Rachel Dawes, a fictional character created for the 2005 Batman film Batman Begins

The Dawes Act, (also known as the General Allotment Act of 1887 or the "Dawes Severalty Act"), an act that authorized the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide the area into allotments for the individual Native Americans

Dominique Dawes, a United States gymnast

Charles G. Dawes, banker, politician and 30th Vice President of the United States

William Dawes, an American notable for his actions in the American Revolution

William Dawes (pioneer), an Australian pioneer and scientist

Dawes County, Nebraska, a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska

Rufus Dawes, a U.S. military officer in the American Civil War

Dawes Arboretum, an arboretum in Newark, Ohio

The Dawes Plan, an attempt following World War I for the Allies to collect war reparations debt from defeated post-World War I Germany

Dawes Middle School, a school in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

Dawes Rolls, rolls of the members of the five tribes (Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole)

Sophie Dawes, Baronne de Feuchères, an English-born "adventuress" best known as a mistress of Louis Henry II, Prince of Condé

Rufus C. Dawes, an American businessman from a prominent Ohio family

William Dawes (bishop), 3rd Baronet Dawes, bishop of Chester from 1708 to 1714

Johnny Dawes, a British rock climber

Bill Dawes, an Irish-American comedian, actor, and writer

Dawes (lunar crater), a crater on the Moon

Dawes Point, New South Wales, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia

Henry L. Dawes, United States Senator of Massachusetts, who sponsored the Dawes Act

Dawes Commission, the commission responsible for the Dawes Rolls

John Dawes, a Welsh rugby union player

Simon Dawes, a rock band from southern California

David Dawes, one of the founders of the XFree86 project

Richard Dawes, an English classical scholar

Henry May Dawes, an American businessman and banker from a prominent Ohio family

Chris Dawes, a professional Jamaican footballer

Beman Gates Dawes, politician and oil executive who served two terms as a Republican Congressman from Ohio

Thomas Dawes, a Patriot who served as a colonel during the American Revolution

Dawes, a British bicycle manufacturer

James W. Dawes, a Republican Nebraska politician best known as the sixth governor of Nebraska

Nigel Dawes, a Canadian ice hockey left winger

Nancy Dawes, fictional character in the novel series The Baby-sitters Club and Baby-sitters Little Sister

Kwame Dawes, a poet, actor, editor, critic, musician and professor of English at the University of South Carolina in Columbia

William Rutter Dawes, a British astronomer

Ian Dawes, a former professional footballer

Julian Dawes, an English composer

Dawes' limit, a formula to express the maximum resolving power of a microscope or telescope

Dawes USA assembles bicycles (no relation to the British manufacturer)

Christopher Dawes, a British journalist and book author

Eva Dawes, a Canadian track and field athlete

Karl Friedrich Griffin Dawes, a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party

Christie Dawes, an Australian wheelchair racer

George Dawes, a fictional character from Shooting Stars portrayed by Matt Lucas