Peabody

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Peabody, normally a family name, may also refer to one of the following:

• Peabody Award, for radio and television journalism.
• Peabody (dance), a fast foxtrot-type dance done to ragtime music
• Peabody (band), Australia
• Mr. Peabody, a fictional dog who appeared in the late 1950s and early 1960s television animated series Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show
• Peabody action, a type of firearm action
• Peabody Energy, an American company enganged in the production of coal.

People:

• Elizabeth Peabody (1804-1894), a United States educator.
• Endicott Peabody (1920–1997), a United States politician, Governor of Massachusetts
• George Peabody (1795–1869), a United States entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Peabody Institute and Museum, and later moved to London where he founded the Peabody Trust
• George Foster Peabody (1852–1938), a Southern United States banker and philanthropist
• James Hamilton Peabody, a former governor of the U.S. state of Colorado.
• Michael Douglas Peabody (born 1974), author and attorney.
• Sophia Peabody (1809-1871), a United States painter and illustrator.
• the fictional character Amelia Peabody

Places:

• Peabody, Kansas
• Peabody, Massachusetts
• Peabody Institute, a music conservatory under the auspices of John Hopkins University
• Peabody Museum, a natural history museum at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut
• Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, a museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts