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Hawk is an English surname. Notable people with this surname include:A. J. Hawk, professional football player for the Green Bay Packers

Hawk is an English surname. Notable people with this surname include:

A. J. Hawk (born 1984), professional football player for the Green Bay Packers

David L. Hawk (born 1948), American management theorist, architect, and systems scientist

Hamish Hawk (born 1991), Scottish musician

Jeremy Hawk (1918–2002), English actor

Susan Hawk (born 1961), truck driver and reality show contestant

Susan Hawk (district attorney) (born c. 1970), Dallas County District Attorney

Tony Hawk (born 1968), professional skateboarder

Riley Hawk, (born 1992), professional skateboarder, son of Tony

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“It’s hard to recall now that this environmental beacon was once a battlefield and that there was a time when people did not understand the important role birds of prey play in maintaining natural balance. It’s difficult to believe that people’s ignorance was so complete that they thought of hawks as vermin and shot them on sight.”
— Pete Dunne, The Feather Quest (1992), , pp. 272-273
“I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act II, scene 2, line 395. "Handsaw" is given by Malone, Collier, Dyce, Clark and Wright. Others give "hernshaw." The corruption was proverbial in Shakespeare's time.
“When I bestride him I soar, I am a hawk.”
— William Shakespeare, Henry V (c. 1599), Act III, scene 7, line 14.
“Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch.”
— William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I (c. 1588-90), Act II, scene 4, line 11.

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