- Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime. Later critics, beginning with George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton, championed his mastery of prose, …
- Charles Dickens Jr
Charles Culliford Boz Dickens was the eldest son of the novelist Charles Dickens (1812–1870) and his wife Catherine Dickens née Hogarth (1816–1879). He is largely remembered for his "Dictionary of London", published in 1879. Charles married Evans Elisabeth Matilda Moule and they had 8 children: * Mary Angela (1861–1946) * Ethel Kate (1864–1936) * Charles Walter (1865–1923) * Margaret (born 1866, …
- Monica Dickens
Monica Enid Dickens (May 10, 1915 London - December 25, 1992 Reading, Berkshire) was a British writer, the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens.
- Kim Dickens
Kimberly Jan Dickens (born 18 June 1965 in Huntsville, Alabama) is an American actress and model.
- Kaniel Dickens
Kaniel Dickens (born July 21, 1978, in Denver, Colorado) is a professional basketball player who was selected by the Utah Jazz in the 2nd round (50th pick) in the 2000 NBA Draft. Dickens was signed as a free agent by the Portland Trail Blazers on 12/19/2003 and appeared in 3 games for them during the 2003-04 season. He signed a 10-day contract with the New Jersey Nets on 01/05/2005 and saw action in 11 games. He played his college ball at the University of Idaho.
- Hazel Dickens
Hazel Dickens (born June 1, 1935, Mercer County, West Virginia) is an American bluegrass singer. She was the eighth child of an eleven-child mining family in West Virginia. Her music is characterized by not only her "high lonesome" singing style, but also by her provocative pro-union, feminist songs. Poverty drove the Dickens to move to the Baltimore, Maryland area when Dickens was nineteen.
- Andy Dickens
Andy Dickens (born 11 March 1953) is an English jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader. Dickens was born in Birmingham, England, the son of a patent agent and headmistress. Educated at Solihull School he began playing trumpet at the age of 14. Largely self-taught, his style spans New Orleans jazz, …
- Alan Dickens
Alan Dickens (born September 3 1964 in Plaistow, London) is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder. Dickens played for West Ham United as a youth, winning the FA Youth Cup with his local club in 1981. He signed as an apprentice on July 14 1981 and as a pro on December 18 1982. He scored on his debut, a 2-1 win at Notts County on December 18 1984.
- Inez Dickens
Inez Dickens is a member of the New York City Council, representing the 9th District, which includes Central Harlem. She replaced Bill Perkins after he ran for Manhattan Borough President. In the 2004 presidential election, she served as one of New York's 33 presidential electors casting her ballot for John Kerry.
- Ernie Dickens
Ernest Leslie "Ernie" Dickens (Born June 25, 1921 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a former National Hockey League (NHL) defenceman. Ernie Dickens had a 6 year NHL career, which would likely have been a nine year career if not for him being called to service for Canada in World War II, causing him to miss much of three NHL seasons. In 1942, after 39 games with the Providence Reds of the AHL, …
- Augustus Dickens
Augustus Newnham Dickens was born in London, England in 1827 (d. October 4, 1866). His brother Charles Dickens was 15 at the time. In 1844, Charles wrote "I have a young brother recently come up from a good school at Exeter, and now living, with his father, …
- James Dickens
James McCulloch York Dickens (born 4 April 1931) has been a British Labour politician. He was Member of Parliament for the marginal constituency of Lewisham West from 1966 to 1970.He was a member of the Tribune Group of left-wing MPS. His seat was gained by the Conservative candidate John Gummer. After leaving Parliament, he became Director Of Personell with Thames Water. He is no longer a Labour Party member, because of opposition to the Iraq War
- Geoffrey Dickens
Geoffrey Kenneth Dickens (26 August 1931 - 17 May 1995) was a British Conservative politician. He was MP for Huddersfield West from 1979 until the seat was abolished in 1983. He was then elected for Littleborough and Saddleworth and held the seat until his death in 1995.
- Archie Dickens
Archie Dickens was a British pin-up artist. He attended the Slade School of Art in London. He resided and worked in West Wickham, Kent and had published two books. In 2001 Tony Blair wore a Paul Smith designer shirt that displayed one of Dickens' paintings on the cuff.
