Pollard

Pollard may refer to:

Places

• Pollard, Alabama, a town in the United States

People

• Pollard (surname), a list of people named "Pollard"
• Pollard Hopewell ((between 1786 and 1789-1813), a midshipman in the United States Navy
• Charles Pollard Olivier (1884–1975), an American astronomer
• James Pollard Espy (1785–1860) a U.S. meteorologist
• Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri (born c. 1948), Australian indigenous (Warlpiri people) artist
• Thomas Pollard Sampson (1875–1961), Australian architect

Flora and fauna

• Pollard, an animal or a tree which has been polled (had its antlers or horns, or branches removed):
  • Pollard, a deer which has cast its antlers
  • Pollard or polled livestock, hornless livestock of normally-horned species
  • Pollard, a tree affected by pollarding, a method for shaping trees, cropping the branches above head-height
• Pollard, the European chub (Squalius cephalus), a freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae

Mathematics

• Several algorithms created by British John Pollard (mathematician), of Great Britain:
  • Pollard's kangaroo algorithm
  • Pollard's p − 1 algorithm
  • Pollard's rho algorithm

Other uses

• Pollard (coin), a medieval coin made in Europe in imitation of the English penny, outlawed under Edward I
• Pollard (novel), a novel by Laura Beatty
• Pollard, a mixture of fine bran and a small amount of flour
• Pollard script, a writing system devised in 1905 for the A-Hmao language