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David Dixon (October 28, 1947) is an English actor and screenwriter. He was born in the Nightingale Maternity Home, Derby, near his father's shop in 94 London Road and brought up there before the family moved to 14 St.James's Street, Nottingham in 1959.
Dixon's most notable role was in the 1981 BBC TV series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in which he starred as Ford Prefect. He would later rejoin the Hitchhiker's Guide by lending his voice to the "Ecological Man" and the "Zirzla Leader" in Fit the Twentieth of the Radio Series, while Geoffrey McGivern, who had originally played the character on radio, returned to the role of Ford.
David Dixon (born January 5, 1969 in Papakura, New Zealand) was a guard who played eleven professional seasons in the National Football League. Dixon attended Arizona State University.
David Dixon (b.1923) is a businessman and sports executive who helped create the New Orleans Saints NFL team, the Superdome, World Championship Tennis (WCT) and the United States Football League (USFL). A graduate of Tulane University, Dixon created the New Orleans Professional Football Club, Inc., to lobby for an AFL franchise for that city starting in 1962, and also sought an NFL expansion team.
After persuading the AFL to play its 1965 All-Star game in New Orleans, Dixon experienced a setback when black players encountered discrimination in the French Quarter. The AFL moved the game to Houston Later in the year, Dixon first proposed a football league, also called the USFL, that would play its games in the spring rather than the fall .







