Paxton

Paxton may refer to:

Contents 1 Places 1.1 United Kingdom 1.2 United States 1.3 Australia 2 People 3 Business 4 Other

Places

United Kingdom

• Great Paxton, England
• Little Paxton, England
• Paxton, Scottish Borders, UK
• Paxton House, Berwickshire, Scotland
• Paxton's Tower, near the National Botanic Garden of Wales in Carmarthenshire, Wales

United States

• Paxton, California
• Paxton, Florida
• Paxton, Illinois
• Paxton, Indiana
• Paxton, Massachusetts
• Paxton, Nebraska
• Paxton, Pennsylvania
• Paxtang, Pennsylvania (a variation of Paxton)

Townships

• Paxton Township, Minnesota
• Lower Paxton Township, Pennsylvania
• Middle Paxton Township, Pennsylvania
• Upper Paxton Township, Pennsylvania
• Paxton Township, Ross County, Ohio

Natural features

• Paxton Creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania

Schools

• See Carlheim for Margaret Paxton Memorial Learning & Resource Campus, Leesburg, Virginia

Australia

• Paxton, New South Wales

People

Surnames

• Bill Paxton (born 1955), American actor
• Elisha F. Paxton (1828–1863), American Civil War general in the Confederate army
• Gary S. Paxton (born 1938), American musician, producer
• Geoffrey Paxton, Australian Anglican minister
• George Paxton, American 1930s and 1940s big band leader, composer, and arranger
• James Paxton (born 1994), American actor
• John Paxton (1911–1985), American screenwriter
• John Paxton (footballer) (born 1890) English footballer
• John M. Paxton, Jr. (born 1951), United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General, Director for Operations, J-3, Joint Staff
• Sir Joseph Paxton (1803–1865), English architect, designed the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851
• Lonie Paxton (born 1978), American NFL pro football player
• Mike Paxton (born 1953), American MLB pro baseball player
• Richard Paxton (1956–2006), English architect
• Robert Paxton (born 1932), American historian
• Sara Paxton (born 1988), American actress, musician
• Steve Paxton (born 1939), American experimental dancer and choreographer
• Thomas Paxton (1820–1887), Ontario businessman and politician
• Sir Thomas Paxton, 1st Baronet, Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1920 to 1923
• Thomas Paxton (1754–1804), captain of HMS Speedy (1798), lost in Lake Ontario
• Tom Paxton (born 1937), American folk musician, singer-songwriter
• See Paxton's Tower for William Paxton, (1745-1824) London merchant and banker
• William Paxton (Australian businessman)(1818–1893) Englishman who made a fortune in South Australia
• William McGregor Paxton (1869–1941), American artist

Given names

• Paxton Boys, American frontiersmen, vigilantes from Paxtang, Pennsylvania
• Paxton Whitehead, British actor

Fictional

• Emma Paxton, main character in The Lying Game series by Sara Shepard
• John Frederick Paxton, fictional character in Star Trek leading Terra Prime
• Paxton Fettel, main antagonist of F.E.A.R..

Business

• Paxton Automotive, a manufacturer of centrifugal-type superchargers
• Paxton Media Group, owner of WPSD-TV in Paducah, Kentucky, and newspapers such as the Daily Star (Hammond, Louisiana)

Other

• Paxton (genus), a genus of fish from the family Apogonidae
• Paxton Phoenix, a rear-engined prototype car developed in 1953.

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