Dixon Hawke was a fictional detective who was featured in the DC Thomson publications from 1912 to 2000. Created in 1912 by an unknown author for DC Thomson, he appeared in various publications including The Saturday Post, The Sunday Post, Adventure, The Sporting Post, Topical Times, The Evening Telegraph and The Dixon Hawke Library.

In 1989, researcher and author W. O. G. Lofts stated that Hawke had been running continuously on a weekly basis for well over 76 years, and "so must be credited with being the longest consecutive running character of all time". Lofts estimated that Hawke had appeared in some 5000 stories.

Eleven years later, Hawke had appeared in over 5,500 tales, making him the most published fictional detective of all time, beating contemporaries Sexton Blake and Nick Carter. Based on that number, Sunday Post author Steve Finan speculated that more stories have been written about Dixon Hawke than any other fictional character in the English language.

Dixon Hawke made his debut in "The Great Hotel Mystery" in The Saturday Post #347 on 6 April 1912. A Scotsman, at the start of his career he lived on Bath Street in Glasgow. He had an assistant named Nipper, a street urchin who sold newspapers. His police associate was Detective Chief Inspector Baxter. Hawke was a tall detective with an aquiline nose, wore a dressing gown, and smoked a blackened briar.

In 1919, publisher DC Thomson decided to move Hawke to London. There he acquired a new assistant named Tommy Burke, and a bloodhound named Solomon. They lived on Dover Street with a Japanese valet/chauffeur named Wong. Their landlady was named Mrs. Martha Benvie. His police associate was Inspector Duncan McPhinney of New Scotland Yard, introduced in the very first issue of the Dixon Hawke Library

Following in the footprints of the Sexton Blake and Tinker, Nelson Lee and Nipper partnerships of the early Edwardian era, the adult detective/boy assistant became a popular pairing in the boys story papers from 1910 onwards. Among the many imitators Hawke and Burke were among the better known.

So widely known was Hawke in British popular culture of the 1930s, that his name featured in W. H. Auden's long poem The Orators along with other fictional detectives, Sexton Blake, Bulldog Drummond, Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and Edgar Wallace's The Four Just Men. The full mention reads:

"From the immense bat-shadow of home;
from the removal of land-marks:
from appeals for love and
from the comfortable words of the devil,
O Dixon Hawke, deliver us."