Wollaston may refer to:

Places

Antarctica

* Cape Wollaston, Palmer Archipelago

Australia

* John Wollaston Anglican Community School, private school in Kelmscott, Perth, Western Australia * Wollaston, Western Australia, suburb of Bunbury, Western Australia * Wollaston Island (Western Australia), off the coast of Kimberley

Canada

* Wollaston, Ontario, a township * Wollaston Islands (Nunavut) * Wollaston Peninsula, split between Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada * Wollaston Lake, lake in north-eastern Saskatchewan ** Wollaston Lake Airport * Wollaston Lake, Saskatchewan, a village

Chile

* Wollaston Islands, group of islands near Cape Horn

England

* Wollaston, Northamptonshire ** Wollaston School * Wollaston, Shropshire * Wollaston, West Midlands

Greenland

* Wollaston Foreland, peninsula in Northeast Greenland

United States

* Wollaston (Quincy, Massachusetts), neighborhood in Quincy, Massachusetts ** Wollaston (MBTA station), MBTA station ** Wollaston Beach, public beach ** Wollaston Theatre, historic building * Mount Wollaston, various locations in Quincy, Massachusetts

Moon

Wollaston (crater) Wollaston is a relatively small lunar impact crater located in the Oceanus Procellarum. To the northwest is the similar Nielsen. To the southeast is the somewhat larger Krieger. There are several small rilles to the southwest of Wollaston, f ...

, lunar crater

People

* Arthur Wollaston (1865–1933), English footballer, played for Aston Villa * Sir Arthur Naylor Wollaston KCIE (1842–1922), Superintendent of Records, India Office * Belinda Wollaston (born 1983), Australian musical theatre actor * Charles Wollaston (1849–1926), English footballer, played for Wanderers and England * Charlton Wollaston (1733–1764), English physician * Charlton James Wollaston, English, of ''Wollaston et Compagnie'', building the first international submarine telegraph cable (Dover-Calais) in 1851 with engineer Thomas Russell Crampton * Francis Wollaston (scientist) (1694–1774) * Francis Wollaston (astronomer) (1731–1815) * Francis Wollaston (philosopher) (1762–1823) * George Wollaston (1738–1826), Fellow of the Royal Society * Gerald Wollaston (1874–1957), officer of arms at the College of Arms in London * Sir Harry Wollaston (1846–1921), Australian public servant * James Wollaston (1873–1918), English footballer, played for Small Heath * John Wollaston (clergyman) (1791–1856), Anglican clergyman in Western Australia * John Wollaston (painter), English-born American portraitist * Richard Wollaston, English sea captain and pirate * Sandy Wollaston (1875–1930), British explorer * Dr Sarah Wollaston (born 1962), British general practitioner and MP for Totnes (2010–2019) * Thomas Vernon Wollaston (1822–1878), English entomologist and malacologist * Tullie Cornthwaite Wollaston, opal dealer credited with introducing the claret ash to Australia at Raywood, Aldgate, SA * William Wollaston (1659–1724), English philosophical writer * William Wollaston (Ipswich MP elected 1733) (1693–1764) * William Wollaston (Ipswich MP elected 1768) (1730–1797) *

William Hyde Wollaston William Hyde Wollaston (; 6 August 1766 – 22 December 1828) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium. He also developed a way to process platinum ore into malleable i ...

(1766–1828), English chemist, physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society

Other

* Wollaston Medal, awarded for work in geology *

Wollaston prism A Wollaston prism is an optical device, invented by William Hyde Wollaston, that manipulates polarized light. It separates light into two separate linearly polarized outgoing beams with orthogonal polarization. The two beams are polarized accor ...

, optical device, invented by William Hyde Wollaston * Wollaston's roundleaf bat, species of bat in the family Hipposideridae