Kent (disambiguation)

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Kent may refer to:

Contents 1 Counties 2 Education 3 Municipalities 4 Other places 5 People 6 Fictional characters 7 Transportation 8 Other uses 9 History

[edit] Counties

• County of Kent, England
• Chatham-Kent, Ontario (formerly Kent County)
• Kent County, Delaware
• Kent County, Maryland
• Kent County, Michigan
• Kent County, New Brunswick
• Kent County, Rhode Island
• Kent County, Texas
• New Kent County, Virginia

[edit] Education

• Kent State University, Ohio, United States of America
• University of Kent at Canterbury
• Kent City School District, a school district in the State of Ohio
• Kent School District, a school district in the State of Washington
• Kent School, a private high school in Kent, Connecticut

[edit] Municipalities

• Kent, British Columbia
• Kent, Connecticut
• Kent, Iowa
• Kent, Illinois
• Kent, Indiana
• Kent, Minnesota
• Kent, New York
• Kent, Ohio
• Kent, Oregon
• Kent, Texas
• Kent, Washington
• Kent City, Michigan

[edit] Other places

• Fort Kent, Maine
• Kent Acres, Delaware
• Kent City, Michigan
• Kent Group of islands, in Bass Strait, Australia
• Kent Island, Maryland
• Kent Narrows, Maryland
• Kentville, Nova Scotia

[edit] People

• Alexander Kent, pseudonym of Douglas Reeman and author of naval novels
• Arthur Kent, Canadian television journalist
• Arthur Atwater Kent, engineer and inventor
• Barbara Kent
• Bobby Kent
• Brad Kent
• Bruce Kent
• Bryan Kent
• Charles Foster Kent
• Chris Kent
• Clark Kent (producer)
• Corita Kent, artist and nun
• Dean Kent
• Don Kent (meteorologist)
• Douglas Kent
• Edgiva of Kent
• Edward Kent (1802-1877), Governor of Maine
• Enid Kent
• Ernie Kent
• Everett Kent (1888-1963), US Congressman from Pennsylvania
• Fred Kent
• Heather Paige Kent
• Jack Kent
• Jacob Ford Kent
• James Kent (Chancellor Kent) (1763-1847), the legal scholar for whose family Kent, New York, is named
• James Tyler Kent, physician
• Jason Kent
• Jeff Kent, LA Dodgers baseball player
• Jim Kent
• Joan of Kent
• John Kent
• John A. Kent
• Jon Kent
• Joseph Kent (1779-1837), Governor and US Senator and Congressman from Maryland
• Julia Kent
• Julie Kent
• Kelvin Kent (mountaineer)
• Kelvin Kent (writer), pseudonym of Henry Kuttner
• Kent Kim (NY)
• Klark Kent
• Margaret Kent
• Martha Kent
• Martin Kent
• Mary Kent
• Moss Kent (1766-1838), US Congressman from New York
• Necdet Kent
• Nick Kent
• Parker Kent
• Patricia Kent, fictional character
• Paul Kent
• Paul Kent (swimmer)
• Peter Kent, Global news reporter
• Quark Kent
• Rockwell Kent, artist
• Rolfe Kent
• Samuel B. Kent
• Sarah Kent
• Saul Kent
• Sean Kent
• Sherman Kent
• Simon Gipps-Kent
• Stacey Kent
• Stephen A. Kent
• Stephen Kent (chemist)
• Stephen Kent (musician)
• Thomas Kent
• Thomas Worrall Kent
• Trevor Kent
• Tyler Kent
• William Kent (c.1685-1748), an architect
• William Kent (seaman), Commander of the ship Supply
• William Kent (politician) (1864-1928), US Congressman from Pennsylvania

[edit] Fictional characters

• Kent (Fire Emblem), a fictional character from the Fire Emblem series
• Kent Brockman, TV news anchor on "The Simpsons"
• Ariella Kent
• Clark Kent, the secret identity of Superman
• Darren Kent,
• Earl of Kent, character in Shakespeare's King Lear
• Jonathan Kent (comics), Superman's foster father
• PC Gabriel Kent, fictional character
• The Kents, fictional characters from The Kent Family Chronicles

[edit] Transportation

• HMS Kent, a ship
• Ford Kent engine is an engine used in for instance Ford Anglia
• Old Kent Road and New Kent Road in London
• Kent Street (Ottawa), a major downtown street in Ottawa
• Kent Station (OC Transpo), a bus stop in Ottawa's downtown transit corridor.

[edit] Other uses

• Kent (cigarette), a cigarette brand, first to introduce smoke filters in 1952
• Kent (band), a Swedish rock band
  • Kent (album), their first album
• Kent, a card game
• Duke of Kent
• Kingdom of Kent
• Earl of Kent
• Kent State shootings
• Kent Applicative Operating System, a computer operating system
• Kent Recursive Calculator, a programming language
• Kent Building Supplies, a Canadian retail hardware chain

[edit] History

The name comes from the Kingdom of Kent, and probably from the Cantiaci tribe.