Babcock
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Babcock is a surname that can refer to:
[edit] People
- Alpheus Babcock (1785–1842) American piano and musical instrument maker
- Barbara Babcock (b. 1937) American actress
- Christine Babcock United States runner
- Courtney Babcock (b. 1972) Canadian runner
- Edward V. Babcock (1864–1948) former mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- E. B. Babcock (Ernest Brown Babcock, 1877–1954) American plant geneticist
- George Herman Babcock (1832–1893) American inventor
- Harold D. Babcock (1882–1968) American astronomer
- Horace W. Babcock (1912–2003) American astronomer
- Ira L. Babcock (1808-1888) American pioneer and judge
- John Babcock (1900-2010) Last surviving Canadian WWI veteran
- Joseph Park Babcock (1893-1949) American Mahjong promoter
- Lorenzo A. Babcock, first attorney general of Minnesota Territory
- Mike Babcock (b. 1963) Canadian hockey head coach and former player
- Orville E. Babcock (1835–1884) American Civil War General
- Rob Babcock, former general manager of the Toronto Raptors NBA basketball team
- Roscoe Lloyd Babcock, (1897-1981) California artist
- Stephen Moulton Babcock (1843–1931) American agricultural chemist
- Tim M. Babcock (b. 1919) former governor of Montana
- Wendy Babcock (1979–2011) Canadian activist for the rights of sex workers
[edit] Geographic places
- Babcock (crater), a lunar crater
- Babcock Lakes, former ponds in Washington, D.C.
- Babcock, Michigan, an unincorporated town
- Babcock State Park, a West Virginia state park
- Babcock, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
[edit] Science
- Babcock Model, a mechanism to describe sunspot patterns
- Babcock test, which determines the fat content of milk
[edit] History and law
- Babcock Amendment, U.S. state of Minnesota constitutional amendment
- Babcock-Shattuck House, a prominent home on East Genesee Street in Syracuse, New York
[edit] Corporations
- Babcock and Brown, an Australian investment bank
- Babcock & Wilcox, an American company producing energy production and pollution control equipment
- Babcock International Group, a British engineering and services company
- Babcock Electric Carriage Company, early 20th century US automobile maker
- Deutsche Babcock, a German engineering and manufacturing company
- Babcock Borsig Service, a German engineering and services company
- Deutsche Babcock Middle East, a German engineering and services holding company in UAE
- Debaj - Deutsche Babcock Al Jaber, a German engineering and services joint-venture company in Qatar
- Doosan Babcock, a British energy services company
[edit] Schools
- Babcock University, Seventh-Day Adventist university in Nigeria
- Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University's business school, located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
[edit] Fictional characters
- Iris Babcock, Sergeant-Major from the Honorverse
- C. C. Babcock, on the sitcom The Nanny
- Billy Babcock, in Flush by Carl Hiaasen
- Sir John Babcock, Baronet; Characters with the same name, separated by 125 years, who appear in Masks of the Illuminati, and The Historical Illuminatus series, by Robert Anton Wilson. Babcocks also appear in the Illuminatus! trilogy proper.
[edit] Ships
- USS W. F. Babcock (ID-1239), a collier in commission in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919
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