Nelson

Nelson may refer to:

People

• Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, British admiral
• Nelson (surname), for other people with the surname "Nelson"
• Nelson (given name), for people with the given name "Nelson"
• Nelson DeCastro, professional comic book artist known professionally as "Nelson"

Geography

Australia

• Nelson, New South Wales
• Nelson, Victoria

Canada

• Nelson, British Columbia
• Nelson Head, Northwest Territories
• Nelson River

Egypt

• Nelson's Island

New Zealand

• Nelson, New Zealand, both a city and a region
• Nelson Lakes National Park

United Kingdom

• Nelson, Lancashire, in England
• Nelson, Caerphilly, in Wales
• Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London

United States

• Nelson, Arizona
• Nelson, California
• Nelson, Georgia
• Nelson, Illinois
• Nelson, Minnesota
• Nelson, Missouri
• Nelson, Nebraska
• Nelson, Nevada
• Nelson, New Hampshire
• Nelson, New York
• Nelson, North Carolina
• Nelson, Wisconsin

Schools

• Nelson College, a secondary school for boys in Nelson, New Zealand
• Nelson College for Girls, a secondary school for girls in Nelson, New Zealand
• Nelson High School (disambiguation)
• Lord Nelson Elementary School, in Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Ships

• HMS Nelson (1814), a first rate
• HMS Nelson (1881), an armoured cruiser
• HMS Lord Nelson (1906), a battleship
• HMS Nelson (1927), a battleship
• USS Nelson (DD-623), an American Gleaves-class destroyer
• HMNB Portsmouth, a naval base formed partly by a stone frigate called HMS Nelson

Other transportation

• Nelson (automobile)
• Nelson, the original name of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915, renamed Prometheus in 1895

Sports

• Nelson (cricket), a term in the sport of cricket
• Nelson F.C., a football club based in Nelson, Lancashire
• Nelson hold, a type of grappling and wrestling hold
• Nelson Cricket Club
• Nelson Rugby Union, defunct New Zealand rugby team
  • Nelson Bays Rugby Union, its successor side
• Nelson Maple Leafs, defunct ice hockey team
• Nelson Suburbs, New Zealand association football team

Other uses

• Nelson (band)
• Nelson (New Zealand electorate), parliamentary electorate
• Nelson (1918 film)
• Nelson (1926 film)
• Thomas Nelson (publisher)

See also

• Nelsen (disambiguation)
• Nelson County (disambiguation)
• Nelson Township (disambiguation)
• Nelson rules, a methodology in control theory
• Nelson's syndrome, an endocrine disorder
• The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary