Vokes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Christopher Vokes Major-General Christopher Vokes (13 April 1904 – 27 March 1985) was a Canadian Army officer who fought in World War II. Born in Armagh, Ireland, he commanded the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade during the Allied invasion of Sicily. Promoted to ...

(1904–1985), Canadian Army officer *

Ed Vokes Edwin Hoskin "Eddie" Vokes (April 1, 1908 – June 29, 1967) was a Canadian ice hockey player who played five games in the National Hockey League with the Chicago Black Hawks during the 1930–31 season. The rest of his career, which lasted from ...

(1908–1967), Canadian ice hockey player * Emily H. Vokes (born 1930), American malacologist and paleontologist *

Harold Vokes Harold Ernest Vokes (June 27, 1908 — September 16, 1998), was an American malacologist and paleontologist. He specialized in bivalves, especially fossils found along the Gulf Coast and Atlantic Coast, and he taught at Johns Hopkins and Tulane ...

(1908–1998), American malacologist and paleontologist * Leroy H. Vokes (1849–1924), American soldier *

May Vokes May Vokes ( – September 13, 1957) was an American actress and comedienne. She appeared primarily in comedic roles in stage plays. Her Broadway appearances included '' When Dreams Come True'', ''A Fool and His Money'', '' The Quaker Girl'', and '' ...

(1882–1957), American actress *

Richard Vokes ''Ghosts of Kanungu: Fertility, Secrecy and Exchange in the Great Lakes of East Africa'' is a book by Richard Vokes about the cult the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTC), notorious for the deaths of hundreds of i ...

, anthropologist *

Sam Vokes Samuel Michael Vokes (born 21 October 1989) is a professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Striker (association football), striker for club Wycombe Wanderers F.C., Wycombe Wanderers, and formerly for the Wales national footba ...

(born 1989), Welsh footballer *

Vokes family The Vokes family were three sisters, one brother and an actor (Walter Fawdon, who changed his name to Vokes) who were popular in the pantomime theatres of 1870s London and in the United States. Their father, Frederick Strafford Thwaites Vokes (1 ...

of actors: **

Fawdon Vokes Fawdon Vokes (1844 – 1904) was a British music hall, pantomime and burlesque actor and dancer who performed as a member of the Vokes family, Vokes Family of entertainers popular in the 1870s in Great Britain and the USA. For more than ten y ...

(born Walter Fawdon; 1844–1904), actor **

Fred Vokes Frederick Mortimer Vokes (22 January 1846 – 3 June 1888) was a British music hall, pantomime and burlesque dancer and actor of the 19th-century and a member of the Vokes family, Vokes Family troupe of entertainers. For more than ten years t ...

(1846–1888), actor and dancer **

Jessie Vokes Jessie Vokes (14 June 1848 – 7 August 1884) was a British music hall, pantomime and burlesque actress and dancer of the 19th-century and a member of the Vokes family, Vokes Family of entertainers. For more than ten years they were the central a ...

(1848–1884), actress and dancer **

Rosina Vokes Rosina Vokes (18 October 1854 – 27 January 1894) was a British music hall, pantomime and burlesque actress and dancer and a member of the Vokes Family troupe of entertainers before having a successful career in her own right in North Ameri ...

(1854–1894), actress

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