Dyson
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Dyson may refer to:
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[edit] People
- Andre Dyson (b. 1979), an American football player
- Charles W. Dyson (1861 – 1930), a U.S. Navy rear admiral
- Esther Dyson (b. 1951), consultant and philosopher in emerging digital technology, the daughter of Freeman Dyson (see below)
- Frank Dyson, British rugby league footballer
- Frank Watson Dyson (1868 – 1939), an English astronomer.
- Freeman Dyson (b. 1923), a physicist for whom the Dyson sphere and the Dyson series named
- Geoff Dyson, (d. 1981), the first British chief national coach of athletics for whom the Dyson Award was named
- George Dyson (composer) (1883 – 1964), an English musical composer, the father of Freeman Dyson
- George Dyson (science historian) (born 1953), a science historian, the son of Freeman Dyson
- Hugo Dyson (1896 – 1975), an English academic and a member of the Inklings literary group
- James Dyson (b. 1947), the inventor of the Dual Cyclone vacuum cleaner
- Dyson (company), the company that James Dyson founded
- Jeremy Dyson (b. 1966), a comedy writer, including of material for The League of Gentlemen comedy troupe
- John Dyson (cricketer) (b. 1954), a coach in the sport of cricket
- John Dyson (judge) (b. 1943), a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
- Kevin Dyson, a split end in the National Football League
- Kina Malpartida, whose real name is Kina Malpartida Dyson, a Peruvian boxer who became the world champion in 2009 in the super featherweight class
- Marianne J. Dyson, an outer space activist, a former NASA mission controller, the author of popular science books for children
- Mia Dyson, an Australian musician
- Michael Eric Dyson, a professor at Georgetown University
- Ruth Dyson, a politician in New Zealand
- Terry Dyson (born 1934), English football player for Tottenham Hotspur
- Will Dyson, an Australian artist, cartoonist and caricaturist
- William Dyson (1857 – 1936), an English county cricketer
[edit] Science
- Dyson sphere, a concept of a giant sphere surrounding a star first formalized by Freeman Dyson
- Dyson tree, a hypothetical tree that can grow on a comet as suggested by Freeman Dyson
- Dyson series and Dyson operator, mathematical terms named after the physicist Freeman Dyson
- Dyson (crater), a crater on the Moon
[edit] Companies
- Dyson (company), appliance (vacuums) company founded by James Dyson
- Dyson's Bus Services, a privately owned bus company in Melbourne, Australia
[edit] Other
- Dyson Aliens, fictional intelligent species in the Commonwealth Saga of science fiction novels books by Peter F. Hamilton
- Dyson Award, honouring British sports coaches, named for the first UK chief national athletics coach
- James Dyson Award, an international design competition, named for the British Inventor and Industrialist
- USS Dyson (DD-572), a US Navy destroyer named after Rear Admiral Charles W. Dyson
- Miles Bennett Dyson, character from the film Terminator 2 who was the most directly responsible for "Judgement Day"
- Dyson (video game)
[edit] See also
- Dysan, storage media company
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