Pansy (disambiguation)

The pansy is a member of a large group of hybrid plants of the genus Viola cultivated as garden flowers.

Pansy may also refer to:

Places

• Pansy, Arkansas, an unincorporated community
• Pansy, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
• Pansy, Ohio, an unincorporated community
• Pansy, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
• Pansy, Manitoba, an unincorporated community
• Pansy, West Virginia, an unincorporated community

People

• Isabella Macdonald Alden (1841–1930), an American author who used the pseudonym "Pansy"

Art, entertainment, and media

• Pansy Parkinson, a minor character in the Harry Potter fiction series
• Pansy (Fabergé egg)

Flora and fauna

• Junonia, a genus of nymphalid butterflies commonly known as pansies
• Sea pansy, a marine organism formed of a collection of polyps

Ships

• HMS Pansy, a Royal Navy Arabis-class sloop completed in 1916
• USS Pansy (1861), a steamer acquired by the Union Navy from the Union Army during the American Civil War

Other uses

• Pansy, a pejorative term for an effeminate man, see List of LGBT-related slurs
  • Pansy Craze, a gay cultural phenomenon in the United States in the 1930s
• Pansy, the name of the locomotive on the Richmond–Kurrajong railway line