Dyson

Dyson may refer to:

People

• Andre Dyson (b. 1979), an American football player
• Charles W. Dyson (1861 – 1930), a U.S. Navy rear admiral
• Esther Dyson (b. 1951), consultant and philosopher in emerging digital technology, the daughter of Freeman Dyson (see below)
• Frank Dyson, British rugby league footballer
• Frank Watson Dyson (1868 – 1939), an English astronomer.
• Freeman Dyson (b. 1923), a physicist for whom the Dyson sphere and the Dyson series named
• Geoff Dyson, (d. 1981), the first British chief national coach of athletics for whom the Dyson Award was named
• George Dyson (composer) (1883 – 1964), an English musical composer, the father of Freeman Dyson
• George Dyson (science historian) (born 1953), a science historian, the son of Freeman Dyson
• Hugo Dyson (1896 – 1975), an English academic and a member of the Inklings literary group
• James Dyson (b. 1947), the inventor of the Dual Cyclone vacuum cleaner
  • Dyson (company), the company that James Dyson founded
• Jeremy Dyson (b. 1966), a comedy writer, including of material for The League of Gentlemen comedy troupe
• John Dyson (b. 1954), a coach in the sport of cricket
• John Dyson (judge) (b. 1943), a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
• Kevin Dyson, a split end in the National Football League
• Kina Malpartida, whose real name is Kina Malpartida Dyson, a Peruvian boxer who became the world champion in 2009 in the super featherweight class
• Marianne J. Dyson, an outer space activist, a former NASA mission controller, the author of popular science books for children
• Mia Dyson, an Australian musician
• Michael Eric Dyson, a professor at Georgetown University
• Ruth Dyson, a politician in New Zealand
• Will Dyson, an Australian artist, cartoonist and caricaturist
• William Dyson (1857 – 1936), an English county cricketer

Science

• Dyson sphere, a concept of a giant sphere surrounding a star first formalized by Freeman Dyson
• Dyson tree, a hypothetical tree that can grow on a comet as suggested by Freeman Dyson
• Dyson series and Dyson operator, mathematical terms named after the physicist Freeman Dyson
• Dyson (crater), a crater on the Moon

Companies

• Dyson (company), appliance (vacuums) company founded by James Dyson
• Dyson's Bus Services, a privately owned bus company in Melbourne, Australia

Other

• Dyson Aliens, fictional intelligent species in the Commonwealth Saga of science fiction novels books by Peter F. Hamilton
• Dyson Award, honouring British sports coaches, named for the first UK chief national athletics coach
• James Dyson Award, an international design competition, named for the British Inventor and Industrialist
• USS Dyson (DD-572), a US Navy destroyer named after Rear Admiral Charles W. Dyson
• Miles Bennett Dyson, character from the film Terminator 2 who was the most directly responsible for "Judgement Day"
• Dyson (video game)

See also

• Dysan, storage media company