Tarrant may refer to:
Places
United Kingdom
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River Tarrant
The River Tarrant is a 12 km long tributary of the River Stour, Dorset, River Stour in Dorset. The valley lies to the east of Blandford Forum. The river rises near Cranborne Chase, an area of chalk downland, and flows broadly from north to ...
, a river in Dorset, after which several villages are named:
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Tarrant Crawford, Dorset
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Tarrant Gunville, Dorset
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Tarrant Hinton
Tarrant Hinton is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It is situated in the Tarrant Valley, approximately northeast of Blandford Forum. In 2013 the estimated population of the civil parish was 160.
The villag ...
, Dorset
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Tarrant Keyneston, Dorset
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Tarrant Launceston
Tarrant Launceston is a small village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated in the Tarrant Valley northeast of Blandford Forum. The parish includes part of Blandford Camp to the west and a few buildings on the northern edge of ne ...
, Dorset
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Tarrant Monkton, Dorset
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Tarrant Rawston, Dorset
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Tarrant Rushton, Dorset
United States
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Tarrant, Alabama
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Tarrant, Wisconsin
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Tarrant County, Texas
Tarrant County is located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2020, it had a population of 2,110,640. It is Texas' third-most populous county and the 15th-most populous in the United States. Its county seat is Fort Worth. Tarrant County, one of ...
People
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Ambrose Tarrant (1866–1938), Australian cricketer
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Blair Tarrant (born 1990), New Zealand field hockey player
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Brenton Tarrant (born circa 1990), Australian suspect in Christchurch mosque attacks
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Chris Tarrant
Christopher John Tarrant, (born 10 October 1946) is an English broadcaster, television personality and former radio DJ. He presented the ITV children's television show '' Tiswas'' from 1974 to 1981, and the game show '' Who Wants to Be a Mil ...
(born 1946), British radio broadcaster and television presenter
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Chris Tarrant (footballer)
Chris Tarrant (born 18 September 1980) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club and the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He announced at the end of the 2010 AFL season ...
(born 1980), Australian footballer
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Colin Tarrant
Colin Tarrant (14 June 1952 – 26 January 2012) was an English actor best known for playing Inspector Andrew Monroe in ITV's ''The Bill'' between 1990 and 2002.
Early life and career
Tarrant was born in 1952 in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, and st ...
(1952–2012), British actor
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Dick Tarrant
Richard Joseph Tarrant Jr. (born September 15, 1928) was the head men's basketball coach at the University of Richmond from 1981 through 1993. Tarrant, led the Spiders to five NCAA tournament and four NIT berths in his twelve seasons as head c ...
(born 1931), American basketball coach
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Dorothy Tarrant
Dorothy Tarrant (1885–1973) was a British classical scholar, specialising in Plato. She was the first female Professor of Greek in the United Kingdom, teaching at Bedford College, London from 1909 to 1950. She researched the work of Plato, pione ...
(1885–1973), professor of Greek
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Frank Tarrant (1880–1951), Australian cricketer
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George Tarrant
George Frederick Tarrant (7 December 1838 in Cambridge – 2 July 1870 in Cambridge) was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1860 to 1869. Mainly associated with Cambridge Town Club (''aka'' Cambridgeshire), ...
(1838–1870), English cricketer
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George Tarrant Sr.
George Tarrant, Sr. (February 11, 1838 – July 29, 1905) was an American businessman and politician.
Born in Woolhampton, Berkshire, England, Tarrant emigrated with his parents to the United States, in 1850, and settled in Janesville, Wisco ...
(1838–1904), American politician
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Ingrid Tarrant (born 1954), English television presenter
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Jeffrey Tarrant (1956-2019), American businessman
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John Tarrant (athlete) (1932–1975), English long-distance runner
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Louis Tarrant (1903–?), Australian cricketer
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Margaret Tarrant (1888–1959), English illustrator and children's author
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R. J. Tarrant, American classicist
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Richard Tarrant (politician) (born 1942), American businessman and politician
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Robbie Tarrant
Robbie Tarrant (born 25 April 1989) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), having previously played for the North Melbourne Football Club. He is the younger ...
(born 1989), Australian footballer
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Shawn Z. Tarrant (born 1965), American politician
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Tom Tarrant (born 1931), Australian footballer
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Walter George Tarrant
Walter George Tarrant (8 April 1875 – 18 March 1942) was a builder born in Brockhurst in the north of the port town of Gosport, Hampshire, England. He is best known as a Surrey master builder and developer of St Georges Hill and the Wentwo ...
(1875–1942), English developer and builder
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William Tarrant
William Tarrant (died 26 January 1872; ) was a civil servant and newspaper editor in British Hong Kong. He served as Inspector of Land and Roads and subsequently Registrar of Deeds in the Hong Kong colonial administration from 1842 to 1847, but was ...
(?–1872), British Hong Kong civil servant and journalist
Fictional characters
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Del Tarrant, a character from ''Blake's 7'', played by Steven Pacey
See also
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Tarrant automobile, the first petrol engine motor car built in Australia in 1901
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