* Gordon (given name), a masculine given name, including list of persons and fictional characters
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Gordon (surname)
Gordon is a surname with numerous origins. The masculine given name '' Gordon'' is derived from the surname.
Origin of the surname
The Scottish surname ''Gordon'' may be derived from several locations.. The webpage cited the following book for th ...
, the surname
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Gordon (slave)
Gordon ( 1863), or "Whipped Peter", was an escaped American slave who became known as the subject of photographs documenting the extensive keloid scarring of his back from whippings received in slavery. The "scourged back" photo became one of the ...
, escaped to a Union Army camp during the U.S. Civil War
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Clan Gordon
Clan Gordon is a Highland Scottish clan, historically one of the most powerful Scottish clans. The Gordon lands once spanned a large territory across the Highlands. Presently, Gordon is seated at Aboyne Castle, Aberdeenshire. The Chief of the ...
, aka the House of Gordon, a Scottish clan
Education
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Gordon State College
Gordon State College is a public college in Barnesville, Georgia. A member of the University System of Georgia, Gordon State's spring 2021 enrollment was 2,890 students. The college campus incorporates , which includes academic buildings, resid ...
, a public college in Barnesville, Georgia
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Gordon College (Massachusetts)
Gordon College is a private Christian college in Wenham, Massachusetts. The college offers 33 majors, 38 concentrations, and 21 interdisciplinary and pre-professional minors as well as graduate programs in education and music education. Gordo ...
, a Christian college in Wenham, Massachusetts
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Gordon College (Pakistan)
Government Gordon College, Rawalpindi is a government college in Rawalpindi, Pakistan that was established as a church school in 1893. The college is named after Andrew Gordon.(Muhammad AsifGordon College Rawalpindi: A victim of flawed policiesP ...
, a Christian college in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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Gordon College (Philippines)
Gordon College, also known as Dalubhasaang Gordon in Filipino, is a local government-funded college in Olongapo City, Philippines. It was founded on February 24, 1999, by virtue of City Ordinance No. 9, and is composed of four constituent colle ...
, a public university in Subic, Zambales
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Gordon College of Education
Gordon College of Education is a teachers college in Haifa, Israel.
History
Gordon College was established in Haifa in 1953, merging the Teacher’s Seminary of the Labor Movement with the Teacher’s Seminary of the Hebrew Reali School of Haifa. ...
, a public college in Haifa, Israel
Places
Australia
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Gordon, Australian Capital Territory
Gordon is a suburb in the Canberra, Australia district of Tuggeranong. The postcode is 2906. The suburb is named after the poet Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870). It was gazetted on 12 March 1987. Streets are named after sportspersons, an exa ...
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Gordon, New South Wales
Gordon is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia north-west of the Sydney Central Business District and is the administrative centre for the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council. East Go ...
Gordon, Victoria
Gordon is a small town in Victoria, Australia, named after settler George Gordon. The town is located on the Old Melbourne Road in the Shire of Moorabool local government area, west of the state capital, Melbourne. At the , Gordon had a populat ...
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Gordon River
The Gordon River is a major perennial river located in the central highlands, south-west, and western regions of Tasmania, Australia.
Course and features
The Gordon River rises below Mount Hobhouse in the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers Nationa ...
, Tasmania
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Gordon River (Western Australia)
The Gordon River is a river in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.
Location and features
The headwaters of the river rise below Three Wells near Broomehill. The river flows in a south-westerly direction parallel with the Great So ...
Canada
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Gordon Parish, New Brunswick
Gordon is a civil parish in Victoria County, New Brunswick, Canada.
For governance purposes it is divided between the village of Plaster Rock and the local service district of the parish of Gordon, both of which are members of the Western Va ...
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Gordon/Barrie Island }
The Municipality of Gordon/Barrie Island is a township in Manitoulin District in north central Ontario, Canada. It was formed on January 1, 2009, upon the amalgamation of the townships of Gordon and Barrie Island.
The township consists of the co ...
Gordon (district)
Gordon was formerly (1975–96) was one of five local government districts in
the Grampian region of Scotland.
The district was formed by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 from part of the former county of Aberdeenshire, namely:
*The b ...
, Aberdeenshire, forming a local government district from 1975 to 1996
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Gordon, Scottish Borders
Gordon is a village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, within the historic county of Berwickshire. The village sits on the crossroads of the A6105 Earlston to Berwick on Tweed road and the A6089 Edinburgh to Kelso road. It is east of ...
Gordon, Kentucky
Gordon is an unincorporated community located in Letcher County, Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It b ...
Gordon, Nebraska
Gordon is a city in Sheridan County in the state of Nebraska, in the Great Plains region of the United States. Its population was 1,612 at the 2010 census.
History
Gordon was incorporated as a village in 1885 when the railroad was extended to t ...
Gordon, Texas
Gordon is a city in Palo Pinto County, Texas, United States. The population was 478 at the 2010 Census.
Geography
Gordon is located at (32.544121, –98.365978).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , a ...
* Gordon (1903–1904) (Gordon Cycle & Motor Company Ltd), British manufacturer of bicycles and motor cars on Seven Sisters Road, London
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Gordon Newey
Newey, Newey-Aster, Gordon Newey, Gordon Newey Ltd, G.N.L. (GNL), (1907-1920) was a British automobile manufacturer from Birmingham.Linz, Schrader: ''Die Internationale Automobil-Enzyklopädie.''Georgano: ''The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automob ...
