In all the world, Matthews (Matthews 
, ماثيوس 
, マシューズ 
, and others...) is quite a common principally male, but scarcely female first name. The first name Matthews is characteristic of Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly South Africa, where it is quite a rare boy's name, Botswana, and Malawi, where it is a rare boy's name. Measured by absolute frequency, the name is most common in South Africa, the United States, and Nigeria. More frequently, Matthews is the last name as well as the forename.
Matthews is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Matthews , the theatrical character in the play "Lord Byron".
| mussenden ebenezer matthews American Revolutionary War officer from North Carolina and speaker pro tem of the North Carolina House of Commons, US (b. 1735) |
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wilmot deloui matthews businessman, CA (b. 1850) |
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| wallace bruce matthews carruthers Canadian soldier and the founder of the Canadian Signalling Corps (1863-1910), CA (b. 1863) |
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wilson matthews American-football player (1921-2002), US (b. 1921) |
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| dell matthews American baseball player, US (b. 1880) |
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| willis s. matthews (b. 1904) |
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| dudley matthews cricketer (1916-1968), GB (b. 1916) |
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| carey matthews American politician and physician, US (b. 1922) |
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| burt matthews soil scientist and academic administrator, CA (b. 1926) |
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| roy matthews British archer, GB (b. 1926) |
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| drummond matthews geophysicist, GB (b. 1931) |
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morgan matthews figure skater, US (b. 1987) |
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| simoner romer matthews (born 1938) (b. 1938) |
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| roy matthews Scottish footballer (born 1940), GB (b. 1940) |
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| graham matthews (b. 1932) |
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