Dawson

Dawson may refer to:

People

• Dawson (surname), a surname (including a list of people and characters with the name)

People with the given name Dawson

• Dawson (actor) (born 1972), American pornographic actor
• Dawson Bates (1876–1949), Northern Irish politician
• Dawson Buckley (1917–1993), Australian rugby league player
• Dawson Burns (1828–1909), English minister and temperance activist
• Dawson Charlie (c. 1860–1908), Canadian First Nation person and gold discoverer
• Dawson Dawson-Watson (1864–1939), British painter
• Dawson Dunbar (born 1999), Canadian actor
• Dawson Fernandes (born 1990), Indian footballer
• Dawson Harron (1921–1988), English cricketer
• Dawson Mathis (1940-2017), American politician from Georgia
• Dawson McAllister (born 1946), American speaker, radio host, and author
• Dawson Millward (1870–1926), British actor
• Dawson Simpson (born 1989), Australian rules footballer
• Dawson Stelfox, Northern Ireland architect
• Dawson Trotman (1906–1956), American evangelist
• Dawson Turner (1775–1858), English banker, botanist and antiquary
• Dawson Turner (rugby union) (1846–1909), English rugby union player, grandson of the above Dawson Turner
• Dawson Walker (1916–1973), Scottish football manager

Fictional characters

• Dawson, in Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
• Dawson Leery, on the TV show Dawson's Creek

Places

Australia

• Division of Dawson, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland
• Dawson River (New South Wales)
• Dawson River (Queensland), a river in eastern Queensland, Australia
• Dawson, South Australia, a locality and former town northeast of Peterborough

Canada

• Dawson City, Yukon
• Dawson (electoral district), Yukon Territory
• Dawson Range (Yukon), in the Yukon Ranges
• Dawson Creek, a city in northeastern British Columbia, Canada
• Dawson Range (British Columbia)
• Dawson Falls, British Columbia
• Dawson, Ontario
• Dawson Township, Ontario (disambiguation)
• Dawson Trail (electoral district), Manitoba

Chile

• Dawson Island, an island in the Strait of Magellan south of the city of Punta Arenas in Chile

Ireland

• Dawson Street, Dublin

United States

• Dawson, Alabama, a small community
• Dawson, Georgia, a city
• Dawson, Illinois, a village
• Dawson, Iowa, a city
• Dawson Springs, Kentucky, formerly known as "Dawson City"
• Dawson, Maryland, an unincorporated community
• Dawson, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Dawson, Minnesota, a city
• Dawson, Nebraska, a village
• Dawson, New Mexico, a ghost town
• Dawson, North Dakota
• Dawson, Ohio, an unincorporated community
• Dawson, Oregon, an unincorporated community
• Dawson, Pennsylvania, a borough
• Dawson Historic District, a national historic district located at Dawson, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
• Dawson, Texas, a town
• Dawson County, Georgia
  • Dawson Forest, a public-use forest located in Dawson County, Georgia
• Dawson County, Montana
• Dawson County, Nebraska
• Dawson County, Texas
• Dawson, Austin, Texas, a neighborhood
• Camp Dawson (New Jersey), a small recreational area
• Dawson, West Virginia
• Camp Dawson (West Virginia), an Army National Guard facility

Moon

• Dawson (crater), a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon

Transportation

Australia

• Dawson Highway, Queensland
• Dawson railway station, a closed station in Victoria

Canada

• Dawson Bridge, Edmonton, Alberta
• Old Dawson Trail, 19th century route between Thunder Bay, Ontario and Winnipeg, Manitoba

United States

• Dawson Community Airport, Dawson County, Montana, USA
• USS Dawson (APA-79), a US Navy World War II attack transport

Education

• Dawson College, Quebec, Canada
• Dawson Community College, Glendive, Montana

Buildings

• Dawson Brothers Plant, a historic factory building
• Dawson Building, a historic building at 1851 Purchase Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts
• Dawson County Courthouse (disambiguation)
• Dawson City Airport
• Dawson Creek Airport, near Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada
• Dawson Farm, a historic property located at Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland
• Dawson School, an historic school building located in Tulsa, Oklahoma
• Dawson Tower, located on Kadugannawa in the Kadugannawa Pass

Sport

• Dawson City Nuggets, a hockey team from Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada
• Dawson Creek Kodiaks, a Canadian Junior ice hockey team from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada
• Dawson Creek Rage, an ice hockey team based out of Dawson Creek, British Columbia

Other uses

• Dawson baronets, two baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
• Dawson Car Company, created in 1918 by AJ Dawson, previously works manager at Hillman
• Dawson function, a mathematical function
• Dawson murder case, parents and five children were murdered in Baltimore, Maryland, in 2002
• Dawson Massacre or Expedition, an 1842 clash between Mexico and the Republic of Texas
• Dawson Head
• Dawson McAllister Live, a talk radio show hosted by Dawson McAllister where teenagers and young adults talk about problems in life
• Dawson Nunatak
• Dawson Peak
• Dawson v. Delaware, a United States Supreme Court decision about a person's rights of association and due process

See also

• Dawson's (disambiguation)