Hale

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Hale can refer to:

[edit] People

Contents 1 People 1.1 Surname 1.2 Given name 1.3 In fiction 2 Places 3 Other uses 4 See also

[edit] Surname

From the Old English h(e)alh - nook, hollow or recess.

There was no single family which first took the name; it emerged independently across many parts of the United Kingdom - they took their name from where they lived. People who lived in a halh, - which was a specialised term for the slightest hollow which could afford shelter to a settlement, as opposed to the larger cumb or valley - could be found all over the country.

• Alan Hale, Sr., American actor
• Alan Hale, Jr., American actor
• Bob Hale (philosopher), British Philosopher
• David Hale (Whitewater)
• Edward Everett Hale, American author and Unitarian clergyman
• Enoch Hale, New Hampshire Militia officer during the American Revolutionary War and brother of colonel Nathan Hale
• Gareth Hale, British comedian
• George Ellery Hale, astronomer, and two craters and a telescope named after him:
  • Hale (lunar crater)
  • Hale (crater on Mars)
  • Hale telescope
• Irving Hale, an American general in the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars
• Sir Matthew Hale (1609 - 1679) Lord Chief Justice of England
• Sarah Josepha Hale, an American writer
• Matthew F. Hale (b. 1971), leader of the white supremacist group formerly known as the World Church
• Nathan Hale, spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
• Nathan Hale (colonel), officer in the 2nd New Hampshire Regiment during the American Revolutionary War
• Ruth Hale (feminist) (1887-1934)
• Ruth Hale (playwright and actress) (1908–2003)
• Terry Lee Hale, an American singer/songwriter
• William Hale (professor), specialist on Turkish politics
• William Gardner Hale, American classical scholar

[edit] Given name

• Hale Irwin, American golfer

[edit] In fiction

• Cornelia Hale, character from W.I.T.C.H.
• Daniel Hale, character from Prison Break
• Jasper Hale and Rosalie Hale, characters from Twilight (novel)
• John Hale, character from The Crucible
• Margaret Hale, heroine of North and South
• Sgt. Nathan Hale, the main character of the PlayStation 3 videogame Resistance: Fall of Man
• Steve Hale, character from Full House

[edit] Places

England

• Hale, Greater Manchester (historically in Cheshire), near Altrincham
• Hale, Halton, in the borough of Halton, Cheshire
• Hale, Hampshire
• Hale, Surrey
• Great Hale and Little Hale (formally, together just known as Hale), in Lincolnshire

United States

• Hale, Colorado
• Hale, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Mount Hale (New Hampshire), a peak in the White Mountains
• Honolulu Hale, Hawaii
• Hale County, Alabama

[edit] Other uses

• Hale (band), a local band in the Philippines
  • Hale, album from OPM band Hale
• Robert Hale, a publishing company
• HALE, a high-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
• Hale School, an independent boys' school in Perth, Western Australia
• Camp Hale, an alpine military training camp in Colorado

[edit] See also

• Hales, in Norfolk, England
• Hales (surname)