Dexter

Dexter is a Latin adjective meaning "on the right hand side, skillful, fortunate, favourable, proper, fitting".

Dexter may also refer to:

• Dexter in dexter and sinister, a heraldry term referring to the right of the bearer of the arms, and to the left by the viewer's eyes
• Dexter cattle, a breed of cattle
• Dexter School, a private boys' school in Brookline, Massachusetts
• Dexter-Russell, the largest U.S. manufacturer of professional cutlery
• Dexter (robot), a dynamically balancing bipedal humanoid robot research project by Anybots

People

Surname

• Al Dexter (1905–1984), American country musician and songwriter
• Brad Dexter (1917–2002), Serbian-American actor
• Caroline Dexter (1819–1884), English-Australian writer and feminist
• Charles O. Dexter, American rhododendron hybridizer
• Colin Dexter, OBE (born 1930), English crime writer
• Darrell Dexter, Canadian politician
• Elliott Dexter (1870–1941), American film and stage actor
• Felix Dexter, English actor, comedian, and writer
• Gregory Dexter, Baptist minister and colonial president of the colony of Rhode Island (Providence and Warwick only)
• Henry Martyn Dexter (1821–1890), American clergyman and author
• James Dexter, American professional football player
• Neil Dexter (born 1984), South African-born English cricketer
• Samuel Dexter (1761–1816), American politician, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
• Simon Newton Dexter (1785–1862), New York merchant and politician
• Ted Dexter, Sussex and English test cricketer

Given name

• Dexter (singer) (born 1973), Brazilian rapper
• Dexter Blackstock (born 1986), English football player
• Dexter Dalwood (born 1960), artist based in London
• Dexter M. Ferry (1833–1907), American businessman from Michigan
• Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. (1873–1959), American politician from Michigan
• Dexter Fletcher (born 1966), British actor
• Dexter Gordon (1923–1990), jazz tenor saxophonist
• Dexter Holland (born 1965), lead singer of The Offspring
• Dexter Horton (1825–1904), founder of the first bank in Seattle
• Dexter Vines, American comic book artist and inker

Fiction

• Dexter's Laboratory, an American animated series that aired from 1996 to 2003
• Dexter Morgan, a fictional serial killer and blood splatter analyst created by writer Jeff Lindsay
  • Dexter (TV series) (2006–present), an American television drama series
    • "Dexter" (episode), the pilot and first episode
• Ramone "Ray" Dexter, one half of gunshark duo Sinister Dexter featured in the British comics anthology 2000 AD
• Dexter, young version of the protagonist in the Space Ace video game
• Dexter, now known as Dex-Starr, a member of the Red Lantern Corps in the DC Comics universe

Locations

United States

• Dexter, Georgia
• Dexter, Iowa
• Dexter, Kansas
• Dexter, Maine
• Dexter, Michigan
• Dexter, Minnesota
• Dexter, Missouri
• Dexter, New Mexico
• Dexter, New York
• Dexter City, Ohio
• Dexter, Oregon
• Dexter, Wisconsin, a town
• Dexter (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• Dexter Township, Michigan
• Dexter Township, Minnesota

Canada

• Dexter, Ontario, Canada

Ships

• USRC Dexter, the name of more than one ship of the United States Revenue Cutter Service
• USCGC Dexter, the name of more than one ship of the United States Coast Guard

See also

• Dextral, a scientific term
• Dextre, the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, a component of the International Space Station
• Dextrous (disambiguation)
• Dexterity
• Dextrose

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