Florence (disambiguation) explained

Florence is the capital city of the region of Tuscany, Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Florence.

Florence may also refer to:

Places

Italy

• Florence Airport in the Italian city
• Republic of Florence, Renaissance-era Tuscan city-state

United States

• Florence, Alabama
• Florence, Arizona
• Florence, California
• Florence, Colorado
  • ADX Florence, a Federal prison
• Florence, Illinois, a village
• Florence, Stephenson County, Illinois, an unincorporated community
• Florence, Indiana
• Florence, Kansas
• Florence, Kentucky
• Florence, Louisiana
• Florence, Maryland
• Florence, Massachusetts
• Florence, Minnesota
• Florence, Mississippi
• Florence, Missouri
• Florence, Montana
• Florence, Nebraska
• Florence, New Jersey
• Florence, New York
• Florence, Madison County, Ohio
• Florence, Oregon
  • Florence Municipal Airport
• Florence, Pennsylvania
• Florence, South Carolina
  • Florence Regional Airport
• Florence, South Dakota
• Florence, Tennessee
• Florence, Texas
• Florence Township, Minnesota
• Florence, Vermont
• Florence, Washington
• Florence (CDP), Wisconsin
• Florence (town), Wisconsin
• Florence-Graham, California
• Mount Florence

Elsewhere

• Florence, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Florence, Staffordshire, England

People

• Florence (actor) or Nicolas-Joseph Billot de La Ferrière (1749–1816), French actor
• Florence (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
• Drayton Florence (born 1980), American football player
• Franklin Florence (1934-2023), American civil rights activist
• Gillian Florence, Canadian rugby union player
• Hércules Florence (1804–1879), French/Brazilian artist and inventor of photography
• Tyler Florence (born 1971), celebrity chef and TV host

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

• Florence, a character in The Magic Roundabout, a 1960s–70s children's TV programme
• Florence Jean Castleberry, the titular character of the sitcom Flo
• Florence Johnston, the maid in The Jeffersons

Literature

• Florence, a 1949 play by Alice Childress
• "Florence", a 1994 poem by Patti Smith from Early Work

Music

• Florence (album), a 2015 album by Darren Hayman
• Florence and the Machine, a British indie band

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• Florence (video game), a 2018 interactive novel video game

Ships

• USS Curlew (1862) or SS Florence, a stern-wheel steamer and gunboat
• USS Florence (SP-173), a yacht chartered by the US Navy
• Florence (clipper), a clipper which disappeared in 1902
• USS Florence Nightingale (AP-70), a cargo ship which served during World War II

Other uses

• 3122 Florence, an Amor asteroid
• Tropical Storm Florence, various storms
  • Hurricane Florence, Atlantic storm that caused heavy damage in September 2018

See also

• Florence County (disambiguation)
• Florence station (disambiguation)
• Florence Township (disambiguation)
• Florence Nightingale (disambiguation)
• New Florence (disambiguation)
• Sainte-Florence (disambiguation)