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Dukes is a surname primarily of English origin, meaning "Son of the Leader". People with the surname Dukes include: ;Athletes * Chad Dukes (American football), former NFL and Arena Football player * Derrick Dukes, African-American wrestler * Elijah Dukes, African-American baseball player * Gordon Dukes (1888–1966), American track and field athlete * Jamie Dukes, former professional football player and NFL Network analyst * Mike Dukes (1936–2008), American football player * Tom Dukes, former American baseball player * Walter Dukes (1930–2001), African-American basketball player ;Artists and performers * Ashley Dukes (1885–1959), English playwright * David Dukes (1945–2000), American stage and TV actor * Joanna Dukes, English actress * Kevin Dukes, American guitarist * Rob Dukes, lead singer for American band Exodus * Carol Muske-Dukes, American author and poet * Daragh Dukes, Irish musician and producer with Headgear (band) ;Other people * Alan Dukes, Irish politician * Chad Dukes (radio personality), co-host of the Big O and Dukes Show * Cuthbert Dukes (1890–1977), English pathologist * Jamie Dukes, African-American sports talk show host * Leopold Dukes (1810–1891), Hungarian historian of Jewish literature * Sir Paul Dukes (1889–1967), English MI6 officer and journalist * Ramsey Dukes, pseudonym of occultist Lionel Snell ;Fictional characters * Fred J. Dukes, Marvel Comics supervillain * Oliver Dukes, the primary antagonist in Maurice Walsh's 1950 novel Trouble in the Glen * Tommy Dukes, an intellectual character in D.H. Lawrence's 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover