Garrison (disambiguation)

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A garrison is a unit of troops or its headquarters.

Garrison can also refer to:

• Garrison (band), a post-hardcore band from Boston (1996–2004)
• Garrison Keillor (born 1942), American author and radio host of Prairie Home Companion
• Garrison flag, a type of flag
• Garrison Siberry (born 1939), an Irish photographer made famous by his provocative pictures of everyday objects
• Garrison (architecture), a type of house
• Garrison (song), a song by 764-HERO

Place names

• Garrison, County Fermanagh, a small village in Northern Ireland
• Garrison, Minnesota, a small town on Lake Mille Lacs in Minnesota
• Garrison, New York, a village in New York, across the Hudson River from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point
• Garrison, North Dakota, a small town in North Dakota
• The Garrison, a military post on the Caribbean island of Barbados].
• The Garrison Savannah, a horse racetrack on the Caribbean island of Barbados].
• Garrison, Utah, a small town near the Utah/Nevada border in Utah

As a surname:

• Carol Garrison, American educator and academic administrator; President of the University of Alabama at Birmingham as of 2002
• Fielding H. Garrison, an American scholar of the history of medicine
• Ford Garrison (1915–2001), Major League Baseball outfielder
• Jim Garrison (1921–1992), Louisiana district attorney, investigator of John F. Kennedy assassination
• Lane Garrison (born 1980), American actor
• William Garrison (geographer) (born 1924), American civil engineer and geographer
• William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879), American abolitionist leader
• William F. Garrison, United States Army Major General

As the name of a fictional person:

• Garrison, a fictional character from the comic book Battle Chasers
• Herbert Garrison, aka Mr./Mrs. Garrison, a fictional character from the television program South Park