Dawkins is an English surname.

It may refer to:

• Aubrey Dawkins (born 1995), American basketball player
• Ben Dawkins, Australian politician
• Benjamin C. Dawkins Jr. (1911–1984), US District Judge in Louisiana
• Benjamin C. Dawkins Sr. (1881–1966), US District Judge in Louisiana
• Boyd Dawkins (full name Maynard Boyd Dawkins; 1917–1966) South Australian sheep breeder and politician
• Brian Dawkins (born 1973), American football Safety for the Philadelphia Eagles and Denver Broncos
• Cecil Dawkins (born 1927), North American author, also known for her personal correspondence with Flannery O'Connor
• Sir Clinton Edward Dawkins (1859–1905), British businessman and civil servant
• Dalyn Dawkins (born 1994), American football player
• Darryl Dawkins (1957–2015), American basketball player and coach
• Derek Dawkins (born 1959), English footballer
• Dion Dawkins (born 1994), American football player
• Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III (b. 1979) a.k.a. Aloe Blacc, American soul singer and musician
• James Dawkins (antiquarian) (1722, Jamaica – 6 September 1757, Sutton's Plantation, Jamaica) was a British antiquarian and Jacobite.
• Jimmy Dawkins, (1936–2013) Chicago blues musician
• John Sydney "Joe" Dawkins (born 1947), Australian politician, instigator of educational reforms known as the Dawkins Revolution
• John Dawkins (b. 1954), Australian politician, member of South Australian Legislative Council
• Johnny Dawkins (born 1963), American basketball player and coach
• Marian Dawkins (born 1945), professor of animal behaviour at Oxford, ex-wife of Richard Dawkins
• Marvin Dawkins a.k.a. MC Romeo (born 1980), British garage music MC and member of So Solid Crew
• Noah Dawkins (born 1997), American football player
• Paul Dawkins (1957–2019), American-Turkish basketball player
• Peter Dawkins (musician) (born 1946), New Zealand record producer and musician
• Pete Dawkins (Peter Miller Dawkins, born 1938), former US Army Brigadier General and vice chairman of Citigroup Private Bank
• Richard Dawkins (born 1941), ethologist, evolutionary biologist and noted atheist
• Richard MacGillivray Dawkins (1871–1955), British archaeologist
• Riley Collier-Dawkins (born 2000), Australian football player
• Sean Dawkins (born 1971), American football player
• Travis Dawkins (born 1979), baseball player
• William Boyd Dawkins (1837–1929), British geologist and archaeologist