Famous Wilkinsons Page

I'm sure that I have missed many noteworthy Wilkinsons, and would be glad to add any that you would like to submit. Merely send a message to scottw at wilkinsons dot com, and I will get your entry added to the list.

Sports

• Laura Wilkinson was the United States National Champion in both Olympic Diving events in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Gold Medal winner in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia and Wheaties Box covergirl, Laura's diving accomplishments are too legion to list here.
  Read more about her at NBC's Olympics site (click here)
  Or go to her own site here (click here)
  
• Jonny Wilkinson plays Rugby Football for England and The Lions (formerly known as the British Lions), and holds numerous England records, including most points ever scored for England, youngest player to play for England for 71 years when made his debut in 1998 against Ireland. Also, he is Englands highest points scorer in the six nations and he is the only player to average more than 15 points per match.
• "Big Daddy" Wilkinson of the Washington Redskins NFL Team
• The coach of the University of Oklahoma Sooners football team during their glory years was "Bud" Wilkinson.
• Laura A. Wilkinson - cheerleader for the Baltimore Ravens football team

• Kim Wilkinson Swam for Great Britain in 200m backstroke at 1976 Montreal Olympics. She held numerous British junior and senior records spanning several events
• Howard Wilkinson, coach of the Leeds Football team (League Title in 1991-92). He was name Caretaker Manager of the England Football Team in 1999. If he gets the job permanently a Wilkinson may coach a team to World Cup glory!
• Keith Wilkinson British national silver medal, 1973 Water Polo championships
• Bobby Wilkinson, Stadium Superintendent of Yankee Stadium
• George Wilkinson, member of the Great Britiain Water Polo team and gold medal winner, 1900, 1908, and 1912.
• Bluey Wilkinson: Australian speedway champion

• Paul Wilkinson (born 30 October 1964, Louth, Lincolnshire) is a retired English football striker currently working as the reserve team manager for Cardiff City (wiki).

Journalism and Writing

• Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist Signe Wilkinson
  
• Bruce H. Wilkinson is the author of the bestseller "The Prayer of Jabez" and other books
  
• Alexis Wilkinson was first African American president of The Harvard Lampoon, was on the writing staff of Veep and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and she is a contributing writer to The New Yorker.
• Keith Wilkinson of Central News West is an award-winning journalist with legions of emailing fans who long for him to be included on this page.
• Stephan Wilkinson is a writer with frequent contributions to Air & Space Smithsonian, Town & Country, Conde Nast Traveler, Delta's Sky Magazine, and Bloomberg Personal.  He has also written three films that have been nominated for Academy Awards in the short-documentary category.
  
• Alec Wilkinson is a well-known New Yorker and Esquire writer and the author of at least four nonfiction books.
  
• Poet Anne Wilkinson
• Kerry Wilkinson is the niece of Reg Smythe - the Andy Capp cartoonist for many worldwide newspapers.
• Glenn Wilkinson, Historian, Professor, and Author of many works (click for a list), including:
  
• Paul Wilkinson is the author of "Construction Collaboration Technologies: the Extranet Evolution".
  

Music

• The wildly popular country music group "The Wilkinsons", performers of the hit single 26 cents.
  
• Atlanta-based singer Sue Wilkinson
• Guitarist James Wilkinson
• Irish singer/songwriter Aaron Wilkinson (More Pricks than Kicks, Will Work for Cash)
• Dulcimer Player Randy Wilkinson ( Elizabethan Music for Dulcimer )
• Jazz Singer Sunny Wilkinson ( Sunny Wilkinson, High Wire )
• Folk Singer Jeff Wilkinson ( Just Luck, Pitchin' Pennies )
• Pianist Alice Wilkinson
• John Wilkinson was the lead guitarist of a very famous (no.1 album) English group in the 70's called Dr.Feelgood. He lives in Southend-on Sea in Essex, England. His stage name was Wilko Johnson

The Performing Arts

• Tom Wilkinson, starring and supporting actor of many films, including
  
• Tony Award winning Broadway star Colm Wilkinson
• Adrienne Wilkinson, actress most recognized as "Eve" on "Xena: Warrior Princess"
• Michael Wilkinson was the costume designer for many blockbuster movies (and more to come), including:
  
