Dillon may refer to:
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Dillon (surname)
Dillon is an Irish surname of Breton origin, descending from a cadet branch of Viscomte de Leon in Northern Brittany. It first appeared in Ireland with the arrival of Sir Henry de Leon, Prince John's secretary in 1185. Sir Henry married Maud de ...
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Dillon (given name)
Dillon is a given name.
Notable people with the given name "Dillon" include
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*Dillon Anderson (1906–1974), American politician
* Dillon Ashe (1666–1724), English archdeacon
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* Dillon Barna (born 1987), American soccer player
*Dillon Barn ...
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Dillon (singer) (born 1988), Brazilian singer
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Viscount Dillon
Viscount Dillon, of Barony of Costello, Costello-Gallen (barony), Gallen in the County Mayo, County of Mayo, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1622 for Theobald Dillon, 1st Viscount Dillon, Theobald Dillon, Lord President ...
, a title in the Peerage of Ireland
Places
Canada
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Dillon, Saskatchewan
Dillon is an unincorporated community in the boreal forest of northern Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located on the western shore of Peter Pond Lake at the mouth of the Dillon River. The community is the administrative headquarters of the Buffalo R ...
United States
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Dillon Beach, California
Dillon Beach is a census-designated place (CDP) in Marin County, California, United States. It is located west of Tomales, at an elevation of . The population was 246 at the 2020 census. Dillon Beach was named after the founder, George Dillon, wh ...
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Dillon, Colorado
The Town of Dillon is a home rule municipality located in Summit County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 1,064 at the 2020 United States Census, a +17.70% increase since the 2010 United States Census. Dillon is a part of the Bre ...
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Dillon, Illinois
Dillon is an unincorporated community in Tazewell County, in the U.S. state of Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metr ...
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Dillon, Kansas
Dillon is an unincorporated community in Dickinson County, Kansas, United States.
History
Early history
For many millennia, the Great Plains of North America was inhabited by nomadic Native Americans. From the 16th century to 18th century ...
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Dillon, Missouri Dillon is an unincorporated community in Phelps County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is located along the BNSF
BNSF Railway is one of the largest freight railroads in North America. One of seven North American Class I railr ...
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Dillon, Montana
Dillon is a city in and the county seat of Beaverhead County, Montana, United States. The population was 3,880 at the 2020 census. The city was named for Sidney Dillon (1812–1892), president of Union Pacific Railroad.
History
Dillon was fo ...
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Dillon, South Carolina
Dillon is a city in Dillon County in eastern South Carolina, United States.
It is the county seat and largest city of Dillon County. It was established on December 22, 1888. Both the name of the city and county comes from James W. Dillon, an earl ...
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Dillon County, South Carolina
Dillon County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 28,292, down from 32,062 in 2010. The county seat is Dillon.
Founded in 1910 from a portion of Marion County, both Dillo ...
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Dillon, West Virginia
Dillon is an unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. It was also known as Irish Mountain and is the location of St. Colman's Roman Catholic Church and Cemetery, which is on the National Register of Historic Place ...
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Dillon Falls, Ohio Dillon Falls is an unincorporated community in Muskingum County, in the U.S. state of Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of n ...
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Dillons Run
Dillons Run is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed August 15, 2011 tributary stream of the Cacapon River, belonging to the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay watersheds. Th ...
, a river in West Virginia
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Dillon State Park
Dillon may refer to:
People
*Dillon (surname)
*Dillon (given name)
* Dillon (singer) (born 1988), Brazilian singer
*Viscount Dillon, a title in the Peerage of Ireland
Places Canada
*Dillon, Saskatchewan
United States
*Dillon Beach, California ...
, on the
Licking River, Licking County, Ohio
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Dillon Township (disambiguation) Dillon Township may refer to the following townships:
* Dillon Township, Tazewell County, Illinois
* Dillon Township, Phelps County, Missouri
See also
* Dillon (disambiguation)
Dillon may refer to:
People
*Dillon (surname)
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Arts and entertainment
Fictional characters
*Al Dillon, in the 1987 film ''
Predator
Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill th ...
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Kevin Dillon (character)
''Freak the Mighty'' is a young adult novel by Rodman Philbrick. Published in 1993, it was followed by the novel ''Max the Mighty'' in 1998. The primary characters are friends Maxwell Kane, a large, developmentally disabled, but kind-hearted bo ...
, in the young adult novel ''Freak the Mighty''
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Matt Dillon (''Gunsmoke''), in the radio and television versions of ''Gunsmoke''
*The Dillon family in the soap opera ''All My Children'':
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Laurel Banning
This is a list of characters appearing (or who have appeared) on the ABC Daytime and TOLN soap opera ''All My Children''.
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Carter Anders
*Jason Pendergraft (2013)
Pine Valley Hospital doctor with an unknown past.
