Ferris
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Ferris may refer to:
[edit] Places
In Canada:
In the United States:
[edit] People
- Bob Ferris, Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1955)
- George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., inventor of the Ferris wheel
- Hobe Ferris, a dead-ball era baseball player (1877-1938)
- Jeannie Ferris, Liberal Senator for South Australia (1941-2007)
- William D. Ferris, astronomer (b. 1961)
- William H. Ferris, African American journalist and author (1874-1941)
- William R. Ferris, folklorist and scholar of the U.S. South (b. 1942)
- William Ferris (politician), Australian politician
- William Ferris (music), American composer (1937-2000)
- Martin Ferris, a Sinn Féin TD for Kerry North and Irish Republican politician
[edit] See also
- Ferris State University in Michigan
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off, a 1986 movie
- Ferris wheel, an amusement park institution
- Ferris (model railways), a brand of model railway.
- Save Ferris, a third-wave ska band.
- Ferris the Rat, a character in the webcomic Newshounds