Wilks is a surname which may refer to:

People

* Alan Wilks (born 1946), English footballer *

Bobby Wilks Bobby Charles Wilks (May 12, 1931 – July 13, 2009), was an American Coast Guard aviator. He was the first African American Coast Guard aviator and the first African American to reach the rank of Coast Guard captain. Captain Wilks, who also was ...

(1931–2009), US Coast Guard aviator, first African-American to reach the rank of Coast Guard captain *

Brian Wilks Brian Wilks (born February 27, 1966) is a Canadian former professional hockey player who played 48 games for the Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League between 1985 and 1988. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1985 to 1990, was ...

(born 1966), NHL hockey player * Clement Wilks (1819–1871), Australian civil engineer * Christine Wilks (born 1960), British digital artist and writer *

Dan and Farris Wilks Dan Howard Wilks and Farris Cullen Wilks, also known as the Wilks Brothers, are American petroleum industry businessmen. Sons of a bricklayer, the brothers established Wilks Masonry in 1995. They went on to found an early hydraulic fracking company ...

, American businessmen *

Eileen Wilks Eileen Wilks is an American fiction writer living in Midland, Texas. Biography Eileen Wilks moved from West Texas to the town of Norman, OK in the summer of 2012, and has previously lived in Canada and Venezuela, as well as twelve U.S. ci ...

(born 1952), American author * George Wilks (born 1908), British former motorcycle speedway rider *

Guy Wilks Guy Wilks (born 22 January 1981) is a British rally driver. Wilks started rallying at the age of 19, but currently drives for JRM in the FIA World Rallycross Championship. In 2011 Wilks drove for Peugeot UK in the Intercontinental Rally Chall ...

(born 1981), British rally driver *

Hector Wilks Hector Mark Wilks (1919,Retired Chartered Surveyor Hector Mark Wilks
at ...

(born 1919), English botanist *

Ivor Wilks Professor Emeritus Ivor G. Wilks (19 July 1928 – 7 October 2014)"Professor Ivor Wilks is dead"
, Star ...

(born 1928), British historian * James Wilks (born 1978), English mixed martial arts fighter *

Jim Wilks Jimmy Ray Wilks (born March 12, 1958 in Los Angeles, California) is a former American football defensive end who played 13 seasons for the New Orleans Saints in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at San Diego State A ...

(born 1958), American former National Football League player * John Wilks (1776–1854), English Member of Parliament *

Jonathan Wilks Jonathan Paul (Jon) Wilks (born 30 September 1967) is a British diplomat who was the Ambassador to Iraq from 2017 to 2019, Ambassador to Oman from 2014 to 2017 and Ambassador to Yemen from 2010 to 2011. Career Wilks was born at Callow End, Wor ...

(born 1967), British ambassador *

Mark Wilks Colonel Mark Wilks (1759 – 19 September 1831) was a Manx soldier, historian and East India Company administrator who worked in southern India principally in the princely state of Mysore. He was the acting Resident at the Wodeyar Court. Life ...

(born 1760), Manx soldier *

Maurice Wilks Maurice Fernand Cary Wilks (19 August 19048 September 1963) was a British automotive and aeronautical engineer, and by the time of his death in 1963, was the chairman of the Rover Company, a British car manufacturer. He was the founder of the ...

(1904–1963), British car designer * Mike Wilks (author) (born 1947), English artist, illustrator and author *

Mike Wilks (basketball) Michael Sharod Wilks, Jr. (born May 7, 1979) is an American coach and former professional basketball player who currently serves as an assistant coach for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA). College career ...

(born 1979), American basketball player *

Robert Wilks Robert Wilks (''c.'' 1665 – 27 September 1732) was a British actor and theatrical manager who was one of the leading managers of Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in its heyday of the 1710s. He was, with Colley Cibber and Thomas Doggett, one of th ...

(c.1665–1732), British actor and theatrical manager * Samuel S. Wilks, American mathematician and statistician *

Samuel Wilks Sir Samuel Wilks, 1st Baronet, (2 June 1824 – 8 November 1911) was a British physician and biographer. Early life Samuel Wilks was born on 2 June 1824 in Camberwell, London, the second son of Joseph Barber Wilks, a cashier at the East India H ...

(born 1827), British physician * Steven Wilks (born 1969), American football coach and former player *

Suzie Wilks Suzannah Nicole Wilks (born 12 March 1970) is an Australian TV lifestyle presenter best known as the host of the Australian version of ''Changing Rooms'' between 1998 and 2005. Career Wilks' TV career began on the Nine Network, replacing T ...

(born 1970), Australian TV celebrity * Ted Wilks (1915–1989), American baseball player * Terrell Wilks (born 1989), American sprinter *

William Wilks Reverend William Wilks (1843–1923) was a notable British horticulturalist and clergyman. He served as secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society from 1888 to 1919 and as editor of its journal, he was instrumental in getting the work of Grego ...

(1843–1923), British horticulturalist * William Wilks (Australian politician) (1863?–1940) *

Yorick Wilks Yorick Wilks FBCS (born 27 October 1939), a British computer scientist, is emeritus professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Sheffield, visiting professor of artificial intelligence at Gresham College (a post created especiall ...

(born 1939), British computer scientist

Fictional characters

* Henry Wilks, in the ''Emmerdale'' soap opera

People

Fictional characters

See also