Houghton

Houghton may refer to:

Buildings

• Houghton Hall, a country house in Norfolk, England (residence of Sir Robert Walpole)
• Houghton Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire, a stately home in Yorkshire, England
• Houghton House, a ruined house in Bedfordshire, England

Places

Australia

• Houghton, South Australia, a town near Adelaide
• Houghton Highway, the longest bridge in Australia, between Redcliffe and Brisbane in Queensland
• Houghton Island (Queensland)

Canada

• Houghton Township, Ontario, a former township in Norfolk County, Ontario

New Zealand

• Houghton Bay

South Africa

• Houghton Estate, Gauteng, a suburb of Johannesburg

United Kingdom

• Houghton, Cambridgeshire
• Houghton, Cumbria
• Houghton, East Riding of Yorkshire
• Houghton, Hampshire
• Houghton, Northumberland
• Houghton, Pembrokeshire
• Houghton, West Sussex
• Houghton-le-Side, Darlington
• Houghton-le-Spring, Sunderland
• Houghton Bank, Darlington
• Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire
• Houghton on the Hill, Leicestershire
• Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire
• New Houghton, Derbyshire
• New Houghton, Norfolk
• Little Houghton (disambiguation)
• Great Houghton (disambiguation)

United States

• Houghton, Iowa
• Houghton, Michigan
• Houghton County, Michigan
• Houghton Lake, Michigan, an unincorporated community
• Houghton Lake (Michigan), a large lake
• Houghton Township, Michigan
• Houghton, New York
• Houghton, South Dakota
• Houghton, Washington

Many of the places in the U.S. were named after geologist Douglass Houghton.

People

• Adam Houghton (1310-1389), Bishop of St. David's, Lord Chancellor of England
• Amo Houghton (born 1926), New York politician
• Amory Houghton (1899–1981), American diplomat and scouting notable
• Arthur Boyd Houghton (1836–1875), British painter and illustrator
• Bob Houghton (born 1947), English football manager
• Buck Houghton (1915–1999), American television producer
• Chantelle Houghton (born 1983), participant in Celebrity Big Brother
• Charles Frederick Houghton (1839–1898), Canadian politician
• Daniel Houghton (1740–1791), Irish explorer of Africa
• Don Houghton (1930–1991), British television screenwriter
• Douglas Houghton, Baron Houghton of Sowerby (1898–1996), British Labour politician
• Douglass Houghton (1809–1845), American geologist
• Eric Houghton (1910–1996), English football player and manager
• Harry Houghton (1906-?), British naval officer who spied for the Polish and Soviet secret services
• Israel Houghton (born 1971), American Christian music singer
• James Houghton (born 1948), American actor and writer
• James R. Houghton, American businessman
• John Houghton (martyr) (died 1535), English Catholic priest and martyr
• John T. Houghton (born 1931), British scientist
• John Houghton (politician), Isle of Man politician
• John Houghton (footballer), New Zealand international football (soccer) player
• Katharine Houghton (born 1945), American actress
• Nick Houghton (born 1954), British Army officer
• Peter Houghton (1938–2007), artificial heart transplant patient
• Peter Houghton (footballer) (born 1954), English footballer
• Ray Houghton (born 1962), Scottish-born Irish footballer
• Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809–1885), English poet and politician
• Sherman Otis Houghton (1828–1914), American politician
• Stanley Houghton (1881–1913), English playwright
• Thomas Houghton (1859–1951), Irish-born Anglican clergyman
• Vasey Houghton (1921–2001), Australian politician

Other

• Houghton College, a Christian liberal arts college in Houghton, New York
• Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, an American educational publishing company
• Houghton Winery, a vineyard in Western Australia
• the Houghton family, American business family
• Bev Houghton, fictional character in the Australian soap opera Number 96
• Lurie–Houghton telescope, a catadioptric telescope