Vickers (disambiguation)

Vickers is a British engineering conglomerate founded in 1828.

Vickers may also refer to:

• Vickers Limited 1828-1927
• Vickers-Armstrongs 1927-1977
• Vickers plc 1977-1999
• Vickers Defence Systems, defence arm of Vickers plc, sold by Rolls-Royce plc to Alvis plc in 2002.
• Alvis Vickers, the result of the above merger. Acquired by BAE Systems in 2004.
• Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering (VSEL), the former shipbuilding and armaments division of Vickers
• Canadian Vickers, the Canadian subsidiary 1911-1944
• Vickers hardness test, a measure of material hardness using the indentation method
• Vickers machine gun
• Vickers MBT, a post war Main Battle Tank

Persons with the surname

• Brian Vickers, American stock car driver, currently racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup
• Brian Vickers (academic), British authority on rhetoric
• David Vickers, a fictional character on the soap opera One Life to Live
• Diana Vickers, English singer
• Douglas Vickers, English industrialist and politician
• Edward Vickers (1804-1897), British steel maker and industrialist
• F. B. Vickers (1903-1985), Australian author
• Geoffrey Vickers (1894-1982), pioneer of systems thinking
• George Vickers, United States Senator from Maryland
• Harry Franklin Vickers (1898-1977), American inventor and industrialist
• Jack Vickers, English footballer
• James Oswald Noel Vickers, British trade union leader
• Janeene Vickers, American athlete
• Joan Vickers, Baroness Vickers, British National Liberal and Conservative Party politician
• John Vickers, British economist
• Jon Vickers, Canadian operatic tenor
• Jon Vickers (rugby union), rugby union player
• Kipp Vickers, American football player
• Lawrence Vickers, NFL fullback
• Lee Vickers, NFL tight end for the Baltimore Ravens
• Martha Vickers, American television and film actress
• Michael G. Vickers, United States Assistant Secretary of Defense
• Mike Vickers, British guitarist and composer
• Patricia Vickers-Rich (born 1944), Australian palaeontologist
• Roy Henry Vickers, Canadian painter
• Salley Vickers, English novelist
• Stan Vickers, British athlete
• Stanley Vickers (MP), English distiller and Conservative politician
• Steve Vickers (computer scientist), author of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer ROM firmware
• Steve Vickers (footballer), English association footballer
• Steve Vickers (ice hockey), Canadian born hockey player with the New York Rangers
• William Edward Vickers or Roy Vickers (1889-1965), English mystery writer born
• Yvette Vickers, American actress, pin-up model and singer

See also

• John Vickers (disambiguation)