Famous People with Name Wilkes

Servaas ("Faas") Wilkes            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Servaas ("Faas") Wilkes: was a Dutch football (soccer) striker, who earned a total number of 38 caps for the Netherlands national football team, in which he scored 35 goals (average 0,92). However, during a prolonged period of his career, between 1949 and 1956, he was considered not eligible for the Dutch National team as the then current rules did not allow for professional players.

Jonathan Wilkes            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Jonathan Wilkes: is an English television presenter, actor and musician. Wilkes is also as an entertainer and presenter, in addition to being best-known as the best friend of singer Robbie Williams. Jonathan married Nikki Wheeler, a dancer, in January 2004 in Los Angeles. They have one child, Mickey, born in 2006.After winning the Cameron Mackintosh Young Entertainer of the Year award in 1996, Wilkes headed to Blackpool Pleasure Beach to become the youngest person to star in their own end-of-pier-style show. This led to television work on the BBC Choice (now BBC Three) programme Hype. He soon signed a three-year contract with ITV, fronting You've Been Framed, Love on a Saturday Night, and SMTV. His television work was short-lived though; Love on a Saturday Night was axed after just a season and a half after poor reception and Wilkes' involvement with SMTV coincided with it being ended. Other TV credits include The Match, Soccer Aid, and All Star Cup.

Kathleen Vaughan Wilkes            Origin/Culture/Country:

Kathleen Vaughan Wilkes: was a philosopher and academic who played an important part in rebuilding the education systems of former Communist countries after 1990. She established her reputation as an academic with her contributions to the Philosophy of Mind in two major works and many articles in professional journals

Charles Wilkes            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Wilkes: was an American naval officer and explorer. He is particularly noted for his 1838–1842 Pacific expedition as well as for his role in the Trent Affair during the Civil War.In 1833, for his survey of Narragansett Bay, he was placed in charge of the Navy's Department of Charts and Instruments, out of which developed the Naval Observatory and Hydrographic Office. Wilkes interdisciplinary expedition (1838-1842) set a physical oceanography benchmark for its first superintendent Matthew Fontaine Maury.After having completely encircled the globe (his was the last all-sail naval mission to do so), Wilkes had logged some 87,000 miles and lost two ships and 28 men. Wilkes was court-martialled on his return for the loss of one of his ships on the Columbia River bar,

Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes: is a British computer scientist credited with several important developments in computing.