Weldon may refer to:
Places
In Canada:
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Weldon, Saskatchewan
Weldon (Canada 2016 Census, 2016 population: ) is a List of villages in Saskatchewan, village in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Kinistino No. 459 and Division No. 15, Sas ...
In England:
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Weldon, Northamptonshire
Weldon is a suburban village and civil parish on the eastern outskirts of Corby, Northamptonshire, England. It is two miles away from Corby. The village is listed in the Domesday Book as 'Weledene', in the Colby Hundred. The head of the manor ...
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Weldon, Northumberland
In the United States:
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Weldon, Arkansas
Weldon is a town in Jackson County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 75 at the 2010 census.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, th ...
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Weldon, California
Weldon is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California, United States. It sits at the southeast tip of Lake Isabella. Weldon is located east-southeast of Wofford Heights, at an elevation of . The population was 2,642 at the 201 ...
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Weldon, Illinois
Weldon is a village in Nixon Township, DeWitt County, Illinois, United States. The population was 369 at the 2020 census.
Geography
According to the 2010 census, Weldon has a total area of , all land.
Demographics
As of the 2020 census the ...
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Weldon, Iowa
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Weldon, North Carolina
Weldon is a town in Halifax County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,655 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.
History
In 1752, Daniel Weldon purchased 1,273 acre ...
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Weldon Township, Michigan
Weldon Township is a civil township of Benzie County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 542 at the 2010 census. The township is in the south central portion of the county. One half of the village of Thompsonville is located in the ...
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Weldon, Texas
People
People named Weldon, Welldon or Wheldon
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Anthony Weldon, English courtier and politician
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Caroline Weldon
Caroline Weldon (born Susanna Karolina Faesch; December 4, 1844March 15, 1921) was a Swiss-American artist and activist with the National Indian Defense Association. Weldon became a confidante and the personal secretary to the Lakota Sioux Ind ...
(1844–1921), Swiss-American artist and activist
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Casey Bill Weldon, American blues musician
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Christopher Joseph Weldon
Christopher Joseph Weldon (September 6, 1905 – March 19, 1982) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts from 1950 to 1977.
In 2020, an investigation by the Diocese of ...
, American Roman Catholic bishop
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Curt Weldon
Wayne Curtis Weldon (born July 22, 1947) is an American politician. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 2007, representing the 7th district of Pennsylvania. He was defeated in November 2006 ...
, former American Congressman (R-PA), involved in various national security roles
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Dan Wheldon
Daniel Clive Wheldon (22 June 1978 – 16 October 2011) was a British motor racing driver who won the 2005 IndyCar Series Drivers' Championship for Andretti Green Racing (AGR). He won the Indianapolis 500 in 2005 and 2011, and was co-winner ...
, British racecar driver who won 2 Indianapolis 500 races
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Dave Weldon
David Joseph Weldon (born August 31, 1953) is an American politician and physician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing , and was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination in Flori ...
, American Congressman (R-FL)
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Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon CBE, FRSL (born Franklin Birkinshaw; 22 September 1931 – 4 January 2023) was an English author, essayist and playwright.
Over the course of her 55-year writing career, she published 31 novels, including ''Puffball'' (1980), '' Th ...
, British writer
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Felix de Weldon
Felix Weihs de Weldon (April 12, 1907 – June 3, 2003) was an American sculptor. His most famous pieces include the United States Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial, 1954) in the Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, US, and the Mala ...
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Fred Wheldon
George Frederick Wheldon (1 November 1869 – 13 January 1924) was an English sportsman. He was sometimes known as Fred or Freddie Wheldon. In football, he was an inside-forward with good footwork and an eye for goal who played for England and ...
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George Weldon
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Georgina Weldon
Georgina Weldon (née Thomas; 24 May 1837 – 11 January 1914) was a British litigant and amateur soprano of the Victorian era.
Early years
She was born at Tooting Lodge, Clapham Common in 1837, one of seven children and the oldest daughter bo ...
, British campaigner against the lunacy laws
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Huw Wheldon
Sir Huw Pyrs Wheldon, (7 May 1916 – 14 March 1986) was a Welsh broadcaster and BBC executive.
