Fox is a unisex, primarily masculine, given name, a transferred use of the English surname meaning âÂÂfox.â In some instances, it might have been used as a given name in honor of George Fox (1624âÂÂ1691), the founder of the Quaker movement. The X-Files character Fox Mulder has drawn more attention to the name in recent years.
Men
- Fox Butterfield (born 1939), American journalist
- Fox Conner (1874 â 1951), American Army major general
- Fox Fisher (born 1980), Indian-British artist, film maker, author and transgender rights campaigner
- Fox Harris (1936âÂÂ1988), American actor
- Fox Henderson (1853âÂÂ1918), American businessman and banking entrepreneur
- Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie (1801 â 1874), British politician
- W. Fox McKeithen (1946âÂÂ2005), American politician
Nicknames
Stage name
- Fox Stevenson, stage name of English singer-songwriter Stanley Stevenson-Byrne (born 1993)
Fictional characters
- Fox (comics), one of two related superheroes (from 1940)
- Fox Crane, in the soap opera Passions (2002âÂÂ2007)
- Fox McCloud, from the Star Fox video game series (1993âÂÂ2017)
- Fox Mulder, a character from the American television and movie series The X-Files
- Fox, in Disney animated series Gargoyles (1994âÂÂ1997)
- Fox, a 2007 character in soap opera Neighbours
- Fox, on the Canadian comedy Son of a Critch
- The Fox, from The Hunter, a segment from the cartoon series King Leonardo and His Short Subjects (1960âÂÂ1963)
- Yusuke Kitagawa (codename: Fox), from the 2016 Persona 5 video game
- Fox, a character from Skunk Fu!
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