Digby
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Digby may refer to:
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[edit] Geographic locations
- United Kingdom
- Digby, Devon, Devonshire village
- Digby, Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire village
- Canada
- Digby, Nova Scotia, town
- Digby, Nova Scotia (municipal district), eastern half of Digby County
- Digby County, Nova Scotia
- Digby Neck, peninsula in Digby County
- Digby (electoral district), a former federal electoral district in Nova Scotia (1867-1914)
- Digby and Annapolis, a former federal electoral district in Nova Scotia (1917-1935)
- Digby—Annapolis—Kings, a former federal electoral district in Nova Scotia (1935-1949 and 1953-1968)
- Digby—Yarmouth, a former federal electoral district in Nova Scotia (1949-1953)
- Digby (provincial electoral district), a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia (1867-1993)
- Digby-Annapolis, a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia (1993-present)
[edit] People
[edit] Surname
- Anne Digby, prolific British children's author
- Baron Digby, title in the Peerage of Ireland
- Edward Digby, for various people with the same given name
- Everard Digby, one of those involved in the abortive 1605 Gunpowder Plot to assassinate King James I of England and VI of Scotland
- Fraser Digby, retired English goalkeeper
- George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, eldest son of John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol and his wife Beatrice Walcott
- Henry Digby, for various people with the same given name
- Horace J. Digby, American humor writer and winner of the Robert Benchley Society Award for Humor
- Jane Digby, English aristocrat who lived a life of wild adventure
- John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, English diplomat and a moderate royalist during the English Civil War
- Kenelm Digby, author and privateer in 1600s Britain and France
- Kenelm Henry Digby, Anglo-Irish writer born at Clonfert in Ireland
- Kristian Digby, British TV presenter
- Marié Digby, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist
- Robert Digby, for various people with the same given name
- Robert James Thomas Digby-Jones, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Simon Digby, for various people with the same given name
- Suzi Digby, British conductor, musician and teacher
- William Digby, for various people with the same given name
[edit] Given name
- Digby Anderson, founder and former director of the Social Affairs Unit
- Digby Denham, Premier of Queensland, Australia
- Digby Fairweather, British jazz trumpeter and cornettist
- Digby Ioane, Australian rugby union footballer
- Digby Jephson, cricketer who played for Cambridge University and Surrey
- Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham, British businessman and politician
- Digby Mackworth Dolben, English poet who died young in an accident
- Digby McLaren, Canadian geologist and palaeontologist
- Digby Morrell, former Australian rules footballer
- Digby Pearson, British musician who founded Earache Records
- Digby Tantam, British Psychiatrist and Professor of Psychotherapy
- Digby Willoughby, for various people with the same given name
[edit] Other
- Digby (band), a Louisville, Kentucky power pop band
- B-18 Bolo, a bomber used by the United States Army Air Corps and the Royal Canadian Air Force was referred to as a Digby
- Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World, a 1973 film starring Jim Dale
- Salu Digby, a fictional character in the Legion of Super-Heroes
- Digby and the Lake Monster, a children's picture book written and illustrated by Dom Cioffi
- The Digby Theatre, located in Longlowong, New South Wales
- Digby Stuart College, one of the four constituent colleges of Roehampton University
- Albert Fitzwilliam Digby, Dan Dare's batman from the UK comic book science fiction series from the 1950s and 60s
- Digby, pen name of the writer of Hullabaloo, an influential liberal blog.
[edit] See also
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