Sinclair may refer to:

Places

Lake Sinclair Lake Sinclair is a man-made lake in central Georgia near Milledgeville. It is operated by Georgia Power. The lake was named after Benjamin W. Sinclair, a Georgia Power official. Location Located in the central region of Georgia, on the Oconee ...

, near Milledgeville, Georgia *

Sinclair, Iowa Sinclair is an unincorporated community in Butler County, Iowa, United States. History Sinclair was a frequent stop for the Underground Railroad during and before the Civil War. Prior to the establishment of the town, it was nothing more than ...

Sinclair, West Virginia Sinclair is an unincorporated community in Preston County, West Virginia, United States, located at the intersection of Davis Hill Road and Sinclair Coalbank Road. The town is named after oil drilling in the area performed by Sinclair Oil Corp. Th ...

Sinclair, Wyoming Sinclair is a town in Carbon County, Wyoming, United States. History The town was originally called Parco, after the Producers & Refiners Corporation (or PARCO) which founded the refinery and the company town. It was renamed Sinclair after PAR ...

Sinclair Mills, British Columbia Sinclair Mills is a community located on the north bank of the Fraser River between McGregor and Longworth in central British Columbia. Via Rail's Jasper – Prince Rupert train Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrys ...

* Sinclair Township, Minnesota *

Sinclair, Manitoba Sinclair is a community in the Canadian province of Manitoba, approximately east of the Saskatchewan border and approximately 14 kilometers (9 miles) west of Reston, Manitoba, in the Rural Municipality of Pipestone Pipestone is a rural munici ...

People

Sinclair (surname) The Scoto-Norman surname ''Sinclair'' comes from the Clan Sinclair, whose progenitors moved to Scotland and were given the land of Roslin, Midlothian by the King of Scots. The style "Sinclair" is the most common. It has its origins in Scotland an ...

, list of people with this surname *

Clan Sinclair Clan Sinclair ( gd, Clann na Ceàrda ) is a Highland Scottish clan which holds the lands of Caithness, the Orkney Islands, and the Lothians. The chiefs of the clan were the Barons of Roslin and later the Earls of Orkney and Earls of Caithness. Th ...

, Scottish family *

Lord Sinclair Lord Sinclair is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. According to James Balfour Paul's ''The Scots Peerage'', volume VII published in 1910, the first person to be styled Lord Sinclair was William Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Orkney and 1st Earl of Cai ...

, a title in the Peerage of Scotland *

Sinclair Lewis Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American writer and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was ...

(1885–1951), Nobel Prize-winning American writer *

Sinclair (singer) Mathieu Blanc-Francard, stage name Sinclair (born 19 July 1970), is a French musician and singer-songwriter. Early life Born in 1970 at Tours as son of Dominique Blanc-Francard and brother of Hubert Blanc-Francard, known professionally as B ...

, stage name of French singer-songwriter Mathieu Blanc-Francard (born 1970) * Sir

Clive Sinclair Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) was an English entrepreneur and inventor, best known for being a pioneer in the computing industry, and also as the founder of several companies that developed consumer electronics ...

, an English entrepreneur and inventor, most commonly known for his work in consumer electronics in the late 1970s and early 1980s - including ZX Spectrum computers.

Companies

Sinclair Broadcast Group Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (SBG) is a publicly traded American telecommunications conglomerate that is controlled by the descendants of company founder Julian Sinclair Smith. Headquartered in the Baltimore suburb of Cockeysville, Maryland, t ...

, operator of American television stations *

Sinclair Oil Corporation Sinclair Oil Corporation was an American petroleum corporation, founded by Harry F. Sinclair on May 1, 1916, the Sinclair Oil and Refining Corporation combined, amalgamated, the assets of 11 small petroleum companies. Originally a New York cor ...

, American petroleum company *

Sinclair Radionics Sinclair Radionics Ltd was a company founded by Sir Clive Sinclair in Cambridge, England which developed hi-fi products, radios, calculators and scientific instruments. History After raising funds to start the business by writing articles ...

Ltd, British electronics company founded in 1961 *

Sinclair Research Sinclair Research Ltd is a British consumer electronics company founded by Clive Sinclair in Cambridge. It was originally incorporated in 1973 as Westminster Mail Order Ltd, renamed Sinclair Instrument Ltd, then Science of Cambridge Ltd, the ...

