Preston (disambiguation)
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Preston is the name of a number of people and places in the world:
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Places
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Australia
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Canada
- Preston, Nova Scotia
- Preston, Ontario: now part of the city of Cambridge.
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England
- Preston, Devon
- Preston, Dorset
- Preston, Gloucestershire near Cirencester
- Preston, Gloucestershire, near Ledbury
- Preston, Hertfordshire
- Preston near Faversham, Kent
- Preston in East Kent
- Preston, Lancashire (City)
- Preston, Northumberland
- Preston, Rutland
- Preston, Suffolk
- Preston Village, Brighton, Sussex
- Preston on Tees, Eaglescliffe, Teesside
- Preston, Wiltshire
- Preston, near Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire
- Preston, a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Preston Deanery, a village in Northamptonshire)
- Preston Manor, Middlesex in the London Borough of Brent
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Scotland
- Preston in the Scottish Borders
- Preston, East Lothian
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United States
- Preston, Connecticut
- Preston, Georgia
- Preston, Idaho (Location and setting for the film Napoleon Dynamite)
- Preston, Iowa
- Preston, Kansas
- Preston, Kentucky
- Preston, Maryland
- Preston, Minnesota
- Preston, Mississippi
- Preston, New York
- Preston, Oklahoma
- Preston Road,tree-lined boulevard that runs through prestigious neighborhoods in North Dallas,Texas
- Preston, Washington
- Preston County, West Virginia
- Preston, Adams County, Wisconsin
- Preston, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
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People
- Preston Brooks U.S. politician
- Preston Manning, founder of the Reform Party of Canada.
- Andrew Preston, American businessman, founder of United Fruit Company.
- Douglas Preston, author (b. 1956).
- Duke Preston, American Football player
- Kenneth O. Preston, a military leader of the US Army.
- Robert Preston, actor (1918-1987).
- Richard Preston, author (b. 1954).
- Samuel Preston (known simply as "Preston") , lead singer and guitarist of The Ordinary Boys.
- William Preston (freemason), author of Illustrations of Masonry.
- William Preston (American actor) (1921-1998)
- William Ballard Preston U.S. politician.
- William Campbell Preston U.S. politician
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Fictional characters
- Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
- Dr. Preston Burke, Grey's Anatomy
- Preston the robot dog in the Wallace and Gromit film A Close Shave