Kirby facts for kids

Kirby is a common place name, surname, and given name, derived from Old Norse, meaning church settlement. Other common uses include:

Places

England

• Kirkby, Merseyside (pronounced with a silent k:)
• Kirby Bedon, Norfolk
• Kirby Cane, Norfolk
• Kirby Cross, Essex
• Kirby Grindalythe, North Yorkshire
• Kirby Hill, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
• Kirby Hill, Richmondshire, North Yorkshire
• Kirby Knowle, North Yorkshire
• Kirby Misperton, North Yorkshire
• Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire
• Kirby Sigston, North Yorkshire
• Kirby Wiske, North Yorkshire
• Cold Kirby, North Yorkshire
• Horton Kirby, Kent
• Monks Kirby, Warwickshire
• West Kirby, Merseyside
• see also: Places named Kirkby

United States

• Kirby, Arizona
• Kirby, Arkansas
• Kirby, Georgia
• Kirby, Indiana
• Kirby, Ohio
• Kirby, Oklahoma
• Kirby, Pennsylvania
• Kirby, Texas
• Kirby, Vermont
• Kirby, West Virginia
• Kirby, Wyoming
• Upper Kirby, a commercial district in Houston, Texas

Canada

• Kirby, Ontario
• York Regional Road 29, a regional road in Ontario, in which its western segment is called Kirby Road

People

• Kirby (surname), people with the surname Kirby.
• Kirby (given name), people with the given name Kirby

Also

• List of people with the surname Kirkby
• Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron Hatton of Kirby (c. 1605-1670), English politician
• Christopher Hatton, 2nd Baron Hatton of Kirby (1632-1706), English politician

Buildings, institutions or facilities

• Kirby Castle, a castle in Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, England
• Kirby Hall, an Elizabethan country house located near Corby, Northamptonshire, England
• Kirby Sports Center, a sports arena in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA
• Kirby's Mill, a flour mill located in Medford, New Jersey, USA
• Kirby College of Further Education, now part of Middlesbrough College, North Yorkshire, England
• Kirby Cross railway station, Essex, England
• Kirby Lake Airport, Alberta, Canada
• Kirby Park railway station, a defunct railway station in West Kirby, Merseyside, England

Other uses

Comics

• Kirby Award, an award presented from 1985-1987 for achievements in comic books
• Kirby dots, an artistic convention in comic books
• Rip Kirby, fictional comic strip character created by Alex Raymond

Law

• United States v. Kirby, an 1868 US Supreme Court case regarding statutory construction
• United States v. Kirby Lumber Co., a 1931 US Supreme Court case regarding taxation
• R v Kirby; Ex parte Boilermakers' Society of Australia, a 1956 Australian High Court case regarding the judicial power of the Commonwealth

Mathematics

• Kirby calculus
• Kirby-Siebenmann class
• Freedman-Kirby theorem

Miscellaneous

• Kirby Company, the manufacturer of Kirby vacuum cleaners
• Kirby 23, a sailboat designed by Bruce Kirby and produced in the mid-1980s
• Kirby-Bauer antibiotic testing, a medical test
• Kirby wire, a pendulum-based flying system for stage performers
• A fish hook of evenly curved pattern
• Kirby is the name of the vacuum in The Brave Little Toaster

Games

• Kirby (character), a popular Nintendo video game character
  • Kirby (series), the video game series named after the character
  • List of Kirby media
• Kirby: Right Back At Ya!, a TV series based on the famous video game character

See also

In Spanish: Kirby para niños