People

• William Byron Rumford
  William Byron Rumford
  William Byron Rumford was an American pharmacist and politician. He was the first African American elected to any public office in Northern California.-Family background:...
  
  , California politician
• Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford
  Benjamin Thompson
  Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford , FRS was an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics. He also served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Loyalist forces in America during the American...
  
  

Places

• Rumford (crater)
  Rumford (crater)
  Rumford is a lunar impact crater that lies on the far side of the Moon. It is located to the northwest of the large crater Oppenheimer, and to the east-southeast of Orlov....
  
  
• Rumford, Falkirk, a village in the Falkirk council area of Scotland

• Rumford, Maine
• Rumford, New Hampshire, former name of Concord, New Hampshire
  Concord, New Hampshire
  The city of Concord is the capital of the state of New Hampshire in the United States. It is also the county seat of Merrimack County. As of the 2010 census, its population was 42,695....
  
  
• Rumford, Rhode Island
  Rumford, Rhode Island
  Rumford, Rhode Island, is the northern section of the city of East Providence. It borders Seekonk, Massachusetts, Pawtucket, Rhode Island and Narragansett Bay....
  
  
• Rumford, South Dakota
  Rumford, South Dakota
  Rumford is an unincorporated community in Fall River County, South Dakota, United States. It is located on South Dakota Highway 471 southeast of Edgemont...
  
  
• The Rumford River
  Rumford River
  The Rumford River is a small river in southeastern Massachusetts, United States, that is a tributary of the Threemile River in the Taunton River watershed. The Rumford River, long, begins within the town of Foxborough and flows south through Mansfield to the Norton Reservoir, within the town of...
  
   in Massachusetts

Things

• Rumford Fair Housing Act
• Rumford fireplace
  Rumford fireplace
  The Rumford fireplace is a tall, shallow fireplace designed by Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, born 1753 in Woburn, Massachusetts, an Anglo-American physicist who was known for his investigations of heat....
  
  
• Rumford Medal
  Rumford Medal
  The Rumford Medal is awarded by the Royal Society every alternating year for "an outstandingly important recent discovery in the field of thermal or optical properties of matter made by a scientist working in Europe". First awarded in 1800, it was created after a 1796 donation of $5000 by the...
  
  
• Rumford Prize
  Rumford Prize
  Founded in 1796, the Rumford Prize, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is one of the oldest scientific prizes in the United States. The prize recognizes contributions by scientists to the fields of heat and light...
  
   (not to be confused with the Rumford Medal)
• Rumford's Soup
  Rumford's Soup
  Rumford's Soup was an early effort in scientific nutrition. It was invented by Count Rumford around 1800 as a ration for the prisoners and the poor of Bavaria, where he was employed as an advisor to the Duke....