Baxter (name)
Baxter originated from the Northern English and Scottish occupational surname meaning "baker," from the early Middle English bakstere and the Old English bæcere. The form Bakster was originally feminine, with Baker as the masculine equivalent. Ancient variations in the spelling of the surname include Bakster, Baxstar, Baxstair, Baxstare and Baxster.[1][2]
Notable surnames
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- Jacob Baxter, Canadian politician
- James Keir Baxter, New Zealand poet
- James Baxter (sportsman), English rugby union internationalist and Olympic silver medalist
- James Baxter (animator), British animator
- James H. Baxter (1906–1995), of Pennsylvania
- James Phinney Baxter, mayor of Portland, Maine, and cofounder of Baxter State Park
- James Phinney Baxter III, American historian
- Jane Baxter, British-born actress
- Jean Rae Baxter, Canadian author
- Jeff Baxter, American guitarist and government consultant
- Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer
- John Baxter (author), Australian-born writer and film-maker
- John Baxter (director), British-born film-maker of the 1930s and 40s
- John Baxter (explorer), Australian explorer who accompanied Edward John Eyre across the Nullarbor Plain
- John Baxter (footballer), Scottish footballer
- John Babington Macaulay Baxter (1868–1946), Canadian politician
- John G. Baxter (1826–1885), nineteenth and twenty-first mayor of Louisville, Kentucky
- Jose Baxter, English footballer, currently playing for Everton FC.
- J.R. Baxter (1887–1960), American gospel musician
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Notable given names
- Baxter Black (born 1945), American cowboy, poet, philosopher, former large-animal veterinarian, and radio commentator
- Baxter Dury, pop singer, son of Ian Dury
Fictional characters
- Baxter, Ron Burgundy's dog in the film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
- Baxter (mascot), the mascot for the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team
- Baxter Basics, character from British comic Viz
- Baxter Stockman in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series
- Buster Baxter, character from American children's TV show "Arthur"
- Corrine Baxter, in Strange Days at Blake Holsey High
- Cory Baxter, in Cory in the House
- Evan Baxter, played by Steve Carell in Evan Almighty (2007)
- Georgette Franklin Baxter, in The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- Raven Baxter, in That's So Raven
- Rupert Baxter, Lord Emsworth's secretary in the stories and novels by P. G. Wodehouse
- Tanya Baxter, in That's So Raven
- Ted Baxter, in The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- Victor Baxter, in Cory in the House
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