Pollard Explained

Pollard may refer to:

Places in the United States

• Pollard, Alabama, a town
• Pollard, Arkansas, a city
• Pollard, Kansas, an unincorporated community

People

• Pollard (surname), a list of people with the surname
• Pollard Hopewell (between 1786 and 1789 – 1813), midshipman in the United States Navy
• Charles Pollard Olivier (1884–1975), American astronomer
• James Pollard Espy (1785–1860), American meteorologist
• Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri (c. 1948–2022), Australian indigenous (Warlpiri people) artist
• Thomas Pollard Sampson (1875–1961), Australian architect

Flora and fauna

• Pollard, a tree affected by pollarding (cropping of the upper branches)
• Pollard, a deer which has cast its antlers
• Pollard or polled livestock, hornless livestock of normally-horned species
• Pollard, the European chub (Squalius cephalus), a freshwater fish

Mathematics

• Several algorithms created by British mathematician John Pollard:
  • Pollard's kangaroo algorithm
  • Pollard's p - 1 algorithm
  • Pollard's rho algorithm

Other uses

• Pollard (coin), a medieval coin made in Europe in imitation of the English penny, outlawed under Edward I
• Pollard (novel), a novel by Laura Beatty
• Pollard, a mixture of fine bran and a small amount of flour
• Pollard railway station, former station in Victoria, Australia
• Pollard script, a writing system devised in 1905 for the A-Hmao language