Sexton (surname)
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Sexton is a surname, and may refer to:
  • Andrew Sexton
    Andrew Sexton
    Andrew John Sexton, born at Southampton on July 23, 1979, is an English cricketer. He is a left-handed opening batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. He played Minor Counties cricket during 1999 for Dorset before entering first-class cricket in 2000 with Hampshire.For Dorset, he was a member of...

     (born 1979), English cricketer
  • Ann Sexton
    Ann Sexton
    Ann Sexton is an American soul singer.Sexton recorded a number of records for John Richbourg during the 1970s...

     (born 1950), American soul singer
  • Anne Sexton
    Anne Sexton
    Anne Sexton was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967...

     (1928–1974), American poet
  • Brendan Sexton III
    Brendan Sexton III
    Brendan Eugene Sexton III is an American actor.-Career:Born in Staten Island, New York, Sexton made his film debut in Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse playing the troubled bully Brandon McCarthy, for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award...

     (born 1980), American film actor
  • Brian Sexton  (born 1968), American radio and television voice of the National Football League
    National Football League
    The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

    's Jacksonville Jaguars
    Jacksonville Jaguars
    The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional American football team based in Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. They are currently members of the South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

  • Chad Sexton
    Chad Sexton
    Chad Ronald Sexton is the drummer for American rock band 311. He grew up in Omaha, Nebraska and went to Westside High School with fellow band members Nick Hexum and Tim Mahoney....

     (born 1970), American rock drummer
  • Charlie Sexton
    Charlie Sexton
    Charles Wayne Sexton is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter best known for the 1985 hit Beat's So Lonely and as the guitarist for Bob Dylan's backing band from 1999 to 2002 and since 2009...

     (born 1968), American guitarist, singer and songwriter
  • Chelsea Sexton
    Chelsea Sexton
    Chelsea Sexton is a marketing expert and advocate of alternative fuel vehicles. Sexton entered the automotive industry at the age of 17 after buying her first Saturn...

     (born 1975), American advocate of alternative fuel vehicles
  • Colleen Sexton
    Colleen Sexton
    Colleen Sexton is an American folk singer/songwriter, and the sister of musician Martin Sexton. She attended Syracuse University Law School but dropped out after two days to become a musician. She has released two studio albums and one live album...

     (contemporary), American folk singer and songwriger
  • Dan Sexton
    Dan Sexton
    Dan Sexton is an American professional ice hockey forward who is currently playing for the Anaheim Ducks.-Playing career:...

     (born 1987), American ice hockey player
  • Dave Sexton
    Dave Sexton
    David "Dave" Sexton OBE is an English former football manager and player.-Playing career:Son of former professional boxer Archie Sexton, he started his playing career with West Ham United in 1948. Playing mainly at inside-forward, he would finish his career with time at Luton Town, Leyton Orient,...

     (born 1930), English football player and manager
  • Edward Sexton
    Edward Sexton
    Edward Sexton is a British Savile Row tailor, fashion designer and manufacturing consultant. Sexton has been called a key player in the history of Savile Row.-Early life:...

    , British tailor
  • Franklin Barlow Sexton
    Franklin Barlow Sexton
    Franklin Barlow Sexton was a politician from Texas who served in the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War....

     (1828–1900), American Confederate politician from Texas
  • James Sexton
    James Sexton
    Sir James Sexton CBE was a British trade unionist and politician.Sexton was born in Newcastle upon Tyne to an Irish-born family of market traders, who soon moved to St Helens, Lancashire. After leaving school he worked in a variety of jobs, including as a seaman and in a chemical factory, before...

     (1856–1938), English trade unionist and politician
  • Jess Sexton (born 1879), English-American farmer and sheriff; disappeared (date unspecified)
  • Jimmy Sexton
    Jimmy Sexton
    Jimmy Dale Sexton was a Major League Baseball infielder, and played in professional baseball from 1970–1984. He played with the Seattle Mariners, Houston Astros, Oakland Athletics, and St. Louis Cardinals at the major league level. Sexton signed his first professional contract with the Pittsburgh...

     (born 1951), American professional baseball player
  • John Sexton
    John Sexton
    John Edward Sexton is the fifteenth President of New York University, having held this position since May 17, 2002, and the Benjamin Butler Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. From 1988 to 2002, he served as Dean of the NYU School of Law, which during his deanship became one...

     (born 1942), American academic, president of New York University
  • John Sexton (photographer)
    John Sexton (photographer)
    John Sexton is an American fine art photographer who specializes in black and white photographs.-Life:John Sexton was born in 1953. He was educated at Cypress College and Chapman University .-Career:Sexton worked for Ansel Adams from 1979 to 1984 , first as Technical and Photographic...

     (born 1953), American fine art photographer
  • Jonathan Sexton
    Jonathan Sexton
    Jonathan Sexton , is a rugby union player for Leinster Rugby in the Celtic League and Heineken Cup. Sexton is a nephew of former Garryowen, Munster and Ireland rugby player Willie Sexton.Sexton is registered to St...

