Famous People with Name Cecil

Cecil Donovan Dixon            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Cecil Donovan Dixon: A talented medium-to-fast-medium pace bowler

Cecil Higgs            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Cecil Higgs: was a South African artist. She was the third child and second girl of the five children of Clement Higgs and his wife Florence. In 1912, Higgs's father died at the age of 50. In 1916, Higgs became a boarder a the Wesleyan Girls' High School in Grahamstown. Her oldest brother, Clement jr., was killed in 1916 in World War I. Higgs briefly enrolled in the Grahamstown School of Art in 1918, however in 1920 she sailed to England and stayed abroad for 13 years. She trained in London at the Byam Shaw School of Art, Goldsmiths' College and, from 1926, at the Royal Academy of Arts. Higgs was called back to South Africa, however, due to the illness of her mother which resulted in her death in 1934. Higgs held her first solo exhibition in the Domestic Science hall of Stellenbosch University in 1935,

Cecil Skotnes            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Cecil Skotnes: was a prominent South African artist.After returning to Johannesburg, Cecil Skotnes studied at the University of the Witwatersrand completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in 1950. He met Thelma Carter at that time, they were married in 1951, and he returned with her to Europe where they stayed for nine months. Again, Europe was to have a profound influence on him through the experience of the Egyptian, Assyrian and pre-classical Greek art that he saw in places such as the British Museum. It was, however, the colonial collections from Africa that were to have the greater impact. Cecil may well have stayed in Europe were it not for this, but instead he was drawn back to Africa, and like his father many years before him he made South Africa his permanent home.

Cecil Oerson            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Cecil Oerson: is a South African football (soccer) midfielder and striker for Premier Soccer League club Moroka Swallows and South Africa.

Rex Rolston Cecil            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rex Rolston Cecil: (October 8, 1916 - October 30, 1966) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox (1944-1945). Cecil batted left handed and threw right handed.

Aubrey Bruce Cooper Cecil            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Aubrey Bruce Cooper Cecil: was an English cricketer. Cecil was a right-handed batsman. Cecil represented Hampshire in single first-class match in 1876 against Derbyshire, scoring six runs.

Egerton Dodge Cooper Cecil            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Egerton Dodge Cooper Cecil: was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played for Hampshire. Cecil made his only first-class appearance during the 1875 season for Hampshire against Kent. Cecil scored 4 runs in his only innings in which he batted and bowled three wicketless overs during the Kent innings. Cecil was retired absent in Hampshire's second innings.

Henry Richard Amherst Cecil            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Henry Richard Amherst Cecil: is a successful English horse racing trainer who has had many winners in the Epsom Derby, 1,000 Guineas and 2,000 Guineas, Epsom Oaks and the St. Leger Stakes. Henry Cecil is the stepson of former champion trainer, Sir Cecil Boyd-Rochfort for whom he work