Baldwin may refer to:

People

Baldwin (name) Baldwin is an Old High German, Old Germanic and Old English, Anglo-Saxon name. It may either derive from ''Bealdwine'', or the Old German equivalent ''Baldavin'', meaning 'brave, bold friend'. Baldwin is known in Old French as ''Baudouin'' and Latin ...

, including a list of people and fictional characters with the surname

Places

Canada

* Baldwin, York Regional Municipality, Ontario * Baldwin, Ontario, in Sudbury District * Baldwin's Mills, Quebec

United States

Baldwin County, Alabama Baldwin County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Alabama, on the Gulf coast. It is one of only two counties in Alabama that border the Gulf of Mexico, along with Mobile County. As of the 2020 census, the popul ...

* Mount Baldwin (California) * Baldwin, Florida *

Baldwin, Georgia Baldwin is a city in Banks and Habersham counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 3,279, up from 2,425 at the 2000 census. Baldwin is located on U.S. Route 441 just south of Georgia State ...

Baldwin County, Georgia Baldwin County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, its population was 43,799. The county seat is Milledgeville, which was developed along the Oconee River. Baldwin County is part ...

* Baldwin, Illinois *

Baldwin, Iowa Baldwin is a city in Jackson County, Iowa, United States. The population was 99 at the 2020 census. History Baldwin was originally called Fremont. The present name is for Edward Baldwin, the original owner of the town site. In 1910, Baldwin c ...

Baldwin City, Kansas Baldwin City is a city in Douglas County, Kansas, United States, about south of Lawrence. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 4,826. The city is home to Baker University, the state's oldest four-year university. Histor ...

Baldwin, Louisiana Baldwin is a town in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 2,436 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, down from 2,497 in 2000 United States Census, 2000. It is part of the Morgan City, ...

* Baldwin, Maine *

Baldwin, Maryland Baldwin is an unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The USPS has assigned Baldwin the ZIP Code 21013. Until 1958, this community was served by the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad at milepost 18.4. Hidden Valle ...

* Baldwin, Cambridge, Massachusetts * Baldwin, Michigan *

Baldwyn, Mississippi Baldwyn, officially the City of Baldwyn, is a city in Lee County, Mississippi, Lee and Prentiss County, Mississippi, Prentiss counties, Mississippi, United States. It is located in the northern part of the Tupelo micropolitan area. Founded in ...

* Baldwin (town), New York, in Chemung County * Baldwin (hamlet), New York, in Nassau County ** Baldwin station *

Baldwin, North Dakota Baldwin is an Unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated community in western Burleigh County, North Dakota, Burleigh County, North Dakota, United States. It lies along U.S. Route 83 in North Dakota, U.S. Route 83 north of the city of Bism ...

Baldwin, Pennsylvania Baldwin is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. Part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, the borough's population was 21,510 as of the 2020 census. History The borough was named for Henry Baldwin (1780–1844), a U.S. ...

Baldwin, Wisconsin Baldwin is a village in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, St. Croix County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 4,291 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The village is adjacent to the Baldwin (town), Wisconsin, Town of Baldwin. ...

Baldwin (town), Wisconsin Baldwin is a town in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, St. Croix County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 903 at the United States Census 2000, 2000 census. The Baldwin, Wisconsin, Village of Baldwin is located partially within the town. Th ...

Other places

Baldwin Street Baldwin Street, in Dunedin, New Zealand, is located in the residential suburb of North East Valley, northeast of Dunedin's central business district. ''Guinness World Records'' calls it the steepest street in the world, meaning no street ga ...

, in Dunedin, New Zealand, the world's steepest street * Baldwin Hills, neighborhood in Los Angeles, California *

Montgomery, Powys Montgomery ( ; translates as ''the town of Baldwin'') is a town and Community (Wales), community in Powys, Wales. It is the traditional county town of the Historic counties of Wales, historic county of Montgomeryshire to which it gives its name, ...

, named in Welsh "Trefaldwyn", meaning "The Town of Baldwin"

Businesses and organisations

Companies

Baldwin Locomotive Works The Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW) was an American manufacturer of railway locomotives from 1825 to 1951. Originally located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it moved to nearby Eddystone, Pennsylvania, Eddystone in the early 20th century. The com ...

, one of the world's largest builders of steam locomotives in the 19th and 20th centuries *

Baldwin Piano Company The Baldwin Piano Company is an American piano brand. It was once the largest US-based manufacturer of keyboard instruments and was known by the slogan, "America's Favorite Piano". , it has been a subsidiary of Gibson Brands, Inc. Baldwin ceas ...

, once the largest manufacturer of pianos and keyboard instruments in the US

Schools

Baldwin Boys' High School Baldwin Boys' High School (abbreviated BBHS, informally referred to as Baldwins) is a private boys school for boarders and day scholars, founded in 1880 in Bangalore, India. The school is run by the Methodist Church in India under the chair ...

, Bangalore, India *

Baldwin Girls' High School Baldwin Girls' High School (BGHS), founded in 1880, is an all-girls Methodist school and one of the oldest in Bangalore, India. The school follows the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education syllabus and has classes from pre-nursery up to the ...

, Bangalore, India * The Baldwin School, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Other uses

Baldwin (apple) The Baldwin apple is a bright red winter apple, very good in quality, and easily shipped. It was for many years the most popular apple in New England, New York, and for export from the United States of America. No apple in the vicinity of Boston ...

* The Baldwin Brothers, a Chicago-based electronica band *

Baldwin the Eagle Baldwin the Eagle, an anthropomorphized bald eagle, is the mascot of the Boston College Eagles. The nickname "Eagles" goes back to 1920 when Rev. Edward McLaughlin, unhappy at seeing a newspaper cartoon which represented Boston College as a cat ...

, official mascot of Boston College * Baldwin's Tower in Tsarevets, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria *

Baldwin's rules Baldwin's rules in organic chemistry are a series of guidelines outlining the relative favorabilities of ring closure reactions in alicyclic compounds. They were first proposed by Jack Baldwin (chemist), Jack Baldwin in 1976. Baldwin's rules dis ...

, guidelines about the formation ring closure reactions *

Baldwin effect In evolutionary biology, the Baldwin effect describes an effect of learned behaviour on evolution. James Mark Baldwin and others suggested that an organism's ''ability to learn'' new behaviours (e.g. to acclimatise to a new stressor) will affect ...

, a process by which environmental adaptation becomes a genetic one * Baldwin guinea pig, a hairless breed similar to a Skinny pig