Dallas (name)
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". 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
The surname, when of Scottish origin, is considered by some to be a sept of Clan Mackintosh.- Alexander Grant Dallas, Canadian fur trader and official
- Alexander J. Dallas (statesman), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President James Madison; father of George Mifflin Dallas
- Alexander J. Dallas (United States Navy officer), U.S. Navy officer; brother of George M. Dallas
- Chad Dallas, American baseball player
- Darcy Dallas, Canadian ice hockey player
- DeeJay Dallas, American football player
- DeVan Dallas, American politician
- Eneas Sweetland Dallas, Scottish journalist
- George M. Dallas, 11th Vice President of the United States of America
- Hugh Dallas, former Scottish football referee
- Ian Dallas, Scottish author and Muslim convert
- Irene Dallas and Hilda Dallas were British suffragette sisters
- John Dallas, Scottish rugby union player and referee
- Josh Dallas, American actor
- Karl Dallas, British writer, musician, and activist
- Leroy Dallas, American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
- Matt Dallas, American actor
- Robert Dallas, British judge
- Roderic Dallas, Australian fighter ace
- Rosalind Dallas, British graphic designer
- Sandra Dallas, American author
- Stuart Dallas, Northern Ireland soccer player
- William Sweetland Dallas, British zoologist and curator
- Winifred Dallas-Yorke, Duchess of Portland
Given name
- Dallas, a former ring name of professional wrestler Lance Hoyt
- Dallas Adams, actor
- Dallas Austin, American songwriter, producer and instrumentalist
- Dallas Braden, professional American baseball player
- Dallas Brodie, Canadian politician
- Dallas Frederick Burrows, birth name of Orson Bean, American actor
- Dallas Campbell, British television presenter
- Dallas Clark, professional American football player
- Dallas Comegys, former professional basketball player
- Ryan Dallas Cook, ska trombonist
- Dallas Drake, pro ice hockey player
- Dallas Eakins, American ice hockey player and coach
- Dallas Frazier, American country musician and songwriter
- Dallas Goedert, American football player
- Dallas Green, pro baseball player, manager and executive
- Dallas Green, guitarist, singer and pianist of Alexisonfire and City and Colour
- Dallas T. Herndon, American author and historian
- Bryce Dallas Howard, actress
- Dallas Johnson, Australian rugby league player
- Dallas Keuchel, American baseball player
- Dallas Long, Olympic champion shotputter
- Dallas McKennon, American actor
- Dallas Moir, Scottish cricketer
- Diamond Dallas Page, American professional wrestler
- Dallas Reid, American voice actor
- Dallas Reynolds, American football player
- Dallas Seavey, Iditarod musher
- Dallas Smith, former pro ice hockey player
- Dallas Smith, singer for the Canadian band Default
- Dallas Soonias, Canadian volleyball player
- Dallas Taylor, an American session drummer
- Dallas Taylor, vocalist for the band Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
- Dallas Turner, American football player
- Dallas Thomas, American football player
- Dallas Wiens, the first United States recipient of a full face transplant
- Dallas Willard, 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
- 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 Gibson (Specter), a mutant character in Marvel Comics
- 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''