title: Speakes
text: # Speakes
  
  Speakes is an English surname. It may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Larry Speakes (1939–2014), an acting press spokesman for the White House under President Reagan
  * Stephen M. Speakes (b. 1952), a United States Army lieutenant general
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * The Speakeses, a family in the soap opera Guiding Light, including Hampton (Vince Williams), Kathryn (Nia Long) and Gilly Speakes (Amelia Marshall).
  