Halley
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Halley may refer to:
[edit] People
- Edmond Halley (1656 – 1742), English Astronomer Royal
- Paul Louis Halley (1934 – 2003), French businessman
- Peter Halley (born 1953), American abstract painter
- Dave Halley (born 1986), English Rugby League player
- Jen Halley, actress, Diana Seelix on Battlestar Galactica
- Paul Halley, pianist, organist, and composer, former member of Paul Winter Consort
- Sid Halley, fictional detective from Dick Francis's novels
- Robert Halley, C19th English Nonconformist minister, educationalist and abolitionist
- Halley Feiffer, actress, Sophie Greenberg in The Squid and the Whale
[edit] Science
- Halley's Comet, whose period was first calculated by Edmond Halley
- Halley Armada, a group of space probes sent to examine Comet Halley in 1986
- Halley (lunar crater), a lunar crater named after Edmond Halley
- Halley Research Station, British research facility on the Weddell Sea in Antarctica