• The Wilkinson family was propmasters on the film "Titanic"
  
• Ken Wilkinson hosted a nationally syndicated cable television show named Cable Cookery in the mid eighties.
• Kendra Wilkinson is a Playboy Playmate, star of the reality shows "Kendra" and "The Girls Next Door", and was one of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends.
• English comedian, actor, and writer Joe Wilkinson.
• Mark Wilkinson is a furniture designer who has been given the Keys to the City of London, made a Fellow of the Design Institute, has given Keynote addresses to The Institute of American Architects, awarded the Queens award for industry several times, dined with the Royals and had tea in the gardens of Buckingham Palace on several occasions. Finally, there is a move to have him Knighted.
• Pinup girl June Wilkinson. Besides being called "the bosom", a nickname given to her by Hugh Hefner, June has also been referred to as "the world's most photographed woman". June also appeared in many B-Movies, including her debut topless scene in Russ Meyer's " The Immortal Mr. Teas ". Others include:
  

Law

• Beth Wilkinson, Prosecutor for the Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols trials (the bombers in Oklahoma City).

Crime

• Jesse James' brother Wilkinson James
• Bert Wilkinson was known in San Juan County New Mexico and Durango, Colorado as beeing a member of the "Stockton" gang.
  He was quite young and during the days of the old West fell into bad company. Nineteen year old Bert was hung by a vigilante group in Silverton, Colorado in 1881 after being turned in by his "friend" Ike Stockton for reward money following an incident in a local saloon where a sheriff was shot, probably not by Bert. A few months later Stockton was also shot by a deputy in Durango, he lay on the street, as local history tells it, and bled to death while the town people chanted around him, "Go to Hell, and face Bert Wilkinson".

Politics

• Wallace G. Wilkinson was governor of Kentucky from 1987-1991.
• Jim Wilkinson was the Deputy Communications Director to President George W. Bush in the White House
• Thomas H. Wilkinson - Elected Dec.1819 to the Governor's council of Maryland
• Llyod Wilkinson - Elected 1900 as speaker of the House of Delegates of Maryland
• Joseph Wilkinson - Member of the Convention of Maryland which ratified the Federal Constitution April 21 - 29, 1788
• Perry O. Wilkinson - Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates 1959
• Ellen Wilkinson-Member of Parliament for Jarrow, Jarrow March leader, Minster of Education in Clement Attlee's 1945 Labour Government
• Josiah Henry Wilkinson, who somehow ended up as the owner of Oliver Cromwell's embalmed head. His descendant, Dr. H. N. S. Wilkinson, donated the head to Cambridge in 1960.
• Ruth Wilkinson, (daughter of Samuel & Plain Wickenden) was the mother of Stephen Hopkins, Governor of RI and the very last signer of the Declaration of Independence.
• A Lord Mayor of London was a Wilkinson.
• Thomas Wilkinson was an important figure in the Wicklow Brigade of the Irish Republican Army.

Military

• General James Wilkinson, Commander-in-Chief of the American Army under George Washington
• Eugene P. Wilkinson, first Commander of the first nuclear powered submarine - the Nautilus
• Theodor Stark Wilkinson, Jr. - Vice Admiral of the US Navy and Medal of Honor recipient
• Lt. (later Capt.) John Wilkinson who resigned his commission in the US Navy to join the Confederate Navy.
  As a well-known blockade runner, first with the Giraffe, renamed the Lee, he ran the blockades outside Wilmington NC 21 times.  During these runs, he invented the ruse of the smoke screen to cover his escape from pursuit.  His book Narrative of a Blockade Runner, published in 1877, covers his experiences.
• Alfred Robert Wilkinson, Victoria Cross recipient
• Thomas Wilkinson, Victoria Cross recipient
• Thomas Wilkinson, (another) Victoria Cross recipient
• Ken Wilkinson, WW2 ace who flew Hurricane fighter planes during WW2 as a pilot at the famed Biggin Hill RAF base.
  He earned his pilots wings in 1936 and fought during the legendary months of the "Battle of Britain".
• The USS Wilkinson, a destroyer launched in 1952, scrapped in 1975, named for Vice Admiral Theodore Stark Wilkinson
• John R. Wilkinson, killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn (Custer's Last Stand)
• Norman Wilkinson, the "father of Dazzle Camouflage"

