Wakefield (disambiguation)

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Wakefield is the name of several places in the world:

• Wakefield, New South Wales in Australia
• Port Wakefield, South Australia in Australia
• Wakefield Regional Council, around Port Wakefield in Australia
• Division of Wakefield is an Australian electoral division
• Wakefield, Quebec, in Canada
• Wakefield, in Yorkshire, England
• Wakefield Prison in Yorkshire[1]
• Wakefield, New Zealand
• In the United States of America:
  • Wakefield, Kansas
  • Wakefield, Massachusetts
  • Wakefield, Michigan
  • Wakefield, Nebraska
  • Wakefield, New Hampshire
  • Wakefield, Bronx, New York
  • Wakefield, Virginia
  • Wakefield Township, Michigan
  • Wakefield Township, Minnesota
  • Wakefield-Peacedale, Rhode Island, United States of America, sometimes also referred to as Wakefield.

People:

• Andrew Wakefield (born 1957), a Canadian gastroenterologist
• Captain Arthur Wakefield, 1799–1843, who died in the Wairau Affray
• Catherine Gurney Wakefield, 1793-1873
• Dan Wakefield (born 1932), American author
• Daniel Bell Wakefield, 1798-1858
• Edward Gibbon Wakefield, 1796-1862, influential in settling South Australia and New Zealand
• Edward Jerningham Wakefield, 1820-1879, son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield
• Felix Wakefield, 1807-1875
• John Howard Wakefield, 1803-1862
• Tim Wakefield (born 1966), pitcher for the Boston Red Sox
• Colonel William Wakefield,1801-1848, who founded Wellington, New Zealand

Other than a person or place, there is

• Wakefield (band), a rock band
• Wakefield Accelerator, a kind of particle accelerator
• The Battle of Wakefield in the Wars of the Roses, 1460
• Wakefield High School in several places