Gordon Explained

Gordon may refer to:

People

• Gordon (given name), a masculine given name, including list of persons and fictional characters
• Gordon (surname), the surname
• Gordon (slave), escaped to a Union Army camp during the U.S. Civil War
• Gordon Heuckeroth (born 1968), Dutch performer and radio and television personality, known professionally by the mononym Gordon
• Clan Gordon, a Scottish clan

Education

• Gordon State College, a public college in Barnesville, Georgia
• Gordon College (Massachusetts), a Christian college in Wenham, Massachusetts
• Gordon College (Pakistan), a Christian college in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
• Gordon College (Philippines), a public university in Subic, Zambales
• Gordon College of Education, a public college in Haifa, Israel

Places

Australia

• • • Gordon, Australian Capital Territory Gordon, New South Wales Gordon, South Australia
• Gordon, Victoria
• Gordon River, Tasmania
• Gordon River (Western Australia)

Canada

• Gordon Parish, New Brunswick
• Gordon, Ontario, former municipality, now part of Gordon/Barrie Island
• Gordon River (Chochocouane River), a river in Quebec

Scotland

• Gordon (district), Aberdeenshire, forming a local government district from 1975 to 1996
• Gordon, Scottish Borders, Berwickshire (now the Scottish Borders council area)
• Gordon (Scottish Parliament constituency), Scotland
• Gordon (UK Parliament constituency), Scotland
• Gordon Castle, Moray

United States

• Gordon, Alabama
• Gordon, Alaska
• Gordon, Florida
• Gordon, Georgia, in Wilkinson County
• Gordon County, Georgia
• Gordon, Illinois
• Gordon, Kansas
• Gordon, Kentucky
• Gordon, Maryland
• Gordon Township, Minnesota
• Gordon, Nebraska
• Gordon Heights, New York
• Gordon, Ohio
• Gordon, Pennsylvania
• Gordon, Texas
• Gordon, Ashland County, Wisconsin
• Gordon, Douglas County, Wisconsin
  • Gordon (CDP), Wisconsin, census-designated place in Douglas County

Motor manufacturers

• Gordon (1903–1904) (Gordon Cycle & Motor Company Ltd), British manufacturer of bicycles and motor cars on Seven Sisters Road, London
• Gordon Newey, Newey, Newey-Aster, Gordon Newey Ltd, G.N.L. (GNL), (1907–1920), British automobile manufacturer from Birmingham
• Gordon (1912–1916), Gordon Armstrong, British cyclecar produced in Beverley Yorkshire by 'East-Riding Engineering'
• Gordon England (coachbuilder) 1920s coachbuilding and racing car manufacturer owned by Eric Gordon England
• Gordon (1954–1958) (Vernon Industries), British three wheeled motorcar built at Bidston, Cheshire
• Gordon GT (1959), a car model made by Gordon-Keeble
• Gordon-Keeble (1960–1961; 1964–1967), British car marque, made first in Slough, then Eastleigh, and finally in Southampton

Transportation

• Gordon railway station, Sydney, on the North Shore line
• Gordon railway station, Victoria, on the Melbourne - Ballarat line

Other uses

• Gordon (album), first album by the Canadian pop band Barenaked Ladies
• Duke of Gordon, British title
• Fairey Gordon, British light bomber of the 1930s and 1940s
• Gordon Castle, in Scotland
• Gordon Highlanders, infantry regiment
• Gordon's Gin, established 1769
• Gordon model, stock valuation model by Myron Gordon
• Gordon Letterpress (1821–1878), common model of open-platten printing press invented by George Phineas Gordon
• Gordon RFC, Sydney rugby union club
• Gordon Riots, in 18th-century Britain
• "Gordons" (Orange Is the New Black), a 2018 television episode
• Tropical Storm Gordon, name of several Atlantic hurricanes

See also

• Gordan, variant of the name Gordon
• Gorden, variant of the name Gordon
• Gordonia (disambiguation), derivative of Gordon
• Justice Gordon (disambiguation)