Business and Industry

• Ironbridge, England sponsor James Wilkinson
• William Boutland Wilkinson (Newcastle upon Tyne, (England) held an 1854 patent for iron concrete composite floors and is acknowledged as one of the leading people in developing reinforced concrete
• Dr. J. Malcolm Wilkinson is the managing Director of Technology for Industry, UK
• Cynthia Wilkinson was the 1998 Nanny of the Year, awarded by the International Nanny Association (INA)
• Karen Wilkinson won the National Apartment Association Certified Maintenance Technician of the Year award in 2000
• Daryl Wilkinson of Adelaide, Australia held the record for the largest commercial radio broadcast in the Southern Hemisphere, prior to the introduction of satellite broadcast.
  The largest live commercial radio broadcast in the southern hemisphere, prior to satellite was a regular commercial breakfast radio show from Mt. Isa. Qld. on radio 4LM. the show was broadcast through 3 different radio stations and 7 transmitters. Its range stemmed from the NSW border, Northern territory, the northern cape and gulf, and cairns region of Queensland and east to Townsville.

Science & Academia

• Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson of London won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1973
• John Gardner Wilkinson, one of the founders of Egyptology, designated tomb KV 5 in 1827 - the fifth tomb beyond the entrance to KV, the Kings' Valley. The tomb turned out to be the largest ever found in the Valley of the Kings - the burial place of many of the sons of Ramses.
• Dr. David T. Wilkinson, a Princeton professor and scientist, was one of the foremost experts on the Big Bang and resultant cosmic radiation. The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, launched by NASA in 2001, was named for him. ( NY Times obit)
• Paul Wilkinson is former Professor of International Relations and former Director of the University of St Andrews Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence. He has become a familiar presence as a commentator in the mainstream British media in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the U.S. (wiki).
• Charles Smith Wilkinson is considered one of the top 1000 people to Influence Australia. First surveyor general of New South Wales, he conducted the first geological survey of the country and discovered how rich it was in minerals and coal. He also recommended and oversaw the drilling of the first bore water hole and was trained by Richard Daintree. (wiki, bio)
• The agriculture department at the University of Connecticut has named a scholarship for noted agriculturalist Albert E. Wilkinson.

Philanthropy

• Dr. James R. Wilkinson, founder of the old Wilkinson Hospital in Soochow, China, from South Carolina, a Presbyterian medical missionary
• Gladys Wilkinson of Whitstable, Kent, England was awarded the O.B.E. by Queen Elizabeth for many years of work in rehabilitating young criminals
• Rev. Samuel Wilkinson, who was the head of the "Mission to the Jews" in England in the 19th century.
  If anyone has any information on Rev. Wilkinson, please contact Joseph Halachmi, Film Historian (halachmi@hotmail.com)
  Address: P.O.B. 2738, Ramat-Hasharon 47216, Israel, Tel: 972-3-5490635

History

• Jane Wilkinson Long is considered the "Mother of Texas" having given birth to the first child of European descent in Texas.
  She was also a member of one of the first settlements of Texas.She was Jane Herbert Wilkinson, b. 1798 either in Charles Co. or St. Mary's Co., MD and d. 1880 in Richmond, TX. After the death of her father, her mother and she moved to live with a sister of hers in Mississippi where Jane met her husband, Dr. James Long and they were married there 5/14/1815. She is known as "Daughter of Maryland", "Wife of Mississippi", and "Mother of Texas".
• Jemima Wilkinson, also called "the Universal Friend", founded a religion in the US in the 1770s. Click here for details.

Fictional

• Mrs. Wilkinson, the dance instructor in the movie "Billy Elliott" (played by Julie Walters)
  
• Earl Wilkinson, the convict turned replacement football player in the movie "The Replacements" (played by Michael Jace)
  
• Mr. Wilkinson (aka Mr. Slugworth), Willy Wonka's assistant in the chocolate factory (played by Gunter Meisner)
  
• Anne Wilkinson in the Australian Soap "Neighbours" (played by Brooke Satchwell)
• The music director Mr. Wilkinson on the television show That 70s Show, played by Roger Daltry of The Who
  

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