Grantham (disambiguation)
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Grantham is a town in Lincolnshire in the United Kingdom. It may also refer to:
Place names
- United States
- Australia
- Grantham, Queensland
- Grantham County, Western Australia
People
Grantham is an English family name which has been spread to North America and Australasia. People with the surname Grantham include:
- Alexander Grantham (1899–1978), British colonial administrator
- Donald Grantham, American composer
- Jeremy Grantham, Chairman of the Board of Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo, a Boston based asset management firm
- Joseph Grantham (died 1830), first police officer to be killed on duty in the United Kingdom
- Leslie Grantham, British TV actor
- Roy Grantham (1926-2013), British trade union leader
- Sir Thomas Grantham, commander of the naval fleet of the British East India Company
- William Grantham (1835–1911), English judge and Conservative M.P. for East Surrey and Croydon
Other uses
- Grantham University, a proprietary school in the United States
- Grantham (UK Parliament constituency), UK former constituency
- Grantham Matrix, The Grantham matrix predicts the effect of substitutions between amino acids based on chemical properties, including polarity and molecular volume.
- Grantham also known as Grantha alphabet, in Sanskrit means Script/ work of literature. With the same sense, an old indic script is also named as Grantham.
See also
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