Kirby

**Kirby** is a common place name, surname, and given name, derived from Old Norse, meaning church settlement. Other common uses include:

### England

- Kirkby, Merseyside (pronounced with a silent _k_: )
- Kirby Bedon, Norfolk
- Kirby Cane, Norfolk
- Kirby Cross, Essex
- Kirby Grindalythe, North Yorkshire
- Kirby Hill, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
- Kirby Hill, Richmondshire, North Yorkshire
- Kirby Knowle, North Yorkshire
- Kirby Misperton, North Yorkshire
- Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire
- Kirby Sigston, North Yorkshire
- Kirby Wiske, North Yorkshire
- Cold Kirby, North Yorkshire
- Horton Kirby, Kent
- Monks Kirby, Warwickshire
- West Kirby, Merseyside
- see also: Places named Kirkby

### United States

- Kirby, Arizona
- Kirby, Arkansas
- Kirby, Georgia
- Kirby, Indiana
- Kirby, Ohio
- Kirby, Oklahoma
- Kirby, Pennsylvania
- Kirby, Texas
- Kirby, Vermont
- Kirby, West Virginia
- Kirby, Wyoming
- Upper Kirby, a commercial district in Houston, Texas

### Canada

- Kirby, Ontario
- York Regional Road 29, a regional road in Ontario, in which its western segment is called Kirby Road

## People

- Kirby (surname), people with the surname Kirby.
- Kirby (given name), people with the given name Kirby

Also
- List of people with the surname Kirkby
- Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron Hatton of Kirby (c. 1605-1670), English politician
- Christopher Hatton, 2nd Baron Hatton of Kirby (1632-1706), English politician

## Buildings, institutions or facilities

- Kirby Castle, a castle in Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, England
- Kirby Hall, an Elizabethan country house located near Corby, Northamptonshire, England
- Kirby Sports Center, a sports arena in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA
- Kirby's Mill, a flour mill located in Medford, New Jersey, USA
- Kirby College of Further Education, now part of Middlesbrough College, North Yorkshire, England
- Kirby Cross railway station, Essex, England
- Kirby Lake Airport, Alberta, Canada
- Kirby Park railway station, a defunct railway station in West Kirby, Merseyside, England

### Comics

- Kirby Award, an award presented from 1985-1987 for achievements in comic books
- Kirby dots, an artistic convention in comic books
- Rip Kirby, fictional comic strip character created by Alex Raymond

### Law

- United States v. Kirby, an 1868 US Supreme Court case regarding statutory construction
- United States v. Kirby Lumber Co., a 1931 US Supreme Court case regarding taxation
- R v Kirby; Ex parte Boilermakers' Society of Australia, a 1956 Australian High Court case regarding the judicial power of the Commonwealth

### Mathematics

- Kirby calculus
- Kirby-Siebenmann class
- Freedman-Kirby theorem

### Miscellaneous

- Kirby Company, the manufacturer of Kirby vacuum cleaners
- Kirby 23, a sailboat designed by Bruce Kirby and produced in the mid-1980s
- Kirby-Bauer antibiotic testing, a medical test
- Kirby wire, a pendulum-based flying system for stage performers
- A fish hook of evenly curved pattern designed by Charles Kirby
- Kirby is the name of the vacuum in The Brave Little Toaster

### Games

- Kirby (character), a popular Nintendo video game character
    - _Kirby_ (series), the video game series named after the character
    - List of Kirby media
- Kirby: Right Back At Ya!, a TV series based on the famous video game character