title: Sykes
text: # Sykes
  
  Sykes may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Sir Alan Sykes, 1st Baronet, businessman and British politician
  * Annette Sykes, New Zealand human rights lawyer and Māori activist
  * Bob Sykes (American football), American football player
  * Bob Sykes (baseball), American baseball pitcher
  * Bob Sykes (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player
  * Bobbi Sykes, Australian author and land rights activist
  * Bryan Sykes, British academic and geneticist
  * Christopher Sykes (author), British author
  * Christopher Sykes (politician), British politician
  * Diane S. Sykes, judge on the United States Court of Appeals
  * Edmund Sykes, Catholic martyr
  * Emilia Sykes, American politician
  * Eric Sykes, comedic writer and actor
  * Eric A. Sykes, developer of the Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife
  * Ernest Sykes (VC), recipient of the Victoria Cross
  * Ernest Ruthven Sykes (1867–1954), malacologist from Great Britain
  * Eugene O. Sykes (1876–1945), justice on the Mississippi Supreme Court
  * Frederick Henry Sykes (1863–1917), Canadian-American educator and college president
  * Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes, British military officer and politician
  * George Sykes, U.S. Army general
  * Gresham Sykes (1922–2010), American sociologist and criminologist
  * Homer Sykes, Canadian-born British photographer
  * Congressman James Sykes (Continental Congress), lawyer and American politician
  * Governor James Sykes (governor), physician and American politician
  * Rod Sykes, Canadian politician
  * John Sykes, rock musician
  * John Sykes (American football) (1949–2019), American football player
  * John Sykes (composer) (1909–1962), English composer and music teacher, born in India
  * John Sykes (politician), British politician
  * John H. Sykes Tampa Bay area businessman and founder of Sykes inc.
  * Keifer Sykes (born 1993), American basketball player
  * Sir Mark Sykes, British politician and diplomatic advisor
  * Melanie Sykes (born 1970), English television and radio presenter, and model
  * Nathan Sykes (born 1993), member of boy band The Wanted
  * Norman Sykes (1936–2009), English footballer
  * Oliver Sykes, frontman of Bring Me the Horizon
  * Paul Sykes (boxer) (1946–2007), English heavyweight boxer of the 1970s and 1980s
  * Paul Sykes (businessman) (born 1943), English Eurosceptic businessman, and political donor
  * Paul Sykes (rugby league) (born 1981), rugby league footballer of the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s
  * Paul Sykes (singer), American folksinger of the 1960s
  * Sir Percy Sykes, British soldier, geographer and travel writer
  * Peter Sykes (director) (1939–2006), Australian/British film director
  * Peter Sykes (chemist) (1923–2003), British chemist
  * Sir Richard Sykes (biochemist), businessman and university rector
  * Sir Richard Sykes (diplomat), diplomat assassinated in 1979
  * Richard Sykes (rugby union), Rugby player and Dakota landowner
  * Stephen Sykes, ecclesiologist
  * Sykes family of Sledmere
  * Tatton Sykes (disambiguation)
  * Thomas Sykes (Mississippi politician), African-American legislator in Mississippi during Reconstruction
  * Thomas A. Sykes, African-American legislator in North Carolina and Tennessee during Reconstruction
  * Thomas Hardcastle Sykes, businessman
  * Timothy Sykes (born 1981), penny stock trader
  * Tom Sykes, British motorcycle racer
  * Wanda Sykes, comedian and actress
  * William Sykes (1852–1910), English businessman
  * Colonel William Henry Sykes, military officer, politician, and ornithologist
  * William Robert Sykes, British railway signal engineer
  
  ## Companies
  
  * Sykes Bleaching Company
  * Sykes Enterprises, Incorporated, a family of global companies delivering business process outsourcing services
  
  ## Characters
  
  * Bill Sykes, antagonist from the animated Disney film Oliver & Company
  * Fredrick Sykes, one of the main antagonists of the 1993 action film The Fugitive
  * Mr. Sykes, a character from the film Shark Tale, voiced by Martin Scorsese
  * Sgt. Michael "Psycho" Sykes, the main character in the game Crysis Warhead, and a secondary character in Crysis
  * Reverend Sykes, a character from Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird
  * Robert "Pliers" Sykes, character in the game Wing Commander IV
  
  ## Places
  
  * Sykes, Lancashire, England
  * Sykesville, Maryland, USA
  * Forward Operating Base Sykes, a U.S. military base in Iraq
  * Sykes Camp, a campground in California
  
  ## Other
  
  * 4438 Sykes, an asteroid
  * Sykes (dog), a dog actor from Clifton, Oxfordshire, England
  * Sykes (TV series), a British sitcom that aired on BBC 1 from 1972 to 1979
  * Sykes baronets, four separate baronetcies of Great Britain or the United Kingdom
  