Early life
Wheldon was born on 7 May 1916 in Prestatyn, Flintshire, Wales. He was educated at Friars School, Bangor, at the time an all-boys g ...
, British TV presenter and executive
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James Welldon
James Edward Cowell Welldon (25 April 1854 – 17 June 1937) was an English clergyman and scholar. He was Bishop of Calcutta from 1898 to 1902, Dean of Manchester from 1906 to 1918, and Dean of Durham from 1918 to 1933.
Early life
Welldon was ...
(1854–1937), English clergyman and scholar, Bishop of Calcutta from 1898 to 1902
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James Welldon (cricketer)
James Turner Welldon (3 August 1847 – 6 February 1927) was an English first-class cricketer active 1867 to 1869 who played for Kent and Cambridge University. He was born in Tonbridge; died in Ashford, Kent.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricke ...
(1847–1927), English cricketer
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Jo Weldon
Jo Weldon (born 1962), commonly known as Jo Boobs or Jo Boobs Weldon, is a performer, author, activist, and educator based in New York City. Weldon's body of work centers around stripping and striptease. She established and runs The New York Sch ...
, American performer
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Joan Weldon
Joan Weldon (born Joan Louise Welton; August 5, 1930 – February 11, 2021) was an American actress and singer in film, television, and theatre.
Early years
Weldon was born in San Francisco, California in 1930. Her grandmother, Olio Cornell, rai ...
(born Joan Louise Welton; 1930–2021), American actress and singer
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John Weldon (disambiguation) John Weldon may refer to:
* John Weldon (animator) (born 1945), Canadian animator
* John Weldon (musician) (1676–1736), British musician
* John Wesley Weldon
John Wesley Weldon (ca 1809 – 1885) was a lawyer, judge and political figure i ...
, several people
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Juliet Wheldon
Dame Juliet Louise Wheldon DCB, QC (26 March 1950 – 2 September 2013) was a British civil servant, latterly (as of 2009) the legal adviser to Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England. From July 2000 until 2006 she was the first Britis ...
, British civil servant
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Mark Weldon
Mark Rhys Weldon (born 19 September 1967) is a New Zealand businessman and swimmer.
Education
Born in Auckland, Weldon has Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Arts, and Master of Commerce (First Class Hons) degrees from the University of Auckla ...
, New Zealand CEO and former swimmer
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Paul Weldon
Paul Weldon is a Canadian musician architect and graphic artist from Toronto, Ontario.
Weldon was a founding member of the Canadian band Edward Bear, which had Top 5 hits in Canada and charted well in the United States. and worldwide. Weldon was ...
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Richard B. Weldon Jr., American politician
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Thomas Weldon (disambiguation), several people
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Walter Weldon
Walter Weldon FRS FRSE (31 October 183220 September 1885) was a 19th-century English industrial chemist and journalist. He was President of the Society of Chemical Industry 1883/84.
Life
He was born in Loughborough on 31 October 1832, the son ...
, British chemist, developer of the
Weldon process The Weldon process is a process developed in 1866 by Walter Weldon for recovering manganese dioxide for re-use in chlorine manufacture. Commercial operations started at the Gamble works in St. Helens in 1869. The process is described in considera ...
in chlorine manufacture
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Raphael Weldon
Walter Frank Raphael Weldon FRS (15 March 1860 – 13 April 1906), was an English evolutionary biologist and a founder of biometry. He was the joint founding editor of ''Biometrika'', with Francis Galton and Karl Pearson.
Family
Weldon was th ...
, British statistician
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William Weldon (officer of arms)
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William C. Weldon, CEO of Johnson & Johnson
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Weldon L. Kennedy, former Deputy Director of the FBI
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Weldon Santos de Andrade, Brazilian football player
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J. Weldon Jones, American administrator and acting High Commissioner to the Philippines
Other uses
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Weldon’s bark-grinding mill, a type of bark mill
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D. B. Weldon Library
Western Libraries is the library system of the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. In 1898, the university Senate appointed James Waddell Tupper as the University of Western Ontario's first University Librarian. In 1918, John Davis ...
at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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Weldon Park Academy, also in London
See also
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Welden (surname)
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Welton (disambiguation)
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