- David Dickens
David Dickens is a former Deputy-Director and then Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies New Zealand from 2000-2002. He succeeded Terence O'Brien. He was dismissed in 2002 from his post by the Labour government.
- Phil Dickens
Phil Dickens served as the head football coach of Indiana University from 1958 to 1964. During his tenure, he compiled a 20-41-2 record, in the Big Ten Conference. His best season came in 1958, where he went 5-3-1, including upsets over Michigan State, and the University of Michigan. He also served as the head coach of the University of Wyoming. His overall head coaching record remains at 86-67-11.
- Samuel Dickens
Samuel Dickens (unknown - 1840) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Roxboro, North Carolina, birth date unknown; pursued an academic course; member of the North Carolina state house of commons, 1813-1815 and 1818; elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Richard Stanford (December 2, 1816-March 3, 1817); moved to Madison County, Tennessee, …
- A. G. Dickens
A. G. Dickens (1910 - 31 July 2001) was an English academic and author. He was born in Yorkshire in 1910. Educated at Oxford University, he served during World War II in the Royal Artillery. From 1949 until 1962 he was professor of history at the University of Hull and in 1962 he moved to the professor of history at King's College London. He died in London at the age of 91. His book on the English Reformation was, for many years the standard text on the subject, …
- Bill Dickens
Bill Dickens is an American electric bass guitar player. He performed together with Victor Wooten, Steve Bailey and Oteil Brubridge on the concert "The Day The Bass Players Took Over The World".
- James Dickens
James Dickens was a member of the city council of Irving, Texas. He was re-elected in May 2004 to serve a three-year term. Dickens is a City of Irving Public Works/Engineering retiree. He currently serves as a member of the council's Public Works committee and chair of the Community Services committee. He also serves as the Council liaison to the Parks and Recreation Board and Youth Council, as well as the alternate liaison to the Preservation and Redevelopment Board.
- Peggy Dickens
Peggy Dickens (born 8 December 1975) is a French slalom canoer. She finished fourth in the K-1 event at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
- Stanley Dickens
Stanley Dickens (b. 1952) is a Swedish race car driver who won the Le Mans 24 hours in 1989 driving a Sauber C9-Mercedes. Stanley Dickens is the great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens.
- Alfred Dickens
Alfred Dickens was a brother of the Victorian novelist, Charles Dickens. Early in his career, he was an engineer for the Malton & Driffield Railway. Later, in 1855, he wrote a report which highlighted the terrible overcrowding suffered by many people in the Canning Town area of London. His brother Charles also wrote about the squalid conditions in which people were forced to live in Victorian times.
- Frederick Dickens
Frederick Dickens (1820-1868). Charles Dickens' younger brother who lived with Charles when he moved to Furnival's Inn in 1834. Fred was later imprisoned for debt and spent the last years of his life as an alcoholic. When he died at age 48 Charles lamented Fred's "wasted life". He is buried in Darlington in the North-East of England, within the grounds of the town's West Cemetery.
- Little Jimmy Dickens
James Cecil Dickens (born December 19, 1920) is an American country music singer from Bolt, West Virginia. A regular at the Grand Ole Opry for almost sixty years, Dickens is famous for his humorous novelty songs, his small size and his rhinestone-studded outfits. Dickens' musical career began in the late 1930s, when he began performing on a local radio station while attending West Virginia University. He soon quit school to pursue a full-time music career, …
- Seth Dickens
Seth Dickens (born November 1 1977) - an American pornographic actor. He entered the industry in 2000. He is a blond, muscular man with a hairy chest. He has a tattoo on one arm for the United States Marine Corps. Also known as "Cameron Sage" in gay porn films, Dickens has done over 35 gay pornographic films. He states he is bisexual, but is somewhat shy and uncomfortable on gay sets. He lives a largely heterosexual private life.
- Philip K. Dick
Philip Kindred Dick was an American writer, mostly known for his works of science fiction. In addition to his published novels, Dick wrote "approximately 121 short stories, most of them for science fiction magazines." At least eight of his stories have been adapted for film. <br><br>
- Elmore Leonard
Elmore John Leonard Jr. (born October 11, 1925, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a popular American novelist and screenwriter.
- Lionel Bart
Lionel Bart (born August 1, 1930, died April 3, 1999) was an English composer of songs and musicals, best known for "Oliver!"
- Wilhelm Raabe
Wilhelm Raabe (September 8, 1831 - November 15, 1910), German novelist, whose early works were published under the pseudonym of Jakob Corvinus, was born at Eschershausen (then in the Duchy of Brunswick, now in the Holzminden District). He served apprenticeship at a bookseller's in Magdeburg for four years (1849-1854); but tiring of the routine of business, studied philosophy at Berlin (1855-1857).
- Trevor Nunn
Sir Trevor Nunn CBE (born 14 January, 1940) is an English theatre and film director. He has held both the posts of Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Director of the Royal National Theatre, following in the footsteps of Sir Peter Hall. He was knighted by the Queen in 2002. He was born in Ipswich, England and educated at Downing College, Cambridge, where he began his stage career. In 1968, he was appointed Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, …
- Benito Pérez Galdós
Benito Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist. Considered by many second only to Cervantes in stature, Pérez Galdós was the greatest Spanish realist novelist. Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, he moved to Madrid at the age of 20 where he spent most of his adult life. Within Spain his most popular works are the earlier works: the "Episodios nacionales" (46 volumes).
- James Whitcomb Riley
James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer and poet. Known as the "Hoosier Poet" and the "Children's Poet," he started his career in 1875 writing newspaper verse in Indiana dialect for the "Indianapolis Journal". His verse tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one-thousand poems that Riley published, over half are in dialect. Claiming that “simple sentiments that come from the heart” were the secret of his success, …
- Harry Secombe
Sir Harry Donald Secombe, CBE (8 September 1921-11 April 2001) was a Welsh entertainer with a noted fine tenor singing voice and a talent for comedy. Born at St. Thomas, Swansea, he served in the Royal Artillery British Army (he referred to his unit as 'The Five-Mile Snipers") during World War II in North Africa. This was where he first met Spike Milligan in Tunisia.
- Richard Doyle
Richard "Dickie" Doyle (September 1824 - December 11, 1883) was a notable Victorian illustrator. His work frequently appeared, amongst other places, in Punch magazine; he drew the cover of the first issue, and designed the magazine's masthead, a design that was used for over a century. The son of John Doyle (known as 'H.B'), a noted political caricaturist, he had two brothers James and Charles, who were also both artists.
- Neil Bartlett
Neil Bartlett, O.B.E. (born 1958) is one of Britain's most renowned and innovative theatre artists. He is a director, performer, translator, and writer. His novels include "Who Was That Man: A Present for Mr. Oscar Wilde" (1988), "Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall" (1992), and "Mr. Clive and Mr. Page" (1996). "Who Was That Man" shows how the gay history of London in the 1890s affects Bartlett's life as a gay man in London in the 1980s.
- Steven Mackintosh
Steven Mackintosh (b. 30 April 1967 in Cambridge) is a British television and film actor. Mackintosh is best known for his role in the British film "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" (1998), but has appeared in many other films, including "Princess Caraboo" (1994) and "Underworld: Evolution" (2006). He is also a familiar face on British television. He had major roles in "A Dark-Adapted Eye" (1994), "Prime Suspect 5" (1996), …
- Yves Beauchemin
Yves Beauchemin is a Quebec novelist. Born in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Beauchemin received his licence ès lettres in French literature and art history at the Université de Montréal in 1965. He taught literature at the Collège Garneau and Université Laval. Beauchemin was working as an editor in a Montreal publishing firm when he began contributing essays and stories to magazines and newspapers. In 1969 he accepted a position as a researcher at Radio-Québec.
- José Maria Eça de Queiroz
José Maria de Eça de Queirós or de Queiroz (November 25, 1845 - August 16, 1900) is generally considered to be the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style, and one of the great figures of European 19th century fiction. Zola considered him to be far greater than Flaubert. Others rank him with Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy. Eça never officially rejected Catholicism, but was very critical of the Catholic Church of his time, …
- Kate Jackson
Kate Jackson, born 1979, is the lead-singer with British band The Long Blondes. She has been described in the NME as having the 'arrogant strut of Chrissie Hynde and the acidic tongue of a Dickens heroine.' She has also made the "NME" 'Cool List' though she responded to this accolade with: 'They probably thought they didn't have enough girls.