The name "'Baxter'" has several meanings. All originated from the surname Baxter meaning "female baker", originally a Scottish and East Anglian name.
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'Contents'

1 People

2.1 Surnames: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.

2.2 Given name

3 Fictional characters

4 Place names

5 Miscellaneous

Contents

People

Surnames

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

I

J

K

L

M

N

P

R

S

T

V

W

Given name

Fictional characters

Place names

Miscellaneous

People

Surnames

A

★ Al Baxter, Australian rugby union player

★ Alain Baxter, Scottish skier

★ Andrew Baxter, Scottish philosopher

★ Anne Baxter, American actress

★ Annie Baxter, American radio reporter

★ Archibald Baxter, New Zealand pacifist

★ Arlene Baxter, American model

B

★ Batsell Baxter, American religious leader and educator

★ Biddy Baxter, British TV producer

★ Bill Baxter, Australian politician

★ Billy Baxter, British soldier

★ Billy Baxter (poker player), American poker player

★ Brad Baxter, American football player

C

★ Charles Baxter, American author

★ Charles R. Baxter, American physician

★ Charles F. Baxter, Jr., Fleet Surgeon

★ Chelsey Baxter, Canadian nurse

★ J. Clifford Baxter, Enron executive

★ Corrine Baxter, fictional character

★ Cory Baxter, fictional character

D

★ Darren Baxter, English footballer

★ Dorian Baxter, Canadian Anglican priest

E

★ Edward Felix Baxter, British soldier

★ Elisha Baxter, American jurist and politician

★ Emily Baxter, fictional character

★ Esther Baxter, American model

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 engraver and print-maker

★ Georgette Franklin Baxter, fictional character

★ Glen Baxter, British cartoonist

★ Glen Baxter (journalist), Canadian journalist

★ Gordon Baxter, American aviator

★ Gregory Baxter, Canadian Ski Jumper

I

★ Irvin Baxter Jr., American Pentecostal

★ Irving Baxter, American athlete

★ Ian Baxter, English CIO

J

★ Jacob Baxter, Canadian politician

★ James Keir Baxter, New Zealand poet

★ James Phinney Baxter, mayor of Portland, ME and cofounder of Baxter State Park

★ James Phinney Baxter III, American historian

★ James Baxter (animator), British animator

★ James Baxter, English rugby union internationalist and Olympic silver medalist

★ Jeff Baxter, American guitarist and government consultant

★ Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer

★ Joshua Baxter, New Zealand Political Activist

★ John Baxter (explorer), Australian explorer who accompanied Edward John Eyre across the Nullarbor Plain

★ John Babington Macaulay Baxter (1868–1946), Canadian politician

★ John G. Baxter (1826-1885), nineteenth and twenty-first mayor of Louisville, Kentucky

K

★ Kay Baxter, American bodybuilder

L

★ Laurence Baxter, British statistician

★ Les Baxter, American pianist

★ Lois Baxter, British actress

★ Lonny Baxter, American basketball player

★ Lynsey Baxter, British actress

M

★ Mark Baxter, American engineer

★ Matt Baxter, American educator and humor columnist

★ Marvin R. Baxter, American judge

★ Meredith Baxter or 'Meredith Baxter-Birney', American actress

★ Michael Baxter, British statistician

N

★ Nathan D. Baxter, American clergyman

★ Nick Baxter, English pistol shooter

P

★ Paul Baxter, Canadian ice hockey player and assistant coach

★ Percival P. Baxter, American politician

★ Peter Baxter, Cricket commentator

★ Philip Baxter, Australian nuclear scientist

R

★ Raven Baxter, fictional character

★ Raymond Baxter, British television personality

★ Richard Baxter, English Nonconformist clergyman

★ Rick Baxter, American politician

★ Robert Dudley Baxter, British economist

★ Rodney J. Baxter, Australian physicist

★ Ronnie Baxter, English darts player

S

★ J. Sidlow Baxter, Australian theologian

★ Skippy Baxter, American figure skater

★ Stanley Baxter, British comedian

★ Stephen Baxter, British science-fiction writer

★ Steve Baxter, American songwriter and guitarist,

★ Stuart Baxter, British football manager

T

★ Tanya Baxter, fictional character

★ Tanya Baxter, Canadian teacher

★ Ted Baxter, fictional character

★ Tom Baxter, British guitarist/solo-artist

★ Trevor Baxter, British actor

V

★ Victor Baxter, fictional character

★ Virginia Baxter, American figure skater

W

★ Walter Baxter, Canadian WWI, 49th Battalion

★ Warner Baxter, American actor

★ William Baxter, American born British cartoonist

★ William Edward Baxter, British politician

★ William Baxter (law professor), American jurist

★ William Baxter (botanist)

