Conway may refer to:
Places
United States
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Conway, Arkansas
Conway is a city in the U.S. state of Arkansas and the county seat of Faulkner County, located in the state's most populous Metropolitan Statistical Area, Central Arkansas. Although considered a suburb of Little Rock, Conway is unusual in that ...
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Conway County, Arkansas
Conway County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Created as Arkansas's 11th county on October 20, 1825, Conway County has four incorporated municipalities, including Morrilton, the county seat and most populous city. The county ...
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Lake Conway
Lake Conway is a lake in Arkansas. Lake Conway is the largest lake ever created by a state wildlife commission and the first to be created by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. Lake Conway is located directly east of Mayflower, Arkansas, and ...
, Arkansas
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Conway, Florida
Conway is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Orange County, Florida, United States. The population was 13,467 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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Conway, Iowa
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Conway, Kansas
Conway is an unincorporated community in southwestern Jackson Township, McPherson County, Kansas, United States. It lies along U.S. Route 56 and a Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad line, west of the city of McPherson.
History
19th century
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Conway, Louisiana
Conway is a village located in Union Parish, Louisiana, Union Parish in the state of Louisiana. The village is 8.3 miles north of Farmerville, Louisiana, Farmerville, the parish seat.
Highways
* Louisiana Highway 348
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Conway, Massachusetts
Conway is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,761 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Conway was first settled by English colonists ...
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Conway, Michigan
Conway is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Emmet County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the CDP had a population of 204.
Geography
Conway is located in southeastern Emmet County, in southeas ...
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Conway Township, Michigan
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Conway, Missouri
Conway is a city in Laclede County, Missouri, United States. The population was 788 at the 2010 census. Conway is located southwest of Lebanon.
History
Conway was platted in 1869, and named after a local merchant. A post office has been in opera ...
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Conway, New Hampshire
Conway is a town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States. It is the most populous community in the county, with a population of 9,822 at the 2020 census, down from 10,115 at the 2010 census. The town is on the southeastern edge of the Whi ...
, a New England town
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Conway (CDP), New Hampshire
Conway is a census-designated place (CDP) and the primary village in the town of Conway in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 3,576 at the 2020 census. It is the most populous community in the town of Conway, ahead ...
, village in the town
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Conway, North Dakota
Conway is a city in Walsh County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 15 at the 2020 census. Conway was founded in 1885.
Geography
Conway is located at (48.233996, -97.674728).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the cit ...
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Conway, North Carolina
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Conway, Pennsylvania
Conway is a borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States, located along the Ohio River. At the 2020 census, the borough had a total population of 2,166. It is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. Conway is the site of the Conway Yar ...
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Conway, South Carolina
Conway is a city in Horry County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 24,849 at the 2020 census, up from 17,103 in 2010 census. It is the county seat of Horry County and is part of the Myrtle Beach metropolitan area. It is the home ...
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Conway River (Virginia)
The Conway River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 river in the U.S. state of Virginia. Rising near the triple junction of Madison, Greene and Page coun ...
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Conway, Washington
Conway is a census-designated place (CDP) in Skagit County, Washington, United States. First settled in 1873 by Thomas P. Jones and Charles Villeneuves, its population was 91 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Mount Vernon– Anacortes ...
Elsewhere
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Conway, Queensland
Conway is a locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Conway had a population of 194 people.
Geography
Conway is bounded on the north-west by Serpentine Creek and to the west and south-west by the Proserpine River. Conwa ...
, a locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia
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Conway River (New Zealand)
The Conway River is part of the traditional boundary between the Canterbury and Marlborough regions in the South Island of New Zealand.
It arises in the Amuri Range near Palmer Saddle and runs for south-east through the Hundalee Hills at the so ...
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Conway, Wales
Conwy (, ), previously known in English as Conway, is a walled market town, community and the administrative centre of Conwy County Borough in North Wales. The walled town and castle stand on the west bank of the River Conwy, facing Deganwy on ...
, now spelt Conwy, a town with a castle in North Wales
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River Conway, Wales
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Ships
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HMS ''Conway'' (school ship)
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HMS ''Conway'' (1832), a 26-gun sixth rate launched in 1832
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USS ''Conway'' (DD-70) or USS ''Craven'' (DD-70), a Caldwell class destroyer launched in 1918
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USS ''Conway'' (DD-507), a Fletcher-class destroyer launched in 1942
Other uses
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Conway (given name) Conway is a Welsh, Irish, and Scottish given name, the origin of which is unclear. It may originally have been an Anglicization of Welsh ''Conwy'' (derived from Old Welsh ''cyn'' "chief" and ''gwy'' "water"); of Irish ''Conbhuidhe'' or ''O Connmhac ...
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Conway (surname) Conway is a Welsh, Irish & Scottish surname. It can be an anglicized spelling of Conwy, of the Irish names Conbhuidhe or Ó Connmhacháin, or of the Scottish names Mac Conmheadha or Mac Connmhaigh.
Notable people with the surname include:
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Conway Cabal
The Conway Cabal was a group of senior Continental Army officers in late 1777 and early 1778 who aimed to have George Washington replaced as commander-in-chief of the Army during the American Revolutionary War. It was named after Brigadier Gen ...
