Watkins (surname)
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Watkins is an English
English language
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 and Welsh
Welsh language
Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...

 surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

 derived as a patronymic
Patronymic
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 from Watkin
Watkin
Watkin is an English surname formed as a diminutive of the name Watt , a popular Middle English given name itself derived as a pet form of the name Walter.First found in a small Welsh village in 1629....

, in turn a diminutive
Diminutive
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 of the name Watt
Watt (surname)
The surname Watt may refer to:*Watt of Sussex, Anglo-Saxon king*Adam Watt, Australian boxer*Alexander Watt, British plant ecologist*Ben Watt, British musician and music producer*Davey Watt, Australian speedway rider...

 (also Wat), a popular Middle English
Middle English
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 given name
Given name
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 itself derived as a pet form of the name Walter.

It may refer to:

  • Aaron S. Watkins
    Aaron S. Watkins
    Aaron S. Watkins , born in Ohio, was president of Asbury College in Kentucky. Before his ordination as a Methodist minister, he practiced law with his brother. He was the grandfather of Prohibition candidate for Vice President of the United States, W...

    , American academic and politician
  • Alan Watkins
    Alan Watkins
    Alan Rhun Watkins was for over 50 years a British political columnist in various London-based magazines and newspapers...

    , British journalist
  • Alfred Watkins
    Alfred Watkins
    Alfred Watkins was a businessman, self-taught amateur archaeologist and antiquarian who, while standing on a hillside in Herefordshire, England, in 1921 experienced a revelation and noticed on the British landscape the apparent arrangement of straight lines positioned along ancient features, and...

    , British proponent of ley lines, pioneer photographer, author
  • Allan Watkins
    Allan Watkins
    Allan Watkins Allan Watkins Allan Watkins (born Albert John Watkins (21 April 1922 – 3 August 2011) was a Welsh cricketer, who played for England in fifteen Tests from 1948 to 1952. He toured India and Pakistan in 1951-2 with the MCC, and also participated in the 1955-6 'A' Tour to Pakistan...

    , Welsh cricketer
  • Arthur Vivian Watkins
    Arthur Vivian Watkins
    Arthur Vivian Watkins was a Republican U.S. Senator from 1947 to 1959. He was influential as a proponent of terminating federal recognition of American Indian tribes.-Biography:...

    , American politician
  • Barry Watkins
    Barry Watkins
    Randall Burnell 'Barry' Watkins was an association footballer, who played in The Football League for Bristol Rovers after the Second World War....

     (full name Randall Burnell Watkins), Welsh footballer
  • Ben Watkins, British musician
  • Beverly Watkins ("Guitar" Watkins), American blues guitarist
  • Bill Watkins
    Bill Watkins
    William Henry "Wattie" Watkins was a Canadian baseball player and manager. In 1887, he led the Detroit Wolverines to the first professional sports championship for Detroit, Michigan. The Wolverines won the 1887 National League championship and went on to defeat the St. Louis Browns in a 15-game...

    , Canadian baseball manager
  • Bob Watkins
    Bob Watkins
    Robert Cecil Watkins is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Houston Astros in 1969. He was selected by the Astros in the 1966 amateur draft.-External links:...

    , American baseball player
  • Calvert Watkins
    Calvert Watkins
    Calvert Watkins is a professor Emeritus of linguistics and the classics at Harvard University and professor-in-residence at UCLA.His doctoral dissertation, Indo-European Origins of the Celtic Verb I...

    , American linguist
  • Carleton Watkins
    Carleton Watkins
    Carleton E. Watkins was a noted 19th century California photographer.Carleton Emmons Watkins was born in Oneonta, upstate New York. He went to San Francisco during the gold rush, arriving in 1851...

    , American photographer
  • David Watkins (disambiguation)
  • Dean Watkins
    Dean Watkins
    Dean Watkins, a retired aeronautical engineer, was the Prohibition Party candidate for Vice-president of the United States in 2000. Watkins' family has had a long association with the temperance movement. His grandfather, Aaron Watkins, was the Prohibition Party candidate for vice-president in 1908...

