Wakefield (disambiguation)

In England, Wakefield may refer to:

• The City of Wakefield, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England
  • Wakefield, West Yorkshire, or Wakefield proper, an urban settlement within the City of Wakefield
  • Wakefield Prison, located in this city
  • Wakefield (UK Parliament constituency), located in this city
  • Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, rugby league club located in city
  • Diocese of Wakefield, Church of England diocese based in the city

Wakefield may also refer to:

Contents 1 Places 1.1 In Australia 1.2 In Canada 1.3 In Jamaica 1.4 In New Zealand 1.5 In the United States 2 People 3 Other uses

Places

In Australia

• Wakefield, New South Wales
• Wakefield Street, Adelaide, in Adelaide, South Australia
• Port Wakefield, South Australia
• Wakefield Regional Council, including Port Wakefield, South Australia
• Division of Wakefield, an Australian electoral division

In Canada

• Wakefield, Quebec

In Jamaica

• Wakefield, Jamaica

In New Zealand

• Wakefield, New Zealand

In the United States

• Wakefield, Kansas
• Wakefield, Kentucky
• Wakefield, Louisiana
  • Wakefield (Wakefield, Louisiana), listed on the NRHP in Louisiana
• Wakefield, Massachusetts
  • Wakefield Historic District, listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts
  • Wakefield (MBTA station)
• Wakefield, Michigan
• Wakefield, Nebraska
• Wakefield, New Hampshire
• Wakefield, Bronx, New York
• Wakefield, Virginia
• Wakefield, Wisconsin, a ghost town
• Wakefield Township, Michigan
• Wakefield Township, Minnesota
• Wakefield Township, Dixon County, Nebraska
• Wakefield-Peacedale, Rhode Island, sometimes also referred to as Wakefield
• Wakefield Plantation, in Raleigh, North Carolina

People

• Andrew Wakefield (born 1957), a former British gastroenterologist known for fraudulent research
• Captain Arthur Wakefield (1799–1843), who died in the Wairau Affray, brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield
• Charity Wakefield (born 1980), English actress
• Charles Wakefield, 1st Viscount Wakefield of Hythe, a British peer
• Daniel Wakefield (1776–1846), writer on political economy.
• Daniel Bell Wakefield (1798–1858), brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield
• Edward Wakefield (1774–1854) was an English philanthropist and statistician
• Edward Wakefield (politician) (1845–1924), son of Felix Wakefield, New Zealand politician and journalist
• 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 (1903–1969), British civil servant and Conservative Member of Parliament
• Elsie Maud Wakefield, English mycologist
• Felix Wakefield (1807–1875), brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield
• Gilbert Wakefield (1756–1801), English scholar and controversialist.
• Howard Wakefield, American football player
• Humphry Wakefield, English baronet
• James Wakefield, United States politician
• John Allen Wakefield, United States politician and military leader
• John Peter Wakefield (1915–1942), British racing car driver
• Norman Arthur Wakefield (1918–1972), Australian naturalist
• Priscilla Wakefield (nee Priscilla Bell, 1751–1832), author
• Richard Wakefield American poet, and literary critic.
• Rhys Wakefield, Australian actor
• Robert Wakefield (died 1537), English linguist and scholar.
• H. Russell Wakefield, author
• Peter Wakefield (disambiguation)
• S. A. Wakefield (1927–2009), Australian author
• Tim Wakefield (born 1966), pitcher for the Boston Red Sox
• Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal, British politician
• Colonel William Wakefield (1801–1848), who founded Wellington, New Zealand, brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield

Other uses

• Battle of Wakefield in the Wars of the Roses, 1460
• Cushman & Wakefield, a commercial real estate company headquartered in New York City
• Wakefield (band), an American rock band
• Wakefield, a term for the area following a laser pulse in plasma acceleration
• "Wakefield", an 1837 short story published in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales
• "Wakefield", a 2008 short story by E. L. Doctorow
• Wakefield Cycle, a manuscript containing thirty-two Medieval religious plays
• Wakefield High School in several places
• Wakefield Press, a South Australian publishing company
• The Vicar of Wakefield, a novel by Oliver Goldsmith

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