Kirby
Kirby is a common place name, surname, and given name, derived from Old Norse, meaning church settlement.[1] Other common uses include:
Places
England
- Kirkby, Merseyside (pronounced with a silent k: how to say: /kɝːbi/)
- Kirby Bedon, Norfolk
- Kirby Cane, Norfolk
- Kirby Cross, Essex
- Kirby Grindalythe, North Yorkshire
- Kirby Hill, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
- Kirby Hill, Richmondshire, North Yorkshire
- Kirby Knowle, North Yorkshire
- Kirby Misperton, North Yorkshire
- Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire
- Kirby Sigston, North Yorkshire
- Kirby Wiske, North Yorkshire
- Cold Kirby, North Yorkshire
- Horton Kirby, Kent
- Monks Kirby, Warwickshire
- West Kirby, Merseyside
- see also: Places named Kirkby
United States
- Kirby, Arizona
- Kirby, Arkansas
- Kirby, Georgia
- Kirby, Indiana
- Kirby, Ohio
- Kirby, Oklahoma
- Kirby, Pennsylvania
- Kirby, Texas
- Kirby, Vermont
- Kirby, West Virginia
- Kirby, Wyoming
- Upper Kirby, a commercial district in Houston, Texas
Canada
- Kirby, Ontario
- York Regional Road 29, a regional road in Ontario, in which its western segment is called Kirby Road
People
- Kirby (surname), people with the surname Kirby.
- Kirby (given name), people with the given name Kirby
Also
- List of people with the surname Kirkby
- Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron Hatton of Kirby (c. 1605-1670), English politician
- Christopher Hatton, 2nd Baron Hatton of Kirby (1632-1706), English politician
Buildings, institutions or facilities
- Kirby Castle, a castle in Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, England
- Kirby Hall, an Elizabethan country house located near Corby, Northamptonshire, England
- Kirby Sports Center, a sports arena in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA
- Kirby's Mill, a flour mill located in Medford, New Jersey, USA
- Kirby College of Further Education, now part of Middlesbrough College, North Yorkshire, England
- Kirby Cross railway station, Essex, England
- Kirby Lake Airport, Alberta, Canada
- Kirby Park railway station, a defunct railway station in West Kirby, Merseyside, England
Other uses
Comics
- Kirby Award, an award presented from 1985-1987 for achievements in comic books
- Kirby dots, an artistic convention in comic books
- Rip Kirby, fictional comic strip character created by Alex Raymond
Law
- United States v. Kirby, an 1868 US Supreme Court case regarding statutory construction
- United States v. Kirby Lumber Co., a 1931 US Supreme Court case regarding taxation
- R v Kirby; Ex parte Boilermakers' Society of Australia, a 1956 Australian High Court case regarding the judicial power of the Commonwealth
Mathematics
Miscellaneous
- Kirby Company, the manufacturer of Kirby vacuum cleaners
- Kirby 23, a sailboat designed by Bruce Kirby and produced in the mid-1980s
- Kirby-Bauer antibiotic testing, a medical test
- Kirby wire, a pendulum-based flying system for stage performers
- A fish hook of evenly curved pattern designed by Charles Kirby
- Kirby is the name of the vacuum in The Brave Little Toaster
Games
- Kirby (character), a popular Nintendo video game character
- Kirby (series), the video game series named after the character
- List of Kirby media
- Kirby: Right Back At Ya!, a TV series based on the famous video game character
References
- ↑ Mike Campbell. "Meaning, Origin and History of the Name Kirby". Behind the Name. Retrieved 2010-08-13.