Peel

Peel or Peeling may refer to:

Places

Australia

• Peel (Western Australia)
• Peel Island, Queensland
• Peel River (New South Wales)

Canada

• Peel, New Brunswick
• Peel River (Canada), tributary of the Mackenzie River
• Peel Sound, Nunavut
• Regional Municipality of Peel, Ontario (Peel County until 1973)

• Peel (federal electoral district)
• Peel (provincial electoral district)

United Kingdom

• Peel Fell, a hill in Kielder Forest
• Peel Island, Cumbria

United States

• Peel, Arkansas
• Peel, Oregon

Elsewhere

• Peel, Isle of Man
• Peel, Netherlands

People

Surname

• Andrée Peel (1905–2010), member of the French Resistance during the Second World War
• Ann Peel (born 1961), Canadian race walker
• Arthur Peel (disambiguation)
• Clifford Peel (1894–1918), Australian World War I pilot
• David Peel (actor) (1920–1981), British film actor
• David Peel (musician) (1942–2017), New York underground rock musician
• Dwayne Peel (born 1981), Welsh rugby union player
• Edward Peel (big-game fisherman) (1884–1961), British army officer, businessman and amateur sportsman
• Edward Peel (born 1943), British actor
• Frederick Peel (1823–1906), British politician and railway commissioner
• Harry Peel (disambiguation)
• Homer Peel (1902–1997), American Major League Baseball player
• John Peel (disambiguation)
• Jonathan Peel (1799–1879), British soldier and politician
• Lawrence Peel (1799–1884), British judge in India
• Mark Peel (born 1959), Australian historian and academic
• Paul Peel (1860–1892), Canadian painter
• Peter Peel (1866–1960), United States soccer administrator
• Robert Peel (1788–1850), British founder of the (London) Metropolitan Police, later Prime Minister
• Robert Peel (disambiguation)
• Samuel W. Peel (1831–1924), U.S. Representative from Arkansas
• Sir Sidney Peel, 1st Baronet (1870–1938), British soldier, financier and politician
• Thomas Peel (1793–1865), early settler of Western Australia
• William Peel (disambiguation)

Titles

• Earl Peel, British peerage
• Peel baronets, several

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

• Peel (band), indie rock band from Austin, Texas
• Peel (US band), a US band active from 1999–2001 formed by Kevin Ridel from Los Angeles, California

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• Peel (film), a 1982 Australian short film directed by Jane Campion
• Emma Peel, a fictional character in the television series The Avengers

Brands and enterprises

• Peel Hotels, UK hotel company
• Peel Engineering Company, Manx boat and car manufacturer
• Peel Technologies, makers of the Peel Smart Remote, an Android and iOS app to control TV and other home devices
• The Peel Group or Peel Holdings, UK property company, owner of several "Peel Centres"

Technology

• Peel (software), Mac application for listening to songs from MP3 blogs
• Peel (tool), long handled tool used in baking
• PEEL, programmable electrically erasable logic, variant of the GAL (generic array logic)
• Bitrate peeling, Ogg Vorbis technique for changing the bitrate of an audio stream

Transit

• Peel Hall tram stop, in Manchester, England
• Peel railway station (Isle of Man), in Peel, Isle of Man
• Peel Road railway station, in Peel, Isle of Man
• Peel station (Montreal Metro), in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Skin or rind

• Peel (fruit), skin of fruit
• Peeling of animal skin, also called moulting
• Peeling of human skin, also called desquamation, such as from a sunburn
• Chemical peel, a treatment that uses a chemical solution to remove the outer layer of dead skin

Sports

• Peel, in croquet, to send a ball other than the striker's ball through its hoop
• Peel Thunder Football Club, an Australian rules football club

Other uses

• Center peel, or "Peel", infantry retreat technique
• Peel Commission, Royal Commission of Inquiry into Palestine, 1936–1937
• Peel tower, a fortified keep or watchtower

See also

• Orange Peel (disambiguation)
• Peal (disambiguation)
• Peale (disambiguation)
• Peel Park (disambiguation)
• Peel Street (disambiguation)
• Peele (disambiguation)
• Peeler (disambiguation)