Latham may refer to:
Places
Australia
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Latham, Australian Capital Territory
Latham () is a residential suburb in the Belconnen district of Canberra, located within the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. The suburb is named for John Latham, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1935 to 1952. Streets in ...
, a suburb of Canberra, Australia
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Latham, Western Australia
Latham is a small town in the Mid West region of Western Australia. It is named after Latham Rock, a large granite rock close to the townsite. The rock was named for an early pastoralist who established a watering place for stock being droved ...
Tanzania
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Latham Island
Latham Island, known locally as Fungu Kizimkazi, Fungu Mbaraka is a small, relatively isolated island in the Zanzibar Archipelago, Tanzania which is historically under the Government of Zanzibar since 1898.
History
The island has several local n ...
United States
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Latham, Illinois
Latham is a village in Logan County, Illinois, United States. The population was 380 at the 2010 census.
History
Latham was platted in 1871 and named in honor of Robert B. Latham, a railroad official. A post office called Latham has been in operat ...
, a small town
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Latham, Kansas
Latham is a city in Butler County, Kansas, Butler County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 96.
History
Latham was laid out in 1885. It may have been named for Latham Young, ...
, a small town
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Latham, New York
Latham is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Albany County, New York, United States. It is located along U.S. Route 9 in the town of Colonie, a dense suburb north of Albany. As of the 2010 census, the population was 20,736. Latham was ...
, a hamlet in Colonie (town), New York and a suburb of Albany, New York
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Latham, Ohio, an unincorporated community
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Latham, Missouri, an unincorporated community
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Latham, Oregon, an unincorporated community
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Latham, Tennessee
Latham is an unincorporated community in Weakley County, Tennessee
Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 1 ...
, an unincorporated community
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Latham Shale
The Latham Shale is a geologic formation in California. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cambrian period.
See also
* List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in California
* Paleontology in California
Paleontology in California refers ...
, California, a geologic formation
* Latham Square, a prominent downtown intersection in
Oakland, California
Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast of the United States, West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third ...
* Latham, Massachusetts, the fictional setting for the
final episode of ''Seinfeld''
Companies
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Latham & Watkins
Latham & Watkins LLP is an American multinational law firm. Founded in 1934 in Los Angeles, California, Latham is the second-largest law firm in the world by revenue. As of 2021, Latham is also one of the most profitable law firms in the world ...
, a global law firm
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Société Latham
The Société Latham was a French aeronautical construction company which built seaplanes for the French Navy. It is best known for the prototype of the Latham 47 which disappeared in 1928 with Roald Amundsen on board during a rescue mission to t ...
, a French aeronautical construction company
Other uses
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Latham (surname) Latham (pronounced 'lay-thm') is an Old Scandinavian surname..
Origins and variants
The surname may derive from a place called " Latham". The word is related to a "(place of or by) the barns", related to the Old Norse ''hlatha'', barn. Lathom in L ...
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The Latham Diaries
''The Latham Diaries'' () is a political memoir by the former Federal Parliamentary Australian Labor Party (ALP) leader, Mark Latham. The book, published in 2005 by Melbourne University Press, attracted a great amount of criticism. Much of the co ...
'', a memoir about politics in Australia
* Latham, a cultivar of raspberry with some resistance to
raspberry spur blight
Raspberry spur blight is caused by the fungus ''Didymella applanata''. This plant pathogen is more problematic on red raspberries ''(Rubus idaeus)'' than on black or purple raspberries. The fungus infects the leaves first and then spreads to th ...
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Latham 47
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The Latham 47, or Latham R3B4 in Naval service was a French twin-engine flying boat designed and built by Société Latham & Cie for the French Navy. The aircraft achieved notoriety in 1928 when aircraft number 47.02 disappeared with t ...
, a French twin-engine flying boat
* a 1906 hotel in Manhattan, New York City, designed by
Augustus N. Allen
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Lathom
Lathom is a village and civil parish in Lancashire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) northeast of Ormskirk. It is in the district of West Lancashire, and with the parish of Newburgh forms part of Newburgh ward. The population of the civil par ...
, a village in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
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