer to:
- Sir Thomas Hawkins, 17th-century English poet and translator
- Thomas R. HawkinsThomas R. HawkinsThomas R. Hawkins was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions at the Battle of Chaffin's Farm.-Biography:...
, American soldier - Thomas Hawkins (geologist)Thomas Hawkins (geologist)Thomas Hawkins was an English fossil collector and dealer especially of Ichyosaurs and Plesiosaurs.He lived in Glastonbury.Hawkins paid for fossils exposed by erosion at Lyme Regis on the Dorset Coast, and quarrymen at inland quarries at Street and Edgarley in Somerset...
, English fossil collector - Thomas W. Hawkins, Jr., American mathematician, recipient of the Chauvenet PrizeChauvenet PrizeThe Chauvenet Prize is the highest award for mathematical expository writing. It consists of a prize of $1,000 and a certificate, and is awarded yearly by the Mathematical Association of America in recognition of an outstanding expository article on a mathematical topic. The prize is named in...
in 1997 - Thomas Fisher (MP)Thomas Fisher (MP)-Early life:He was the M.P. for Warwick, was of obscure origin and usually known by the name of Fisher, because his father was a fishmonger in Warwick. His ability recommended him to John Dudley, duke of Northumberland, then Viscount Lisle, who took him into his service, and on 4 May, 34 Hen. VIII,...
or Thomas Hawkins, English politician - Tom Hawkins (basketball)Tom Hawkins (basketball)Thomas Jerome Hawkins is a retired American professional basketball player....
, American basketball player - Tom Hawkins (footballer)Tom Hawkins (footballer)Thomas "Tom" Jack Hawkins is an Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League...
, Australian player of Australian rules football - Tom Hawkins (writer)Tom Hawkins (writer)Thomas Donald Hawkins , who was born in Pangurn, Arkansas and grew up in Port Angeles, Washington, was an American writer who is the probable author of the Wanda Tinasky letters, once widely thought to be the work of novelist Thomas Pynchon.Hawkins graduated in 1950 from the University of...
, Beat generation poet believed responsible for the "Wanda Tinasky" letter of the 1980s