Blackstone
Appearance
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