    , American engineer and candidate for Vice-President
  • Doug Watkins
    Doug Watkins
    Douglas Watkins was an American hard bop jazz double bassist from Detroit.-Biography:An original member of the Jazz Messengers, he later played in Horace Silver's quintet and freelanced with Gene Ammons, Kenny Burrell, Donald Byrd, Art Farmer, Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Sonny Rollins,...

    , American jazz bassist
  • Dudley D. Watkins
    Dudley D. Watkins
    Dudley Dexter Watkins was a British cartoonist and illustrator. He is best known for his characters Oor Wullie and The Broons; comic strips featuring them have appeared in Scottish newspaper The Sunday Post since 1936, along with annual compilations...

    , British comics artist and Desperate Dan creator
  • Enid Watkins
    Enid Watkins
    Enid Watkins , was a soprano singer, and a dancer who performed Native American dance in the 1910s.-Biography:...

     (1890-1971), American singer and dancer
  • Frank Watkins
    Frank Watkins (pilot)
    Frank Vernon Watkins was an officer of the Royal New Zealand Air Force during the Second World War. He was killed in air operations trying to save a close comrade and for this action was recommended for the Victoria Cross, the most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can...

    , WWII RNZAF pilot
  • Gloria Watkins, African-American writer known as bell hooks
    Bell hooks
    Gloria Jean Watkins , better known by her pen name bell hooks, is an American author, feminist, and social activist....

  • Howie Watkins, British broadcaster
  • Ian Watkins (disambiguation)
  • J. Elfreth Watkins
    J. Elfreth Watkins
    John Elfreth Watkins was a civil engineer working for American railroads of the 19th century. He played a key role in the preservation of the John Bull steam locomotive and its subsequent public displays by the Smithsonian Institution....

    , American engineer
  • James Watkins
    James Watkins
    Professor James Watkins is Director, Sport and Exercise Science Research Centre at the University of Wales Swansea. He is an advisory board member of the Journal of Sports Sciences and an editorial board member of the European Journal of Physical Education.He was chairman of the biomechanics...

    , British anatomist
  • James D. Watkins
    James D. Watkins
    Admiral James David Watkins is a retired United States Navy officer and former Chief of Naval Operations who also served as U.S. Secretary of Energy during the George H. W. Bush Administration and chaired U.S. government commissions on HIV/AIDS and ocean policy. Watkins has also served on the...

    , American admiral and politician
  • Jenny Watkins-Isnardi, Welsh singer
  • John Watkins (disambiguation)
  • Kit Watkins
    Kit Watkins
    Kit Watkins is an American progressive-ambient-jazz recording artist based in Brattleboro, Vermont. He was previously a member of the band Happy the Man.-Beginnings:...

    , American musician
  • Leonard Watkins
    Leonard Watkins
    Leonard Watkins was a Welsh international rugby union half-back who played club rugby for Cardiff Rugby Football Club and international rugby for Wales. He won just a single game for Wales when he was selected for the first ever Welsh rugby international.- Rugby career :Watkins was born in...

    , Welsh international rugby player
  • Matthew Watkins
    Matthew Watkins
    Matthew Jason Watkins is a former Wales international rugby union footballer who plays at centre. He is commonly known by the name Matthew J...

    , Welsh rugby player
  • Maurice Watkins
    Maurice Watkins
    Maurice Watkins is a former boxer from Houston, Texas. Nicknamed Termite, he was born into a family that was in the insect killing business, and he is a professional fumigator.-Professional Boxing Career:...

    , American boxer
  • Maurine Dallas Watkins
    Maurine Dallas Watkins
    Maurine Dallas Watkins was an American journalist and playwright.She was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and attended Crawfordsville High School, followed by five colleges...

    , American dramatist
  • Mel Watkins
    Mel Watkins
    Mel Watkins is a Canadian political economist and activist. He is professor emeritus of economics and political science at the University of Toronto...

