Blackstone

Blackstone refers to various people, places and concepts.

Businesses

• Blackstone Group, U.S. private equity and asset management firm
• Blackstone Winery, winery located in Sonoma county, California
• Blackstone Technology Group, U.S. consulting, IT infrastructure and staffing services company
• Blackstone Career Institute, Online training for paralegal, medical billing and coding, medical transcription, dental assistant, medical assistant and other studies

People

• Charles Blackstone, an American author
• Elliott Blackstone, once sergeant of the San Francisco Police Department and advocate for the lesbian, gay and transgendered community in that city
• Gay Blackstone, widow of Harry Blackstone, Jr
• Harry Blackstone, Sr. (1885–1965), a famous American magician known as "The Great Blackstone" and father of Harry Blackstone, Jr.
• Harry Blackstone, Jr. (1934–1997), popular stage magician and television performer of the late 20th century
• Ian Blackstone, an English former footballer
• Jerry Blackstone, director of choirs at the University of Michigan
• Tessa Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone, British politician
• Timothy Blackstone, Chicago Railroad and Stock Yard president
• William Blackstone (1723–1780), English jurist
  • Blackstone's formulation, a principle in criminal law named for the jurist
  • The Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, a major legal text of the 18th century; often referred to as "Blackstone" or "Blackstone's Commentaries"
• William Seymour Blackstone, 19th-century British MP and grandson of William Blackstone the jurist, above
• William Blackstone, aka William Blaxton (1595–1675), early English settler in New England
• William Eugene Blackstone, an American evangelist and Christian Zionist

Geography

• Blackstone, Queensland, Australia
• Blackstone, Western Australia, Australia
• Blackstone, West Sussex, England
• Blackstone, Massachusetts, United States
• Blackstone, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, a neighborhood
• Blackstone, Virginia, United States
• Blackstone Heights, Tasmania
• Blackstone Valley, a river valley and National Heritage Corridor in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, United States

Fiction

• Edmund 'Beau' Blackstone, a fictional 19th century detective created by Richard Falkirk (Derek Lambert)
• Blackstone Chronicles (novel series), a series of mystery and thriller novels authored by John Saul
• Blackstone Fortress, a type of space station in the fictional universe of Warhammer 40,000
• Blackstone (Greyhawk), a fictional mining town in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game
• The Blackstones, a proposed spin-off of the Flintstones cartoon from the 1970s about a black family in the Stone Age
• Black Stones are the name of a fictional band in the anime Nana, they took the name from a Cigar company of the same name, they usally shorten the name to BLAST

Other

Blackstone may also refer to:

• Black Stone, a Muslim object of reverence,
• Blackstone Avenue, a major roadway in Fresno, California, USA
• Blackstone Brewing Company, a brewery in Nashville, Tennessee, USA
• Blackstone Edge, an area of moorland along the Lancashire (Greater Manchester) and West Yorkshire county boundary in England
• Blackstone Library, Chicago's first public library
• Blackstone Hall, a dormitory at the University of Chicago
• Blackstone Hotel, a Chicago hotel
• Blackstone Hotel (Omaha), an Omaha landmark currently known as the Blackstone Center
• Blackstone Memorial, a Zionist petition written by William Eugene Blackstone
• Blackstone Valley Rail
• Blackstone, a codename for ColdFusion 7.0 - beta of ColdFusion MX 7.0, a product of Macromedia
• Blackstone, in reference to the Black P. Stones
• Blackstone Society, the Law Students’ Society at the University of Western Australia
• Blackstone, the Magic Detective, a radio series which aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System in the late 1940s
• Operation Blackstone, part of Operation Torch, the Allied landings in Africa during World War II
• Blackstone Army Air Field, Virginia, United States
• Blackstone Singers, a native American Pow Wow drum band from Alberta, Canada.
• HTC Blackstone, a Windows Mobile phone also known as the HTC Touch HD

See also

• Blackstone Lake, Ontario
• Blackstone River (disambiguation)
• Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School