Gilbert Wilkinson Dawson (9 December 1914 – 24 May 1969) was an English cricketer. Dawson was a right-handed batsman. Dawson spent his early years in the game playing for , and Pudsey St. Lawrence. Dawson made his first-class debut for Hampshire in the 1947 County Championship against Middlesex. In the same season Dawson scored his maiden first-class century against Yorkshire at Dean Park in Bournemouth. Dawson played twelve matches in 1947, scoring 382 at an average of 22.47, with a high score of 124. Dawson made one century and one half century.