United Kingdom

• Great Paxton
  Great Paxton
  Great Paxton is a village near Little Paxton in Huntingdonshire , England, north of St Neots. The cruciform Saxon church dates from the 11th century. The village shares the Great Ouse valley with the river and the East Coast Railway Line.Curiously, Great Paxton is much smaller than Little Paxton...
  
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• Little Paxton
  Little Paxton
  Shittle Paxton in Cambridgeshire, England is a village near Great Paxton north of St Neots. It is in the district and historic county of Huntingdonshire. Until the 1970s it was a minor village and the church was under threat of closure...
  
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• Paxton, Scottish Borders
  Paxton, Scottish Borders
  Paxton is a small village near the B6461 and the B6460, in the pre-1975 ancient county of Berwickshire, now an administrative area of the Scottish Borders region of Scotland. It lies 1 mile west of the border with Northumberland, near Berwick-upon-Tweed...
  
  , UK
• Paxton House, Berwickshire, Scotland
• Paxton's Tower
  Paxton's Tower
  Paxton's Tower is a Neo-Gothic folly erected in honour of Lord Nelson. It is situated on a hilltop near Llanarthney in the Towy Valley, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is a visitor attraction that can be combined with a visit to the nearby National Botanic Garden of Wales. Its hilltop location provides...
  
  , near the National Botanic Garden of Wales in Carmarthenshire, Wales

United States

• Paxton, California
  Paxton, California
  Paxton is a census-designated place in Plumas County, California, United States. The population was 14 at the 2010 census, down from 21 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Paxton is located at ....
  
  
• Paxton, Florida
  Paxton, Florida
  Paxton is a town in Walton County, Florida, United States. The population was 656 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 753.-Geography:Paxton is located at ....
  
  
• Paxton, Illinois
  Paxton, Illinois
  Paxton is a city in Ford County, Illinois, United States. The population was 4,473 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Ford County.-History:...
  
  
• Paxton, Indiana
  Paxton, Indiana
  Paxton is a near extinct town in Haddon Township, Sullivan County, Indiana. It is part of the Terre Haute Metropolitan Statistical Area.A handful of houses and a post office are all that remain of Paxton today....
  
  
• Paxton, Massachusetts
  Paxton, Massachusetts
  Paxton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 4,806 at the 2010 census.-History:Paxton was first settled in 1749 and was officially incorporated in 1765....
  
  
• Paxton, Nebraska
  Paxton, Nebraska
  Paxton is a village in Keith County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 614 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all of it land.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Paxton, Pennsylvania
• Paxtang, Pennsylvania
  Paxtang, Pennsylvania
  Paxtang is a borough in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The borough is a suburb of Harrisburg and is one of the earliest colonial settlements in South Central Pennsylvania.-History:...
  
   (a variation of Paxton)

• Paxton Township, Minnesota
  Paxton Township, Minnesota
  Paxton Township is one of the twenty-six townships of Redwood County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 577 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...
  
  
• Lower Paxton Township, Pennsylvania
  Lower Paxton Township, Pennsylvania
  Lower Paxton Township is a township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The township was incorporated in 1767 from Paxton Township...
  
  
• Middle Paxton Township, Pennsylvania
  Middle Paxton Township, Pennsylvania
  Middle Paxton Township is a township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,823 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...
  
  
• Upper Paxton Township, Pennsylvania
  Upper Paxton Township, Pennsylvania
  Upper Paxton Township is a township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,930 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 31.1 square miles , of which, 26.0 square miles of it is land and...
  
  
• Paxton Township, Ross County, Ohio
  Paxton Township, Ross County, Ohio
  Paxton Township is one of the sixteen townships of Ross County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 2,165 people in the township, 1,153 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
  

• Paxton Creek
  Paxton Creek
  Paxton Creek is a tributary of the Susquehanna River in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania in the United States.The Paxton Creek watershed covers an area of and joins the Susquehanna River at Harrisburg....
  
