Comfort (disambiguation) explained

Comfort is the physical and psychological sense of ease.

Comfort may also refer to:

Places

United States

• Comfort, North Carolina
• Comfort, Texas
• Comfort, West Virginia
• Comfort, Wisconsin
• Comfort Lake, a lake in Minnesota
• Comfort Township, Kanabec County, Minnesota
• Old Point Comfort, Virginia
• Point Comfort, Texas

People

Surname

• A. B. Comfort (1884–1974), American politician
• Alex Comfort (1920–2000), British medical professional, anarchist, pacifist, and writer
• Anna Manning Comfort (1845–1931), American physician
• Charles Comfort (1900–1994), Canadian painter, sculptor, teacher, writer, and administrator
• Lance Comfort (1908–1966), English film director
• Nathaniel C. Comfort (born 1962), American historian
• Pat Comfort (1930–2006), American politician
• Philip Comfort (1950–2022), American professor and writer
• Ray Comfort (born 1949), New Zealand-born minister and evangelist

Given name

• Comfort Arthur, British-born Ghanaian animator
• Comfort Asamoah, Ghanaian politician
• Comfort Freeman, Liberian Lutheran activist
• Comfort Omoge, Nigerian musician
• Comfort Owusu (born 1940), Ghanaian politician
• Comfort Starr (1589–1659), English physician
• Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933), American artist and designer
• Comfort Tyler (1764-1827), one of the original settlers of modern Syracuse, New York
• Comfort Yeates (born 2005), British trampoline gymnast

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Comfort (Failure album)
• Comfort (magazine), an American mail-order periodical 1888–1942
• Comfort (Maya Jane Coles album)
• Comfort (Splashh album)
• "Comfort", a song by Basement from their album Colourmeinkindness (2012)
• "Comfort", a song by Deb Talan
• Comfort Jones, character on UK TV show Casualty
• , a musical about Korean comfort women, written and directed by Dimo Hyun Jun Kim

Brands and enterprises

• Comfort (fabric softener)
  • Comfort, a taxi company under ComfortDelGro Comfort Inn, a hospitality company owned by Choice Hotels International
• Southern Comfort (often abbreviated SoCo), an American whiskey liqueur
• Toyota Comfort, a taxicab in Japan and Hong Kong

Ships

• MOL Comfort, a container ship; one of the biggest shipwrecks ever
• (1917–1921), a United States Navy hospital ship
• (1943–1946), a United States Navy hospital ship
• USNS Comfort (1975–present), an American hospital ship

Other uses

• Comfort food, food that has a nostalgic or sentimental value
• Comfort noise, the artificial background noise used in radio and wireless communications to fill the silent time in a transmission
• Comfort object, an object used to provide psychological comfort
• Comfort women, a euphemism for women who were forced to work as sex slaves in Japanese-occupied countries during World War II
• Comfort zone, the term used to denote a type of mental conditioning resulting in artificially created mental boundaries, within which an individual derives a sense of security
• Consolation, psychological comfort
• Thermal comfort, a field of specialization in building indoor environment

See also

• ComfortDelGro Australia
• Comforter (disambiguation)