Newton

Newton is a contraction of "New Town", the name of many places in English-speaking countries. It may refer to:

People

• Isaac Newton (1642–1727), English mathematician, philosopher and scientist
• Newton (surname), lists of notable people with the surname

Given name

• Newton (Billy Myers) (born 1967), English pop singer
• Newton Faulkner (born 1985), English singer-songwriter
• Newton Newt Gingrich (born 1943), American politician and author
• Newton Lee, nonprofit entrepreneur and magazine editor
• Newton N. Minow (born 1926), American attorney, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (1961–1963)

Science and technology

• Newton (unit), SI unit of force named after Sir Isaac Newton
• Newton scale, temperature scale devised by Newton
• XMM-Newton, orbiting X-ray observatory named after Newton
• Newton (platform), a hardware/software platform developed by Apple, Inc.
• Newton OS, an operating system for the Apple Newton
• Newton Game Dynamics, a free physics engine for simulating rigid bodies in games and other real-time applications

Places

Australia

• Newton, South Australia

Canada

• Newton, Edmonton, a neighborhood in Edmonton, Alberta
• Newton Town Centre, a town center in Surrey, British Columbia
• Newton Mills, Nova Scotia

England

Cambridgeshire

• Newton, Fenland
• Newton, South Cambridgeshire

Herefordshire

• Newton, Golden Valley
• Newton, Hampton Court
• Walford, Letton and Newton

Lancashire

• Newton, Fylde
• Newton, Lancaster
• Hardhorn with Newton
• Newton-in-Bowland
• Newton with Scales

Other

• Newton, Cheshire (disambiguation)
• Newton, Derbyshire
• Newton, Doncaster in South Yorkshire
• Newton, Dorset
• Newton, Greater Manchester
• Newton, Lincolnshire
• Newton, Merseyside
• Newton, Norfolk
• Newton, Nottinghamshire
• Newton, Shropshire
• Newton, Suffolk (also known as Newton Green)
• Newton, Warwickshire
• Newton, West Midlands
• Archdeacon Newton in County Durham
• Newton Abbot in Devon
• Newton Aycliffe in County Durham
• Newton Blossomville in Buckinghamshire
• Newton Bromswold in Northamptonshire
• Newton by Malpas in Cheshire
• Newton by Tattenhall in Cheshire
• Newton-by-the-Sea in Northumberland
• Newton Harcourt in Leicestershire
• Newton-in-Furness in Cumbria
• Newton-le-Willows in Merseyside
• Newton-le-Willows, North Yorkshire
• Newton Longville in Buckinghamshire
• Newton Regis in Warwickshire
• Newton under Roseberry in North Yorkshire
• RAF Newton in Nottinghamshire

New Zealand

• Newton, New Zealand

Scotland

• Newton Mearns in East Renfrewshire
• Newton-on-Ayr railway station in South Ayrshire
• Newton, Scottish Borders - known in Scots as the Nitton - a hamlet in Roxburghshire
• Newton (South Lanarkshire) railway station
• Newton Stewart in Dumfries and Galloway
• Newton, North Uist
• Newton, West Lothian in West Lothian

Singapore

• Newton, Singapore
• Newton Food Centre, Singapore
• Newton MRT Station, Singapore

United States

• Newton, Alabama
• Newton, Georgia
• Newton, Illinois
• Newton, Iowa
• Newton, Kansas
• Newton, Massachusetts
• Newton, Mississippi
• Newton, New Hampshire
• Newton, New Jersey
• Newton, North Carolina
• Newton, Texas
• Newton, Utah
• Newton, Wisconsin (disambiguation)
• Newton County (disambiguation)
• Newton Township (disambiguation)

Outer space

• Newton (lunar crater)
• Newton (Martian crater)

Wales

• Newton, Brecknockshire
• Newton, Bridgend
• Newton, Swansea

Other

• Newton (Blake), a print by William Blake
• Newton (band), Spanish electronic music group
• Newton Vineyard, Californian wine estate partially owned by LVMH
• Newton, a centaur sidekick to Hercules in The Mighty Hercules animated series
• Newton (TV series), a Norwegian science television program for children

See also

• Newtown (disambiguation)
• New Town (disambiguation)
• Newtonville (disambiguation)
• Fig Newton