Fessenden may refer to:

People

Fessenden (surname) Fessenden is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Anna Parker Fessenden (1896–1972), American botanist, math educator * Beverly Fessenden (1926-2008), known as the actress Beverly Garland * Francis Fessenden (1839–1907), America ...

* Larry Fessenden (born March 23, 1963), an American actor, producer, writer, director, film editor, and cinematographer *

Fessenden Nott Otis Fessenden Nott Otis (6 March 1825 –24 May 1900) was an American physician, pioneer in the medical field of urology, and art collector. He studied art in New York and was a teacher of drawing and perspective before entering medical school. Medi ...

(1825-c. 1900), American pioneer in the medical field of urology *

Reginald Fessenden Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6, 1866 – July 22, 1932) was a Canadian-born inventor, who did a majority of his work in the United States and also claimed U.S. citizenship through his American-born father. During his life he received hundre ...

(1866-1932) Canadian/American inventor *

Stirling Fessenden Stirling Fessenden (29 September 1875 – 1 February 1944), an American lawyer who practised in Shanghai, was the chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council from 1923 to 1929 and then Secretary-General of the Council from 1929 to 1939. Early lif ...

(1875-1944), lawyer and Chairman/Secretary General of the Shanghai Municipal Council *

Susan Fessenden Susan Fessenden (, Snowden; December 10, 1840 – September 12, 1932) was an American temperance worker, characterized as a progressive thinker upon all lines of reform. She served as president of the Massachusetts Woman's Christian Temperance Un ...

(1840–1932), American activist, reformer *

William P. Fessenden William Pitt Fessenden (October 16, 1806September 8, 1869) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. Fessenden was a Whig (later a Republican) and member of the Fessenden political family. He served in the United States House ...

(1806-1869) Senator and Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln

Places

Fessenden, North Dakota Fessenden is a town in, and the county seat of, Wells County, North Dakota, United States. It was founded in 1893 and is home of the Wells County Fair. The population was 462 at the 2020 census. History Fessenden was founded in 1893 with the ...

, a city * 15939 Fessenden, an asteroid named after Reginald Fessenden * Fessenden, a fictional princedom in Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince fantasy novel series

Other uses

* USS ''Fessenden'' (DE-142), a destroyer escort which served in World War II, named in honor of Reginald Fessenden * Fessenden School, a private day and boarding school for boys in West Newton, Massachusetts * Fessenden (guitars), a

pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than any previous steel guitar design. Like all steel guitars, it can ...

manufacturer *

Fessenden oscillator A Fessenden oscillator is an electro-acoustic transducer invented by Reginald Fessenden, with development starting in 1912 at the Submarine Signal Company of Boston. It was the first successful acoustical echo ranging device. Similar in operating ...

, an underwater sound projector {{disambiguation