Dial (surname)
Dial is a surname. The Dial families in the United States are paternally descended from Benjamin Doll.[1][2][3]
Notable people with the surname include:
- Adolph Dial (1922–1995), American politician
- Benjy Dial (1943–2001), American football player
- Buddy Dial (1937–2008), American football player
- Derrick Dial (born 1975), American basketball player
- Edwin Dial (1853-1933), American politician
- Jeff Dial (born 1976), American politician
- Joe Dial (born 1962), American pole vaulter
- Marcellas Dial (born 2000), American football player
- Nathaniel B. Dial (1862–1940), American politician
- Quinton Dial (born 1990), American football player
- Thornton Dial (1928–2016), American artist
See also
- Dial D. Ryder (1938–2011), American gunsmith
- Ruth Dial Woods (1937–2023), American educator
References
- ↑ Hashaw, Tim (2007). The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown. New York, NY: Carroll & Graf Publishers. p. 126, 150, 180-182. ISBN 978-0-78671-718-7. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
- ↑ Heinegg, Paul (2021). Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina from the Colonial Period to About 1820. Sixth Edition. Vol. I - Families Abel to Drew. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company. pp. 494–496. ISBN 9780806359298. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
- ↑ Hashaw, Tim (March 2007). Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America. Mercer University Press. pp. 41, 52, 61. ISBN 978-0-88146-074-2. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
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