Curzon
Curzon may refer to:
People
As a British family name, it particularly refers to the Curzon family, and is an Anglo-Norman territorial name. The Curzon family was involved in the Norman Conquest, and is named after the French town of Notre-Dame-de-Courson in Normandy from which they hail; their seat is at Kedleston Hall. The people listed below do not necessarily belong to this family.
- Aria Curzon (born 1987), American voice actress
- Christopher Curzon (born 1958), English cricketer
- Clifford Curzon (1907–1982), English pianist
- Drury Curzon Drury-Lowe (1830–1908), British general
- Ephraim Curzon (1883–?), English rugby league footballer
- Frederic Curzon (1899–1973), English composer, conductor, and musician.
- George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925), Viceroy of India and later British Foreign Secretary
- Grace Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (1879–1958), art collector and museum benefactor
- Mary Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston (1870–1906), Vicereine of India
- Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche (1810–1873), English traveler, travel writer, and diplomat
- Sarah Anne Curzon (1833–1898), early Canadian feminist poet, journalist, editor, and playwright
- "Viscount Curzon", a courtesy title used by the heir of Earl Howe
Places
- Curzon Street, a street in central London, UK
- Birmingham Curzon Street railway station (1838-1966), Birmingham, UK, the city's first station and the world's oldest railway architecture.
- Birmingham Curzon Street railway station, planned terminus of new high speed line in similar location
- Curzon, Vendée, a commune of the Vendée département of France
- Curzon, Missouri, a community in the United States
- Curzon Hall, a building at the University of Dhaka
Ships
- HMS Fittleton (M1136), a Ton-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy, renamed HMS Curzon between 1960 and 1975.
- HMS Curzon (K513) was a Captain-class frigate of the Royal Navy, in commission from 1943 to 1946.
Other
- Curzon Ashton F.C., a non-league football club from Greater Manchester, England
- Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon, an independent cinema in Clevedon, England, not related to the Curzon Cinemas chain
- Curzon Artificial Eye, a British film distributor, subsidiary of Curzon World
- Curzon Cinemas, a small cinema chain based in London, England, subsidiary of Curzon World
- Curzon Dax, an alien character from the television show Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Curzon, a cologne/parfum manufactured by Geo.F. Trumper
- Curzon Line, a boundary line proposed in 1919 by Lord Curzon of Kedleston as an armistice line between Poland and Bolshevik Russia
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