Baxter (name)
Baxter is an Anglo-Saxon and Scottish name, originally from the English 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, but over time both names came to apply to both men and women. Ancient variations in the spelling of the surname include Bakster, Baxstar, Baxstair, Baxstare and Baxster.
Also a reference to the rhyme “Fee-fi-fo-fum” where one of the MacMillan clan ground the bones of the English to make their bread. Hence the nickname Baxter
Notable people
A
- A. W. Baxter, American winemaker
- Al Baxter, Australian rugby union player
- Alain Baxter, Scottish skier
- Alan Baxter, American film actor
- Alan Baxter, New Zealand soldier and politician
- Alexander G. Baxter, New York state senator
- Amy Lynn Baxter, American model and actress
- Anne Baxter, American actress
- Annie Baxter, American radio reporter
- Archibald Baxter, New Zealand pacifist
- Arlene Baxter, American model
- Alexander Baxter, Scottish-Australian politician
B
- Batsell Baxter, American religious leader and educator
- Biddy Baxter, British TV producer
- Bill Baxter
- Billy Baxter, Scottish footballer
- Billy Baxter, British soldier
- Billy Baxter, born ca. 1959, an Australian vocalist and later a comedian on Coodabeen Champions
- Billy Baxter, American poker player
- Billy 'Silver Dollar' Baxter, United States film producer
- Blake Baxter, American electronic musician
- Brad Baxter, American football player
- Bucky Baxter, American guitarist
C
- Charles Baxter, American author
- Charles R. Baxter, American physician
- Colin Baxter, American football player
- Colin Baxter, Scottish curler
D
- Darren Baxter, Association football player
- Sir David Baxter, 1st Baronet, Scottish linen manufacturer and philanthropist
- Delos W. Baxter, American politician and lawyer
- Dorian Baxter, Canadian Anglican priest
E
- Edward Felix Baxter, British soldier
- Elisha Baxter, American jurist and politician
- Esther Baxter, American model
- Evan Baxter, several people
- Evelyn Vida Baxter, Scottish ornithologist
F
- Frank C. Baxter, American TV personality
- Frank William Baxter, Rhodesian soldier
- Fred Baxter, American football player
G
- Gary Baxter, football player
- George Baxter, English printer
- George W. Baxter, a 19th-century governor of Wyoming Territory
- Glen Baxter, British cartoonist
- Glen Baxter, Canadian journalist
- Glen E. Baxter, American mathematician
- Gordon Baxter, American aviator
- Gregg Baxter, sound editor
- Gregory Baxter, Canadian ski jumper
H
- Henry Baxter, American general
I
- Iain Baxter&, Canadian conceptual artist
- Iain Baxter , Scottish curler
- Irvin Baxter Jr., American Christian apologist
- Irving Baxter, American athlete
J
- J. Clifford Baxter, Enron executive
- J.R. Baxter, American gospel musician
- J. Sidlow Baxter, Australian theologian
- Jacob Baxter, Canadian politician
- James Baxter, British animator
- James Baxter, English rugby union internationalist and Olympic silver medalist
- James H. Baxter, of Pennsylvania
- James Keir Baxter, New Zealand poet
- James Phinney Baxter, mayor of Portland, Maine, and co-founder of Baxter State Park
- James Phinney Baxter III, American historian
- Jane Baxter, German-born British actress
- Jayne Baxter, Scottish politician
- Jean Rae Baxter, Canadian author
- Jeff Baxter, American guitarist and government consultant
- Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer
- John Baxter
- John Baxter, Australian-born writer and film-maker
- John Baxter, British-born film-maker of the 1930s and 1940s
- John Baxter, Australian explorer who accompanied Edward John Eyre across the Nullarbor Plain
- John Baxter, Scottish footballer
- John Baxter , American jurist
- John Baxter
- John Babington Macaulay Baxter, Canadian politician
- John G. Baxter, nineteenth and twenty-first mayor of Louisville, Kentucky
- Jose Baxter, English footballer, currently playing for Sheffield United
K
- Kay Baxter, American bodybuilder
- Ken Baxter, real estate investor
- Ken Baxter, English rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s
- Ken Baxter, Australian rules footballer who played in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s in the Victorian Football League
- Kenneth McLean Baxter, New Zealand printer and trade unionist
L
- Laurence Baxter, British statistician
- Les Baxter, American pianist
- Lois Baxter, British actress
- Lonny Baxter, American basketball player
- Lynsey Baxter, British actress
M
- Marvin R. Baxter, American judge
- Mary Ann Baxter, Scottish philanthropist
- Bryan & Baxter, paranormal investigator, skeptic
- Meredith Baxter or Meredith Baxter-Birney, American actress
N
- Nathan D. Baxter, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania
- Nick Baxter, English rugby union player
- Noel Baxter, Scottish skier
P
- Paul Baxter, Canadian ice hockey player and assistant coach
- Percival Proctor Baxter, governor of the U.S. state of Maine
- Peter Baxter, British-born filmmaker
- Peter Baxter, Australian rules footballer
- Peter Baxter , British radio producer and cricket commentator
R
- Raymond Baxter, British television personality
- Richard Baxter, English Nonconformist clergyman
- Richard Reeve Baxter, Judge of the International Court of Justice
- Rick Baxter, American politician
- Rob Baxter, British rugby player
- Robert Dudley Baxter, British economist
- Rodney J. Baxter, Australian physicist
- Rowan Baxter, an Australian comedian, NRL player and murderer
S
- Skippy Baxter, American figure skater
- Stanley Baxter, Scottish comedian
- Stephen Baxter, British science-fiction writer
- Stephen Baxter, Irish soccer player and manager
- Stephen B. Baxter, American historian
- Steve Baxter, Australian investor and entrepreneur
- Steve Baxter, American songwriter and guitarist
- Stuart Baxter, British football manager
T
- Tom Baxter, British guitarist/solo artist
- Tommy Baxter, New Zealand rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s, and coached in the 1950s and 1960s
- Tony Baxter, American Disney Imagineer
- Trevor Baxter, British actor
V
- Virginia Baxter, American figure skater
W
- Walter Baxter, English novelist
- Warner Baxter, American actor
- William Baxter
- William Baxter, American jurist
- William Edward Baxter, British politician
- Wynne Edwin Baxter, English lawyer and coroner
Notable given names
- Baxter Black, 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
- Baxter, 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
- Georgette Franklin Baxter, in The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- Mike Baxter, played by Tim Allen in Last Man Standing
- Raven Baxter, in That's So Raven
- Robert Baxter, in Time Crisis II
- 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
- Denton Baxter, Irish immigrant landowner and main antagonist in the film Open Range, portrayed by Sir Michael Gambon
- Bruce Baxter, character in Peter Jackson's 2005 remake of King Kong
- Phyllis Baxter, lady's maid to the Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey
- Roger Baxter, his wife Lauren "Betty" Baxter and their daughter Blythe Baxter in Littlest Pet Shop