Cornwallis (disambiguation)

Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738–1805) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator.

Cornwallis may also refer to:

Places

Australia

• Dauan Island or Cornwallis Island, one of the Torres Strait Islands

Canada

• Cornwallis, Manitoba (rural municipality)
• Cornwallis Island, Nunavut
• Cornwallis River, Kings County, Nova Scotia
• Cornwallis Township, Kings County, Nova Scotia
• Cornwallis Park, Nova Scotia
• Cornwallis Square, Nova Scotia
• Cornwallis Junior High School in Halifax
• CFB Cornwallis, a former Canadian Forces Base
• Little Cornwallis Island, Nunavut

Scotland

• Cornwallis Island (South Shetland Islands)

Other uses

• Cornwallis, a character who is a child of Mr. Hankey on South Park.
• Cornwallis Valley Railway, a branchline of the Dominion Atlantic Railway
• SS Cornwallis, a Canadian freighter attacked by German submarine U-514
• HMS Cornwallis, several ships of the Royal Navy

People with the surname

• Kinahan Cornwallis (1883-1959), British diplomat
• Thomas Cornwallis (1605-1675), one of the first commissioners of the Province of Maryland (brother of Sir William)
• Thomas Cornwallis (MP), MP for Grampound
• Sir William Cornwallis (c.1579-1614), British essayist
• George Cornwallis-West (1874-1951), stepfather of Winston Churchill

Aristocratic English family

• Baron Cornwallis
• Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis (1655-1698), who served as First Lord of the Admiralty
• Edward Cornwallis (1713-1776), British colonialist and founder of Halifax, Canada
• Frederick Cornwallis (1713-1783), Archbishop of Canterbury
• William Cornwallis (1744-1819), British admiral during the Napoleonic Wars

People with the given name

• William Cornwallis Symonds (1810–1841), British officer in New Zealand