Dyson
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Dyson may refer to:
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[edit] People
- Andre Dyson (b. 1979), American Football player
- Charles W. Dyson (1861 – 1930), a US Navy Rear Admiral
- George Dyson (composer) (1883-1964), English composer, father of Freeman Dyson
- Freeman Dyson (b. 1923), physicist, or the Dyson sphere or Dyson series named after him
- Esther Dyson (b. 1951), consultant and philosopher in emerging digital technology, daughter of Freeman Dyson
- George Dyson (science historian) (born 1953), science historian, son of Freeman Dyson
- Freeman Dyson (b. 1923), physicist, or the Dyson sphere or Dyson series named after him
- Frank Watson Dyson (1868 – 1939), English astronomer.
- James Dyson (b. 1947), inventor of the Dual Cyclone vacuum cleaner
- Dyson (company), the company he founded
- Hugo Dyson (1896–1975), an English academic and a member of the Inklings literary group
- Jeremy Dyson (b. 1966), writer, including of material for the The League of Gentlemen comedy troupe
- Kevin Dyson, NFL Wide Receiver
- Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown University professor
- Ruth Dyson, New Zealand politician.
- Will Dyson, Australian artist, cartoonist and caricaturist
- Miles Bennett Dyson, fictional character in the Terminator universe
- Clare Dyson, Australian Dance Choreographer
- Marianne J. Dyson, space activist, former NASA mission controller, author of popular science books for children
[edit] Science
- Dyson Sphere, a concept of a giant sphere surrounding a star first formalized by Freeman Dyson
- Dyson tree, a hypothetical tree that can grow on a comet as suggested by Freeman Dyson
- Dyson series and Dyson operator, mathematical terms named after the physicist Freeman Dyson
- Dyson (crater), a crater on the Moon
[edit] Companies
- Dyson (company), appliance (vacuums) company founded by James Dyson
- Dyson's Bus Services, a privately owned bus company in Melbourne, Australia
[edit] Other
- Dyson Aliens, fictional intelligent species in the Commonwealth Saga of science fiction novels books by Peter F. Hamilton
- USS Dyson (DD-572), a US Navy destroyer named after Rear Admiral Charles W. Dyson
- Miles Bennett Dyson, character from the film Terminator 2 who was the most directly responsible for "Judgement Day"