    , Canadian economist
  • Melvin Watkins
    Melvin Watkins
    Melvin Lenzo Watkins is an American college basketball coach and former player. He is an assistant coach under Mike Anderson at the University of Arkansas. He has also been the associate head coach at the University of Missouri...

    , American basketball coach
  • Michael W. Watkins
    Michael W. Watkins
    Michael W. Watkins is an American television and film director producer and cinematographer. He has worked on Smallville, The X-Files, and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Monk, Law & Order, Boomtown, No Ordinary Family and several other film and television series.Watkins has won two...

    , American celebrity
  • Michaela Watkins
    Michaela Watkins
    Michaela Suzanne Watkins is an American comic actress, best known for her various roles as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, a regular performer with The Groundlings in Los Angeles, her recurring role as "Lucy" in the sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine, and for her supporting role as...

    , American actress
  • Oscar Ferris Watkins
    Oscar Ferris Watkins
    Oscar Ferris Watkins was a British colonial administrator, Commandant of the East African Carrier Corps in the First World War...

    , British colonial administrator
  • Peter Watkins
    Peter Watkins
    Peter Watkins is an English film and television director. He was born in Norbiton, Surrey, lived in Sweden, Canada and Lithuania for many years, and now lives in France. He is one of the pioneers of docudrama. His movies, pacifist and radical, strongly review the limit of classic documentary and...

    , British film director
  • Ramon Watkins, American UFO prophet Prophet Yahweh
    Prophet Yahweh
    Ramon Watkins , more famously known as Prophet Yahweh, or The Seer of Yahweh, is an American man who resides in Las Vegas, Nevada, and claims to have the ability to summon UFOs by using passages from the Bible...

  • Ryan Watkins (disambiguation)
  • Sam Watkins
    Sam Watkins
    Samuel “Sam” Rush Watkins was a noted Confederate soldier during the American Civil War. He is known today for his memoir Company Aytch: Or, a Side Show of the Big Show, often heralded as one of the best primary sources about the common soldier's Civil War experience.Watkins was born on June 26,...

    , American Civil War soldier
  • Sammy Watkins (disambiguation)
  • Sara Watkins
    Sara Watkins
    Sara Ullrika Watkins is an American singer-songwriter and fiddler. Watkins debuted in 1989 as the fiddler of the progressive bluegrass group Nickel Creek, which consisted of herself, her elder brother Sean, and mandolinist Chris Thile. As a band, they are notable for three wide-released albums:...

    , American musician
  • Sean Watkins
    Sean Watkins
    Sean Charles Watkins is a guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He is a member of the contemporary folk band Nickel Creek, the duo Fiction Family and the supergroup Works Progress Administration.-Nickel Creek:...

    , American guitarist
  • Sherron Watkins
    Sherron Watkins
    Sherron Watkins was Vice President of Corporate Development at the Enron Corporation. She is considered by many to be the whistleblower who helped to uncover the Enron scandal in 2001....

    , American executive, Enron vice president
  • Sid Watkins
    Sid Watkins
    Eric Sidney Watkins OBE, FRCS is a world-renowned English neurosurgeon.Watkins served twenty-six years as the FIA Formula One Safety and Medical Delegate, head of the Formula One on-track medical team, and first responder in case of a crash.He is commonly known within the Formula One fraternity as...

    , British surgeon and race doctor
  • Stuart Watkins
    Stuart Watkins
    Stuart Watkins was a Welsh international rugby union wing who played club rugby for Newport and Cardiff.Watkins began his rugby career at Cross Keys before switching to Newport in 1963, staying with the club for the majority of his career...

    , Welsh international rugby player
  • Tasker Watkins
    Tasker Watkins
    The Rt Hon Sir Tasker Watkins VC GBE PC was a Lord Justice of Appeal and deputy Lord Chief Justice...

    , Welsh soldier
  • Tionne Watkins
    Tionne Watkins
    Tionne Tenese Watkins better known by her stage name T-Boz, is a four-time Grammy Award–winning American singer, actress, author, and executive producer who rose to fame as the lead singer and one-third of the R&B/hip-hop girl group TLC.-Early life:Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins was born in Des Moines,...

    , American singer
  • Torrance Watkins
    Torrance Watkins
    Torrance Watkins is an American event rider who has successfully competed internationally.-Early years:Her family was full of horsemen, many of them foxhunters, and she began riding to the hounds at the age of four...

    , American equestrian
  • Travis E. Watkins
    Travis E. Watkins
    Travis E. Watkins was a soldier in the United States Army during the Korean War. He posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his actions on August 31, September 1, September 2, and September 3, 1950....

    , American programmer
  • Trevor Watkins, Welsh rugby player
  • Tuc Watkins
    Tuc Watkins
    Tuc Watkins is an American actor. He is known for his role as David Vickers on One Life to Live and for his role as Bob Hunter on Desperate Housewives .-Personal life:Watkins is of Welsh descent and is the son of Charles Curtis Watkins II, a salesman, and a...

    , American actor
  • Vernon Watkins
    Vernon Watkins
    Vernon Phillips Watkins , was a British poet, and a translator and painter. He was a close friend of Dylan Thomas, who described him as "the most profound and greatly accomplished Welshman writing poems in English"....

    , Welsh poet
  • Wes Watkins
    Wes Watkins
    Wesley Wade "Wes" Watkins is a politician from the state of Oklahoma. He is a retired member of the United States House of Representatives where Watkins had represented Oklahoma's 3rd Congressional District for 14 years as a Democrat and then for six years as a Republican.-Early life and...

    , American politician

See also

  • Watkins (disambiguation)
  • Atkins (surname)
    Atkins (surname)
    Atkins is a surname of English origin. At the time of the British Census of 1881 , its frequency was highest in Buckinghamshire , followed by Huntingdonshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Rutland, Kent, Dorset, Norfolk and Berkshire. The name Atkins may refer to:* Al Atkins, British singer* M...

  • Walter (disambiguation)
  • Watkin
    Watkin
    Watkin is an English surname formed as a diminutive of the name Watt , a popular Middle English given name itself derived as a pet form of the name Walter.First found in a small Welsh village in 1629....

  • Watkinson
    Watkinson
    Watkinson is a surname of English origin. At the time of the British Census of 1881 , its frequency was highest in Nottinghamshire , followed by Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Suffolk, Lincolnshire, Essex and Cheshire. The name Watkinson may apply to:*Angela Watkinson, British...

  • Watling
    Watling
    Watling is a surname, and may refer to* Bradley-John Watling, New Zealand cricketer* Deborah Watling, British actress* Dilys Watling, British actress* E. F...

  • Watson (surname)
    Watson (surname)
    Watson is a patronymic surname of English and Scottish origin. Meaning "son of Walter", the popular Middle English given names Wat or Watt were pet forms of the name Walter. Watson is the 36th-most common surname in the United Kingdom.-A:* A. J...

  • Watt (surname)
    Watt (surname)
    The surname Watt may refer to:*Watt of Sussex, Anglo-Saxon king*Adam Watt, Australian boxer*Alexander Watt, British plant ecologist*Ben Watt, British musician and music producer*Davey Watt, Australian speedway rider...

  • Watts (surname)
    Watts (surname)
    -Arts and entertainment:* Alaric Alexander Watts, British poet and journalist* David G. Watts, British game designer* George Frederic Watts, British painter and sculptor* Heather Watts, an American ballerina and dancer* Julia Watts, American author...

  • Wheal Watkins
    Wheal Watkins
    Wheal Watkins was previously a mine in the Adelaide, Australia suburb of Glen Osmond. It yielded silver and lead in the mid 19th century. The ore body was discovered in March 1841, and mining commenced soon after. Wheal Watkins opened in 1843 and operated until 1851, when the miners left for the...

    , Australian mine
  • Latham & Watkins
    Latham & Watkins
    Latham & Watkins LLP is a global law firm, one of the largest in the world. Latham currently employs approximately 2,000 attorneys in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The firm was started in Los Angeles in 1934 and has extensive Californian roots, but its largest office is now...

    , American legal firm
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