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United Kingdom

River Tarrant The River Tarrant is a 12 km long tributary of the River Stour in Dorset. The valley lies to the east of Blandford Forum. The river rises near Cranborne Chase, an area of chalk downland, and flows broadly from north to south before joining ...

, a river in Dorset, after which several villages are named: **

Tarrant Crawford __NOTOC__ Tarrant Crawford is a small village and civil parish at the lower end of the Tarrant Valley in Dorset, England. The River Tarrant joins the larger River Stour here. The village consists of two small settlements: Crawford Farm and a fe ...

, Dorset **

Tarrant Gunville Tarrant Gunville is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated at the head of the Tarrant Valley on Cranborne Chase northeast of Blandford Forum. The parish covers at an elevation of . In the 2011 census the parish—which ...

, Dorset **

Tarrant Hinton Tarrant Hinton is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It is situated in the Tarrant Valley, approximately northeast of Blandford Forum. In 2013 the estimated population of the civil parish was 160. The villa ...

, Dorset **

Tarrant Keyneston Tarrant Keyneston is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England. It is situated in the Tarrant Valley, southeast of Blandford Forum. In the 2011 census the parish had 152 dwellings, 145 households and a population of 310. On the hills nor ...

, Dorset **

Tarrant Launceston Tarrant Launceston is a small village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated in the Tarrant Valley northeast of Blandford Forum. The parish includes part of Blandford Camp to the west and a few buildings on the northern edge of neigh ...

, Dorset **

Tarrant Monkton Tarrant Monkton is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated in the Tarrant Valley about east-northeast of Blandford Forum. Within the parish boundary, over hills to the west, lies the major par ...

, Dorset **

Tarrant Rawston Tarrant Rawston is a hamlet and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It is named after the River Tarrant which flows through the parish. It has a small church, built of flint and stone, which is situated within the garden of ...

, Dorset **

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 ...

, Dorset

United States

Tarrant, Alabama Tarrant is a city in Jefferson County, Alabama, bordering Birmingham to the north. At the 2020 census, the population was 6,124. It is home to the ABC Coke plant owned by the Drummond Company, "the largest single producer of foundry coke in th ...

Tarrant, Wisconsin Tarrant is an unincorporated community located in the town of Lima, Pepin 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 ...

* Tarrant County, Texas

People

Ambrose Tarrant William Ambrose Tarrant (22 September 1866 – 1 November 1938) was an Australian cricketer who played at first-class level for Victoria during the 1890s. A right-handed batsman born in Fitzroy, Tarrant made his debut for Victoria in January ...

(1866–1938), Australian cricketer *

Blair Tarrant Blair Thomas Fagan Tarrant (born 11 May 1990) is a New Zealand field hockey player who plays as a defender for the New Zealand national team. He represented his country at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where the men's team came se ...

(born 1990), New Zealand field hockey player *

Brenton Tarrant On 15 March 2019, two consecutive mass shootings occurred in a terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The attacks, carried out by a lone gunman who entered both mosques during Friday prayer, began at the Al Noor Mosque ...

(born circa 1990), Australian suspect in Christchurch mosque attacks * Chris Tarrant (born 1946), British radio broadcaster and television presenter * Chris Tarrant (footballer) (born 1980), Australian footballer *

Colin Tarrant Colin Tarrant (14 June 1952 – 26 January 2012) was an English actor best known for playing Inspector Andrew Monroe in ITV's ''The Bill'' between 1990 and 2002. Early life and career Tarrant was born in 1952 in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, and stud ...

(1952–2012), British actor * Dick Tarrant (born 1931), American basketball coach * Dorothy Tarrant (1885–1973), professor of Greek *

Frank Tarrant Francis Alfred Tarrant (11 December 1880 – 29 January 1951) was an Australian cricketer whose first-class career spanned from 1899 to 1936, and included 329 matches. From Melbourne, Tarrant began his career with Victoria in Australia's Sheff ...

(1880–1951), Australian cricketer * George Tarrant (1838–1870), English cricketer * George Tarrant Sr. (1838–1904), American politician *

Ingrid Tarrant Ingrid Dupre Tarrant (born 15 October 1954) is an English television personality and former wife of Chris Tarrant. She has appeared on such programmes as ''TV Mail'', ''Wish You Were Here?'' and '' This Morning''. She has also appeared on a specia ...

(born 1954), English television presenter *

Jeffrey Tarrant Jeffrey Glynn Tarrant (April 4, 1956 – August 5, 2019) was an American investor. He was the founder and chairman of MOV37 and Protégé Partners, firms specializing in identifying, seeding and early stage investing in investment funds. He was a ...

(1956-2019), American businessman *

John Tarrant (athlete) John Tarrant (4 February 1932 – 18 January 1975) was an English long-distance runner, nicknamed "The Ghost Runner" for his habit of "gatecrashing" races from which he was barred due to his "non-amateur" status, acquired during a brief career as ...

(1932–1975), English long-distance runner *

Louis Tarrant Loris Bernard Napoleon Tarrant (29 December 1903 – c. August 1943) was an Australian cricketer who both played and umpired first-class matches in India during the 1930s. Unusually, he made his debut as a first-class umpire before making his d ...

(1903–?), Australian cricketer *

Margaret Tarrant Margaret Winifred Tarrant (19 August 1888 – 29 July 1959) was an English illustrator, and children's author, specializing in depictions of fairy-like children and religious subjects. She began her career at the age of 20, and painted and ...

(1888–1959), English illustrator and children's author *

R. J. Tarrant Richard John Tarrant, is an American classicist and Emeritus Pope Professor of Latin at Harvard University. He is an expert on the textual criticism and the transmission of Latin poetry. Career A native of Brooklyn, Tarrant was educated at Ford ...

, American classicist *

Richard Tarrant (politician) Richard Edward Tarrant (born August 6, 1942) is an American businessman and politician. He was the Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from Vermont in 2006, which he lost to U.S. Representative Bernie Sanders. Tarrant and his wife, Deborah, r ...

(born 1942), American businessman and politician *

Robbie Tarrant Robbie Tarrant (born 25 April 1989) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), having previously played for the North Melbourne Football Club. He is the younger ...

(born 1989), Australian footballer *

Shawn Z. Tarrant Shawn Z. Tarrant (born July 30, 1965) is an American politician who represented the 40th legislative district in the Maryland House of Delegates from 2007 to 2015. Tarrant was a member of the House Health and Government Operations Committee, Ins ...

(born 1965), American politician *

Tom Tarrant Tom Tarrant (29 September 1931 – 23 August 2017) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league ...

(born 1931), Australian footballer *

Walter George Tarrant Walter George Tarrant (8 April 1875 – 18 March 1942) was a builder born in Brockhurst in the north of the port town of Gosport, Hampshire, England. He is best known as a Surrey master builder and developer of St Georges Hill and the Wentwor ...

(1875–1942), English developer and builder * William Tarrant (?–1872), British Hong Kong civil servant and journalist

Fictional characters

Del Tarrant This is a list of characters from ''Blake's 7'', a media franchise created by Terry Nation. Kerr Avon Kerr Avon is a fictional character from the British science fiction television series ''Blake's 7'', played by Paul Darrow (who was recreati ...

, a character from ''Blake's 7'', played by Steven Pacey

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