Kirby

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

 Places 
 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

 Other uses 
 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

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