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- Gainsborough, LincolnshireGainsborough, LincolnshireGainsborough is a town 15 miles north-west of Lincoln on the River Trent within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. At one time it served as an important port with trade downstream to Hull, and was the most inland in England, being more than 55 miles from the North...
, England- Gainsborough Trinity F.C.Gainsborough Trinity F.C.Gainsborough Trinity Football Club are an English football club based in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.Between 1896 and 1912 they were members of the Football League. They are currently in the Conference North, and play their home matches at The Northolme, which has a capacity of 4,304...
- Gainsborough Riverside FestivalGainsborough Riverside FestivalGainsborough Riverside Festival is an annual community Arts/Heritage event that runs on the second weekend of June in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire on the banks of the River Trent...
- Gainsborough (UK Parliament constituency)Gainsborough (UK Parliament constituency)Gainsborough is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....
- Gainsborough Trinity F.C.
- Gainsborough, SaskatchewanGainsborough, Saskatchewan-Notable people:* Dr William G. Hobbs, a former physician in the Gainsborough Union Hospital , did a painting of the main street of the town entitled "40 Below Zero" that won a national contest in 1978...
, Canada - Gainsborough, New South WalesGainsborough, New South WalesGainsborough, New South Wales, Australia is a residential estate forming part of the suburb of Kiama Downs in the Municipality of Kiama. This is a relatively new urban area bordering Kiama Downs and Jamberoo. A new section of the Princes Highway was opened to the west of Gainsborough in late 2005...
, Australia - Gainsborough, Ipswich, England
- Gainsboro, Roanoke, VirginiaGainsboro, Roanoke, VirginiaGainsboro is a Roanoke, Virginia neighborhood located in central Roanoke immediately north of Downtown, across the Norfolk Southern Railway right of way, between Interstate 581 and Orange Avenue. It borders the neighborhoods of Harrison and Gilmer on the west, Washington Park on the north,...
Persons with the surname Gainsborough
- Thomas GainsboroughThomas GainsboroughThomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter.-Suffolk:Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk. He was the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver and maker of woolen goods. At the age of thirteen he impressed his father with his penciling skills so that he let...
, English painter (often referred to simply as "Gainsborough") - Humphrey GainsboroughHumphrey GainsboroughHumphrey Gainsborough was a non-conformist minister, engineer and inventor.Humphrey Gainsborough was pastor to the Independent Church in Henley-on-Thames, England. He was the brother of the artist Thomas Gainsborough. He invented the drill plough , winning a prize of £60 from the Royal Society for...
, Thomas's brother - Aerith GainsboroughAerith Gainsborough— spelled Aeris Gainsborough in the English releases of Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy Tactics — is a player character in Square's console role-playing game Final Fantasy VII...
, a fictional character from Final Fantasy VII
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- Gainsborough (horse)Gainsborough (horse)Gainsborough was a British bred Thoroughbred racehorse who won the English Triple Crown in 1918 and became a superior sire.-Breeding:...
, the 1918 Triple Crown Champion of English Thoroughbred Racing - HMS GainsboroughHMS GainsboroughHMS Gainsborough was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy ordered towards the end of the First World War. She was initially built as HMS Gorleston, but renamed after the fox hunt of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire before her launch. She was sold in June 1928....
, two ships of the Royal Navy - Gainsborough PicturesGainsborough PicturesGainsborough Pictures was a British film studio based on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in Poole Street, Hoxton in the former Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, London. Gainsborough Studios were active between 1924 and 1951. Built as a power station for the Great Northern & City Railway it...
, a London-based film studio, active between 1924 and 1951- Gainsborough melodramasGainsborough melodramasThe Gainsborough melodramas were a sequence of films produced by the British film studio Gainsborough Pictures during the 1940s which conformed to a melodramatic style. The melodramas were not a film series but an unrelated sequence of films which had similar themes and frequently recurring actors...
, a group of films made by the studio
- Gainsborough melodramas
- Gainsboro, a color in the X11 color schemeX11 color namesIn computing, on the X Window System, X11 color names are represented in a simple text file, which maps certain strings to RGB color values. It is shipped with every X11 installation, hence the name, and is usually located in <X11root>/lib/X11/rgb.txt.It is not known who originally compiled...