Jeremiah Dixon

Jeremiah Dixon ( born July 27, 1733 in Cockfield, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, † January 22, 1779, ibid ) was an English surveyor, in the years 1763 and 1769 with his partner Charles Mason called the Mason - Dixon Line surveyed.

According to an anecdote you borrowed the term Dixieland Dixons name for the southern United States.

The American author Thomas Pynchon Mason and Dixon sat in his 1997 novel Mason & Dixon a literary monument.

British musician Mark Knopfler mentioned in both the Dixon and Mason in his song Sailing to Philadelphia by the eponymous album from 2000.