, a 1777–78 conspiracy
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Conway Publishing
Conway Publishing, formerly Conway Maritime Press, is an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing. It is best known for its publications dealing with nautical subjects.
History
Conway Maritime Press was founded in 1972 as an independent publisher. Its or ...
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Conway Recording Studios
Conway Recording Studios is a recording studio in Hollywood, California.
People and awards
Conway started in the early 1970s as a mastering studio. In 1976, the studio began recording albums, including projects by Elton John and Stevie Wo ...
, California
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Rolls-Royce Conway
The Rolls-Royce RB.80 Conway was the first turbofan engine to enter service. Development started at Rolls-Royce in the 1940s, but the design was used only briefly, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before other turbofan designs replaced it. H ...
, the first turbofan aircraft engine to enter service
* Conway, a retail chain operated by
National Stores
National Stores Inc., was a family-owned company headquartered in the Harbor Gateway, Los Angeles, California, Harbor Gateway area of Los Angeles, California with 88 locations in 5 states including Puerto Rico, and employed 2200 people nationwide ...
* FV 4004 Conway, a variant of the
Centurion tank
The Centurion was the primary British Army main battle tank of the post-World War II period. Introduced in 1945, it is widely considered to be one of the most successful post-war tank designs, remaining in production into the 1960s, and seeing ...
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Conway's Game of Life
The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further ...
, a two-dimensional cellular automaton
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John Horton Conway
John Horton Conway (26 December 1937 – 11 April 2020) was an English mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory. He also made contributions to many branches ...
, creator of Conway's Game of Life
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Conway the Machine
Demond Price (born February 16, 1982), known professionally as Conway the Machine (or simply Conway), is an American rapper. Alongside his paternal half-brother Westside Gunn and cousin Benny the Butcher, Conway was a member of Griselda Records ...
, American rapper
See also
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Conway High School (disambiguation) Conway High School may refer to:
* Conway High School (Arkansas) - Conway, Arkansas
* Conway High School (Missouri) - Conway, Missouri
* Conway High School (South Carolina)
Conway High School is a public school located in Conway, South Carolina ...
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Conway National Park
Conway is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 911 km northwest of Brisbane. The park's main feature is the Conway Peninsula which is covered by the largest area of lowland tropical rainforest in Queensland outside Tropical North Queen ...
, Australia
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Conway Reef
Conway Reef, known since 1976 by its Fijian name Ceva-I-Ra Reef (pronounced ), is a coral reef of the atoll type. It is at , and it is 2.5 km long in an east–west direction. In the middle of the reef there is a small sand cay, 1.8 meters h ...
, an outlying coral reef in Fiji
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Conway Hall
The Conway Hall Ethical Society, formerly the South Place Ethical Society, based in London at Conway Hall, is thought to be the oldest surviving freethought organisation in the world and is the only remaining ethical society in the United King ...
, the London home since 1929 of the
Conway Hall Ethical Society
The Conway Hall Ethical Society, formerly the South Place Ethical Society, based in London at Conway Hall, is thought to be the oldest surviving freethought organisation in the world and is the only remaining ethical society in the United Kin ...
, the oldest surviving free-thought association in Britain
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Conway Scenic Railroad
The Conway Scenic Railroad is a heritage railroad in North Conway, New Hampshire, United States, owned by Profile Mountain Holdings Corp. The railroad operates over two historic railway routes: a line from North Conway to Conway that was for ...
, a heritage railroad in New Hampshire
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Conway Summit
Conway Summit ( el. 8,143 feet (2,482 m)) is a mountain pass in Mono County, California. It is traversed by U.S. Highway 395, which connects Bridgeport and the East Walker River on the north side of the pass to Mono Lake and Lee Vining to the s ...
, a mountain pass in California
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Conway Lake
Conway Lake is a water body with a maximum depth of , located in Carroll County in eastern New Hampshire, in the United States. The lake is located in the towns of Conway and Eaton, just to the east of the White Mountains, and is part of the S ...
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Conwy (disambiguation) Conwy is a walled town and community in north Wales.
Conwy may also refer to these proximate things:
* Conwy (electoral ward), a county division coterminous with the town
* Conwy County Borough, a principal local government area (from 1996)
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Con-way
Con-way, Inc. was an American multinational freight transportation and logistics company headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. With annual revenues of $5.5 billion, Con-way was the second largest less-than-truckload transport pr ...
, a freight transportation and logistics company based in Ann Arbor, MI (formerly based in California)
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Conway's Game of Life
The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further ...
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Conway's Law
Conway's law is an adage that states organizations design systems that mirror their own communication structure. It is named after the computer programmer Melvin Conway, who introduced the idea in 1967. His original wording was:
The law is based ...
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Cornway College
Cornway College is a private, co-educational, day and boarding school in Mount Hampden, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe, which is 16.5 kilometres from the Harare Central Business District. Cornway College was established in 2006 at its present loc ...
, commonly misspelt as ''Conway'', in Mt Hampden, Zimbabwe.
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Conway School of Nursing, the nursing school at Catholic University, Washington D.C., USA.
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Conaway (disambiguation)
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Devon Conway
Devon Philip Conway (born 8 July 1991) is a South African born New Zealand cricketer who plays for the New Zealand cricket team. In March 2020, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that Conway would be eligible to play for New Zealan ...
, a South Africa-born cricketer who plays for New Zealand
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