Dallas is a surname of Scottish and English origin, as well as a given name. When of Scottish origin the name is a habitational name, derived from Dallas near Forres. This place-name is likely derived from the British dol "meadow" + gwas "dwelling" (compare Gaelic dail + fas). This name also appears in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. When of English origin the name is a habitational name, derived from the Old English dæl, or Old Norse dalr "valley" + hus "house". An example of such a derivation is Dalehouse in North Yorkshire. The name can also be a topographic name, derived in the same fashion.
Surname
Surname listThis page lists people with the surname Dallas. If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.
The surname, when of Scottish origin, is considered by some to be a sept of Clan Mackintosh.
- Alexander Grant Dallas (1816–1882), Canadian fur trader and official
- Alexander J. Dallas (statesman) (1759–1817), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President James Madison; father of George Mifflin Dallas
- Alexander J. Dallas (United States Navy officer) (1791–1844), U.S. Navy officer; brother of George M. Dallas
- Chad Dallas (born 2000), American baseball player
- Darcy Dallas (born 1972), Canadian ice hockey player
- DeeJay Dallas (born 1998), American football player
- DeVan Dallas (1926–2016), American politician
- Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1828–1879), Scottish journalist
- George M. Dallas (1792–1864), 11th Vice President of the United States of America (1845–1849)
- Hugh Dallas (born 1957), former Scottish football (soccer) referee
- Ian Dallas (Abdalqadir as-Sufi) (1930–2021), Scottish author and Muslim convert
- Irene Dallas (1883–1971) and Hilda Dallas (1878–1958) were British suffragette sisters
- John Dallas (1878–1942), Scottish rugby union player and referee
- Josh Dallas (born 1978), American actor
- Karl Dallas (1931–2016), British writer, musician, and activist
- Leroy Dallas (1909–1967), American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
- Matt Dallas (born 1982), American actor
- Robert Dallas (1756–1824), British judge
- Roderic Dallas (1891–1918), Australian fighter ace
- Rosalind Dallas (1949–2015), British graphic designer
- Sandra Dallas, American author
- Stuart Dallas (born 1991), Northern Ireland soccer player
- William Sweetland Dallas, British zoologist and curator
- Winifred Dallas-Yorke (1863–1954), Duchess of Portland
Given name
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- Dallas, a former ring name of professional wrestler Lance Hoyt (born 1977)
- Dallas Adams (1947–1991), actor
- Dallas Austin (born 1970), American songwriter, producer and instrumentalist
- Dallas Braden (born 1983), professional American baseball player
- Dallas Brodie, Canadian politician
- Dallas Frederick Burrows, birth name of Orson Bean (1928–2020), American actor
- Dallas Campbell (born 1970), British television presenter
- Dallas Clark (born 1979), professional American football player
- Dallas Comegys (born 1964), former professional basketball player
- Ryan Dallas Cook (1982–2005), ska trombonist
- Dallas Drake (born 1969), pro ice hockey player
- Dallas Eakins (born 1967), American ice hockey player and coach
- Dallas Frazier (1939–2022), American country musician and songwriter
- Dallas Goedert (born 1995), American football player
- Dallas Green (1934–2017), pro baseball player, manager and executive
- Dallas Green (born 1980), guitarist, singer and pianist of Alexisonfire and City and Colour
- Dallas T. Herndon (1878–1953), American author and historian
- Bryce Dallas Howard (born 1981), actress
- Dallas Johnson (born 1982), Australian rugby league player
- Dallas Keuchel (born 1988), American baseball player
- Dallas Long (born 1940), Olympic champion shotputter
- Dallas McKennon (1919–2009), American actor
- Dallas Moir (born 1957), Scottish cricketer
- Diamond Dallas Page (born 1956), American professional wrestler
- Dallas Reid (born 1993), American voice actor
- Dallas Reynolds (born 1984), American football player
- Dallas Seavey (born 1987), Iditarod musher
- Dallas Smith (born 1941), former pro ice hockey player
- Dallas Smith (born 1977), singer for the Canadian band Default
- Dallas Soonias (born 1984), Canadian volleyball player
- Dallas Taylor (1948–2015), an American session drummer
- Dallas Taylor (born 1980), vocalist for the band Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
- Dallas Turner (born 2003), American football player
- Dallas Thomas (born 1989), American football player
- Dallas Wiens (born 1985), the first United States recipient of a full face transplant
- Dallas Willard (1935–2013), an American Christian philosopher
- Dallas Woods, an Indigenous Australian rapper
Fictional characters named Dallas
- Korben Dallas, ex-soldier and unlikely hero cab-driver played by Bruce Willis in the movie The Fifth Element, set in the 23rd century
- Stella Dallas, title character of a 1923 novel and numerous subsequent theatrical, radio, and film versions
- Steve Dallas, a character in the American comic strips of Berke Breathed, most famously Bloom County
- Larry Dallas, Jack Tripper's best friend from the ABC sitcom Three's Company (1977–1984)
- Dallas, a character in the 1979 film Alien, captain of the starship Nostromo, played by Tom Skerritt
- Eve Dallas, the lead character in J.D. Robb's in Death series of mysteries
- Mike Dallas, fictional character in Degrassi
- Dallas, a minor character in the 2001 science fiction horror film Jason X, played by Todd Farmer
- Dallas, recurring character in Austin & Ally
- Dallas Genoard, a character from the light novels and anime series Baccano!
- Dallas, a skilled criminal and one of the four playable characters in Payday: The Heist
- Dallas, a prostitute with a heart of gold, played by Claire Trevor in the 1939 film Stagecoach
- Dallas Winston, played by Matt Dillon, a “greaser punk” who “stays gold” in the 1983 Francis Ford Coppola film The Outsiders See also: Dallas Winston, a character in S. E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders
See also
- Dallas (disambiguation), other uses of Dallas on Misplaced Pages