Park (disambiguation)
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A park is an area of land with a recreational or other specific purpose.
Park or Parks may refer to:
- National park, a reserve of land protected from most human development and pollution
- Park (name), a common Korean family name
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[edit] Places
[edit] United States
- Park, California, former name of Sly Park, California
- Park, Indiana
- Park, Kansas, a small city
- Park, Texas
- Park Avenue (Manhattan), a boulevard in New York City
- Park City (disambiguation), several cities
- Park County (disambiguation), several counties
- Park Township (disambiguation), several townships
- Parks, Arizona, a census-designated place
- Parks, Louisiana, a village
- Parks, Nebraska, an unincorporated community
- Parks Junior High School in Fullerton, California
[edit] Elsewhere
- Park, Afghanistan
- Park Abbey in Belgium
- Park Avenue (disambiguation)
- Park, County Antrim, a townland in Northern Ireland
- Park, County Laois, a townland in Ireland
- Park, County Londonderry, a village in Northern Ireland
- Park (Tunbridge Wells), a local government ward in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
- Parkes, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia, home of the Parkes Observatory
- Park, Outer Hebrides, an island in Scotland
- 5585 Parks, an asteroid
[edit] People
- Alex Parks (born 1984), English musician
- Bert Parks (1914–1992), actor, singer, announcer and longtime host of the Miss America Pageant
- Chan-ho Park (born 1973), Korean baseball player for the New York Yankees
- Christopher J. Parks (born 1973), American professional wrestler better known as Abyss
- Dan Parks (born 1978), Scottish rugby player
- Daphne Park (1921–2010), British diplomat and spy
- Grace Park (actress) (born 1974), Canadian actress of Korean descent
- Grace Park (golfer) (born 1979), Korean-American golfer
- Gordon Park, convicted murderer in the Lady in the Lake trial
- Park Ji-Sung (born 1981), South Korean footballer
- J. L. Parks, American basketball player
- Jim Park (1910–1943), Australian rules footballer and soldier (killed in action)
- Keith Park (1892–1975), the New Zealand-born senior Royal Air Force commander
- Linda Park (born 1978), Korean-American actress
- Linda Sue Park (born 1960), American children's writer
- Maria Hester Park (1760–1813), British composer
- Mike Park, founder of Asian-Man Records
- Mungo Park (explorer) (1771–1806), Scottish explorer
- Mungo Park (golfer) (1835–1904), Scottish golfer
- Nick Park (born 1958), British animator and creator of Wallace and Gromit
- Ray Park (born 1974), Scottish stunt man and actor
- Robert E. Park (1864–1944), American urban sociologist
- Rosa Parks (1913–2005), American civil rights activist
- Park Chung-hee (1917–1979), South Korean head of state (1961–1979)
- Park Jung Min (born 1987), South Korean actor, model and singer of SS501
- Park Sung-Hyun (born 1983), South Korean athlete
- Tayyiba Haneef-Park (born 1979), American volleyball player
- Thomas W. Parks (born 1939), American electrical engineering professor
- Wally Parks (1913–2007), American drag racer
- William Hallock Park (1883–1939), American bacteriologist
- Zane Park, a fictional character in Degrassi: The Next Generation
- Yu-Hyan Park, a Japanese singer (of Korean origin) commonly known as Shion
[edit] Vehicles
- Parking
- Parking pawl, the park position of an automatic transmission
[edit] Other uses
- Park (2006 film), a 2006 American romantic comedy film starring William Baldwin and Cheri Oteri
- Park (band), an American punk rock band
- Park Records, a record label
- Park Tool Company, a manufacturer of professional bicycle tools
- Park (album), the sixth album from The Mad Capsule Markets
- Park, a brand of amplifiers built by Jim Marshall of Marshall Amplification, 1965-1982
[edit] See also
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