Playfair
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Playfair is a surname. It may refer to:- Sir Hugh Lyon PlayfairSir Hugh Lyon PlayfairSir Hugh Lyon Playfair came to St Andrews in 1834 and was subsequently Provost; in his time, St Andrews "was transformed into a thriving modern burgh"....
, who came to St AndrewsSt AndrewsSt Andrews is a university town and former royal burgh on the east coast of Fife in Scotland. The town is named after Saint Andrew the Apostle.St Andrews has a population of 16,680, making this the fifth largest settlement in Fife....
in 1834 and was subsequently Provost; in his time, St Andrews "was transformed into a thriving modern burgh".
- Andrew W. PlayfairAndrew W. PlayfairAndrew William Playfair was a politician in Canada West.Playfair was born in Paris, France in 1790, the son of William Playfair. He served in the British Army and later settled near Perth. He built a number of mills which formed the basis of the community of Playfairville on the Mississippi River...
(1790–1868), Canadian politician, son of William - Sir Edward PlayfairEdward PlayfairSir Edward Wilder Playfair KCB was a British civil servant.Edward Playfair was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. He achieved a first class degree in Classics and then read History.He started work at the UK government Inland Revenue in 1931. In 1934, he moved to the Treasury...
(1909–1999), British civil servant and businessman - Henry PlayfairHenry PlayfairHenry Playfair is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. Playfair grew up and around the town of Holbrook in the Riverina region of New South Wales.-Career:...
(born 1983), Australian rules footballer - Ian Stanley Ord PlayfairIan Stanley Ord PlayfairIan Stanley Ord Playfair, CB, DSO, MC and bar, , was a soldier who rose to the rank of Major General in the British Army.Playfair was educated at Cheltenham College and joined the Royal Engineers in 1913...
(1894-1972), a general in the British Army - James PlayfairJames PlayfairJames Playfair was a Scottish architect who worked largely in the Neoclassical tradition. He was born in Benvie near Dundee, where his father was the parish minister. He was the brother of William Playfair the engineer, and the mathematician John Playfair...
(1755-1794), Scottish architect, brother of John and William, father of William Henry - Jim PlayfairJim PlayfairJames Playfair is the associate coach of the Phoenix Coyotes. He is a former NHL ice hockey player and a former head coach of the Calgary Flames.-Playing career:...
(born 1964), Canadian ice hockey player and coach, brother of Larry - John PlayfairJohn PlayfairJohn Playfair FRSE, FRS was a Scottish scientist and mathematician, and a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is perhaps best known for his book Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth , which summarized the work of James Hutton...
(1748-1819), Scottish scientist, brother of James and William - Judy PlayfairJudy PlayfairJudy Playfair was an Australian breaststroke swimmer of the 1960s, who won a silver medal in the 4x100m medley relay at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics....
(born 1953), Australian swimmer - Larry PlayfairLarry PlayfairLarry William Playfair is a retired former professional ice hockey player with a reputation as a hard-working, pugnacious defender...
(born 1958), Canadian ice hockey player and announcer, brother of Jim - Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron PlayfairLyon Playfair, 1st Baron PlayfairLyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair GCB, PC, FRS was a Scottish scientist and Liberal politician.-Background and education:...
(1818-1898), promoter of the Playfair cipher, manual symmetric encryption technique - Sir Nigel PlayfairNigel PlayfairSir Nigel Playfair was the actor-manager of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London, in the 1920s. He studied at University College, Oxford....
(1874–1934), British actor and theater manager - Patrick PlayfairPatrick PlayfairAir Marshal Sir Patrick Henry Lyon Playfair KBE CB CVO MC RAF was a commander in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I and a senior commander in the Royal Air Force until his retirement during World War II....
(1889–1974), British air marshal in World War I & World War II - Wendy PlayfairWendy PlayfairWendy Playfair is an Australian actress, best known for her role as Minnie Donovan in the television series Prisoner. She was educated at the prestigious Ascham School in Sydney....
, Australian actress - William PlayfairWilliam PlayfairWilliam Playfair was a Scottish engineer and political economist, the founder of graphical methods of statistics....
(1759-1823), Scottish engineer and political economist, inventor of statistical graphics, brother of James and John - William Henry PlayfairWilliam Henry PlayfairWilliam Henry Playfair FRSE was one of the greatest Scottish architects of the 19th century, designer of many of Edinburgh's neo-classical landmarks in the New Town....
(1790-1857), Scottish architect (National Gallery of Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy), son of James - John Playfair PriceJohn Playfair PriceJohn Playfair Price was a British diplomat, and a former President of the Oxford Union.-Early life:The son of William Arthur Price by his marriage to Edith Octavia Playfair, Price was educated at Gresham's School and New College, Oxford, where he was an Honorary Exhibitioner and President of the...
(1905–1988), British diplomat
Other uses
- The T.S. Playfair, a Canadian sail training vessel. Brigantine rigged.
- PlayFair - software that removes Apple's FairPlay DRM file encryption, now succeeded by HymnHymn (software)Hymn , which stands for Hear Your Music aNywhere is a piece of computer software, and the successor to the PlayFair program...
- Playfair ProjectPlayfair ProjectThe Playfair Project created an underground link between the National Gallery of Scotland and the Royal Scottish Academy Building. The project was named after William Henry Playfair, the original designer of both buildings...
- Playfair cipherPlayfair cipherThe Playfair cipher or Playfair square is a manual symmetric encryption technique and was the first literal digraph substitution cipher. The scheme was invented in 1854 by Charles Wheatstone, but bears the name of Lord Playfair who promoted the use of the cipher.The technique encrypts pairs of...
- a manual encryption technique invented in 1854 by Charles Wheatstone - Playfair Cricket AnnualPlayfair Cricket AnnualPlayfair Cricket Annual is a compact annual about cricket that is published in the United Kingdom each April, just before the English cricket season is due to begin. Its main purposes are to review the previous English season and to provide detailed career records and potted biographies of current...
There is more than one crater
Impact crater
In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with a larger body...
named Playfair:
- Playfair (lunar crater)Playfair (lunar crater)Playfair is a lunar crater that is located in the rugged southern highlands on the near side of the Moon. It lies along the eastern rim of the eroded satellite crater Playfair G, a formation that is almost twice the diameter of Playfair itself...
- Playfair (crater on Mars)