Birks (surname)

Birks is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Anthony Birks (1941–2002), New Zealand Army officer, Chief of the General Staff and Chief of Defence Force
Ashley Birks (born 1990), British speedway rider
Charles Napier Birks (1844–1924), founder of South Australian department store Charles Birks & Co
Cliff Birks (1910–1998), English football player
Douglas Birks (1919–2004), English cricket player
Frederick Birks (1894–1917), Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
George Vause Birks (c. 1815–1858), medical doctor, founder of influential family in South Australia
Gerald Birks (1894–1991), Canadian fighter ace in World War I
Graham Birks (born 1942), English football player
Henry Birks (1840–1928), Canadian businessman, founder of the jewelry store, Birks & Mayors
Horace Birks (1897–1985), British Army officer who served during both the World Wars
Jānis Birks (born 1956), Latvian politician, Mayor of Riga 2007-09
Jocelynn Birks (born 1993), American volleyball player
John B. Birks (1920–1979), British physicist and namesake for the Birks' law
Laurie Birks (born 1928, date of death unknown), Australian boxer
Lawrence Birks (1874–1924), Australian electrical engineer in New Zealand
Len Birks (1896–1975), English football player
Malcolm Birks (born 1975), English cricket player
Melville Birks (1876–1924), South Australian medical practitioner
Peter Birks (1941–2004), British legal scholar
Ray Birks (1930–2008), Australian rugby player
Rosetta Jane Birks (1856–1911), Australian social reformer and philanthropist
Thomas Rawson Birks (1810–1883), theologian and controversialist at Oxford
Walter Richard Birks (1886–1960), Australian agricultural scientist and headmaster

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