Faraday

Faraday may refer to:

People

• Michael Faraday, a British scientist (a physicist and chemist)
• David Faraday, a victim of the serial killer nicknamed the Zodiac Killer
• Philip Michael Faraday an English lawyer, composer and theatrical producer

Science

• Faraday (unit), faraday, an obsolete unit of charge that has been superseded by the coulomb
• farad, SI unit of capacitance
• Faraday cage
• Faraday constant, the amount of electric charge per mole of electrons
• Faraday's law of induction

Things

• Faraday Dam, a dam on the Clackamas River in the U.S. state of Oregon
• CS Faraday (1874), a Siemens AG cable ship launched in 1874
• CS Faraday (1923), a Siemens AG cable ship launched in 1923
• Faraday Flashlight

Companies

• Faraday, a Florham Park, NJ company specializing in fire protection.

Places

• Faraday, Ontario, Canada
• Faraday, West Virginia, USA, the most southern community in the state, located in McDowell County
• Faraday, Victoria, Australia, scene of the 1972 Faraday School kidnapping
• Faraday building, the first telephone exchange to open in London, later the first International Switching Centre
• Faraday Hall, a hall of residence at Loughborough University
• Faraday Research Station, a former British research station in Antarctica, now called Vernadsky Research Base and operated by Ukraine
• Faraday (ward), an electoral ward in the London Borough of Southwark, named after Michael Faraday
• Faraday (crater), a lunar crater
• 37582 Faraday, a main-belt asteroid

In fiction

• Daniel Faraday, a fictional character on the TV series Lost
• King Faraday, a fictional secret agent featured in DC Comics
• Max Faraday, the title character of Divine Right: The Adventures of Max Faraday
• Faraday, a fictional planet in Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Faraday, a protagonist in the Wayfarer Redemption series by Sara Douglass
• Kay Faraday, a character from the Nintendo DS game, Ace Attorney Investigations

See also

• All pages with titles containing "Faraday"