  , a tributary of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania

• See Carlheim
  Carlheim
  Carlheim, a mansion, also called Paxton, was constructed in about 1872 for Pennsylvania industrialist Charles R. Paxton and his wife Rachel who continued to live there until her death in December 1921. It is located in the northeast part of Leesburg, Virginia...
  
   for Margaret Paxton Memorial Learning & Resource Campus, Leesburg, Virginia

People

• Bill Paxton
  Bill Paxton
  William "Bill" Paxton is an American actor and film director. He gained popularity after starring roles in the films Apollo 13, Twister, Aliens, True Lies, and Titanic...
  
   (born 1955), American actor
• Elisha F. Paxton
  Elisha F. Paxton
  Elisha Franklin Paxton was an American lawyer and soldier who served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He died in combat leading the famed Stonewall Brigade during the Battle of Chancellorsville.-Early life and career:Paxton was born in Rockbridge County,...
  
   (1828–1863), American Civil War general in the Confederate army
• Gary S. Paxton
  Gary S. Paxton
  Gary S. Paxton, sometimes Pax , is an American record producer, and a Grammy Award and Dove Award winning songwriter and recording artist.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1938), American musician, producer
• Geoffrey Paxton
  Geoffrey Paxton
  Geoffrey J. Paxton has been an ordained minister in the Anglican Church of Australia. He is a graduate of Australian College of Theology and the University of Queensland. He tutored in the history of Christian thought at the University of Queensland, and in Greek and New Testament studies in the...
  
  , Australian Anglican minister
• George Paxton
  George Paxton
  George Paxton was an American big band leader, saxophonist, composer, publisher, and arranger of swing jazz music from the 1930s to the late 1940s; as well as president and producer of Coed Records, primarily a doo-wop label, from the late 1950s to the mid 1960s.-Early career:He was born in...
  
  , American 1930s and 1940s big band leader, composer, and arranger
• James Paxton
  James Paxton
  James Paxton is an American child actor. He is the son of actor/director Bill Paxton.-Filmography:-External links:...
  
   (born 1994), American actor
• John Paxton
  John Paxton
  John Paxton was an American screenwriter.-Biography:Some of his films include Murder, My Sweet in 1944, Cornered in 1945, Crossfire in 1947...
  
   (1911–1985), American screenwriter
• John M. Paxton, Jr.
  John M. Paxton, Jr.
  Lieutenant General John M. Paxton, Jr. is a United States Marine Corps general officer. He is currently Commanding General, II Marine Expeditionary Force....
  
   (born 1951), United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General, Director for Operations, J-3, Joint Staff
• Sir Joseph Paxton
  Joseph Paxton
  Sir Joseph Paxton was an English gardener and architect, best known for designing The Crystal Palace.-Early life:...
  
   (1803–1865), English architect, designed the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851
• Lonie Paxton
  Lonie Paxton
  Leonidas E. "Lonie" Paxton III born March 13, 1978 in Orange, California) is an American football long snapper for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. He was signed by the New England Patriots as an undrafted free agent in 2000...
  
   (born 1978), American NFL pro football player
• Mike Paxton
  Mike Paxton
  Michael De Wayne Paxton is a former Major League Baseball starting pitcher. He batted and threw right-handed....
  
   (born 1953), American MLB pro baseball player
• Richard Paxton
  Richard Paxton
  Richard Lauderdale Paxton , was a well-known English architect preoccupied with the issue of how new and old could be made to work together to regenerate the city of London....
  
   (1956–2006), English architect
• Robert Paxton
  Robert Paxton
  Robert O. Paxton is an American political scientist and historian specializing in Vichy France, fascism and Europe during the World War II era...
  
   (born 1932), American historian
• Sara Paxton
  Sara Paxton
  Sara Paxton is an American actress, model and singer. She grew up in California and began acting at an early age, appearing in many minor roles in both films and television shows, before coming to wider renown in 2004, after playing the title role in the series Darcy's Wild Life and Sarah Borden...
  
