# Atherton

Atherton may refer to:

## Places
### Australia

* Atherton, Queensland, a town on the Atherton Tablelands of Far North Queensland
* Atherton Tableland, a fertile plateau in Queensland
* Shire of Atherton, a former local government area of Queensland on the Atherton Tableland
** Atherton Courthouse
** Atherton Performing Arts Theatre, former military depot and now theatre
** Atherton War Cemetery, built in 1942
** Atherton War Memorial, memorial at Kennedy Highway

### Canada

* Atherton, Ontario, a hamlet in Norfolk County, Ontario
* Mount Atherton, a mountain in Yukon

### Malaysia

* Ladang Atherton, part of the electoral district N.31 Bagan Pinang, Port Dickson

### United Kingdom

* Atherton, Greater Manchester, town in Wigan district, historically in Lancashire, England
** Atherton (ward), electoral ward
** Atherton Hall, Leigh, country house and estate
** Atherton Urban District, local government district from 1863 until 1974
** Atherton High School, Greater Manchester, mixed secondary free school
* Atherton Line, section of the Manchester-Southport Line, between Wigan and Salford
** Atherton railway station
** Atherton Bag Lane railway station, a former station

### United States
#### California

* Atherton, California, a town in San Mateo County in the San Francisco Bay Area
** Atherton station, a former station on the Caltrain railway line in this town
** Atherton House, also known as the Faxon Atherton Mansion, a historic building in San Francisco, California
** Menlo-Atherton High School, a four-year public comprehensive secondary school

#### Indiana

* Atherton, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Vigo County
* West Atherton, Indiana
* Atherton Building, Butler University

#### Hawaii

* Atherton Field, home of the Hawaii Pacific Sharks

#### Kentucky

* Athertonville, Kentucky, former home of Atherton pre-prohibition whiskey
* Atherton High School, Louisville, public school in Louisville, Kentucky

#### Massachusetts

* Atherton Bridge, a historic iron truss bridge in Lancaster, Massachusetts, spanning the South Branch of the Nashua River

#### Missouri

* Atherton, Missouri, an unincorporated community in Jackson County

#### Michigan

* Atherton Community Schools, a school district in the city of Burton, Michigan
* Atherton Settlement, within the city of Burton, Michigan

#### North Carolina

* Atherton Mill station, a station on the Charlotte Trolley line in the South End of Charlotte, NC

#### Oklahoma

* The Atherton Hotel, within Oklahoma State University campus

#### Pennsylvania

* Atherton Hall (Penn State), a Pennsylvania State University dormitory

#### Vermont

* Atherton Farmstead, a historic farm property in Cavendish, Vermont

### Elsewhere

* Atherton Islands, off Antarctica
* Atherton Peak, South Georgia

## People

* Atherton (surname), includes a list of notable people with the surname
* Atherton Blight (1834–1909), American lawyer, diarist, and philanthropist who traveled extensively in the middle of the 19th century to Europe and the Middle East
* Atherton D. Converse, American politician
* Atherton Curtis (1863–1843), American art collector and art historian who lived in France
* Atherton Martín, Dominican agronomist and environmentalist
* Atherton Rawstorne (1855–1936), British Bishop of Whalley
* Atherton Seidell (1878–1961), American chemist and library scientist
* Atherton Thayer, sheriff of Norfolk County, Massachusetts from 1794 to 1798

## Science

* Atherton–Todd reaction, in organic chemistry
* Jiles–Atherton model, magnetic hysteresis model

### Organisms

* Atherton antechinus (Antechinus godmani), also known as Godman's antechinus, a species of small carnivorous marsupial native to Australia
* Atherton delma (Delma mitella), a species of lizard in the family Pygopodidae endemic to Australia
* Atherton oak, the common name of the tall Australian tree Athertonia diversifolia
* Athertonia, the monotypic genus of the Atherton oak, from the family
* Rubus probus or Atherton raspberry, a wild tropical raspberry species native to Papua New Guinea and parts of Australia
* Atherton sauropus (Sauropus macranthus), a rainforest tree from Asia, Melanesia and north-east Queensland
* Atherton scrubwren (Sericornis keri), an Australian bird species

## Sports

* Atherton F.C., a former English association football team based in Atherton, Greater Manchester
* Atherton Laburnum Rovers F.C., an English association football team based in Atherton, Greater Manchester.
* Atherton Collieries A.F.C., an English association football team based in Atherton, Greater Manchester.
* Atherton Roosters, a Cairns, Queensland Rugby team

## Other uses

* Atherton: The House of Power, a book by Patrick Carman
* USS Atherton, a 1943 World War II Cannon class destroyer escort