, ''Newey'', ''Newey-Aster'', ''Gordon Newey Ltd, G.N.L.'' (GNL), (1907–1920), British automobile manufacturer from Birmingham
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Gordon (1912–1916)
Gordon, Gordon Armstrong, was a British cyclecar produced in Beverley Yorkshire by 'East-Riding Engineering' from 1912 to 1916. Production was halted by World War I.''Die Internationale Automobil-Enzyklopädie.'' 2008.
''The Beaulieu Encyclopedi ...
, ''Gordon Armstrong'', British cyclecar produced in Beverley Yorkshire by 'East-Riding Engineering'
* Gordon England (coachbuilder) 1920s coachbuilding and racing car manufacturer owned by Eric Gordon England
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Gordon (1954–1958)
The Gordon, made by Vernons Industries Ltd. based at Bidston, then in Cheshire (now Merseyside), was a British three-wheeled motorcar produced from 1954 until 1958.The Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present. Edited by G.N. Geor ...
(Vernon Industries), British three wheeled motorcar built at Bidston, Cheshire
* Gordon GT (1959), (See Gordon-Keeble)
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Gordon-Keeble
Gordon-Keeble was a British car marque, made first in Slough, then Eastleigh, and finally in Southampton (all in England), between 1964 and 1967. The marque's badge was unusual in featuring a tortoise — a pet tortoise walked into the fram ...
(1960–1961; 1964–1967), British car marque, made first in Slough, then Eastleigh, and finally in Southampton
Transportation
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Gordon railway station, Sydney
Gordon railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the North Shore line, serving the Sydney suburb of Gordon. It is served by Sydney Trains T1 North Shore line and T9 Northern line services. Situated at St Johns Avenue, G ...
, on the North Shore line
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Gordon railway station, Victoria
Gordon is a closed railway station, located in the town of Gordon, on the Melbourne - Ballarat railway line in Victoria, Australia.''Gordon'' (album), first album by the Canadian pop band Barenaked Ladies
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Duke of Gordon
The title Duke of Gordon has been created once in the Peerage of Scotland and again in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
The Dukedom, named after the Clan Gordon, was first created for the 4th Marquess of Huntly, who on 3 November 1684 was c ...
, Scottish and British title
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Fairey Gordon
The Fairey Gordon was a British light bomber (2-seat day bomber) and utility aircraft of the 1930s.
The Gordon was a conventional two-bay fabric-covered metal biplane. It was powered by variants of the Armstrong Siddeley Panther IIa engine. A ...
, British light bomber of the 1930s and 1940s
* Gordon Castle, in Scotland
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Gordon Highlanders
Gordon may refer to:
People
* Gordon (given name), a masculine given name, including list of persons and fictional characters
* Gordon (surname), the surname
* Gordon (slave), escaped to a Union Army camp during the U.S. Civil War
* Clan Gord ...
, infantry regiment
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Gordon's Gin
Gordon's is a brand of London dry gin first produced in 1769. The top markets for Gordon's are the United Kingdom, the United States and Greece. It is owned by the British spirits company Diageo. It is the world's best-selling London dry gin. G ...
, established 1769
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Gordon model In finance and investing, the dividend discount model (DDM) is a method of valuing the price of a company's stock based on the fact that its stock is worth the sum of all of its future dividend payments, discounted back to their present value. In ...
, stock valuation model by Myron Gordon
* Gordon (printing press) (1821–1878), common model of open-platten printing press
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Gordon RFC
Gordon Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club based on the North Shore of Sydney. The club, known as the Gordon Highlanders, plays out of Chatswood Oval and competes in the New South Wales Rugby Union grade competition.
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, Sydney rugby union club
* Gordon Riots, in 18th-century Britain
* Gordon Robinson, character on the long-running children's TV show ''Sesame Street''
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Gordon Shumway
Gordon Shumway, also known as "ALF", is the protagonist and title character of the American television series ''ALF (TV series), ALF'', and its animated spin-offs, ''ALF: The Animated Series'', and ''ALF Tales''. ALF also starred in the poorly re ...
, 'true' name of the protagonist on the TV series ''ALF''
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Gordon the Big Engine
This article is about the characters that have appeared in the books of ''The Railway Series'' by the Wilbert Awdry, Rev. Wilbert Awdry and Christopher Awdry. Unless otherwise stated on this page, the technical notes come from actual notes laid ...
, fictional locomotive from ''Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends'' series
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Gordon Heuckeroth
Cornelis Willem "Gordon" Heuckeroth (; born 6 July 1968), known simply as Gordon, is a Dutch singer and television personality. Internationally, he is best known for his membership of the supergroup the Toppers, which represented the Netherlands ...
(born 1968), Dutch performer and radio and television personality, known professionally by the mononym Gordon
* "Gordons" (''Orange Is the New Black''), a 2018 television episode
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Tropical Storm Gordon The name Gordon has been used for ten tropical cyclones worldwide.
In the Atlantic Ocean, Gordon has been used five times since 1988, when it replaced the name Gilbert on the list of hurricane names:
* Hurricane Gordon (1994) – killed 1,122 in H ...
Gorden Gorden is an English variant of ''Gordon''. Notable people with the name include:
given name;
* Gorden Kaye, English actor
* Gorden Kelley, American football player
* Gorden Moyo, Zimbabwean politician
* Gorden Tallis, Australian rugby player
* Go ...