• Dexter in dexter and sinister
  Dexter and sinister
  Dexter and sinister are terms used in heraldry to refer to specific locations in an escutcheon bearing a coat of arms and by extension also to a crest. "Dexter" means to the right from the viewpoint of the bearer of the arms, to the left of that of the viewer...
  
  , a heraldry term referring to the right of the bearer of the arms, and to the left by the viewer's eyes
• Dexter cattle
  Dexter cattle
  Dexter cattle are the smallest of the European cattle breeds, being about half the size of a traditional Hereford and about one third the size of a Friesian milking cow. They were considered a rare breed of cattle, until recently, but are now considered a recovering breed by the American Livestock...
  
  , a breed of cattle
• Dexter School
  Dexter School
  Founded in 1926, the Dexter School is an independent school for boys located in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. Its campus is also home to its sister school, Southfield, an independent school for girls founded in 1992....
  
  , a private boys' school in Brookline, Massachusetts
• Dexter-Russell
  Dexter-Russell
  Dexter-Russell, Inc. is a cutlery manufacturing company in the town of Southbridge, MA, It is the largest US manufacturer of professional cutlery, and is also the oldest cutlery manufacturer in the United States.-Harrington Cutlery Company:...
  
  , the largest U.S. manufacturer of professional cutlery
• Dexter (robot), a dynamically balancing bipedal humanoid robot research project by Anybots

People

• Al Dexter
  Al Dexter
  Al Dexter was an American country musician and songwriter. He is best known for "Pistol Packin' Mama," a 1944 hit that was one of the most popular recordings of the World War II years and later became a hit again with a cover by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters.-Biography:Born Clarence Albert...
  
   (1905–1984), American country musician and songwriter
• Brad Dexter
  Brad Dexter
  Brad Dexter , was an American actor.-Life and career:Dexter was born Boris Malanovich , in Goldfield, Nevada, of Serbian parentage. He spoke Serbian as his first language. Burly, dark and handsome, Brad Dexter was usually given supporting roles of a rugged character...
  
   (1917–2002), Serbian-American actor
• Caroline Dexter
  Caroline Dexter
  Caroline Dexter was an English-Australian writer and feminist.Dexter was born Nottingham, England; she was educated privately in England and Paris. In 1843 she married the painter, William Dexter, be migrated to Australia aboard the Bank of England arriving in Sydney in 1852, and she arrived in...
  
   (1819–1884), English-Australian writer and feminist
• Charles O. Dexter
  Charles O. Dexter
  Charles Owen Dexter was an American rhododendron hybridizer. Using the Chinese species Rhododendron fortunei, he produced hybrids characterized by dense foliage, large stature and flowers of superior size and color, many of which were also fragrant. Notable examples of his work include...
  
  , American rhododendron hybridizer
• Colin Dexter
  Colin Dexter
  Norman Colin Dexter, OBE, is an English crime writer, known for his Inspector Morse novels which were written between 1975 and 1999 and adapted as a television series from 1987 to 2000.-Early life and career:...
  
  , OBE (born 1930), English crime writer
• Darrell Dexter
  Darrell Dexter
  Darrell Dexter is a Canadian lawyer, journalist and former naval officer who is serving as the 27th and current Premier of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. A member of the New Democratic Party, he has led the Nova Scotia NDP since 2001. He was elected Premier in 2009 after defeating...
  
  , Canadian politician
• Elliott Dexter
  Elliott Dexter
  Elliott Dexter was an American film and stage actor. Dexter started his career in vaudeville and didn't move to films until he was 45. He retired from acting in 1925....
  
   (1870–1941), American film and stage actor
• Felix Dexter
  Felix Dexter
  Felix Dexter is an actor, comedian, and writer living in the U.K..-Early life:Dexter was born in St Kitts in the Caribbean, and moved to London with his family at the age of seven.-Radio:...
  
  , English actor, comedian, and writer
• Gregory Dexter
  Gregory Dexter
  Gregory Dexter was a printer, Baptist minister, and early President of the combined towns of Providence and Warwick in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He was in New England as early as 1638 when he had a five-acre lot assigned to him in Providence...
  
  , Baptist minister and colonial president of the colony of Rhode Island (Providence and Warwick only)
• Henry Martyn Dexter
  Henry Martyn Dexter
  Henry Martyn Dexter , American clergyman and author, was born in Plympton, Massachusetts.He graduated at Yale in 1840 and at the Andover Theological Seminary in 1844; was pastor of a Congregational church in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1844-1849, and of the Berkeley Street Congregational church,...
  
   (1821–1890), American clergyman and author
• James Dexter
  James Dexter
  James Roland Dexter is a former professional American football player who played offensive tackle for five seasons for the Arizona Cardinals and Carolina Panthers....
  
  , American professional football player
• Neil Dexter
  Neil Dexter
  Neil John Dexter is a South African-born English cricketer, currently playing for Middlesex.He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium bowler...
  
