Weedon may refer to:

Places

England

* Weedon, Buckinghamshire, a village * Weedon Bec, usually called Weedon, a village in Northamptonshire **

Weedon railway station Weedon railway station was located to the north of Weedon Bec in Northamptonshire, England on the West Coast Main Line. It was a junction station, being the starting point of the Weedon to Leamington Spa branch line, with one bay platform dedi ...

, a former railway station located outside of Weedon Bec * Weedon, a locality in

Newcastle-under-Lyme Newcastle-under-Lyme ( RP: , ) is a market town and the administrative centre of the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. The 2011 census population of the town was 75,082, whilst the wider borough had a population of 1 ...

, Staffordshire

Other places

Weedon, Quebec Weedon is a municipality of 2,683 people in Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality Le Haut-Saint-François (; ''The Upper Saint-François t. Francis'' is a regional county municipality in southeastern Quebec, Canada in the Est ...

, a municipality in Canada * Weedon Field, an airport near Eufaula, Alabama, US

People

Surname

Augustus Walford Weedon Augustus Walford (A.W.) Weedon was born in 1838 in London. He was a landscape painter in watercolour, and was the auditor of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1887 when James McNeill Whistler was President. His many scenes included works ...

(1838–1908), English painter *

Basil Weedon Professor Basil Charles Leicester Weedon CBE, FRS (18 July 1923 – 10 October 2003) was an organic chemist and university administrator. Using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, he was the first to map the structures of carotenoid pigme ...

(1923–2003), English chemist *

Bert Weedon Herbert Maurice William Weedon, OBE (10 May 1920 – 20 April 2012) was an English guitarist whose style of playing was popular and influential during the 1950s and 1960s. He was the first British guitarist to have a hit record in the UK ...

(1920–2012), English guitarist and composer *

David Weedon Dr David Weedon, is a physician and dermatopathologist located in Queensland, Australia, where he was born in 1941. He received his MBBS degree in 1966 at the University of Queensland (and later the M.D.), and completed residency training in pa ...

(born 1942), Australian dermatopathologist *

George Weedon George Weedon (1734–1793) was an American soldier during the Revolutionary War from Fredericksburg, Colony of Virginia. He served as a brigadier general in the Continental Army and later in the Virginia militia. After the Revolutionary War e ...

(1734–1793), American soldier *

George Weedon (gymnast) George G. Weedon (3 July 1920 – 22 February 2017) was a British gymnast who competed at two Summer Olympic Games. In 1948 in London he participated in the Men's Individual All-Around, Team All-Around, Floor Exercise, Horse Vault, Parallel Ba ...

(1920–2017), English gymnast * Gerrick Weedon (born 1991), Australian rules footballer *

Harry Weedon Harold William "Harry" Weedon (1887 – 17 June 1970) was a British architect. Although he designed a large number of buildings during a long career, he is best known for his role overseeing the Art Deco designs of the Odeon Cinemas for Oscar Deu ...

(1887–1970), English architect *

Margaret Weedon Margaret Kate Weedon (née Macrae, and formerly ''Mercer'', 31 October 1853 – 19 October 1930) was a British archer who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. She was born in Lewes Lewes () is the county town of East Sussex, E ...

(1853–1930), English archer

Given name

Weedon Grossmith Walter Weedon Grossmith (9 June 1854 – 14 June 1919), better known as Weedon Grossmith, was an English writer, painter, actor, and playwright best known as co-author of ''The Diary of a Nobody'' (1892) with his brother, music hall comedian ...

(1854–1919), English writer, playwright, actor and painter *

Weedon Osborne Weedon Edward Osborne (November 13, 1892 – June 6, 1918) was a United States Navy officer and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War I. He is one of only three dental officers ...

(1892–1918), American Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient

Fictional characters

* Martin and Kate Weedon, an English couple in the British sitcom ''

Benidorm Benidorm is a town and municipality in the province of Alicante, Valencia, on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. Benidorm has been a tourist destination within Spain since 1925, when its port was extended and the first hotels were built, though ...