Palmer may refer to:

People and fictional characters

* Palmer (pilgrim), a medieval European pilgrim to the Holy Land *

Palmer (given name) Palmer is a given name of English origin that is a transferred use of a surname meaning '' palm bearer'' or ''pilgrim''. Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land traditionally carried the palms. The name can also be given in reference to the palms that ...

, including a list of people and fictional characters *

Palmer (surname) Palmer is an occupational surname of old English, Norman French, German and Scottish origin. Notable people with the surname include: *A. Mitchell Palmer, (1872–1936), American politician, Attorney General of the US 1919–1921 * Abiah W. Palmer ...

, including a list of people and fictional characters

Arts and entertainment

* ''Palmer'' (film), a 2021 American drama film *

Palmer Museum of Art The Palmer Museum of Art is the art museum of Pennsylvania State University, located on the University Park campus in State College, Pennsylvania. Collections The museum has an increasing permanent collection of more than 7,000 works. The colle ...

, the art museum of Pennsylvania State University

Places

Palmer River (disambiguation) Palmer River may refer to: * Palmer River (Massachusetts – Rhode Island), in the United States * Palmer River (Northern Territory), Australia, a tributary of the Finke River * Palmer River (Queensland) The Palmer River is a river located i ...

Mount Palmer (disambiguation) Mount Palmer can refer to: Mountains * Mount Palmer (Alaska), USA * Mount Palmer (Alberta), Canada * Mount Palmer (Antarctica) * Mount Palmer (California), USA * Mount Palmer (New South Wales), Australia * Mount Palmer (Yukon), Canada Locations

Antarctica

Palmer Inlet Palmer Inlet () is an ice-filled inlet long, lying between Cape Bryant (Antarctica), Cape Bryant and Cape Musselman along the east coast of Palmer Land. Essentially rectangular in shape, it is bordered by almost vertical cliffs. Discovered by membe ...

, Palmer Land *

Palmer Land Palmer Land () is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica that lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the Advisory Committee on Antarctic N ...

, a portion of the Antarctic Peninsula *

Palmer Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...

, former American name of the Antarctic Peninsula

Australia

Palmer, Queensland Palmer is a rural locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. The former towns (now unbounded localities) of Byerstown, Lukinville, Maytown, Palmerville and Stonyville (or Stony Creek), all dating from the 1870s-1880s gold rushes ...

, a locality * Palmer, South Australia, a town *

Palmer River (Northern Territory) The Finke River, or ''Larapinta'' (Arrernte), is a river in central Australia, one of four main rivers of the Lake Eyre Basin and thought to be the oldest riverbed in the world. It flows for only a few days a year and when this happens, its wate ...

, a tributary of the Finke River * Palmer River, Queensland

Canada

* Palmer, Ontario, Canada, a community in Burlington *

Palmer, Saskatchewan Palmer is a small unorganized hamlet located 15 km east of the town of Gravelbourg in Sutton Rural Municipality No. 103, Saskatchewan, Canada. The population of Palmer fluctuates during the year, hovering in the double digits with peak popula ...

, an unorganized hamlet * Palmer Township, Algoma District, Ontario * Palmer, British Columbia, site of former Fort Victoria (British Columbia)

United Kingdom

Palmer Park, Reading Palmer Park is a public park in Reading, Berkshire, Reading, England. The land for the park was given to the town by the proprietors of the Huntley & Palmers biscuit firm and it contains a statue of George Palmer. The park in turn gives its name to ...

, England, a public park

United States

* Palmer, Alaska, a city * Palmer, Illinois, a village * Palmer, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Palmer, Iowa, a city * Palmer, Kansas, a city * Palmer, Massachusetts, a city ** Palmer (CDP), Massachusetts, a former census-designated place in the town * Palmer, Michigan, an unincorporated community * Palmer, Missouri, a ghost town * Palmer, Nebraska, a village * Palmer, Tennessee, a town * Palmer, Texas, a town in Ellis County *

Palmer, Cameron County, Texas Palmer is a colonia and census-designated place (CDP) in Cameron County, Texas, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. It is in the southern part of the county, bordered to the west by San Benito, to the northeas ...

, a census-designated place * Palmer, Washington, an unincorporated community *

Palmer, West Virginia Palmer is an extinct town in Braxton County, in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The GNIS The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features ...

, a ghost town *

Palmer, Wisconsin Palmer is an unincorporated community in the town of Rush River, St. Croix County, Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. I ...

, an unincorporated community *

Palmer Creek (Turnagain Arm) Palmer Creek is a waterway in the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, US. It is an affluent of Resurrection Creek, itself a tributary of Turnagain Arm. Geography Palmer Creek flows northwest for before reaching Resurrection Creek. Hope is located to the ...

, Alaska *

Palmer Creek (Yamhill River) Palmer Creek is a tributary of the Yamhill River in northwestern Oregon in the United States. Arising in Polk County it flows north, crossing almost immediately into Yamhill County. It continues generally north, entering the larger stream at Dayt ...

