Dyson

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Dyson may refer to:

[edit] People

• Charles W. Dyson (1861 – 1930), a US Navy Rear Admiral
• Freeman Dyson or one of his relatives:
  • Freeman Dyson, physicist, or the Dyson sphere or Dyson series named after him;
  • George Dyson (composer) (1883-1964), English composer, father of Freeman Dyson
  • Esther Dyson, consultant and philosopher in emerging digital technology, child of Freeman Dyson
  • George Dyson (science historian), science historian, child of Freeman Dyson
• Frank Watson Dyson, astronomer, Early 20th century astronomer who was a director of the Greenwich Observatory;
• James Dyson, inventor of the Dual Cyclone vacuum cleaner, or the company he founded;
• Hugo Dyson, Inkling;
• Jeremy Dyson, writer, including of material for the The League of Gentlemen comedy troupe
• Kevin Dyson, NFL Wide Receiver
• Michael Eric Dyson, University of Pennsylvania professor.
• Ruth Dyson, New Zealand politician.
• Will Dyson, Australian artist, cartoonist and caricaturist.
• Miles Bennett Dyson, fictional character in the Terminator universe.

[edit] Non-people

• Dyson (crater), a crater on the Moon
• Dyson Sphere, a concept of a giant sphere surrounding a star first formalized by Freeman Dyson
• Dyson Aliens, fictional intelligent species in the Commonwealth Saga of science fiction novels books by Peter F. Hamilton
• Dyson tree, a hypothetical tree that can grow on a comet as suggested by Freeman Dyson
• Dyson (appliances), appliance (vacuums) company founded by James Dyson
• Dyson series and Dyson operator, mathematical terms named after the physicist Freeman Dyson
• USS Dyson (DD-572), a US Navy destroyer named after Rear Admiral Charles Dyson
• Dyson's Bus Services, a privately owned bus company in Melbourne, Australia