Pearson

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Pearson may refer to:

In places:

• Pearson, California, an unincorporated community
• Pearson, Georgia, a US city
• Pearson, Texas, an unincorporated community in the US
• Pearson, Victoria, a ghost town in Australia.

Other:

• Pearson PLC, the media conglomerate
• Pearson Yachts
• Toronto Pearson International Airport in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• Pearson Field Airport in Vancouver, Washington, USA
• Pearson Education, an international publisher of textbooks.

People with the surname Pearson:

• Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, Nobel peace prize laureate and father of modern peacekeeping
• John Pearson III, White House staffer
• John Loughborough Pearson, English architect
• Pearson (surname)

[edit] See also

• Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, a Canadian NGO supporting international peace
• Pearson's correlation coefficient
• Pearson's chi-square test, a statistical procedure whose results are evaluated by reference to the chi-square distribution
• Pearson Field Airport
• Pearson Air Museum
• Pearson v. Chung, $67 million lawsuit over a pair of pants
• Pearson's Candy Company, chocolate and confectionary manufacturer
• Pearson's Magazine, a British literary magazine