Wilkes may refer to:
Places
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Wilkes, Portland, Oregon
Wilkes is the northeasternmost neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, bordered on the north by the Columbia River and on the east by the city of Gresham, Oregon, Gresham, where it expands into the city as the neighborhood of Wilkes East. It adjoins the ...
, a US neighborhood
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Wilkes County, Georgia
Wilkes County is a county located in the east central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,565. The county seat is the city of Washington.
Referred to as "Washington-Wilkes", the county seat and ...
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Wilkes County, North Carolina
Wilkes County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is a part of the state's western western North Carolina, mountain region. The population was 65,969 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. ...
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Wilkes Basin The Wilkes Basin is a large subglacial basin situated generally southward of George V Coast and westward of Prince Albert Mountains in East Antarctica. The feature is approximately 1400 km long and 400 km wide. The Wilkes Basin is consi ...
, George V Land, Antarctica
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Wilkes Station
Wilkes Station was an Antarctic research station established 29 January 1957 by the United States as one of seven U.S. stations established for the International Geophysical Year (IGY) program in Antarctica. It was taken over by Australia on ...
, Antarctica, a research station
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Battery Wilkes, a historic artillery battery in West Ashley, Charleston, South Carolina
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Wilkes Power Plant, Jefferson, Texas, an electrical power station
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Wilkes Island, islet of
Wake Island
Wake Island (), also known as Wake Atoll, is a coral atoll in the Micronesia subregion of the Pacific Ocean. The atoll is composed of three islets – Wake, Wilkes, and Peale Islands – surrounding a lagoon encircled by a coral reef. The neare ...
in the Central Pacific.
Schools in the United States
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Wilkes University
Wilkes University is a private university in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It has over 2,200 undergraduates and over 2,200 graduate students (both full and part-time). Wilkes was founded in 1933 as a satellite campus of Bucknell University, and bec ...
, Pennsylvania
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Wilkes Community College
Wilkes Community College (WCC) is a public community college in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. It is part of the North Carolina Community College System and serves northwest North Carolina, in Alleghany, Ashe, and Wilkes counties. The college ...
, Wilkesboro, North Carolina
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Wilkes Honors College, Florida
People
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John Wilkes
John Wilkes (17 October 1725 – 26 December 1797) was an English Radicalism (historical), radical journalist and politician, as well as a magistrate, essayist and soldier. He was first elected a Member of Parliament in 1757. In the Middlese ...
, English radical journalist and politician in the late 18th century.
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Wilkes (surname), other people with the surname
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Wilkes Angel
Wilkes Angel (February 26, 1817 in Exeter, Otsego County, New York – February 1889) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
Life
He was the son of William G. Angel and Emily P. (English) Angel (1790–1822). In 1833, he removed wit ...
(1817–1889), New York lawyer and politician
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Wilkes C. Robinson (1925–2015), judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims from 1987 to 1997
Other uses
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Wilkes (horse)
Wilkes was a French Thoroughbred horse racing, racehorse who became a leading sire in Australia. He had two victories, over 1,500 metres in the Prix Sans Souci at Maisons-Laffitte and the 2,000 metres Prix Edgard de la Charm at Saint-Cloud, for 1 ...
(born 1952), Australian thoroughbred
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Wilk
Wilk is a surname of English and Polish-language origin.
In Poland, the surname means wolf and is pronounced . It has 35,000 bearers in Poland and ranks about 60th on the list of the most popular Polish surnames (fifth in Podkarpackie Voivodeship ...
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Wilken Wilken is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Aud Wilken (born 1965), Danish singer
* Brock Wilken (born 2002), American baseball player
* Charles Wilken (1866–1956), Danish actor
* Claudia Ann Wilken (born 1949), United Stat ...
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Wilkens Wilkens is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Andrea Wilkens (born 1984), German footballer
* Ann Wilkens (born 1944), Swedish former journalist, diplomat and ambassador
* April Rose Wilkens (born 1970), American convicted mu ...
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Wilkes Land
Wilkes Land is a large district of land in eastern Antarctica, formally claimed by Australia as part of the Australian Antarctic Territory, though this claim has been held in abeyance for the period of the operation of the Antarctic Treaty, to wh ...
, Antarctica
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Clarie Coast
Clarie Coast, called Wilkes Coast by Australia, () is that portion of the coast of Wilkes Land lying between Cape Morse, at 130°10′E, and Pourquoi Pas Point, at 136°11′E. It was discovered in January 1840 by Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, wh ...
, called Wilkes Coast in Australia
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Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Wilkes-Barre ( , alternatively or ) is a city in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. Located at the center of the Wyoming Valley in Northeastern Pennsylvania, it had a population of 44,328 in the 2020 census. It ...
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Wilkes-Barre Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Wilkes-Barre Township is a township with home rule status in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is adjacent to the city of Wilkes-Barre. The population of the township was 3,219 at the 2020 census.
History Founding
In 1753, the ...
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Wilkes-Barre Variation
Wilkes-Barre ( , alternatively or ) is a city in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. Located at the center of the Wyoming Valley in Northeastern Pennsylvania, it had a population of 44,328 in the 2020 census. It ...
, a chess opening
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Wilks (disambiguation)
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