    (born 1985), Irish fly-half rugby player for Leinster
    Leinster Rugby
    Leinster Rugby, usually referred to simply as Leinster, is an Irish professional rugby union team based in Dublin, representing the Irish province of Leinster, that competes in the RaboDirect Pro 12 and also competes in the Heineken Cup...

  • Katy Sexton
    Katy Sexton
    Katy Sexton MBE is a British swimmer.One of her most significant achievements was becoming the first British female swimmer to win gold at the 2003 World Championships in the 200 m backstroke...

     (born 1982), British Olympic swimmer
  • Lee Sexton
    Lee Sexton
    Lee Sexton is an American Banjo player from Letcher County, Kentucky. He began playing the banjo at the age of eight and is proficient in the two-finger picking and "drop-thumb" traditional styles of east Kentucky. He also sings...

     (born 1927), American Banjo Player
  • Leo Sexton
    Leo Sexton
    Leo Joseph Sexton was an American athlete who mainly competed in the shot put.He was born in Danvers, Massachusetts and died in Perry, Oklahoma....

     (1908–1968), American 1932 Olympic athlete in the shot put
  • Linda Gray Sexton
    Linda Gray Sexton
    Linda Gray Sexton is an American writer. She was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the elder daughter of poet Anne Sexton and Alfred Muller "Kayo" Sexton. In 1994, she wrote her memoirs of growing up with her mother, Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton...

     (born 1953), American author and editor, daughter of Anne Sexton
  • Lloyd Sexton, Jr.
    Lloyd Sexton, Jr.
    Lloyd Sexton, Jr. , who is also known as Leo Lloyd Sexton, Jr. was an American painter born in Hilo, Hawaii on March 24, 1912. In 1931 he entered the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 1933 he had a show of flower paintings at the Vose Galleries in Boston, followed by exhibitions at...

     (1912–1990), American/Hawaiian artist
  • Mae Sexton
    Mae Sexton
    Mae Sexton is an Irish Labour Party politician. She was previously a Progressive Democrats Teachta Dála for the Longford–Roscommon constituency from 2002 to 2007.-Background:...

     (born 1955), Irish politician from Longford-Roscommon
  • Martin Sexton
    Martin Sexton
    Martin Sexton is an American singer-songwriter and producer originally from Syracuse, New York.- Early life :Sexton grew up the tenth of twelve children in a working class Irish-American family. He acquired his first guitar, a Sears & Roebuck acoustic, at the age of 14 and later played in local...

     (contemporary), American musician from Syracuse, New York
  • May Sexton (died 1923), Canadian suffragette
  • Mike Sexton
    Mike Sexton
    Michael Richard Sexton is an American professional poker player and commentator. He is a member of the Poker Hall of Fame.-Early years:...

     (born 1947), American professional poker player and commentator
  • P. Wayne Sexton, Sr.
    P. Wayne Sexton, Sr.
    Paul Wayne Sexton, Sr. is a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's sixty-sixth House district, including constituents in Forsyth and Rockingham counties. A retiree from Eden, North Carolina, Sexton is currently serving in his fifth term in the state...

     (contemporary), American Republican politician from North Carolina
  • Randy Sexton
    Randy Sexton
    Randy Sexton is a Canadian ice hockey executive, businessman and former athlete. He is currently assistant director of amateur scouting for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League . He most recently was the general manager of the Florida Panthers of the NHL. He was one of the...

    , Current general manager of the NHL's Florida Panthers
    Florida Panthers
    The Florida Panthers are a professional ice hockey team based in Sunrise, Florida, in the Miami metropolitan area. They are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . They play their games at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise and are the...

  • Rosi Sexton
    Rosi Sexton
    Rosemary Ann Sexton is a British female mixed martial artist. She is also a sports therapist, osteopath, and writer for Fighters Only magazine....

     (born 1977), British Mixed Martial Arts Fighter
  • Tobe Sexton
    Tobe Sexton
    Tobe Sexton is an American actor and producer.Sexton was born in Fort Worth, Texas, he studied acting and directing for theatre as well as film at The California Institute of the Arts from which he earned a BFA. He appeared as Teen Freddy in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare.In 1995 Sexton...

     (born 1968), American actor, singer, dancer, producer, director
  • Tom Sexton
    Tom Sexton
    For the 19th-century baseball player, see Tom Sexton .Tom Sexton is an Alaskan poet and scholar who became the state's Poet Laureate in 1995-Childhood and education:...

     (born 1940), American poet and scholar; poet laureate of Alaska
  • Tommy Sexton
    Tommy Sexton
    Thomas "Tommy" Sexton was a Canadian comedian. Born in St. John's, Newfoundland, he was the youngest member of the CODCO comedy troupe....

     (1957–1993), Canadian comedian from Newfoundland
  • William Sexton (politician) (1819–1895), Canadian farmer, auctioneer, and politician from Ontario
  • Wyatt Sexton
    Wyatt Sexton
    Wyatt Sexton is a former National Collegiate Athletic Association American football quarterback for the Florida State Seminoles. Sexton is well known for his performances on the field and for his suffering from the effects of Lyme disease...

    (born 1984), American college football player
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