Ashby

Ashby may refer to:

Surname

• Alan Ashby (born 1951), American baseball player
• Alexander Essebiensis (Alexander of Ashby) (c. 1220), English theologian and poet
• Andy Ashby (born 1967), American baseball player
• Carl Ashby (born 1914), American abstract expressionist artist
• David Ashby (born 1940), British Conservative Member of Parliament 1983–1997
• Debee Ashby (born 1967), British adult model
• Dorothy Ashby (1932–1986), African American jazz harpist and composer
• Edwin Ashby (1861–1941), Australian malacologist and ornithologist
• Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby (1904–1992), British botanist and educator
• George Ashby (martyr) (died 1537), martyred English monk
• Hal Ashby (1929–1988), American film director
• Irving Ashby (1920–1987), American jazz guitarist
• Jeffrey Ashby (born 1954), American naval aviator and astronaut
• John Ashby (Royal Navy officer) (1640–1693), English admiral during the War of the League of Augsburg
• John Ashby (militiaman) (18th century), colonel in the Virginia Militia
• Joseph Ashby-Sterry (c. 1837 – 1917), English poet and novelist
• Linden Ashby (born 1960), American actor
• Margery Corbett Ashby (1882–1981), British feminist and internationalist
• Peter Ashby, British musician and composer
• Ray Ashby, British rugby league footballer
• Thomas Ashby (1874–1931), British archaeologist and architectural historian of ancient Rome
• Turner Ashby (1828–1862), Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War
• William Ross Ashby (1903–1972), English psychiatrist and founder of the English school of cybernetics

Other name

• Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby (1267–1314), governor of Rockingham Castle and steward of Rockingham Forest, England
• Walter Ashby Plecker (1861–1947), American physician and public health advocate
• Henry Ashby Turner (born 1932), American historian of Germany

Places

Australia

• Ashby, Victoria
• Ashby, Western Australia

United Kingdom

• Ashby with Oby, Norfolk
• Ashby, Suffolk
• Ashby, Yorkshire
• Ashby by Partney, Lincolnshire
• Ashby cum Fenby, Lincolnshire
• Ashby de la Launde, Lincolnshire
• Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire
• Ashby Folville, Leicestershire
• Ashby Magna, Leicestershire
• Ashby Parva, Leicestershire
• Ashby Puerorum, Lincolnshire
• Ashby St Ledgers, Northamptonshire
• Ashby St Mary, Norfolk
• Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire
• Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire
• Cold Ashby, Northamptonshire
• Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire
• West Ashby, Lincolnshire

United States of America

• Ashby, Alabama
• Ashby, Massachusetts
• Ashby, Minnesota
• Ashby, Nebraska
• Ashby, Cumberland County, Virginia
• Ashby, Warren County, Virginia
• Ashby, Washington

Buildings

• Ashby (BART station), a passenger rail station in Berkeley, California
• Ashby (MARTA station), a passenger rail station in Atlanta, Georgia
• Ashby Manor Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa
• Ashby (Ladoga, Indiana), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana

Literary work

• Ashby, a novel by Pierre Guyotat

See also

• Ashbee