Heath (disambiguation)

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Heath can mean:

Habitats

• Heath or heathland, low-growing woody vegetation, mostly consisting of heathers and related species
• Heaths in the British National Vegetation Classification system
• Heath forest, a type of tropical moist forest found in areas with acidic, extremely nutrient-poor sandy soils

Plants

• Heath family or heather family, Ericaceae
  • Heath, many of the species in the genus Erica
  • Heath, many of the species in the genus Cassiope
  • Heath, either of the two species in the genus Daboecia
  • Australian heath, any of the species in the genus Epacris
  • Beard heath, any of the species in the genus Leucopogon
  • Mountain heath, any of the species in the genus Phyllodoce

Animals

Mammals

• "Heath sheep", Heidschnucke, a North German type of sheep
• Heath sheep, an obsolete term for various British sheep, especially the Scottish Blackface

Invertebrates

• Coenonympha, a genus of brush-footed butterflies whose palearctic species are known as the Heaths, in particular
  • Coenonympha pamphilus, a butterfly native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and Northern Africa known as the Small Heath
  • Coenonympha tullia, a butterfly native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America known as the Large Heath
• Melitaea athalia, a butterfly known as the Heath Fritillary
• Semiothisa clathrata, a moth known as the Latticed Heath

Birds

• Heath Hen (Tympanuchus cupido cupido), an extinct North American bird in the grouse family

Places

• Heath (list of places), list of places with "Heath" in their name

United Kingdom

• Heath, Cardiff, Wales
• Heath, Derbyshire, England
• Heath, Herefordshire
• Heath, Shropshire
• The Heath, Staffordshire
• Heath, West Midlands
• Heath, West Yorkshire

United States

Towns and cities

• Heath, Alabama
• Heath, Indiana
• Heath, Kentucky
• Heath, Massachusetts
• Heath, Montana
• Heath, Ohio
• Heath, Texas

Townships

• Heath Township, Michigan
• Heath Township, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania

People

• Heath (name), list of people with "Heath" as their surname or forename
• Heath (musician) (Hiroshi Morie, born 1968), a Japanese musician
• Edward Heath (1916–2005), a British politician and Prime Minister from 1970-1975.
• Elliot Heath, American distance runner
• Garrett Heath, American distance runner
• Michael Heath (cartoonist) (born 1935), a British cartoonist
• The Heath Brothers, an American band
• Heath Ledger (1979–2008), Australian actor
• Heath L'Estrange (born 1985), Australian Rugby League player

Companies, institutions and organisations

• Allen & Heath, a manufacturer of audio mixing consoles, based in Penryn, Cornwall, UK
• D.C. Heath and Company, a publishing company in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA
• Heath Elementary School (disambiguation)
• Heath Grammar School, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England
• Heath High School (Kentucky), USA (closed in 2013)
• Heath High School (Ohio), USA

Sport

• The Heath GAA, a gaelic football club in County Laois, Ireland

Court cases

• Heath v. Alabama, 478 U.S. 82 (1985), interpreting the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States

Fiction

• Egdon Heath, a fictitious heath in Thomas Hardy's Wessex

Other uses

• Heath bar, a confection
• Heath High School shooting, a 1997 shooting at the Kentucky high school
• Heath Robinson, used to describe an implausibly complex and impractical contraption, named after the cartoons of such machines by W Heath Robinson
• Heath Robinson (codebreaking machine), a codebreaking machine used by the British in the Second World War

See also

• Heathrow (disambiguation)
• Heather (disambiguation)