Dexter (name)
Dexter [ 'dekstər ] is a common first name and family name in the English-speaking world .
meaning
Two different versions are used to derive the name Dexter. According to one, the name is a designation of origin; Dexter would therefore be a syneresis from De Exeter , Latin for "(one) from Exeter ". According to the other version, the name is derived from the Latin dexter , ("right", "right-handed"), which has also been preserved in New English in dexterous ("skillful"). A variant of the name is Dexton ; The short form Dex is also widespread .
Well-known namesake
First name
- Dexter Blackstock (* 1986), English football player
- Dexter Bussey (born 1952), American football player
- Dexter Clark (born 1964), American football player
- Dexter Coakley (born 1972), American football player
- Dexter Daniels (* 1973), American football player
- Dexter Carter (born 1967), American football player
- Dexter Davis ( American football player , 1970) ( Dexter Wendell Jackson Davis ; * 1970) American football player
- Dexter Davis ( American football player, 1986) ( Dexter Alexander Davis ; * 1986) American football and Canadian football player
- Dexter Davis ( American Football Player , 1990) ( Dexter B. Davis, Jr. , born 1990) American Canadian football and arena football player
- Dexter Fletcher (born 1966), British actor
- Dexter Gordon (1923–1990), American saxophonist
- Dexter Holland (born 1965), American singer and guitarist
- Dexter Jackson (Bodybuilder) ( The Blade ; * 1969), American bodybuilder
- Dexter Jackson ( born 1977), American football player
- Dexter Jackson ( born 1986), American football player
- Dexter Scott King (born 1961), American documentary filmmaker and actor
- Dexter Langen (* 1980), German soccer player
- Dexter Lee (born 1991), Jamaican sprinter
- Dexter Manley (* 1959), American football and Canadian football player
- Dexter McCleon (born 1973), American football player
- Dexter McCluster (* 1988), American football player
- Dexter McDougle (born 1991), American football player
- Dexter McNabb (born 1969), American football player
- Dexter Nottage (* 1970), American football player
- Dexter Pittman (* 1988), American basketball player
- Dexter Reid (born 1981), American football player
- Dexter Seigler (born 1972), American football player
- Dexter Wynn (born 1981), American football player
family name
- Al Dexter (1905–1984), American country musician and songwriter
- Alan Dexter (1918–1983), British actor and composer
- Brad Dexter (1917–2002), American player and film producer
- Colin Dexter (1930-2017), British writer
- Darrell Dexter (* 1957), Canadian politician
- Elliott Dexter (1870–1941), American film and stage actor
- Felix Dexter (1961–2013), British actor, comedian and writer
- James Dexter (born 1973), American football player
- John Dexter (director) (1925–1990), English theater director
- John Dexter , pen name of Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930–1999), American writer
- John Dexter (art director) , American art director
- Maury Dexter (1928–2017), American film and television director
- Pete Dexter (born 1943), American writer
- Rosemary Dexter (1944-2010), British actress
- Samuel Dexter (1761-1816), American politician
- Timothy Dexter (1748–1806), American businessman and illiterate
Cognomen
- Lucius Turpilius Dexter , Roman suffect consul 81
- Gnaeus Afranius Dexter , Roman suffect consul 105
- Cornelius Dexter , Roman suffect consul 159
- Gaius Domitius Dexter , Roman consul 196
- Servius Calpurnius Domitius Dexter , Roman consul 225
- Dexter (consul 263) (other parts of the name not known)
- Flavius Lucius Dexter , 4th century Roman historian mentioned by Hieronymus (Church Father)
- Quintus Lutatius Dexter Laelianus , Roman officer (imperial era)
- Sextus Subrius Dexter , Roman officer (imperial era)
- Sextus Subrius Dexter Cornelius Priscus , Roman suffect consul, probably 104
Fictional characters
- Cliff Dexter , main character in the German television series
- Dexter Morgan , main character in the US TV series, see Dexter (TV series) #Dexter Morgan
- Dexter Nemrod , devotee of Praios with a function based on a Grand Inquisitor in the fantasy role-playing landscape Das Schwarze Auge