Sam Dixon

Sam Dixon or Samuel Dixon may refer to:

See also

Sam Dixon (basketball coach)

Sam Dixon (born July 29, 1957) is a high school basketball coach. Since April 2002 he has been the eighth head coach of women's basketball coach at Furman University. In the first five years at Furman, he had a .497 winning percentage.

Dixon was born in Peoria, Illinois and played for Bishop Watterson High School in Columbus, Ohio, and for the College of Wooster, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in physical education in 1979 and was inducted into the Wooster College Hall of Fame in 1989. He also has a master's degree from Eastern Michigan University, and a Ph.D. from University of New Mexico in 1997, both in physical education.

He coached women's basketball as an assistant at Clemson University from 1999 to 2001, and before that at the University of Arizona in 1998–1999. He served as an assistant men's basketball coach at Northern Illinois University, Davidson College, Kent State University, and Northern Kentucky University, as well as Harrison High School in Kennesaw, Georgia.

Sam Dixon (humanitarian)

Samuel Williams Dixon, Jr. (c. 1949 – 16 January 2010) was the Deputy General Secretary of the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR). He died in Port-au-Prince while being rescued after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Dixon was the son of Samuel Dixon Sr. and Mildred Dixon, and had three sisters. He graduated from Statesville High School, attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received his Doctor of Ministry degree from Chicago Theological Seminary.

Dixon began his ministry in 1975, and was pastor of several North Carolina churches over the following 15 years, including Swepsonville United Methodist from 1980 to 1984, and at churches in Sneads Ferry, Durham, and Swansboro.

From 1990 to 1996, Dixon was on the staff of the United Methodist North Carolina Annual Conference, doing special assignments. He returned to being a pastor from 1996 to 1998, spending two years at the First United Methodist Church of Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina.

Dixon's 11-year career with the General Board of Global Ministries, which oversees UMCOR, started in 1998. He was an executive at the beginning of his employment, and became executive director of the United Methodist Development Fund, the denomination's church building loan fund, in 2001. In 2003, he became Deputy General Secretary of Evangelization and Church Growth.