Given name

★ Baxter Black (born 1945), American cowboy, poet, philosopher, former large-animal veterinarian, and radio commentator

★ Paul 'Baxter' Boxley, political commentator in the UK

★ Baxter Dury, pop singer, son of Ian Dury

Fictional characters

★ Baxter, the rainbow-shirted, clown-faced dog character in ''The Great Space Coaster''

★ Baxter, the cat in ''Meow Mix'' commercials

★ Baxter, the dog in the movie ''

★ Baxter (mascot), the mascot for the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team

★ Baxter Stockman in the ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' series.

★ C.C. Baxter, the character played by Jack Lemmon in the 1960 film ''The Apartment''

★ Harold Baxter in the play ''Belinda'' by A. A. Milne

★ J. M. M. Baxter, a solicitor, in the story "The House Surgeon" in ''Actions and Reactions'' by Rudyard Kipling

★ Rupert Baxter, Lord Emsworth's secretary in the stories and novels by P. G. Wodehouse

★ Timothy Baxter in ''The Vicar of Wakefield'' by Oliver Goldsmith

★ The couple in ''Don't Look Now'' by Daphne du Maurier and the 1973 film version directed by Nicholas Roeg

★ The family in ''The Yearling'' by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the 1946 film version

★ Bruce Baxter, an actor who specialises in adventure films such as Tribal Brides of the Amazon, Rough Trader and Dame Tamer - in this case played by Kyle Chandler in the 2005 remake by Peter Jackson of the original 1933 King Kong film about a fictional giant ape called Kong.

★ Evan Baxter, played by Steve Carell in Bruce Almighty (2003) and in Evan Almighty (2007), both directed by Tom Shadyac.

★ Baxter - in "American Psycho" (2000), referred to only as "Baxter" in the line: "Thankyou, Baxter." by Jared leto.

★ Baxter, the pit-bull that narrates and stars in the French film ''Baxter (film)'' by Jerome Boivin.

Place names

In 'Antarctica':

★ Mount Baxter (Antarctica)
In 'Australia':

★ Baxter, Victoria

★ Baxter Immigration Reception and Processing Centre, an Australian immigration detention facility near Port Augusta, South Australia
In the 'United States':

★ Baxter, Iowa

★ Baxter, Minnesota

★ Baxter, Tennessee

★ Baxter, Arkansas

★ Baxter, Berkeley County, West Virginia

★ Baxter, Marion County, West Virginia

★ Baxter County, Arkansas

★ Baxter Estates, New York

★ Mount Baxter (California)

★ Baxter State Park (Maine)
In 'Canada':

★ Baxter, Ontario

Miscellaneous

★ ''Baxter'' (album), a 2002 album by the Chicago band

★ Baxter (band), a Swedish trip-hop band. The lead singer is Nina Ramsby

★ Baxter (milk) is a milk company which sells most of their products in south New-Brunswick

★ Baxter International, a United States-based multinational medical instruments & supplies company

★ Baxter College, UNSW, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

★ Baxter (film), a 1989 French black comedy, with a talking dog named "Baxter" (French/subtitled)

★ ''The Baxter" is a 2005 romantic comedy. In romantic comedies there's typically "the wrong Guy". The famous scene in "The Graduate" at the end where the leading man barges through the chapel doors just as the leading lady is about to marry. "The Baxter" is about the fictional guy left at the altar. That guy is called the Baxter. The Baxter is the kind of guy you "settle" for because you can't be with the one you really love.

★ Baxter's Bus Lines, an Australian bus company

★ the Baxter meteorite of 1916, which fell in Missouri, United States (see Meteorite falls)

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