Baxter (name)
Baxter [' bækstɘ (r ) ] is an English surname. It is derived from an antiquated northern English and Scottish dialect form of the job title for bakery: her (English baker ). More recently, Baxter is also used as a male first name.
Well-known bearers of the name
A
- Alain Baxter (born 1973 ), British ski racer
- Alan Baxter (1908-1976), American actor
- Alfred Baxter (1898-1983), British Weight Lifting
- Andrew Baxter (1686/1687-1750), Scottish metaphysician
- Anne Baxter (1923-1985), American actress
B
- Batsell Baxter (1886-1956), American leader of the Church of Christ
- Betty Baxter ( born 1952 ), Canadian volleyball player
- Beverley Baxter (1891-1964), English journalist and politician
- Bill Baxter ( born 1946 ), Australian politician
- Billy Baxter ( b. 1942 ), American poker player
- Blake Baxter (*?), American techno DJ and producer
- Bobby Baxter ( footballer 1911) ( 1911-1991 ), Scottish football player
- Bobby Baxter ( footballer, 1937) ( born 1937 ), English footballer
- Brad Baxter (born 1967 ), American football player
- Brittany Baxter ( born 1985 ), Canadian soccer player
- Bucky Baxter ( born 1955 ), American musician
C
- Carl Baxter ( born 1985 ), Anglo- Canadian National Badminton Player
- Cedric Baxter ( born 1930 ), Australian artist
- Charles Baxter ( b. 1947 ), American author
- Claire Baxter ( b. 1982 ), Australian cyclist
D
- Darren Baxter ( born 1981 ), English footballer
- Deborah Baxter ( born 1953 ), English actress
E
- Elisha Baxter (1827-1899), American politician (Arkansas )
- Ern Baxter (1914-1993), Canadian minister of the Pentecostal Movement
F
- Fred Baxter (born 1971 ), football player US.amerikanischer
G
- Gary Baxter (born 1978 ), American football player
- George Baxter (1804-1867), a British engraver and printer
- George W. Baxter (1855-1929), American politician
- Glen Baxter ( born 1944 ), British cartoonist
- Gordon Baxter (1923-2005), American radio host and author
- Gregory Baxter (* 1989), Canadian ski jumper
B
- Henry Baxter (1821-1873), American General
I
- Irving Baxter (1876-1957), American track and field athlete
J
- J. Clifford Baxter (1958-2002), American Manager
- J. Sidlow Baxter (1903-1999), Australian clergyman and author
- James Baxter ( rugby player ) ( 1870-1940 ), English rugby player
- James Baxter, known as Jim Baxter (1939-2001), Scottish football player
- James Baxter ( musician), film composer
- James K. Baxter (1926-1972), New Zealand poet
- James Phinney Baxter III (1893-1975), American historian
- Jane Baxter (1909-1996), British actress
- Jayne Baxter ( born 1955 ), Scottish politician
- Jeff Baxter ( born 1948 ), American rock guitarist
- Jennifer Baxter (born 1976 ), Canadian actress
- Jim Baxter (1939-2001), Scottish football player
- John Baxter ( explorer ) ( Wylie, † 1841), Australian explorer
- John Baxter (director) ( 1896-1975 ), British film director and producer
- John Baxter ( engineer) ( born 1951 ), British engineer
- John Babington Macaulay Baxter (1868-1946), Canadian politician
- Jose Baxter (* 1992), English footballer
- Joseph Wilson Iain Baxter ( b. 1936 ), Canadian artist
K
- Kate Baxter ( born 1930 ), Australian Fencing
- Keith Baxter (actor ) ( born 1933), British actor
- Keith Baxter ( drummer ) ( 1971-2008 ), British musician
- Kirk Baxter (born 1972 ), American Cutter
L
- Laurence Baxter (1954-1996), American statistician
- Lee Baxter ( singer) (born 1970 ), English pop singer
- Lee Baxter ( footballer ) (born 1976 ), Swedish football player
- Les Baxter (1922-1996), American composer and film music producer
- Lonny Baxter ( born 1979 ), American basketball player
- Lynsey Baxter ( born 1959 ), English actress
M
- Meredith Baxter ( born 1947 ), American actress
N
- Noel Baxter ( born 1981 ), British ski racer
P
- Patrick F. Baxter (1891-1959), Irish politician
- Paul Baxter ( born 1955 ), American ice hockey player
- Percival Proctor Baxter (1876-1969), American politician, Governor of Maine
- Portus Baxter (1806-1868), American politician (Vermont )
R
- Raymond Baxter (1922-2006), British television personality and author
- Rex Baxter ( b. 1936 ), American golfer
- Richard Baxter (1615-1691), English clergyman
- Richard Reeve Baxter (1921-1980), American lawyer and judge of the International Court of Justice
- Rill Baxter (born 1962 ), American tennis player
- Robert Dudley Baxter (1827-1875), English economist
- Rodney Baxter ( born 1940 ), Australian mathematical physicist (Yang - Baxter relation)
- Ronnie Baxter ( b. 1961 ), English darts player
S
- Skippy Baxter ( 20th century), American figure skaters in the 1940s
- Stanley Baxter ( born 1926 ), British actor
- Stephen Baxter ( born 1957 ), British author
- Stuart Baxter ( born 1953 ), English footballer and coach
T
- Tom Baxter (born Tom Baxter Gleave; born 1973 ), British singer and songwriter
- Tom Baxter (born in Bremen, Germany, * 1977), German DJ & Producer
V
- Virginia Baxter ( Ginny Baxter, born 1932 ), American figure skater
W
- Warner Baxter (1889-1951), American actor
- William Baxter ( philologist ) ( 1650-1723 ), British philologist
- William Baxter ( botanist ) ( † ~ 1836), English botanist
- William Baxter ( curator) ( 1787-1871 ), British botanist, author and garden curator
- William Baxter ( politician ) ( 1911-1979 ), British politician
- William Baxter ( jurist ) ( 1929-1998 ), British lawyer
- William Edward Baxter (1825-1890), British politician
- Family name
- English personal name