Ltd, British consumer electronics company founded in 1973, and the successor to Sinclair Radionics.

Schools

Sinclair (high school) Sinclair is a high school in the Swedish city of Uddevalla. The school carries four art-based educations; Music, Art, Dance and theatre; as well as a media education. Though there are different directions of education, the students are free to take ...

, Uddevalla, Sweden *

Sinclair Community College Sinclair Community College is a public community college in Dayton, Ohio. History Sinclair Community College is named for David A. Sinclair, a Scottish immigrant and secretary of the Dayton YMCA (1874–1902), who founded the adult training schoo ...

, Dayton, Ohio, U.S. *

Sinclair Secondary School Sinclair Secondary School is located in Whitby, Ontario, Whitby, Ontario. Opened in 1994, it is home to nearly 2000 students and over 100 teaching staff. Serving both Special Education and French Immersion students, the school is recognized for i ...

, Ontario, Canada

Highways

Sinclair Freeway The Sinclair Freeway refers to portions of two contiguous stretches of freeway in California: *Interstate 280 (California) between Route 17 and US 101 *Interstate 680 (California) between US 101 and the Alameda County Alameda County ( ) is a L ...

(Interstate 680)

Transportation

* USS ''Sinclair'' (DD-275), a United States Navy destroyer named for Captain Arthur Sinclair *

Sinclair C5 The Sinclair C5 is a small one-person battery electric recumbent tricycle, technically an "electrically assisted pedal cycle". It was the culmination of Sir Clive Sinclair's long-running interest in electric vehicles. Although widely described ...

, a one-person battery electric velomobile

Fictional characters

Augustus Sinclair Augustus Sinclair is a fictional character in the 2K 2010 video game ''BioShock 2''. Within the game, he was one of the leading figures in Rapture's genetics industry and an important businessman. Described as an example of moral relativism, Si ...

, a character in the 2010 video game ''BioShock 2'' *

Jeffrey Sinclair Jeffrey Sinclair is a character in the fictional universe of the science fiction television series ''Babylon 5'', played by actor Michael O'Hare. He was a regular in the first season of the show, as Commander of the Babylon 5 station, and made a n ...

, a character from US TV series ''

Babylon 5 ''Babylon 5'' is an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label, in association with Straczynski's Synthetic Worlds Ltd. and Warner Bros. Domestic Tel ...

'' * Lord Brett Sinclair from the 1971 TV series ''The Persuaders!'' * Synclaire James, a character in the 1993 Fox network sitcom ''

Living Single ''Living Single'' is an American television sitcom created by Yvette Lee Bowser that aired for five seasons on the Fox network from August 22, 1993, to January 1, 1998. The show centered on the lives of six friends who shared personal and professi ...

'' *

Rahne Sinclair Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is commonly associated with the X-Men. A Scottish Mutant (Marvel Comics), mutant, Wolfsbane can transform into a wolf ...

, a mutant superhero from ''

Marvel Comics Marvel Comics is an American comic book publishing, publisher and the flagship property of Marvel Entertainment, a divsion of The Walt Disney Company since September 1, 2009. Evolving from Timely Comics in 1939, ''Magazine Management/Atlas Co ...

'' * Helga Sinclair, a character in the 2001 Disney animated sci-fi movie ''

Atlantis: The Lost Empire ''Atlantis: The Lost Empire'' is a 2001 American animated science fiction film, science fiction action film, action-adventure film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. ...

'' * Skylar Sinclair, a character in the 2009 video game ''

The Saboteur ''The Saboteur'' is an action-adventure video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by Electronic Arts. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in December 2009. A mobile version of the game was developed an ...

'' * Lucas Sinclair, a character in the 2016 Netflix series ''

Stranger Things ''Stranger Things'' is an American science fiction horror drama television series created by the Duffer Brothers, who also serve as showrunners and are executive producers along with Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen. Produced by Monkey Massacre Prod ...

'' * Ryan Sinclair, a companion in series 11 and 12 of BBC series ''

Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the u ...

'' * the Sinclair family, protagonists in ABC's ''

Dinosaurs (TV series) ''Dinosaurs'' is an American family sitcom television series that aired on ABC for four seasons from April 26, 1991, through July 20, 1994 (preempted episodes that had never been allowed to run also aired as a second part of the fourth season f ...