Florence (disambiguation)

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Florence is the capital city of the region of Tuscany, Italy.

Florence may also refer to:

[edit] Places

In Canada

• Sainte-Florence, Quebec

In the United States:

• Florence, Alabama
• Florence, Arizona
• Florence, California
• Florence, Colorado
• Florence, Illinois
• Florence, Kansas
• Florence, Kentucky
• Florence, Massachusetts
• Florence, Minnesota
• Florence, Mississippi
• Florence, Missouri
• Florence, Montana
• Florence, New York
• Florence, Oregon
• Florence, South Carolina
• Florence, South Dakota
• Florence, Texas
• Florence, Wisconsin
• see also: Florence Township
• see also: Florence County
• see also: New Florence

[edit] People

Florence is a feminine name derived from the Latin verb floreo, meaning "to flower", in the sense of a blossom. In olden times it was sometimes a masculine name or a surname and usually derived from the name of the Italian city of that name.

• Florence Beatrice Price, African-American composer and teacher
• Florence Nightingale, a pioneer of modern nursing
• Hercules Florence, a French/Brazilian artist and inventor of photography
• Tyler Florence, a celebrity chef and TV host
• Florence Kelley, an American social reformist and feminist
• Florence King, a Mississippi author
• Florence Mills, actress in 1920s black theatre and the Harlem Renaissance
• Florence Harding, the wife of American president Warren G. Harding
• Florence Sabin (1871-1953), anatomist and pathologist, first female professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School
• Florence Beaumont, one of eight Americans known to have set themselves on fire in protest of the Vietnam war
• Florence Henderson, an American actress and singer
• Florence Ballard, an African-American singer
• Florence Knapp, an American supercentenarian
• Florence Lawrence, an inventor and actress, referred to as "The First Movie Star"
• Florence Griffith Joyner, an American athlete in track and field
• Florence Foster Jenkins, an American soprano
• Florence LaBadie, a Canadian silent movie actress
• Florence Marjorie Robertson, a British actress and singer

[edit] Other

• Hurricane Florence, the name of several tropical cyclones
• Florence, a character in the children's television programme The Magic Roundabout and it's movie adaptation.
• Florence (computers) is an Apple Computer IIGS emulator written in Java 1.3 [1]
• Florentine (pigeon), a breed of domestic pigeons from Florence
• Florentine, a Martial arts fighting style which uses a sword in each hand
• ADX Florence, a supermax prison in Florence, Colorado USA