Ridley
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Ridley can refer to several things:
[edit] Places
- Ridley, Cheshire, a civil parish in Cheshire
- Ridley, a place in Kent
- Ridley, a place in Northumberland
- Ridley College, a boarding and day school in Ontario, Canada
- Ridley College (Melbourne), an Australian evangelical theological college of the Anglican Church of Australia
- Ridley Township, Pennsylvania
[edit] People
- Ridley Scott, film director.
- F. A. Ridley, Marxist, secularist, and writer
- Harold Ridley (ophthalmologist), a pioneer of intraoclular lens implants
- Reverend Harold Ridley (Jesuit) ("Hap"), former President of Loyola College, Maryland
- Yvonne Ridley, Islamic apologist
- Henry Nicholas Ridley, English botanist
- Jasper Ridley, a British writer
- Nicholas Ridley (martyr), an English bishop martyred for his beliefs and support of Lady Jane Grey
- Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, a British politician, a member of Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet
- Mark Ridley (physician) (1560–1624), English physician and mathematician
- Mark Ridley (zoologist) (born 1956), English zoologist
- Matt Ridley, British science writer, financier
- Viscount Ridley, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created in 1900 for Matthew Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley
[edit] Other
- Ridley, a recurring antagonist from the Metroid video game series
- Ridley, the female protagonist in the PS2 game Radiata Stories
- Ridley sea turtle, a genus of sea turtles with two species:
- Ridley Corporation Limited and its subsidiaries including:
- Ridley AgriProducts
- Ridley Inc.
- Ridley (bicycles), a Belgian bicycle brand
- Ridley's Family Markets, an Idaho-based grocery store