Peabody (surname)
Peabody is a surname, and may refer to:
- Elizabeth Peabody (1804–1894), a United States educator
- Endicott Peabody (1920–1997), a United States politician, Governor of Massachusetts
- Endicott Peabody (1857–1944), an American Episcopal priest and founder of the Groton School for Boys.
- Francis Greenwood Peabody (1847-1936), minister and Harvard professor
- F.H. Peabody, former vice-president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway company, the city of Peabody, Kansas is named in his honor.[1]
- Francis Stuyvesant Peabody (1858—1922), businessman, founder of Peabody Energy as Peabody Coal in 1883
- George Peabody (1795–1869), a U.S. entrepreneur, London-based banker and philanthropist who founded the Peabody Institute, Museums, and Trust
- George Foster Peabody (1852–1938), a Southern U.S. banker and philanthropist for whom the Peabody Award is named
- James Hamilton Peabody, a former governor of the U.S. state of Colorado
- Catherine Endicott Peabody (1837-1898), daughter of Joseph Peabody
- Joseph Peabody (1757-1844), Salem shipowner and merchant
- Michael Douglas Peabody (born 1974), author and attorney
- Nathaniel Peabody (1741-1823), a physician from New Hampshire
- Nathaniel Peabody (Boston) (1774-1855), Boston Brahmin
- Nathaniel Peabody (Salem) (1774-1855), father of Elizabeth Palmer, Mary Tyler, Sophia Amelia
- Richard R. Peabody (1892-1936), author of The Common Sense of Drinking, a major influence on Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill Wilson.
- Sophia Peabody Hawthorne (1809–1871), a United States painter and illustrator, wife of author Nathaniel Hawthorne
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