Ernest Edward Leslie Dixon was a British geologist, who worked for the British Geological Survey for his whole career.
He studied geology at the Royal College of Science, graduating with a first class BSc.
In his time with the survey, Dixon published many papers, reports and maps based on his field work across England and Wales.
During World War 1, Dixon served in France as a Lieutenant with the Royal Garrison Artillery.
Along with Bernard Smith, Frederick Murray Trotter and Tom Eastwood, Dixon was one of the early staff of the survey office established in Whitehaven in the 1920s.