Gainsborough or Gainsboro may refer to:
Places
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Gainsborough, Ipswich, Suffolk, England
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Gainsborough Ward, Ipswich
Gainsborough Ward is a ward in the South East Area of Ipswich, Suffolk, England. It returns three councillors to Ipswich Borough Council.
It is designated Middle Layer Super Output Area Ipswich 016 by the Office of National Statistics. It is c ...
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Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
Gainsborough is a market town, inland port and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The town population was 20,842 at the 2011 census, and estimated at 23,243 in 2019. It lies on the east bank of the River Trent ...
, a town in England
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Gainsborough (UK Parliament constituency)
Gainsborough is a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency in Lincolnshire represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since 1983 by Edw ...
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Gainsborough, New South Wales, Australia
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Gainsborough, Saskatchewan
Gainsborough ( 2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Argyle No. 1 and Census Division No. 1. A farming community, the village is located on Highway 18 in the southeastern cor ...
, Canada
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Gainsboro, Roanoke, Virginia
Gainsboro is a Roanoke, Virginia neighborhood located in central Roanoke immediately north of Downtown, across the Norfolk Southern Railway right of way, between Interstate 581 and Orange Avenue. It borders the neighborhoods of Harrison and ...
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Gainesboro, Tennessee
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Gainesboro, Virginia
Gainesboro is an unincorporated community in Frederick County, Virginia. Gainesboro is located northwest of Winchester off the North Frederick Pike (US 522) on Gainesboro Road (VA 684). Gainesboro is the northernmost community in Virginia.
Gain ...
People
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Aerith Gainsborough, a fictional character from ''Final Fantasy VII''
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Earl of Gainsborough
Earl of Gainsborough is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation ended in extinction when the sixth Earl died without heirs. However, the title was re ...
, a title in the peerage of England and the peerage of the United Kingdom
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Humphrey Gainsborough (1718–1776), English minister and engineer
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Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), English painter
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William Gainsborough (died 1307), Bishop of Winchester
Other
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Gainsborough (crater), on the planet Mercury
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Gainsborough (horse)
Gainsborough (1915–1945) was a British bred Thoroughbred racehorse who won the English Triple Crown in 1918 and became a superior sire.
Background
Gainsborough was a bay horse bred by his owner Lady James Douglas (1854–1941). The colt was ...
, the 1918 Triple Crown Champion of English Thoroughbred Racing
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HMS ''Gainsborough'', two ships of the Royal Navy
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Gainsborough Pictures, a London-based film studio, active between 1924 and 1951
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Gainsborough melodramas, a group of films made by the studio
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Gainsborough chair, a type of chair made in 18th century England
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Gainsborough hat, a hat in the style of those in Thomas Gainsborough's paintings
* Gainsboro, a color in the
X11 color scheme
* a mullein (plants in the genus ''
Verbascum'') cultivar
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