Digby
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[edit] Geographic locations
[edit] Australia
[edit] Canada
- Digby County, Nova Scotia
- Digby, Nova Scotia, town
- Digby, Nova Scotia (municipal district), eastern half of Digby County
- Digby Neck, peninsula in Digby County
- Digby (electoral district), a former federal electoral district in Nova Scotia (1867–1914)
- Digby and Annapolis, a former federal electoral district in Nova Scotia (1917–1935)
- Digby—Annapolis—Kings, a former federal electoral district in Nova Scotia (1935–1949 and 1953–1968)
- Digby—Yarmouth, a former federal electoral district in Nova Scotia (1949–1953)
- Digby (provincial electoral district), a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia (1867–1993)
- Digby-Annapolis, a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia (1993-present)
[edit] England
- Digby, Devon, a village in Exeter
- Digby, Lincolnshire, a village in North Kesteven
[edit] People
[edit] Surname
- Anne Digby, prolific British children's author
- Baron Digby, title in the Peerage of Ireland
- Edward Digby (disambiguation), for various people with the same given name
- Everard Digby (1578–1606), one of those involved in the abortive 1605 Gunpowder Plot to assassinate King James I of England and VI of Scotland
- Fraser Digby (born 1967), retired English goalkeeper
- George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol (1612–1677), eldest son of John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol and his wife Beatrice Walcott
- Henry Digby (disambiguation), for various people with the same given name
- Jane Digby (1807–1881), English aristocrat who lived a life of wild adventure
- John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol (1580–1653), English diplomat and a moderate royalist during the English Civil War
- Kenelm Digby (disambiguation), for various people with the same given name
- Kristian Digby (1977–2010), British TV presenter and director
- Marié Digby (born 1983), American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist
- Robert Digby (disambiguation), for various people with the same given name
- Robert James Thomas Digby-Jones (1876–1900), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Simon Digby (disambiguation), for various people with the same given name
- Suzi Digby, British conductor, musician and teacher
- William Digby (disambiguation), for various people with the same given name
[edit] Given name
- Digby Anderson, founder and former director of the Social Affairs Unit
- Digby Denham (1859–1944), Premier of Queensland, Australia
- Digby Fairweather (born 1946), British jazz trumpeter and cornettist
- Digby George Gerahty, British author
- Digby Ioane (born 1985), Australian rugby union footballer
- Digby Jephson (1871–1926), cricketer who played for Cambridge University and Surrey
- Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham (born 1955), British businessman and politician (aka "Digby, Lord Jones of Birmingham")
- Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848–1867), English poet who died young in an accident
- Digby McLaren (1919–2004), Canadian geologist and palaeontologist
- Digby Morrell (born 1979), former Australian rules footballer
- Digby Pearson, British musician who founded Earache Records
- Digby Tantam (born 1948), British Psychiatrist and Professor of Psychotherapy
- Digby Willoughby (disambiguation), for various people with the same given name
[edit] Pen name
- Digby (blogger), pen name of the writer of Hullabaloo, an influential liberal blog
[edit] Other
- Digby (band), a Louisville, Kentucky power pop band
- B-18 Bolo, a bomber used by the United States Army Air Corps and the Royal Canadian Air Force was referred to as a Digby
- Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World, a 1973 film starring Jim Dale
- Salu Digby, a fictional character in the Legion of Super-Heroes
- Digby Stuart College, one of the four constituent colleges of Roehampton University
- Albert Fitzwilliam Digby, Dan Dare's batman from the UK comic book science fiction series from the 1950s and 60s
- Digby, a Golden Retriever owned by Ned on the television show Pushing Daisies
- Archangel Digby, a fictional character in Robert Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land
[edit] See also
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