Whitefield may refer to:
Places
India
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Whitefield, Bangalore
Whitefield is a neighbourhood of Bangalore in the state of Karnataka, India. Established in the late 1800s as a settlement for the Eurasians and Anglo Indians of Bangalore, Whitefield remained a quaint little settlement at the eastern periphery o ...
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Whitefield (Bangalore) railway station
Whitefield railway station (station code: WFD) is an Indian Railways train station located in Whitefield, Bangalore, in the Indian state of Karnataka, which is about 8 km away from the Krishnarajapuram railway station and serves the Whitefi ...
United Kingdom
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Whitefield, Dorset, England, a
United Kingdom location
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Whitefield, Greater Manchester
Whitefield is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England. It lies on undulating ground above the Irwell Valley, along the south bank of the River Irwell, southeast of Bury, and northwest of Manchester. Prestwic ...
, England
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Whitefield, Perthshire, Scotland, birthplace of the writer
James Browne
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Whitefield, Somerset, England, a
United Kingdom location
United States
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Whitefield, Maine
Whitefield is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,408 at the 2020 census. Whitefield is named for the celebrated British evangelist George Whitefield, who inspired the colonists before the town was settled in 177 ...
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Whitefield, New Hampshire
Whitefield is a town in Coös County, New Hampshire, United States, in the White Mountains Region. The population was 2,490 at the 2020 census. Situated on the northern edge of the White Mountains, Whitefield is home to the Mount Washington Re ...
, a New England town
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Whitefield (CDP), New Hampshire
Whitefield is a census-designated place (CDP) and the main village in the town of Whitefield in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States. The population of the CDP was 1,460 at the 2020 census, out of 2,490 people in the entire town of Whitefi ...
, village in the town
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Whitefield, Oklahoma
Whitefield is a town in northwestern Haskell County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 391 at the 2010 census, compared with the figure of 231 recorded in 2000. It was named for Methodist bishop George Whitefield (1714 - 1770).
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Whitefield Township, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota
Whitefield Township is a township in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 571 at the 2000 census.
History
Whitefield Township was organized in 1870, and named for Edwin Whitefield, an artist who visited the area with ex ...
People
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Aaron Whitefield
Aaron James Whitefield (born 2 September 1996) is an Australian professional baseball outfielder for the Sioux Falls Canaries of the American Association of Professional Baseball. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the ...
(born 1996), Australian professional baseball player
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Edwin Whitefield
Edwin Whitefield (September 22, 1816 – December 26, 1892) was a landscape artist who is best known for his lithographed views of North American cities and for a number of illustrated books on colonial homes in New England.
Born in East ...
, 19th century landscape artist
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George Whitefield
George Whitefield (; 30 September 1770), also known as George Whitfield, was an Anglican cleric and evangelist who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement.
Born in Gloucester, he matriculated at Pembroke College at th ...
, Methodist evangelist (1714–1770)
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Karen Whitefield
Karen Whitefield (born 8 January 1970, Bellshill
Bellshill (pronounced "Bells hill") is a town in North Lanarkshire in Scotland, southeast of Glasgow city centre and west of Edinburgh. Other nearby localities are Motherwell to the south, ...
, Scottish Labour politician
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Patrick Whitefield
Patrick Whitefield (born Patrick R. Vickers, 11 February 1949 – 27 February 2015) was a British permaculture teacher, designer, author, and consulting editor for '' Permaculture Magazine''. He was regarded as one of the leading and pioneering ...
, British permaculture expert
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Stephen Whitefield Sykes (1939-2014), Church of England bishop and academic
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Whitfield (surname)
Whitfield is a surname of Old English and Anglo-Saxon origins deriving from ''hwit'' (white or chalky) and ''feld'' (open lands). It can also be an Americanized or Anglicised form of the German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname Weissfeld, composed of t ...
, list of people surnamed Whitfield
Schools
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Whitefield Christian Schools
Whitefield Christian Schools is a private educational institution registered with the Ontario Ministry of Education, established in 1989.
Influential people include:
* Dr. Larry Saunders - administrator and pastor of Toronto Free Presbyterian
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, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Whitefield Academy (Missouri), Kansas City, Missouri, United States
See also
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Whitfield (disambiguation)
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