Ferguson

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Contents 1 People 2 Fictional characters 3 Placename 4 Companies and products 5 Other uses 6 See also

Ferguson may refer to:

[edit] People

Main article: Ferguson (name)

[edit] Fictional characters

• Samuel Ferguson, aeronaut protagonist of Jules Verne's novel Five Weeks in a Balloon.
• John "Scottie" Ferguson, main character in Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo.

[edit] Placename

• Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, USA

[edit] Companies and products

• Ferguson-Brown, a tractor produced by David Brown Ltd. based on a design by Harry Ferguson
• Ferguson Enterprises, a provider of plumbing, HVAC and safety equipment.
• Ferguson rifle, a rifle produced in the late 1770s and used in the American Revolutionary War
• Ferguson Company (also known as the Ferguson-Brown Company), a manufacturer of tractors from 1934 to 1953
• Ferguson Radio Corporation, an electronics company purchased by THORN Electrical Industries in 1936
• Ferguson Research Ltd., a manufacturer of racing cars and 4WD transmission systems
• Ferguson Shipbuilders, a shipbuilding company based in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde
• Ferguson TE20 (also known as the "little grey Fergie"), a British tractor designed by Harry Ferguson
• Massey-Ferguson, a manufacturer of tractors from 1953 to the present, formed by the merger of Ferguson Company and Massey-Harris Company

[edit] Other uses

• Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 U.S. Supreme Court Case regarding racial segregation
• Ferguson meteorite of 1889, landed in North Carolina, USA (see meteorite falls)
• Ferguson Center for the Arts, performing arts center at Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia, USA
• Ferguson River, disambiguation

[edit] See also

• Fergusson