Bill Anderson
* James Prit ...
Dillon
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Janet Dillon
Janet Green (née Marlowe) is a fictional character that appeared on the daytime soap opera, ''All My Children''. She is commonly known for terrorizing the residents of Pine Valley, including her sister Natalie Marlowe and the murder of Will Cortl ...
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Dillon Quartermaine
Dillon Quartermaine is a fictional character from ''General Hospital'', an American soap opera on the ABC network.
Introduced in 1992, Dillon is the son of Tracy Quartermaine (Jane Elliot) and her ex-husband Paul Hornsby (Paul Satterfield). Tracy ...
, in the soap opera ''General Hospital''
*Dillon, in the television series ''
Power Rangers RPM
''Power Rangers RPM'' is the seventeenth season of the television series ''Power Rangers'' and is an adaptation of ''Engine Sentai Go-onger'', the thirty-second Japanese ''Super Sentai'' series.
The season was the eighth and final to air on ABC ...
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*Dillon, in the video game ''
Dillon's Rolling Western
''Dillon's Rolling Western'', known in Japan as , is a downloadable video game developed by Vanpool (company), Vanpool and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS. It is the first game in the ''Dillon'' series. Released exclusively through the ...
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Fictional places
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Dillon, Texas
Dillon is a ghost town in Hopkins County, Texas, located 30 miles east of Miller Grove near Saltillo, Texas. The town was named after E. F. Dillon, who started operating the post office in his store in 1901. The post office closed in 1906, and in ...
, the setting for the NBC television drama ''Friday Night Lights''
Brands and enterprises
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9x25 Dillon, a wildcat pistol cartridge
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Dillon Aero Dillon Aero, Inc. is an armament manufacturer in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
Minigun
Dillon Aero manufactures the Air Force GAU-2B/A (Army M134) 7.62×51mm minigun, which is used primarily by 160th SOAR
The 160th Special Operations Aviation ...
, a manufacturing company based in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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Rhum Dillon
The Distillerie Dillon is in Fort de France in Martinique. It distills many types of rum from the locally grown sugar cane. It is powered by a Corliss steam engine that was built in 1922.Dillons
Dillons is a grocery supermarket chain based in Hutchinson, Kansas, and is a division of Kroger. Other banners under Dillon Stores Division include Gerbes in Missouri and Baker's in Omaha, Nebraska. Dillons operates grocery stores throughout Ka ...
, an American grocery supermarket chain, part of the Kroger company
*Dillons, a former UK-based chain of bookstores, now part of
Waterstones
Waterstones, formerly Waterstone's, is a British book retailer that operates 311 shops, mainly in the United Kingdom and also other nearby countries. As of February 2014, it employs around 3,500 staff in the UK and Europe. An average-sized Wa ...
Other uses
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78393 Dillon, an asteroid
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Dillon Stadium
Trinity Health Stadium (formerly Dillon Stadium) is a multipurpose facility in Hartford, Connecticut. It has been host to concerts and sporting events. It was formerly the home of the New England Nightmare of the Women's Football Alliance, Wom ...
, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
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Dillon v. Gloss
''Dillon v. Gloss'', 256 U.S. 368 (1921), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that Congress of the United States, Congress, when proposing a constitutional amendment under the authority given to it by Article Five of th ...
'' (256 U.S. 368, 1921), a United States Supreme Court case
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Dillon Round
The Dillon Round was a multi-year multilateral trade negotiation (MTN) between 26 nation-states that were parties to the GATT. The fifth round in the GATT occurred in Geneva and lasted from May 1959 through July 1962. The talks were named after U. ...
of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade talks
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Dillian Whyte
Dillian Whyte (; born 11 April 1988) is a British professional boxer. He has formerly competed as a kickboxer and mixed martial artist. He held the WBC interim heavyweight title twice, between 2019 and 2020, and again from 2021 to April 2022. ...
, a British professional boxer
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Dillion (disambiguation) Dillion may refer to:
* James Dillion, American Olympic discus thrower
* Dillion Everett, a character in the science fiction television series ''Stargate: Atlantis''
* Dillion Creek, a stream in Missouri
See also
* Dillian Gordon, British art hist ...
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Dillom
Dylan León Masa, known professionally as Dillom (born December 5, 2000), is an Argentine rapper. Based in Buenos Aires, he rose to fame in 2018 with the self-produced track "Dripping". One of the most prominent figures in the "second wave of Arg ...
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Dylan (disambiguation)
Dylan may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Bob Dylan (born 1941), American singer and songwriter
** ''Dylan'' (1973 album), a 1973 album by Bob Dylan
** ''Dylan'' (2007 album), a 2007 compilation album by Bob Dylan
* Dylan (musician), profess ...
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