Kerr
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Kerr may refer to:
[edit] People
- Origin
- Surname
- Given name
[edit] Fictional characters
- Kerr Avon, fictional character from the British science fiction television series Blake's 7, played by actor Paul Darrow
[edit] Places
- Kerr, Montana, A US census-designated place
- Kerr County, Texas, USA
[edit] Other uses
- Alief Kerr High School, a public magnet school in Houston, Texas, USA
- Dick, Kerr & Co., locomotive manufacturer based in Scotland and England
- Kerr Arboretum and Botanical Area, near Talihina, Oklahoma, USA
- Kerr cell shutter, photography
- Kerr Dam, near Polson, Montana, USA
- Kerr effect, the quadratic electro-optic effect
- Kerr Hall, on the campus of Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
- Kerr Lake or the John H. Kerr Dam and Reservoir in Virginia
- Kerr metric - In general relativity
- Kerr's Noctuid Moth, butterfly found in USA
- Kerrs Patent Revolver, unusual 5-shot single-action revolver
- Kerr's Pink, potato cultivar
- Kerr's Plane, evergreen plant
- Kerr Stuart & Co Ltd was a locomotive manufacturer in England
- Kerr-lens modelocking - a method of modelocking lasers
- Kerr-McGee, an energy company
- Kerr-Newman rotating black hole
- Kerr-Tar Regional Council of Governments in North Carolina, US
- Magneto-optic Kerr effect one of the magneto-optic effects
- Reid Kerr College, Paisley, Scotland
- Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway, New York, NY, USA