Pollard may refer to:

Places in the United States

Pollard, Alabama Pollard is a town in Escambia County, Alabama, United States. It was the first established county seat of Escambia County, from its creation in 1868 until 1883, when it lost that distinction to Brewton. At the 2020 census, the population was 128 ...

, a town *

Pollard, Arkansas Pollard is a city in Clay County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 222 at the 2010 census. History Pollard is named for a family of early settlers who operated a general store that became home to the town's post office in 1876. The po ...

, a city *

Pollard, Kansas Pollard is an unincorporated community in Victoria Township, Rice County, Kansas, United States. It lies a fraction of a mile (about 1 km) west of K-14, southwest of Geneseo and north of Lyons. History For millennia, the land now kno ...

, an unincorporated community

People

* Pollard (surname), a list of people with the surname * Pollard Hopewell (between 1786 and 1789 – 1813), midshipman in the United States Navy *

Charles Pollard Olivier Charles Pollard Olivier (April 10, 1884 – August 14, 1975) was an American astronomer, notable for his contributions to the study of meteors, double stars and variable stars. Biography Charles grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia, and he li ...

(1884–1975), American astronomer *

James Pollard Espy James Pollard Espy (or the Storm King) (May 9, 1785 – January 24, 1860) was a U.S. meteorologist. Espy developed a convection theory of storms, explaining it in 1836 before the American Philosophical Society and in 1840 before the French Acadé ...

(1785–1860), American meteorologist *

Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri (born c. 1948; also known as Ngnoia) is a Walpiri-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Ngoia Pollard married Jack Tjampitjinpa, who became an artist working with the Papunya Tula compan ...

(born c. 1948), Australian indigenous (Warlpiri people) artist *

Thomas Pollard Sampson Thomas Pollard Sampson (24 June 1875 – 25 June 1961) was a Tasmanian-born Australian architect active in New South Wales during the first forty years of the 20th century. His work encompassed the styles of the Federation Arts and Crafts and ...

(1875–1961), Australian architect

Flora and fauna

*Pollard, an animal or a tree which has been polled (had its antlers or horns, or branches removed): **Pollard, a deer which has cast its

antler Antlers are extensions of an animal's skull found in members of the Cervidae (deer) family. Antlers are a single structure composed of bone, cartilage, fibrous tissue, skin, nerves, and blood vessels. They are generally found only on male ...

s **Pollard or

polled livestock Polled livestock are livestock without horns in species which are normally horned. The term refers to both breeds and strains that are naturally polled through selective breeding and also to naturally horned animals that have been disbudded. Nat ...

, hornless livestock of normally-horned species **Pollard, a tree affected by

pollarding Pollarding is a pruning system involving the removal of the upper branches of a tree, which promotes the growth of a dense head of foliage and branches. In ancient Rome, Propertius mentioned pollarding during the 1st century BCE. The practice oc ...

, a method for shaping trees, cropping the branches above head-height * Pollard, the

European chub ''Squalius cephalus'' is a European species of freshwater fish in the carp family Cyprinidae. It frequents both slow and moderate rivers, as well as canals and still waters of various kinds. This species is referred to as the common chub, Europe ...

(''Squalius cephalus''), a freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae

Mathematics

*Several algorithms created by British mathematician John Pollard: **

Pollard's kangaroo algorithm In computational number theory and computational algebra, Pollard's kangaroo algorithm (also Pollard's lambda algorithm, see Naming below) is an algorithm for solving the discrete logarithm problem. The algorithm was introduced in 1978 by the numb ...

** Pollard's ''p'' − 1 algorithm **

Pollard's rho algorithm Pollard's rho algorithm is an algorithm for integer factorization. It was invented by John Pollard in 1975. It uses only a small amount of space, and its expected running time is proportional to the square root of the smallest prime factor of the ...

Other uses

Pollard (coin) Pollard may refer to: Places in the United States * Pollard, Alabama, a town * Pollard, Arkansas, a city * Pollard, Kansas, an unincorporated community People * Pollard (surname), a list of people with the surname * Pollard Hopewell (between ...

, a medieval coin made in Europe in imitation of the English penny, outlawed under Edward I * ''Pollard'' (novel), a novel by Laura Beatty * Pollard, a mixture of fine

bran Bran, also known as miller's bran, is the hard outer layers of Cereal, cereal grain. It consists of the combined aleurone and pericarp. Corn (maize) bran also includes the pedicel (tip cap). Along with cereal germ, germ, it is an integral pa ...

and a small amount of flour * Pollard railway station, former station in Victoria, Australia *

Pollard script The Pollard script, also known as Pollard Miao (Chinese: 柏格理苗文 Bó Gélǐ Miao-wen) or Miao, is an abugida loosely based on the Latin alphabet and invented by Methodist missionary Sam Pollard. Pollard invented the script for use with A-H ...

, a writing system devised in 1905 for the A-Hmao language {{disambig