Blackstone

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People named Blackstone:

• Harry Blackstone, Sr. (1885–1965), a famous American magician known as "The Great Blackstone" and father of Harry Blackstone, Jr.
• Harry Blackstone, Jr. (1934–1997), popular stage magician and television performer of the late 20th century
• Jerry Blackstone, director of choirs at the University of Michigan
• Tessa Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone
• William Blackstone (1723–1780), English jurist
• William Blackstone, aka William Blaxton (1595–1675), early English settler in New England
• William Eugene Blackstone
• William Seymour Blackstone
• Timothy Blackstone, Chicago Railroad and Stock Yard President

Places named Blackstone:

• Australia
  • Blackstone, Queensland in Queensland, Australia

• Canada
  • Blackstone River (Yukon) in the Yukon

• United States
  • Blackstone, Massachusetts
  • Blackstone, Providence, Rhode Island, a neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island
  • Blackstone Valley, a river valley, and National Heritage Corridor in Massachusetts and Rhode Island
  • Blackstone, Virginia

Other uses of Blackstone:

• Blackstone Group, a private equity firm
• Blackstone Library, Chicago's 1st Public Library
• Blackstone Hotel, a famous Chicago Hotel
• Blackstone Fortress, a type of space station in the fictional universe of Warhammer 40,000
• Blackstone, a codename for ColdFusion 7.0 - Beta of ColdFusion MX 7.0, a product of Macromedia
• Blackstone, in reference to the Black P. Stones
• Blackstone, a fictional mining town in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game.

• The Commentaries on the Laws of England, a major legal text of the seventeenth century, are often referred to as "Blackstone" or "Blackstone's Commentaries"
• The Blackstones, was the name of a proposed spin-off of the Flintstones about a black family in the Stone Age.^{[citation needed]}