Folsom

Folsom is an English surname and may refer to:

Places

• Folsom, Alabama
• Folsom, California
• Folsom, Louisiana
• Folsom, New Jersey
• Folsom, New Mexico
• Folsom, Pennsylvania
• Folsom, West Virginia

People

• Abby Folsom (died 1867), American feminist and abolitionist
• Allan Folsom (born 1941), American motion picture cameraman, editor, writer, and producer
• Augustine H. Folsom (died 1926), photographer
• Burton W. Folsom, Jr. (born 1947), American historian and author. Wrote The Myth of the Robber Barons
• David Folsom (born 1947), US District Court Judge
• Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston (1864–1947), who married the President of the United States, Grover Cleveland
• Frank M. Folsom (1894–1970), electronics company executive
• Fred Folsom (1871–1944), American football coach at the University of Colorado (1895–1915) and Dartmouth College (1903–1906)
• Gerrit Folsom, Los Angeles-based producer
• J. D. Folsom (born 1984), American football linebacker
• Jim Folsom, Sr. (1908–1987), American Democratic Governor of the Alabama
• Jim Folsom, Jr. (born 1949), former American Democratic Governor of Alabama, and who also served as the Lieutenant Governor both before and after that
• Jonathan P. Folsom (1820–1893), twentieth Mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts
• Joseph Libbey Folsom (1817–1855), U.S. Army officer and real estate investor
• Marion B. Folsom (1893–1976), U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
• Nathaniel Folsom (1726–1790), American merchant and statesman
• Richard G. Folsom (1907–1996), twelfth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Steve Folsom (born 1958), player with the National Football League
• Tom Folsom (born 1974), writer living in New York
• William Harrison Folsom (1815–1901), American architect and contractor

Other uses

• Folsom Field, an outdoor football stadium in Boulder, Colorado
• Folsom Library, research library on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, located in Troy, New York
• Folsom point, prototype of a spearpoint or arrowhead that was invented by Native Americans and widely-distributed in North America. First discovered near Folsom, New Mexico
• Folsom Public Library, a library in Folsom, California
• Folsom tradition, name given by archaeologists to a sequence of old Paleo-Indian cultures of central North America
• Folsom State Prison, a high-security penitentary near the town of Folsom, California
  • Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, a live country & western music album recorded at the prison in 1968
• Folsom Street Fair, held at the end of September during San Francisco's Leather Pride Week