, Oregon * Palmer Divide, Colorado, a ridge * Palmer Glacier, Oregon *

Palmer Park (Chicago) Palmer Park is an urban park at 201 E. 111th Street on the far South Side of Chicago, Illinois, USA. History Palmer Park was created in 1904 by the South Park Commission. Under the guidance of superintendent J. Frank Foster, the commission open ...

, Illinois, a public park *

Palmer Park (Detroit) Palmer Park is a public park next to Detroit, Michigan's Palmer Park Apartment Building Historic District. It is named for U.S. Senator Thomas Witherell Palmer, who initially created the park when he donated for a city park in 1893 on the condi ...

, Michigan, a public park *

Palmer Park, Colorado Springs Palmer Park is a regional park in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Located at 3650 Maizeland Road, the park is several miles northeast of the downtown area. ''Elevation Outdoors Magazine'' named it Best Urban Park in its Best of Rockies 2017 list. One o ...

, Colorado, a public park *

Palmer River (Massachusetts – Rhode Island) The Palmer River is a river located in Far North Queensland, Australia. The area surrounding the river was the site of a gold rush in the late 19th century which started in 1873. Course and features The headwaters of the Palmer River rise in ...

Palmer Township (disambiguation) Palmer Township may refer to: * Palmer Township, Sherburne County, Minnesota * Palmer Township, Divide County, North Dakota, in Divide County, North Dakota * Palmer Township, Putnam County, Ohio * Palmer Township, Washington County, Ohio * Palmer ...

Businesses

C. F. Palmer, Ltd C. F. Palmer, Ltd was an independent manufacturer of scientific instruments, mostly in the field of physiology. Since 1987 it has been a subsidiary of Harvard Apparatus. The company was founded in London in 1891 by the English mechanical engineer ...

, a British scientific instrument maker * Château Palmer, a Bordeaux wine producer *

Palmer Bus Service Palmer Bus Service (and Palmer Charter Services) is a bus company serving Minnesota and Wisconsin, founded by Floyd Palmer in 1974 in St. Clair, Minnesota. It is the 36th largest privately run bus company in the nation. Palmer runs over 500 buses ...

, a bus company in Minnesota and Wisconsin * Palmer Candy Company, a candy manufacturer in Sioux City, Iowa *

Palmer National Bank of Washington, D.C. The Palmer National Bank was a bank headquartered in Washington, D.C. In 1996, it was acquired by George Mason Bankshares Inc. At that time, it had 3 branch (banking), branches and 1 office. The bank's connections to the leadership of the Republ ...

, from 1983 to 1995 *

William Eastman Palmer & Sons William Eastman Palmer & Sons was the name of a family partnership of photographers which was started in Devon in the 1860s by William Eastman Palmer and his wife Maria Louisa ''née'' Eales. By 1881 the five sons in the partnership were beginn ...

, British partnership of photographers based in Devon

Schools

Palmer High School (disambiguation) Palmer High School may refer to several schools: *Palmer High School (Alaska), Palmer, Alaska *Palmer High School (Colorado), Colorado Springs, Colorado *Palmer High School (Massachusetts), Palmer, Massachusetts *Palmer High School (Texas), Palme ...

* Palmer Memorial Institute, Sedalia, North Carolina, a former school for upper class African-Americans * Palmer College of Chiropractic, Davenport, Iowa *

Palmer's College USP College (Unified Seevic Palmer's College, previously known as Seevic and Palmer's Colleges Group) is a large general further education college in Essex, England. It was established in August 2017 from the merger of Palmer's College in Gra ...

, Thurrock, Essex, England * Palmer School, founded 1972, merged with Trinity Episcopal School to form

Palmer Trinity School Palmer Trinity School is an independent, college-preparatory, coeducational Episcopal day school located on in Palmetto Bay, Florida (a Miami suburb). The school currently enrolls more than 770 students in grades 6–12. Palmer Trinity is the ...

, Palmetto Bay, Florida *

Palmer Theological Seminary Palmer Theological Seminary is a Baptist seminary in St. Davids. It is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA. It was founded in 1925 as Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Its parent institution is Eastern University. History The ...

, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania * Palmer Catholic Academy, a Roman Catholic secondary school in Ilford in London, England

Sports

Palmer Field Palmer Field is a multi-use baseball, soccer, and American football, football stadium located in Middletown, Connecticut. In 1993 and 1994, the first two editions of the Ivy League Baseball Championship Series were held at the field, with Yale ...

, a sports stadium in Middletown, Connecticut * Palmer Stadium, a former sports stadium of Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

Other uses

* , two US Navy vessels *

Palmer (mango) The 'Palmer' mango is a large, commercially grown late-season mango cultivar that originated in south Florida. History The original tree was grown from a seed planted around 1925 on the property of Mrs. Victor Mell of Miami, Florida. For the f ...

, a commercial mango variety originating in south Florida * Palmer railway station, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada *

Palmer Road (disambiguation) Palmer Road may refer to: Roads * Palmer Road, designated as Highway 156, in Canada * Palmer Road, designated as County Road 9, in Yonkers, New York * Palmer Road, the original alignment and name of the Glenn Highway between Anchorage and Palmer, ...

* Palmer Station, an American research station in Antarctica