People
- Barbara Fawkes (1914–2002), British nurse and nursing educator
- Chris Fawkes, BBC Weather forecaster
- Fawkes de Breauté, (d. 1226), Anglo-Norman soldier who served in the First Barons' War
- Francis Fawkes(1721–1777), English poet and translator
- Frederick Fawkes (1870–1936), British Conservative Party politician
- Guy Fawkes (1570–1606), English revolutionary
- Guido Fawkes, a pseudonym of British right-wing political blogger Paul Staines
- Randol Fawkes (1924–2000), Bahamian civil rights activist, author, musician
- Richard Fawkes (b. 1944), British writer and director
- Wally Fawkes(b. 1924), British-Canadian jazz clarinetist and cartoonist
- Walter Fawkes (1769–1825), British landowner and politician, patron of painter J. M. W. Turner
- Wilmot Fawkes (1846–1926), Royal Navy officer, Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth
- Characters
- Fawkes, Dumbledore's phoenix in the Harry Potter books
- Fawkes, a character on web series The Guild, portrayed by Wil Wheaton
- Fawkes, a friendly, Super Mutant character in Fallout 3.
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“Thou cam’st out of thy mother’s belly without government, thou hast liv’d hitherto without government, and thou may’st be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look’d upon?”
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“The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert, and so on.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
“It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.”
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