Tarrant may refer to:
Places
United Kingdom
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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:
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Tarrant Crawford
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 ne ...
, Dorset
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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
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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
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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 ...
, Dorset
United States
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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 ...
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Tarrant, Wisconsin
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Tarrant County, Texas
Tarrant County is located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2020, it had a population of 2,110,640. It is Texas' third-most populous county and the 15th-most populous in the United States. Its county seat is Fort Worth. Tarrant County, one of 2 ...
People
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Ambrose Tarrant (1866–1938), Australian cricketer
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Blair Tarrant (born 1990), New Zealand field hockey player
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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
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Chris Tarrant
Christopher John Tarrant, (born 10 October 1946) is an English broadcaster, television personality and former radio DJ. He presented the ITV (TV network), ITV children's television show ''Tiswas'' from 1974 to 1981, and the game show ''Who Wa ...
(born 1946), British radio broadcaster and television presenter
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Chris Tarrant (footballer)
Chris Tarrant (born 18 September 1980) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club and the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He announced at the end of the 2010 AFL season ...
(born 1980), Australian footballer
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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
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Dick Tarrant
Richard Joseph Tarrant Jr. (born September 15, 1928) was the head men's basketball coach at the University of Richmond from 1981 through 1993. Tarrant, led the Spiders to five NCAA tournament and four NIT berths in his twelve seasons as head c ...
(born 1931), American basketball coach
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Dorothy Tarrant
Dorothy Tarrant (1885–1973) was a British classical scholar, specialising in Plato. She was the first female Professor of Greek in the United Kingdom, teaching at Bedford College, London from 1909 to 1950. She researched the work of Plato, pione ...
(1885–1973), professor of Greek
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Frank Tarrant (1880–1951), Australian cricketer
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George Tarrant
George Frederick Tarrant (7 December 1838 in Cambridge – 2 July 1870 in Cambridge) was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1860 to 1869. Mainly associated with Cambridge Town Club (''aka'' Cambridgeshire), ...
(1838–1870), English cricketer
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George Tarrant Sr.
George Tarrant, Sr. (February 11, 1838 – July 29, 1905) was an American businessman and politician.
Born in Woolhampton, Berkshire, England, Tarrant emigrated with his parents to the United States, in 1850, and settled in Janesville, Wiscon ...
(1838–1904), American politician
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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
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Jeffrey Tarrant (1956-2019), American businessman
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John Tarrant (athlete) (1932–1975), English long-distance runner
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Louis Tarrant (1903–?), Australian cricketer
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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
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R. J. Tarrant, American classicist
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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
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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
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Shawn Z. Tarrant (born 1965), American politician
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Tom Tarrant (born 1931), Australian footballer
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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 Wentwo ...
(1875–1942), English developer and builder
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William Tarrant
William Tarrant (died 26 January 1872; ) was a civil servant and newspaper editor in British Hong Kong. He served as Inspector of Land and Roads and subsequently Registrar of Deeds in the Hong Kong colonial administration from 1842 to 1847, but was ...
(?–1872), British Hong Kong civil servant and journalist
Fictional characters
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Del Tarrant, a character from ''Blake's 7'', played by Steven Pacey
See also
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Tarrant automobile
The Tarrant automobile was the first motor car built in Victoria, Australia and the first petrol engine motor car built in Australia.
History
Colonel Harley Tarrant built his first car in 1901. After a small number of motor vehicles were built, i ...
, the first petrol engine motor car built in Australia in 1901
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