Dawn (name)

Dawn
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/Name	Old English
Meaning	the first appearance of light, daybreak

Dawn is a female given name. It is of Old English origin, and its meaning is the first appearance of light, daybreak.^{[citation needed]} It is also used as a comparatively rare surname.

People with the given name

• Dawn Black (born 1943), politician in British Columbia, Canada
• Dawn Sayan (born 1988), chairman of Dawn softnext.(upcoming....)
• Dawn Butler (born 1969), Labour Member of Parliament for Brent South
• Dawn Burrell (born 1973), American long jumper
• Dawn DeFeo (1956–1974), sister and victim of murderer Ronald DeFeo, Jr., whose crimes inspired The Amityville Horror book and movies
• Dawn Ellerbe (born 1974), American hammer thrower
• Dawn Evelyn Paris (1918–1993), Oscar-nominated American actress
• Dawn Fraser (born 1937), Australian champion swimmer
• Dawn French (born 1957), British comedian
• Dawn Langstroth (born 1979), Canadian singer/songwriter and painter
• Dawn Xiana Moon (born 1981), Chinese-American singer-songwriter, writer, actress
• Dawn Penn (born 1952), Jamaican singer
• Dawn Porter (born 1979), British television presenter
• Dawn Powell (1896–1965), American writer of satirical novels
• Dawn Primarolo (born 1954), British Member of Parliament for Bristol South
• Dawn Angelique Richard (born 1983), member of the musical girl group Danity Kane
• Dawn Robinson (born 1968), former lead singer of supergroup En Vogue and Lucy Pearl
• Dawn Rossi-Key (born 1971), radio personality heard on The Rob Arnie and Dawn Show
• Dawn Silva (born 1954), American funk vocalist
• Dawn Staley (born 1970), US-American basketball player and coach
• Dawn Steel (1946–1997), first woman to run a major Hollywood film studio
• Dawn Wells (born 1938), American actress

Fictional

• Dawn Summers, a character in the popular television and comic book series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Dawn Schafer, a character in The Baby-sitters Club and California Diaries
• Dawn Swann, a character in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders
• Dawn Tinsley, the receptionist in the British situation comedy The Office
• Dawn Green, the second victim of the serial killer on True Blood
• Prairie Dawn, a muppet character in Sesame Street
• Dawn Woods, a character in Emmerdale
• Dawn (Pokémon), a video game character in the Pokémon franchise
• Mythic Dawn, a religious cult in the video game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
• Eos, referred to in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey as "rosy-fingered Dawn," rose from Oceanus (the encircling ocean) to herald her brother Helios (the sun); her process of rising and bringing out the sun was the ancient Greeks' personification of dawn.
  • Tiffany Dawn Thornton, (born. 1986) an American actress best known as her role in Sonny with a Chance as Tawni Hart

People with the surname

• Elizabeth Dawn (born Sylvia Butterfield 1939), British actress
• Marva Dawn (born 1948), Christian theologian, author, musician and educator

Spacecraft

A spacecraft which is exploring Vesta and later Ceres in the Asteroid belt.

External links

• Genealogy of the Surname Dawn.

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