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People with the surname

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Dave Rushton David Rushton (born 3 May 1973) is an English former association football, footballer who played as a midfielder for Port Vale F.C., Port Vale. Career Rushton graduated through the Port Vale F.C., Port Vale juniors to sign his first profession ...
(born 1973), English footballer * Herbert J. Rushton (1877–1947), American politician *
J. Philippe Rushton John Philippe Rushton (December 3, 1943 – October 2, 2012) was a Canadian psychologist and author. He taught at the University of Western Ontario until the early 1990s, and became known to the general public during the 1980s and 1990s for resea ...
(1943–2012), Anglo-Canadian psychology professor *
Julian Rushton Julian Gordon Rushton (born 22 May 1941) is an English musicologist, born in Cambridge. He has contributed the entry on Mozart in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'' and several other articles in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ...
(born 1941), English musicologist *
Michael Rushton Michael Rushton (born 1950 in Worthing, West Sussex, England) is a British drummer and vocalist, known for being a member of the blues-rock band Steamhammer and later indie bands. Rushton was a member of several rock and blues bands in the ...
, English blues-rock and indie drummer *
Tim Rushton Timothy John Rushton MBE (born 18 March 1963 in England) is a British choreographer and from 2001 to 2018 artistic leader of the Copenhagen-based Danish Dance Theatre, Denmark's largest modern dance company. Tim Rushton was trained at The Royal Ba ...
, choreographer and artist director of the Danish Dance Theatre, Copenhagen *
W. A. H. Rushton William Albert Hugh Rushton FRS (8 December 1901 – 21 June 1980) was professor of Physiology at Trinity College, Cambridge. His main interest lay in colour vision and his Principle of Univariance is of seminal importance in the study of perc ...
, physiology professor in Cambridge and former president of the Society for Psychical Research *
Walter Rushton Walter Rushton was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Bolton Wanderers. Early career Walter Rushton signed for Blackburn Rovers in 1885 for the 1885-1886 Season. The club had already won the Cup twice from 1883 to 1885 ...
, English footballer *
Willie Rushton William George Rushton (18 August 1937 – 11 December 1996) was an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the satirical magazine ''Private Eye''. Early life Rushton was born 18 August 1937 in 3 Wilbraham Plac ...
, William George Rushton, English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer


Places

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Rushton, Cheshire 200px, Map of civil parish of Rushton within the former borough of Vale Royal Rushton is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, in the north west of England, ap ...
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Rushton, Northamptonshire Rushton is a village and civil parish in Northamptonshire. It is about north-east of Rothwell and north-west of Kettering. The parish covers and is situated on both sides of the River Ise. It contains the sites of three deserted settlements ...
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Rushton, Staffordshire Rushton is a civil parish in Staffordshire, England. The village within the civil parish, usually known as Rushton Spencer, is about north of Leek and south of Macclesfield, on the A523 road which runs between these towns. The parish council d ...
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Rushton Triangular Lodge The Triangular Lodge is a folly, designed by Sir Thomas Tresham and constructed between 1593 and 1597 near Rushton, Northamptonshire, England. It is now in the care of English Heritage. The stone used for the construction was alternating ban ...
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Rushton Park Rushton Park (also known as Lane Group Stadium under ground sponsorship arrangements) is an Australian rules football ground located in Mandurah, Western Australia. Having been in use as a football ground since the early 1960s, the ground is c ...
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Tarrant Rushton Tarrant Rushton is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England. The village is situated in the Tarrant Valley about east of Blandford Forum. In 2013 the civil parish had an estimated population of 80. Starting in the north east the pari ...


Other

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Rushton Hall Rushton Hall in Rushton, Northamptonshire, England, was the ancestral home of the Tresham family from 1438, when William Tresham, a veteran of the Battle of Agincourt and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster bought the estate. In the 20th centu ...
, home of James John Van Alen, in Rushton, Northamptonshire, England *
Rushton turbine The Rushton disc turbine or Rushton turbine is a radial flow impeller used for many mixing applications (commonly for gas dispersion applications) in process engineering and was invented by John Henry Rushton. The design is based on a flat hor ...
, agitator designed for gas dispersion and high shear mixing *Rushton, an American toy company that made
stuffed toys Stuff, stuffed, and stuffing may refer to: *Physical matter *General, unspecific things, or entities Arts, media, and entertainment Books *''Stuff'' (1997), a novel by Joseph Connolly *''Stuff'' (2005), a book by Jeremy Strong Fictional cha ...


See also

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Rushden (disambiguation) Rushden is a town in Northamptonshire, England. Rushden may also refer to: * Rushden, Hertfordshire, England, a village * Rushden railway station in the Northamptonshire town * Max Rushden Max Paul Rushden (born 18 April 1979) is an English rad ...
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