Dexter (name)
Dexter is both a surname and a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname
- Al Dexter (1905–1984), American country musician and songwriter
- Andrew Dexter, Jr. (1779–1837), American financier and speculator
- Barrie Dexter (born 1921), former senior Australia diplomat and public servant
- Bernie Dexter, American model and fashion designer
- Brad Dexter (1917–2002), Serbian-American actor
- Brad Dexter (ice hockey) (born 1972), Canadian ice hockey defenceman
- Caroline Dexter (1819–1884), English-Australian writer and feminist
- Charles O. Dexter (1862–1943), American rhododendron hybridizer
- Colin Dexter, OBE (born 1930), English crime writer
- Darrell Dexter (born 1957), Canadian politician
- Elliott Dexter (1870–1941), American film and stage actor
- Felix Dexter (1961–2013), English actor, comedian, and writer
- Glen Dexter (born 1952), Canadian sailor
- Gregory Dexter, Baptist minister and colonial president of the colony of Rhode Island (Providence and Warwick only)
- Henry Martyn Dexter (1821–1890), American clergyman and author
- James Dexter (born 1973), American football offensive tackle
- Jeff Dexter (born 1946), British disc jockey, club promoter, record producer and dancer
- Jerry Dexter (1935–2013), American voice actor
- Kristen Dexter (born 1961), American politician from Wisconsin
- Mark Dexter (born 1973), English actor
- Maury Dexter (born 1928), American producer and director
- Michael Dexter (born 1945), British haematologist
- Neil Dexter (born 1984), South African-born English cricketer
- Pete Dexter (born 1943), American novelist
- Sally Dexter (born 1960), English actress of stage and screen
- Samuel Dexter (1761–1816), American politician, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
- Simon Newton Dexter (1785–1862), New York merchant and politician
- Steven Dexter (born 1962), South African theatre director and writer
- Ted Dexter (born 1935), Sussex and English test cricketer
- Terry Dexter (born 1978), American contemporary R&B singer-songwriter, actress and multi-instrumentalist
- Timothy Dexter (1748–1806), American businessman noted for his writing and eccentricity
- Walter L. Dexter (1841–1920), American politician and farmer
Given name
- Dexter Blackstock (born 1986), English football player
- Dexter Brown (born 1942), British painter
- Dexter Curtis (1828-1898), American inventor and politician
- Dexter Dalwood (born 1960), artist based in London
- Dexter M. Ferry (1833–1907), American businessman from Michigan
- Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. (1873–1959), American politician from Michigan
- Dexter Fletcher (born 1966), British actor
- Dexter Gordon (1923–1990), jazz tenor saxophonist
- Dexter Holland (born 1965), lead singer of The Offspring
- Dexter Horton (1825–1904), founder of the first bank in Seattle
- Dexter Roberts (born 1991), American country music singer
- Dexter Vines, American comic book artist and inker
Fictional characters
- Dexter Morgan, a fictional serial killer/vigilante and blood spatter analyst created by writer Jeff Lindsay
- Ramone "Ray" Dexter, one half of gunshark duo Sinister Dexter featured in the British comics anthology 2000 AD
- Dexter, young version of the protagonist in the Space Ace video game
- Dexter "Dex" Barrington, a character in The Country Bears
- Dexter, now known as Dex-Starr, a member of the Red Lantern Corps in the DC Comics universe
- Dexter Walker, a character in the Australian TV soap opera Home and Away
- Dexter Mulholland, a character from EastEnders
- Dexter Hartman, a character from EastEnders
- Dexter, a character from Dexter's Laboratory from cartoon network
- Dexter Douglas, the alter ego of the title character Freakazoid!
See also
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