Darwin

Darwin may refer to:

• Charles Darwin (1809–1882), English naturalist and writer, best known as the originator of the theory of biological evolution by natural selection
• Darwin, Northern Territory, a capital city in Australia

People

• Members of Charles Darwin's (1809–1882) family:
  • Anne Darwin (1841–1851), daughter of Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
  • Bernard Darwin (1876–1961), golf writer
  • Charles Darwin (1809–1882), English naturalist and writer
  • Charles Darwin (1758–1778) physician and scientist, uncle of Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
  • Charles Galton Darwin (1887–1962), physicist and activist
  • Charles Waring Darwin (1856–1858), youngest son of Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
  • Edward Levett Darwin (1821–1901), solicitor and author
  • Elizabeth Darwin (1847–1926), daughter of Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
  • Emma Darwin née Wedgewood (1808–1896), wife of Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
  • Emma Darwin (novelist) (fl. 2000s), novelist
  • Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), physician and biologist, grandfather of Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
  • Erasmus Alvey Darwin (1804–1881), brother of Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
  • Etty Darwin (1843–1929), daughter of Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
  • Francis Darwin (1848–1925), botanist
  • Francis Sacheverel Darwin (1786–1859), physician and traveler
  • George Darwin (1845–1912), astronomer and mathematician
  • Gwen Raverat née Gwendoline Mary Darwin (1885–1957), artist
  • Horace Darwin (1851–1928), civil engineer
  • Leonard Darwin (1850–1943), soldier, politician, and activist
  • Nora Barlow née Emma Nora Darwin (1885–1989)
  • Robert Darwin (1766–1848), physician, father of Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
  • Robert Waring Darwin of Elston (1724–1816), author of Principia Botanica
  • Robin Darwin (1910–1974), artist
  • Ursula Mommens née Darwin (1908–2010), potter
  • William Erasmus Darwin (1839–1914), eldest son of Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
  • Randal Keynes, descendant of Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and author of Annie's Box

• Ben Darwin (born 1976), Australian international Rugby player
• Bobby Darwin, (born 1943), American baseball player
• Danny Darwin (born 1955), American baseball player
• Donald Victor Darwin (1896–1972) Australian road engineer
• Jeff Darwin (born 1969), American baseball player
• John Darwin (statistician), (born 1923)
• John (born 1950) and Anne Darwin, fraudsters in the John Darwin disappearance case
• Mike Darwin (born 1955), American writer and activist

Places

In Africa

• Mount Darwin, Zimbabwe

In Antarctica

• Darwin Glacier (Antarctica)
• Darwin Mountains

In Asia

• Darwin Bank, oil field in Azerbaijan

In Australia

• Darwin, Northern Territory
• Charles Darwin National Park
• Charles Darwin Reserve
• Charles Darwin University
• Darwin River, Northern Territory
• Darwin International Airport
• Darwin Dam (Tasmania)
• Division of Darwin, 1903-1955 election division
• Mount Darwin (Tasmania)

In Europe

• Natural History Museum#The Darwin Centre, London
• Darwin College, Cambridge
• Darwin College, Kent
• Darwin Shopping Centre, Shrewsbury

In North America

• Darwin, California, in Inyo County
• Darwin, Fresno County, California
• Darwin Falls, California (waterfall)
• Darwin Falls Wilderness
• Darwin Township, Clark County, Illinois
• Darwin School, Manitoba
• Darwin, Minnesota
• Darwin, Ohio
• Mount Darwin (California)

In South America

• Cordillera Darwin, Tierra del Fuego
• Darwin Channel
• Darwin, Falkland Islands
• Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands
• Darwin Sound
• Mount Darwin (Andes), Tierra del Fuego
• Darwin, Río Negro, a municipality in Río Negro Province, Argentina

In science and technology

• Darwin (unit), a unit of evolutionary change, defined by J.B.S. Haldane
• Darwin (ESA), a European Space Agency project
• Darwin Medal
• RRS Charles Darwin, a British ship
• 1991 Darwin, a main-belt asteroid

Computer software and computing

• Darwin (programming game)
• Darwin (operating system), the Unix base for Apple's Mac OS X operating system
• Darwin Streaming Server
• XDarwin
• Darwin Information Typing Architecture
• Darwinbots, an open source artificial life simulator

Craters

• Darwin (lunar crater)
• Darwin (Martian crater)
• Darwin Crater, in Tasmania

In entertainment

• Darwin (film), a 2011 documentary film
• Darwin (seaQuest DSV), a dolphin in the TV series seaQuest DSV
• Darwin 4078, an arcade game
• Darwin (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe, associated with X-Men
• Darwin!, a 1972 musical album by Banco del Mutuo Soccorso

Other uses

• Darwin Rebellion, a demonstration which took place in Australia in 1918
• North Australian sport:
  • Darwin Baseball League
  • Darwin Rugby League
• Darwin Airline, based in Switzerland
• Darwin Lagrangian

See also

• Darwen
• Darwinia (disambiguation)
• Darwin Awards
• Darwin glass
• Darwin Day
• Darwin-Wedgwood family

Animals

• Darwin's finches
• Darwin's Fox
• Darwin's Frog
• Darwin's Leaf-eared Mouse
• Darwin's Nothura, a tinamou
• Darwin's Rhea
• Darwin's Rice Rat