   (born 1984), South African-born English cricketer
• Samuel Dexter
  Samuel Dexter
  Samuel Dexter was an early American statesman who served both in Congress and in the Presidential Cabinet.-Life:Born in Boston, Massachusetts, to the Rev. Samuel Dexter, the 4th minister of Dedham, he graduated from Harvard University in 1781 and then studied law at Worcester under Levi Lincoln,...
  
   (1761–1816), American politician, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
• Simon Newton Dexter
  Simon Newton Dexter
  Simon Newton Dexter was an American merchant and politician from New York.-Life:He was the son of Andrew Dexter, the first American manufacturer of cotton goods....
  
   (1785–1862), New York merchant and politician
• Ted Dexter
  Ted Dexter
  Edward Ralph Dexter CBE is a former English cricketer...
  
  , Sussex and English test cricketer

• Dexter (singer)
  Dexter (singer)
  Marcos Fernandes de Omena , most popular as Dexter, is a brazilian rapper.Formed along with Afro-X, group 509-E, while he was incarcerated. The first disc was recorded from prison in 2000. After his partner managed to free, fell out and the group was over.They were arrested for armed robbery...
  
   (born 1973), Brazilian rapper
• Dexter Blackstock
  Dexter Blackstock
  Dexter Anthony Titus Blackstock is an English footballer who currently plays for Nottingham Forest in the Football League Championship. He plays as a centre-forward.-Southampton:...
  
   (born 1986), English football player
• Dexter Dalwood
  Dexter Dalwood
  Dexter Dalwood is an artist based in London. He attended Humphry Davy School in his early life. Dalwood received his BA from Central St Martins College of Art, London, in 1985...
  
   (born 1960), artist based in London
• Dexter M. Ferry
  Dexter M. Ferry
  Dexter Mason Ferry, Jr. was an American politician from Michigan.-Early life:...
  
   (1833–1907), American businessman from Michigan
• Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. (1873–1959), American politician from Michigan
• Dexter Fletcher
  Dexter Fletcher
  Dexter Fletcher is an English actor. He is best known for his role in Guy Ritchie film, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels as well as television roles in such shows as the dramedy Hotel Babylon, the critically acclaimed HBO series Band of Brothers and earlier in his career, the children's show...
  
   (born 1966), British actor
• Dexter Gordon
  Dexter Gordon
  Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and an Academy Award-nominated actor . He is regarded as one of the first and most important musicians to adapt the bebop musical language of people like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell to the tenor saxophone...
  
   (1923–1990), jazz tenor saxophonist
• Dexter Holland
  Dexter Holland
  Bryan Keith "Dexter" Holland is the singer and rhythm guitarist for the California punk rock band The Offspring...
  
   (born 1965), lead singer of The Offspring
• Dexter Horton
  Dexter Horton
  Dexter Horton was the founder of the first bank in the City of Seattle. Before his founding of the Bank of Dexter Horton in 1870 financial transactions were conducted by merchants....
  
   (1825–1904), founder of the first bank in Seattle
• Dexter Vines
  Dexter Vines
  Dexter Vines is an American comic book artist and inker, known for his collaborations with pencilers such as Steve McNiven and Ed McGuiness, the latter of whom he is credited with as "eDex" team.-Career:...
  
  , American comic book artist and inker

Fiction

• Dexter's Laboratory
  Dexter's Laboratory
  Dexter's Laboratory is an American animated television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky and produced by Cartoon Network Studios . The show is about a boy named Dexter who has an enormous secret laboratory filled with an endless collection of his inventions...
  
  , an American animated series that aired from 1996 to 2003
• Dexter Morgan
  Dexter Morgan
  Dexter Morgan is a fictional character in a series of novels by Jeff Lindsay, including Darkly Dreaming Dexter , Dearly Devoted Dexter , Dexter in the Dark , Dexter by Design , Dexter is Delicious and Double Dexter...
  
  , a fictional serial killer and blood splatter analyst created by writer Jeff Lindsay
  • Dexter (TV series)
    Dexter (TV series)
    Dexter is an American television drama series, which debuted on Showtime on October 1, 2006. The sixth season premiered on October 2, 2011. The series centers on Dexter Morgan , a bloodstain pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department who moonlights as a serial killer...
    
     (2006–present), an American television drama series
    • "Dexter" (episode)
      Dexter (episode)
      "Dexter", or "Pilot", is the pilot and first episode of the first season of American television drama series Dexter, which premiered on October 1, 2006 on Showtime in the United States. The episode was written by developer James Manos, Jr. and directed by Michael Cuesta. It was based on the opening...
      
