Wright Wright is an occupational surname originating in England. The term 'Wright' comes from the circa 700 AD Old English word 'wryhta' or 'wyrhta', meaning worker or shaper of wood. Later it became any occupational worker (for example, a shipwright is ...

an occupational surname originating in England, meaning worker or shaper of wood. Wright or Wrights may also refer to:

Places

Earth

;Australia *

Wright, Australian Capital Territory Wright (postcode: 2611) is a suburb currently under development in the Molonglo Valley district of Canberra, located within the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. It is named in honour of Judith Wright, a poet, environmentalist and Aborigin ...

* Division of Wright, federal electoral division in Queensland *

Electoral district of Wright Wright is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. Named after the 19th century South Australian architect Edmund Wright, it is a suburban electorate in Adelaide's outer north-east, taking in the suburbs ...

, state electoral district in South Australia *

Wright railway station Wright Station is situated on the Puffing Billy Railway, Melbourne, Australia. It opened on 24 October 1904 as part of the Gembrook railway line. It served the Wright Forest and small township of Avonsleigh, and consisted of only a small Mallee ...

, Melbourne * Wright Rock, Tasmanian island in northern Bass Strait ;Canada * Wright, Quebec *

Mont Wright (Quebec) Mont Wright was a mountain in Fermont, Quebec, a site of major iron ore mining operations since the 1970s by Québec Cartier Mining Company. It is located in Caniapiscau Regional County Municipality. Mont Wright itself does not exist anymore; it ...

, mountain near Fermont, Quebec ;United States *

Wright, Florida Wright is a census-designated place (CDP) in Okaloosa County, Florida, United States. The population was 23,127 at the 2010 United States Census. It is part of the Fort Walton Beach– Crestview– Destin Metropolitan Statistical Area. G ...

Wright, Iowa Wright is an unincorporated community in Mahaska County, in the U.S. state of Iowa Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to ...

Wright, Kansas Wright is an unincorporated community in Ford County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the community and nearby areas was 145. History Wright is named for Robert M. Wright, a member of the Kansas House of Represe ...

Wright, Minnesota Wright is a city in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 127 at the 2010 census. Minnesota State Highway 210 serves as a main route in Wright. Wright is located 28 miles west of Cloquet. Wright is located 6 miles we ...

* Wright, New York *

Wright, West Virginia Wright is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. References

Unincorporated communities in West Virginia Unincorporated communities in Raleigh C ...

Wright, Wyoming Wright is a town in Campbell County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 1,807 at the 2010 census. History Ten thousand years ago, the first people came to the high plains to hunt buffalo and antelope. In more recent times, the Sioux a ...

Wright City, Missouri Wright City is a city in Warren County, Missouri, United States. It is located on Interstate 70 at mile marker 200 approximately west of downtown St. Louis. Wright City is a small, semi-rural community area with primarily single-family housing, wi ...

* Wright City, Oklahoma *

Wright County (disambiguation) Wright County is the name of three counties in the United States: *Wright County, Iowa *Wright County, Minnesota *Wright County, Missouri It is also the name of one company: *Wright County Egg, based in Galt, Iowa It is also a historic county in ...

, several counties *

Wright Township (disambiguation) Wright Township may refer to: In Canada * Wright Township, in Cochrane District, Ontario In the United States Indiana * Wright Township, Greene County, Indiana Iowa * Wright Township, Pottawattamie County, Iowa * Wright Township, Wayne County, ...

, several townships

Solar System

1747 Wright 1747 Wright, provisional designation , is a stony asteroid and a sizable Mars-crosser, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 14 July 1947, by American astronomer Carl Wirtanen at Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton near S ...

, asteroid *

Wright (lunar crater) Wright is a lunar impact crater that is located near the western limb of the Moon. It lies on the irregular plain between the Montes Cordillera and Montes Rook, two ring-shaped mountain ranges that surround the Mare Orientale. Just to the southe ...

, Moon *

Wright (Martian crater) Wright is an occupational surname originating in England. The term 'Wright' comes from the circa 700 AD Old English word 'wryhta' or 'wyrhta', meaning worker or shaper of wood. Later it became any occupational worker (for example, a shipwright i ...

, Mars

Art, entertainment, and media

*Pastor Leon Wright, a fictional character in ''The Returned'' (U.S. TV series) *'' Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney'', a game with the name of the titular character for the Game Boy Advance

Brands, enterprises and organizations

* Wright Aeronautical, an American aircraft and aircraft engine manufacturer * Wright Company, the Wright brothers' initial aviation business *

Wright Electric Wright Electric is an American startup company developing an electric airliner. Design The aircraft is to run on batteries and handle flights of under 300 miles. It will feature high aspect-ratio wings for energy efficient flight, distributed el ...

, an American company developing an electric airliner *

Wright State University Wright State University is a public research university in Fairborn, Ohio. Originally opened in 1964 as a branch campus of Miami University and Ohio State University, it became an independent institution in 1967 and was named in honor of aviation ...

, located in Dayton, Ohio *

Wilbur Wright College Wilbur Wright College, formerly known as Wright Junior College, is a public community college in Chicago. Part of the City Colleges of Chicago system, it offers two-year associate's degrees, as well as occupational training in IT, manufacturing, ...

, a community college in Chicago *

Wright's Coal Tar Soap Created by William Valentine Wright in 1860, Wright's Coal Tar Soap was a popular brand of antiseptic soap designed to thoroughly cleanse the skin. It was an orange colour. For over 150 years, Wright’s Coal Tar Soap was a popular brand of ho ...

, a popular brand of antiseptic soap *

Wrightbus Wrightbus is a Northern Ireland based bus manufacturer and a pioneer of the low-floor bus. The company was established in 1946 by Robert Wright and was later run by his son William Wright, until it was acquired in 2019 by British businessman ...

, an Irish bus body manufacturer *

Wrights (textile manufacturers) Wrights is a brand of trim and other textiles for home sewing. It, and its subsidiary Lending Textile, operates using Wright, EZ Quilting, Boye and Bondex as brands. Since November 2017, it has been part of CSS Industries. Wrights was founded in Ma ...

Other uses

Wright (ADL) In software architecture, Wright is an architecture description language developed at Carnegie Mellon University. Wright formalizes a software architecture in terms of concepts such as ''components'', ''connectors'', ''roles'', and ''ports''. The ...

, a software architecture description language developed by Carnegie Mellon University *

Homer Wright rosettes In histopathology, a palisade is a single layer of relatively long cells, arranged loosely perpendicular to a surface and parallel to each other. A rosette is a palisade in a halo or spoke-and-wheel arrangement, surrounding a central core or hub. ...

, a clinical sign of certain types of cancer * USS ''Wright'', the name of two ships of the United States Navy *

Millwright A millwright is a craftsperson or skilled tradesperson who installs, dismantles, maintains, repairs, reassembles, and moves machinery in factories, power plants, and construction sites. The term ''millwright'' (also known as ''industrial mecha ...