Chris Hawk

Chris Hawk, whose full name was Christopher Lee Hawk, was an American surfer and surfboard shaper. He was born on 16 February 1951 in Maywood, California, and died on 23 October 2009 at his home in San Clemente. During the 1980s he turned to shaping surfboards, and his boards became popular among local surfers in Orange County. On 18 September 2009 he was inducted into the Surfers' Hall of Fame in Huntington Beach. That induction normally takes place each July during the U.S. Open of Surfing, but it was brought forward because Hawk had been diagnosed with terminal oral cancer. He died a little over a month after the ceremony.