      , the pilot and first episode
• Ramone "Ray" Dexter, one half of gunshark duo Sinister Dexter
  Sinister Dexter
  Sinister Dexter is a long-running comic series in British comics anthology 2000 AD, created by Dan Abnett and David Millgate.Set in the near future, it features the exploits of gun sharks Finnigan "Finny" Sinister and Ramone "Ray" Dexter in the city of Downlode, sprawled across Central Europe...
  
   featured in the British comics anthology 2000 AD
• Dexter, young version of the protagonist in the Space Ace
  Space Ace
  Space Ace is a laserdisc video game produced by Don Bluth Studios, Cinematronics, and Advanced Microcomputer Systems...
  
  video game
• Dexter, now known as Dex-Starr, a member of the Red Lantern Corps
  Red Lantern Corps
  The Red Lantern Corps is a fictional organization appearing in comics published by DC Comics. They debuted in Green Lantern vol. 4 #25 and were created by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver...
  
   in the DC Comics universe

Locations

• Dexter, Georgia
  Dexter, Georgia
  Dexter is a town in Laurens County, Georgia, United States. The population was 509 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Dublin Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Dexter is located at ....
  
  
• Dexter, Iowa
  Dexter, Iowa
  Dexter is a city in Dallas County, Iowa, United States. The population was 689 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Des Moines–West Des Moines Metropolitan Statistical Area...
  
  
• Dexter, Kansas
  Dexter, Kansas
  Dexter is a city in Cowley County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 278.-History:Early in the 20th century Dexter became the focus of research that would confirm the existence of an abundance of naturally occurring and readily available helium. In May 1903, a...
  
  
• Dexter, Maine
  Dexter, Maine
  Dexter is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 3,890 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Bangor, Maine metropolitan statistical area...
  
  
• Dexter, Michigan
  Dexter, Michigan
  Dexter is a village in Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The majority of the village is in the northwest corner of Scio Township with a small portion in Webster Township. The population was 4,067 at the 2010 census...
  
  
• Dexter, Minnesota
  Dexter, Minnesota
  Dexter is a city in Dexter Township, Mower County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 341 at the 2010 census.-History:The community was named for Dexter Parrity, an early settler...
  
  
• Dexter, Missouri
  Dexter, Missouri
  -Government:* Mayor: Joe Weber* City Administrator: Mark Stidham* Aldermen:* Ward 1: Jerry Corder, Terry Battles* Ward 2: Kent Essner, Rick Hux* Ward 3: Ray Pixley, John "Kirby" Taylor-Notable residents:* George K. Sisler, Medal of Honor recipient...
  
  
• Dexter, New Mexico
  Dexter, New Mexico
  Dexter is a town in Chaves County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 1,235 at the 2000 census. This town is also known, as Midway.-Geography:Dexter is located at ....
  
  
• Dexter, New York
  Dexter, New York
  Dexter is a village in Jefferson County, New York, United States. The population was 1,120 at the 2000 census. The name is derived from Simon Newton Dexter, one of the village's stockholders....
  
  
• Dexter City, Ohio
  Dexter City, Ohio
  Dexter City is a village in Noble County, Ohio, United States, along the West Fork of Duck Creek. The population was 166 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all of it land....
  
  
• Dexter, Oregon
  Dexter, Oregon
  Dexter is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States. It is located near Dexter Lake , a reservoir of the Willamette River along Oregon Route 58....
  
  
• Dexter, Wisconsin
  Dexter, Wisconsin
  Dexter is a town in Wood County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 379 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Dexterville and Veedum are located in the town.-Geography:...
  
  , a town
• Dexter (community), Wisconsin
  Dexter (community), Wisconsin
  Dexter is an unincorporated community located in the town of Friendship, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States....
  
  , an unincorporated community
• Dexter Township, Michigan
  Dexter Township, Michigan
  Dexter Township is a civil township of Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,248 at the 2000 census. The nearby village of Dexter is not connected with the township and is located to the southeast.-History:...
  
  
• Dexter Township, Minnesota
  Dexter Township, Minnesota
  Dexter Township is a township in Mower County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 289 at the 2000 census. The largest town in the township is Dexter with a population of 333 people. All other areas of the township are unincorporated areas...
  
  

• Dexter, Ontario, Canada

Ships

• USRC Dexter
  USRC Dexter
  USRC Dexter was the name of more than one ship of the United States Revenue Cutter Service, and may refer to:*USRC Dexter , a cutter in commission from 1830 to 1841*USRC Dexter , a cutter in commission from 1874 to 1908...
  
  , the name of more than one ship of the United States Revenue Cutter Service
• USCGC Dexter
  USCGC Dexter
  Dexter has been the name of more than one ship of the United States Revenue Cutter Service and United States Coast Guard, and may refer to:*USRC Dexter , a cutter in commission in the Revenue Cutter Service from 1830 to 1841...
  
  , the name of more than one ship of the United States Coast Guard

See also

• Dextral, a scientific term
• Dextre, the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, a component of the International Space Station
• Dextrous (disambiguation)
• Dexterity
• Dextrose