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

Canada

• Pansy, Manitoba, an unincorporated community

United States

• Pansy, Arkansas, an unincorporated community
• Pansy, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
• Pansy, Missouri, a community and former post office
• Pansy, Ohio, an unincorporated community
• Pansy, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
• Pansy, West Virginia, an unincorporated community

People

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

Flora and fauna

• Junonia, a genus of nymphalid butterflies commonly known as pansies
• Sea pansy, a marine organism formed of a collection of polyps
• Several other species of the section Melanium of genus Viola

Ships

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

Other uses

• Pansy (Fabergé egg)
• Pansy Parkinson, a minor character in the Harry Potter fiction series
• a pejorative term for a gay man
  • Pansy Craze, a LGBT cultural phenomenon in the United State from the late-1920s to the mid-1930s
• the name of the locomotive on the Richmond–Kurrajong railway line
• Frank Iero's Les Paul guitar