Galton (disambiguation)
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Galton may refer to:

People with the given name Galton:
  • Charles Galton Darwin
    Charles Galton Darwin
    Sir Charles Galton Darwin, KBE, MC, FRS was an English physicist, the grandson of Charles Darwin. He served as director of the National Physical Laboratory during the Second World War.-Early life:...

     (1887–1962), English physicist
  • Galton Blackiston
    Galton Blackiston
    Galton Blackiston is an English chef, born in Norfolk. The restaurant of his hotel, Morston Hall, is Michelin starred and has 3 AA rosettes. It is on the north Norfolk coast, two miles from Blakeney...

     (21st century), English chef


People with the surname Galton:
  • Douglas Strutt Galton
    Douglas Strutt Galton
    Sir Douglas Strutt Galton KCB, GCB, F.R.S., MStJ, Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur, DCL, LLD was a British engineer.-Education and early life:...

     (1822–1899), British engineer
  • Francis Galton
    Francis Galton
    Sir Francis Galton /ˈfrɑːnsɪs ˈgɔːltn̩/ FRS , cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician...

     (1822–1911), English Victorian polymath
  • Peter Galton
    Peter Galton
    Peter M. Galton is a British vertebrate paleontologist working in America, who has to date written or co-written about a hundred papers in scientific journals or chapters in paleontology textbooks, especially on ornithischian and prosauropod dinosaurs.With Robert Bakker in a joint article...

     (born 1942), British vertebrate paleontologist
  • Ray Galton (born 1930), British scriptwriter
  • Samuel Galton, Jr.
    Samuel Galton, Jr.
    Samuel "John" Galton Jr. FRS , born in Duddeston, Birmingham, England. Despite being a Quaker he was an arms manufacturer. He was a member of the Lunar Society and lived at Great Barr Hall.He married Lucy Barclay...

     (1753–1832), arms manufacturer
  • Samuel Tertius Galton
    Samuel Tertius Galton
    Samuel Tertius Galton was a businessman and scientist.-Life:He was the son of Samuel "John" Galton, a prominent member of the scientific Lunar Society, and the father of Francis Galton the eminent Victorian scientist. He born in the area of Duddeston in Birmingham...

     (1783–1844), businessman and scientist

See also

  • Galton Bridge
    Galton Bridge
    Galton Bridge is a canal bridge in Smethwick, West Midlands, England built by Thomas Telford in 1829. It spans Telford's Birmingham Canal Navigations New Main Line carrying Roebuck Lane. When it was constructed, its single span of 151 feet was the highest in the world . Originally a road bridge...

  • Galton Institute
  • Galton Junction
    Galton Junction
    Galton Junction is a minor junction on the West Coast Main Line's Rugby-Birmingham-Stafford Line. With Smethwick Junction, it allows northbound trains from the RBS to join the Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster Line in a westbound direction and vice versa.Until the re-opening of Birmingham...

  • Galton Laboratory
    Galton Laboratory
    The Galton Laboratory, was a laboratory for research into human genetics based at University College London in London, United Kingdom. It was originally established in 1904, and became part of UCL's biology department in 1996....

  • Galton Village
    Galton Village
    Galton Village is a residential area of Smethwick, Birmingham, West Midlands, England. It takes its name from the iconic nearby Galton Bridge that was named after local business man Samuel Galton who land the new BCN Main Line canal was built through, the canal runs behind Galton Village as dose...

  • Galton–Watson process
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