   (born 1988), American actress, musician
• Steve Paxton
  Steve Paxton
  Steve Paxton is an experimental dancer and choreographer. His early background was in gymnastics while his later training included three years with Merce Cunningham and a year with José Limón. As a founding member of the Judson Dance Theater, he performed works by Yvonne Rainer and Trisha Brown...
  
   (born 1939), American experimental dancer and choreographer
• Thomas Paxton
  Thomas Paxton
  Thomas Paxton was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Ontario North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal member from 1867 to 1881....
  
   (1820–1887), Ontario businessman and politician
• Sir Thomas Paxton, 1st Baronet, Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1920 to 1923
• Thomas Paxton (1754–1804), captain of HMS Speedy (1798), lost in Lake Ontario
• Tom Paxton
  Tom Paxton
  Thomas Richard Paxton is an American folk singer and singer-songwriter who has been writing, performing and recording music for over forty years...
  
   (born 1937), American folk musician, singer-songwriter
• See Paxton's Tower
  Paxton's Tower
  Paxton's Tower is a Neo-Gothic folly erected in honour of Lord Nelson. It is situated on a hilltop near Llanarthney in the Towy Valley, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is a visitor attraction that can be combined with a visit to the nearby National Botanic Garden of Wales. Its hilltop location provides...
  
   for William Paxton, (1745-1824) London merchant and banker
• William Paxton (Australian businessman)
  William Paxton (Australian businessman)
  William Paxton was a South Australian colonist who arrived in 1840, became one of the investors in the Burra copper mines and returned to England in July 1855, a wealthy man....
  
  (1818–1893) Englishman who made a fortune in South Australia
• William McGregor Paxton
  William McGregor Paxton
  William McGregor Paxton was an American Impressionist painter.Born in Baltimore, the Paxton family came to Newton Corner in the mid-1870s, where William's father James established himself as a caterer. At 18, William won a scholarship to attend the Cowles Art School, where he began his art studies...
  
   (1869–1941), American artist

• Paxton Boys
  Paxton Boys
  The Paxton Boys were a vigilante group who murdered 20 Susquehannock in events collectively called the Conestoga Massacre. Scots-Irish frontiersmen from central Pennsylvania along the Susquehanna River formed a vigilante group to retaliate against local American Indians in the aftermath of the...
  
  , American frontiersmen, vigilantes from Paxtang, Pennsylvania
• Paxton Whitehead
  Paxton Whitehead
  Paxton Whitehead is a British actor who made his professional debut in 1956. Whitehead is best known to American movie audiences as Professor Phillip Barbay in the 1986 comedy film Back to School.-Early years:...
  
  , British actor

• Emma Paxton, main character in The Lying Game series by Sara Shepard
  Sara Shepard
  Sara Shepard is an American author known for the bestselling Pretty Little Liars series of young-adult novels.-Biography:Shepard graduated from Downingtown West High School in Downingtown, Pennsylvania in 1995, and got her undergraduate degree from New York University. She later received an MFA...
  
  
• John Frederick Paxton, fictional character in Star Trek leading Terra Prime
• Paxton Fettel, main antagonist of F.E.A.R..

Business

• Paxton Automotive
  Paxton Automotive
  Paxton Automotive is a United States-based manufacturer of superchargers for automotive use. The company is the major proponent of the centrifugal type supercharger. Early products were offered under the McCulloch name. Some Paxton superchargers have been factory fitted, but most units sold have...
  
  , a manufacturer of centrifugal-type superchargers
• Paxton Media Group
  Paxton Media Group
  Paxton Media Group of Paducah, Kentucky, is a privately held media company with holdings that include newspapers and a TV station, WPSD-TV in Paducah. David M. Paxton is president and CEO....
  
  , owner of WPSD-TV in Paducah, Kentucky, and newspapers such as the Daily Star (Hammond, Louisiana)

Other

• Paxton (genus), a genus of fish from the family Apogonidae
  Apogonidae
  Cardinalfishes are a family, Apogonidae, of ray-finned fishes. They are found in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans, they are chiefly marine, but some species are found in brackish water...
  
  
• Paxton Phoenix, a rear-engined prototype car developed in 1953.