Danforth

Danforth may refer to:

People

Surname

• Asa Danforth (1746 – 1818), American highway engineer of the Revolutionary War era
• Asa Danforth Jr. (1768 – 1821), Upper Canada highway engineer.
• Elliott Danforth, New York State Treasurer 1890-1893
• George F. Danforth (1819–1899), New York judge
• Harold Warren Danforth (1916–1993), Member of the Parliament of Canada
• John Danforth (born 1936), 27th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
• Loring Danforth, anthropology professor at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine
• Thomas Danforth (1622 – 1699), a judge in the Salem witch trials
• William H. Danforth (1870–1956)
• William Henry Danforth, M.D. (born 1926), Chancellor Emeritus of Washington University in St. Louis and current Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

Middle name

• James Danforth Quayle, forty-fourth vice-president of the United States

In fiction

• Chad Danforth, a fictional character from the movie High School Musical, played by Corbin Bleu
• Danforth, a fictional character in the Cthulhu Mythos, a graduate student and later professor of Miskatonic University

Places

Canada

• Danforth's Road (1801), Asa Danforth Jr.'s early colonial road from eastern Toronto to the Trent River
  • An extension of this road eastward to the Bay of Quinte (1802) leads through towns now served by Ontario Highway 33
  • A Danforth Road still exists locally in Scarborough, Ontario; the main Danforth Avenue was built to connect this road to Toronto's downtown.
• Danforth Avenue, a major thoroughfare in Toronto, and hence:
  • Greektown, Toronto, or "The Danforth", a neighborhood with a large Greek community
  • Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute, a technical school
  • Bloor–Danforth line, a subway line
  • Danforth GO Station, a station on the GO Transit commuter rail system
  • Toronto—Danforth, a federal and provincial electoral district
  • Danforth (electoral district), an abolished electoral district

United States

• Danforth Avenue (HBLR station), light rail station Hudson County
• Danforth, Illinois, a village in Iroquois County
• Danforth, Maine, a town in Washington County
• Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, a not-for-profit research institute based in St. Louis, Missouri

Other uses

• A brand name or type of anchor
• Danforth is a Hardcore / Rapcore band from Paris