title: Hawdon
text: # Hawdon
  
  Hawdon is a surname originating in the north of England and may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Dickie Hawdon (1927–2009), English jazz trumpeter and member of the Yorkshire Jazz Band
  * John Hawdon (sculler) (b. 1852), British rower
  * John Hawdon (colonial settler) (1801–1881), pioneering settler in Australia, and older brother of Joseph Hawdon
  * Joseph Hawdon (1813–1871), pioneering settler in Australia and New Zealand
  * Matthias Hawdon (1732–1789), English organist and composer
  
  ### Fiction
  
  * Captain Hawdon, a character in Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  * Frank Hawdon, a character in the 1979 film My Brilliant Career
  
  ## Places
  
  * Hawdon River, New Zealand (named for Joseph Hawdon)
  * Lake Hawdon (disambiguation), several places in Australia and New Zealand (named for Joseph Hawdon)
  