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

## References