Abbot (disambiguation)

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An abbot is the head of a monastery.

Abbot as a surname may refer to

• Abiel Abbot (1770-1828), American pastor
• Bec Abbot, Canadian singer
• Benjamin Abbot (1788-1849), American schoolteacher* Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), American photographer
• Charles Greeley Abbot (1872-1973), an American astrophysicist, astronomer and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
• Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester (1757-1829), British statesman
• Charles Abbot, 2nd Baron Colchester (1798-1867), British Conservative politician
• Charles Abbot (botanist) (1761-1817), British botanist and entomologist
• Charles S. Abbot (born 1945), American naval admiral
• Edwin Hale Abbot (1834-1927), American lawyer and railroad executive
• Ezra Abbot (1819-1894), American Biblical scholar
• Francis Ellingwood Abbot, (1836–1903), philosopher and theologian.
• George Abbot, one of several people including
  • George Abbot (Archbishop of Canterbury) (1562-1633), Archbishop of Canterbury (George Abbot School)
  • George Abbot (English writer) (1603?-1648), English Puritan writer
• Henry Abbot (died 1597), English Catholic martyr
• Henry Larcom Abbot (1831-1927), American military engineer
• Joel Abbot (1793-1855), American naval officer
• John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1805 - 1877), American author
• John Abbot (1751-1840), American entomologist
• Jude Abbot, British musician
• Laura Abbot, American writer
• Maurice Abbot (died 1540), British merchant, brother of George Abbot the Archbishop
• Nick Abbot, British radio presenter
• Robert Abbot, one of several people including
  • Robert Abbot (1560-1617), Bishop of Salisbury
  • Robert Abbot (1588-1622), Puritan theologian
  • Robert Abbott (born 1933), American game designer
  • Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870-1940), American lawyer and publisher
• Russ Abbot (born 1947), English musician, comedian, and actor
• Stuart Abbot (born 1986), Scottish footballer
• Theophilus C. Abbot (1826-1892), American college president
• William Abbot (1798-1843), British actor
• William Abbot, English Catholic martyr William Knight
• Willis J. Abbot (1863-1934), American journalist and writer

Places

• Abbot, Illinois, located in Pope County, Illinois, USA
• Abbot, Maine, located in Piscataquis County, Maine, USA.

Other

• Abbot (crater), a lunar impact crater named for Charles Greeley Abbot
• FV433 Abbot SPG, a British Army vehicle of the post war period
• Abbot, a Great Western Railway 4-4-0 broad gauge steam locomotive
• Abbot Mills, a nineteenth- and early twentieth-century worsted mill complex in Forge Village, Westford, Massachusetts.
• Abbot (framework), Abbot Java GUI Test Framework
• Leon Abbot, an Artemis Fowl character.

[edit] See also

• Abbott