Wakefield (disambiguation)

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Wakefield is a city in West Yorkshire, England

• City of Wakefield, the metropolitan borough in which this city is located
• Wakefield Prison, located in this city
• Wakefield (UK Parliament constituency), located in this city
• Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, rugby league club located in city.

Wakefield may also refer to:

Contents 1 Places 1.1 In Australia 1.2 In Canada 1.3 In New Zealand 1.4 In the United States 2 People 3 Other uses

[edit] Places

[edit] In Australia

• Wakefield, New South Wales
• Port Wakefield, South Australia
• Wakefield Regional Council, around Port Wakefield
• Division of Wakefield is an Australian electoral division

[edit] In Canada

• Wakefield, Quebec

[edit] In New Zealand

• Wakefield, New Zealand

[edit] In the United States

• Wakefield, Kansas
• Wakefield, Kentucky
• Wakefield, Louisiana
• Wakefield, Massachusetts
• Wakefield, Michigan
• Wakefield, Nebraska
• Wakefield, New Hampshire
• Wakefield, Bronx, New York
• Wakefield, Virginia
• Wakefield Township, Michigan
• Wakefield Township, Minnesota
• Wakefield-Peacedale, Rhode Island, United States of America, sometimes also referred to as Wakefield
• Wakefield Plantation, in Raleigh, North Carolina

[edit] People

the Wakefield family of colonists to New Zealand, Canada and South Australia:

• Captain Arthur Wakefield, 1799–1843, who died in the Wairau Affray, brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield
• Daniel Bell Wakefield, 1798-1858, brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield
• Edward Gibbon Wakefield, 1796-1862, an influential theorist on colonization
• Edward Jerningham Wakefield, 1820-1879, son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, New Zealand politician and author of Adventures in New Zealand
• Edward Wakefield (politician), 1845–1924, son of Felix Wakefield, New Zealand politician and journalist
• Felix Wakefield, 1807-1875, brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield
• Colonel William Wakefield,1801-1848, who founded Wellington, New Zealand, brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield

other Wakefields:

• Andrew Wakefield (born 1957), a Canadian gastroenterologist
• Charles Wakefield, 1st Viscount Wakefield of Hythe, a British peer
• Dan Wakefield (born 1932), American novelist
• Edward Birkbeck Wakefield, 1903–1969, British civil servant and Conservative Member of Parliament
• John Peter Wakefield, 1915-1942, British racing car driver
• Martin Wakefield (born 1972), U.S. military officer and recipient of the Purple Heart for action in Mosul Iraq
• Norman Arthur Wakefield, 1918-1972, Australian naturalist
• Rhys Wakefield, Australian Actor
• H. Russell Wakefield, Author
• S. A. Wakefield (born 1927), Australian author
• Tim Wakefield (born 1966), pitcher for the Boston Red Sox

[edit] Other uses

• Wakefield (band), a rock band
• Wakefield Accelerator, a kind of particle accelerator
• The Battle of Wakefield in the Wars of the Roses, 1460
• Wakefield High School in several places
• Wakefield (short story), a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Vicar of Wakefield, a novel by Oliver Goldsmith
• Wakefield Cycle, A manuscript containing thirty-two Medieval religious plays
• Cushman & Wakefield the commercial real estate company headquartered in New York City.