Marshall

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Not to be confused with Marshal.

Not to be confused with Marshalls.

Marshall may refer to:

• Marshall Aerospace, an aerospace contractor based in Cambridge, England
• Marshall Amplifiers, a well-known brand of guitar electronics
• Marshall Cavendish is a subsidiary of Times Publishing Group, publisher of books, directories, magazines and partworks.
• Marshall Pottery, the largest producer of red clay pottery in the United States
• Marshall scholarship, awarded to graduating American undergraduates by the British government, in commemoration of the Marshall Plan
• Marshall University, a university in Huntington, West Virginia
• Marshall, Sons & Co. of Gainsborough, manufacturers of steam traction engines and the Field Marshall range of tractors
• In computer science, marshalling is the process of preparing data to be transferred over a network or between different programming languages

Marshall may also be a:

[edit] Placename

Marshall is the name of several places in the United States of America:

• Marshall, Alaska
• Marshall, Arkansas
• Marshall, California
• Marshall, Illinois
• Marshall, Indiana
• Marshall, Michigan
• Marshall, Minnesota
• Marshall, Missouri
• Marshall, Oklahoma
• Marshall, New York
• Marshall, North Carolina
• Marshall, Texas
• Marshall, Virginia
• Marshall, Wisconsin
  • Marshall, Dane County, Wisconsin
  • Marshall, Richland County, Wisconsin
  • Marshall, Rusk County, Wisconsin

• Marshall County, Alabama
• Marshall County, Illinois
• Marshall County, Indiana
• Marshall County, Iowa
• Marshall County, Kansas
• Marshall County, Kentucky
• Marshall County, Minnesota
• Marshall County, Mississippi
• Marshall County, Oklahoma
• Marshall County, South Dakota
• Marshall County, Tennessee
• Marshall County, West Virginia

It is also the name of a suburb of Geelong, Australia:

• Marshall, Victoria

Marshall is also a part of the name of:

• Marshalltown, Iowa
• Marshallville, Ohio
• Marshallton, Pennsylvania

The Republic of the Marshall Islands is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean. This was the location of several crucial battles in WW-II, and then the location of numerous A-Bomb and H-bomb tests.

See also Marshall Township.

[edit] Surname

• Alan Marshall, Australian writer, story teller and social documentor
• Alan John (Jock) Marshall (1911-1967), Australian author, academic and ornithologist
• Alfred Marshall (1842–1924), influential English economist
• Erin Marshall (also known by the stage name "Erin Angel"; born 1987), English female professional wrestler
• Frank Marshall
  • Frank Marshall (1877–1944), American chess grandmaster
  • Frank Marshall (movie producer) (born 1946), American film producer and director
• George Marshall (1880–1959), former United States Army General, United States Secretary of State, United States Secretary of Defense; author of the Marshall Plan
• Gordon Marshall, British sociologist; current Vice Chancellor of the University of Reading
• Grant Marshall, aka "Daddy G", British trip-hop musician best known for his work with Massive Attack
• Humphrey Marshall (1760–1841), American politician from the state of Kentucky
• Humphry Marshall (1722–1801), American botanist
• J. Howard Marshall (1905–1995), Texas oil magnate, married to Anna Nicole Smith at the time of his death
  • E. Pierce Marshall (1939–2006), son of J. Howard Marshall
  • J. Howard Marshall III, son of J. Howard Marshall
• Jack Marshall
  • Jack Marshall (1912–1988), Twenty-eighth Prime Minister of New Zealand
  • Jack Marshall (Canadian politician) (1919–2004)
• John Marshall
  • John Marshall (1755–1835), former United States Secretary of State and long-time Chief Justice of the United States
  • John Marshall (archaeologist) (1876–1958), British archaeologist who worked in India
  • John Marshall (British captain) (born 1748), after whom the Marshall Islands were named
• Leonard Marshall, American professional football player, formerly with the NFL
• Max Marshall (1913-1993), American baseball player
• S.L.A. Marshall, American historian
• Thomas R. Marshall (1854–1925), Twenty-eighth Vice President of the United States of America
• Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993), prominent American attorney and a Long-term Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

[edit] Given name

• Marshall Faulk, American football player.
• Marshall Rosenbluth, American physicist.
• Marshall Bruce Mathers III, American rapper more commonly known as Eminem.
• Marshall Hillman, The occult God of souls spends time in hell and registers the souls to saint peter.