Preston (disambiguation)

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Preston is the name of a number of people and places in the world:

Contents 1 Places 1.1 Australia 1.2 Canada 1.3 England 1.4 Scotland 1.5 United States 2 People 3 Fictional characters

Places

Australia

• Preston, Victoria

Canada

• Preston, Nova Scotia
• Preston, Ontario: now part of the city of Cambridge.

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

Scotland

• Preston in the Scottish Borders
• Preston, East Lothian

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

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

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

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