- Hawkins, Hawkyns, Sir John Hawkins, Sir John Hawkyns - English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595)
--1 is a kind of privateer, privateersman
- Hawkins, Coleman Hawkins - United States jazz saxophonist (1904-1969)
--2 is a kind of saxophonist, saxist