Morrison

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Contents 1 Companies 2 Place names 2.1 Settlements in the United States 2.2 Other 3 People 4 Music 5 Ships 6 Buildings and institutions 7 Supreme Court cases 8 Other

Morrison (alternate spellings: Morison, Morrieson or Moryson) may refer to:

[edit] Companies

• Morrisons, a chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom
• Morrison's Cafeteria, a chain of cafeteria-style restaurants located in the southeastern United States
• Morrison & Foerster, an American law firm
• Morrison & Sinclair, a ship building company based in Sydney, Australia
• Morrison Plc, Utility Services and Facilities Management company currently owned by AWG Plc.

[edit] Place names

[edit] Settlements in the United States

• Morrison, Colorado
• Morrison, Illinois
• Morrison, Iowa
• Morrison, Missouri
• Morrison, Oklahoma
• Morrison, Tennessee
• Morrison, Wisconsin
• Morrison Bluff, Arkansas
• Morrison County, Minnesota
• Morrison Ranch, Agoura Hills, California
• Morrison Township, Minnesota

[edit] Other

• Morrison Cove, a valley in Blair and Bedford counties of central Pennsylvania
• Morrison Formation, the primary fossil-bearing location in Dinosaur National Monument
• Morrison Hill, in Hong Kong
• Morrison Road, Perth, a major road running through Perth, Western Australia
• Morrison Street, a shopping street in Beijing, better known as Wangfujing
• Mount Morrison, the name of several mountains
• Alexander Morrison National Park, in in Western Australia
• Morissen, a municipality in the district of Surselva, Switzerland

[edit] People

• List of people with the surname Morrison
• List of people with the surname Morison
• Alexander Morrison (botanist), whose author abbrevation is "Morrison"
• Morrison Waite (1816-1888), former Chief Justice of the United States
• Ronald Hugh Morrieson (1922-1972), New Zealand writer
• Fynes Moryson (1566-1630), English traveller and writer
• Baron Morrison, a title created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
• Clan Morrison, a Scottish clan of the Highlands

[edit] Music

• Morrison Hotel, an album by The Doors
• Morrison Records, an independent Australian jazz record label
• Morrison twin brothers string band, an American folk music group
• Morrison-Williams, an American country music duo
• MoRisen Records, an independent record label based in Charlotte, North Carolina

[edit] Ships

• Morrison, a 19th century American merchant ship (see: Morrison Incident)
• USS Morrison (DD-560), a Fletcher-class destroyer sunk in the Pacific in 1945
• USS Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG-13), a frigate decommissioned in 2002

[edit] Buildings and institutions

• Morrison's Academy, an independent co-educational school based in Crieff, Scotland
• Morrison Christian Academy, a school in Taichung, Taiwan
• Morrison Glace Bay High School, a school in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia
• Morrison Institute, an Arizona State University resource for objective policy analysis and expertise
• Morrison Observatory, an astronomical observatory located in Fayette, Missouri
• Morrison Stadium, a soccer stadium in Omaha, Nebraska

[edit] Supreme Court cases

• Morrison v. Olson (1988), which ruled that the Independent Counsel Act was constitutional
• United States v. Morrison (2000), which ruled that the Violence Against Women Act was unconstitutional

[edit] Other

• Morrison Bridge, a bridge spanning the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon
• Morrison shelter, a type of air-raid shelter