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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

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

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

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Kirby para niños

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