Leighton
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Leighton may refer to:
[edit] Places
In Australia:
- Leighton, Western Australia, a beachside locality in Western Australia
In the United Kingdom:
- Leighton, Cambridgeshire
- Leighton, Cheshire
- Leighton, North Yorkshire
- Leighton Reservoir, a small reservoir near Leighton North Yorkshire
- RSPB Leighton Moss, English nature reserve
- Leighton Buzzard, a town in Bedfordshire, England
- Leighton House Museum, a museum in London
- Leighton Library, an historic library in Dunblane, Scotland
In the United States:
[edit] People
With the surname "Leighton":
- Alexander Leighton (1587-1644), Scottish physician and infamous puritan pamphleteer
- Alexander H. Leighton (b. 1908)
- Edmund Blair Leighton (1853-1922), English painter
- Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (1830-1896), English painter and sculptor
- F. Thomson Leighton, computer scientist and co-founder of Akamai Technologies
- Baron Leighton of St Mellons, UK peerage title
- Jim Leighton, Scottish footballer
- Kenneth Leighton, English composer
- Laura Leighton (b. 1968), US actor
- Robert Leighton (1611-1684), Scottish prelate
- Warner E. Leighton, film editor, mainly for Hanna-Barbera
With the given name "Leighton":
- Leighton Rees (1940-2003), Welsh dart player
- Leighton James (b. 1953), Welsh footballer
- Leighton Baines (b. 1984), English footballer
- Leighton Meester (b. 1986), American actress