Oxford (disambiguation)

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Oxford is a city in Oxfordshire, England, famous for the University of Oxford.

Oxford may also refer to:

Places

People

• Oxford (surname), a surname (and a list of people with the name)
• Bishop of Oxford
• Earl of Oxford, a title in the English peerage
  • Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550–1604), candidate for authorship of the Shakespeare oeuvre (Oxfordian theory)

Art, entertainment and media

• Oxford Bach Choir
• Oxford English Dictionary

Brands and enterprises

• Oxford (company), a producer of office products
• Oxford (toy company), a South Korean toy company
• Oxford Bus Company, a bus transport company
• Oxford Diffraction, a British company specializing in X-ray diffraction equipment, now part of Varian, Inc.
• Oxford Instruments, a scientific company
• Oxford Playhouse, a theatre in Oxford, England
• Oxford Properties Group, a Canadian property management company
• Oxford Records, a record label
• Oxford University Press, a university press

Clothing

• Oxford (cloth), a type of cotton cloth, typically used for shirts
• Oxford shirt, a shirt made of Oxford cloth
• Oxford shoe, a style of shoe

Educational institutions

• Oxford Academy (California), US
• Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England
• Oxford College of Emory University, US
• Oxford International School, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• University of Oxford, Oxford, England

Flora and fauna

• Oxford, a red variety of Darwin tulip
• Golden Oxford, a yellow variety of Darwin tulip
• Oxford Ragwort, (Senecio squalidus) a plant
• Oxford sheep, or Oxford Down, a breed of sheep originating in England

Language

• Oxford comma, the serial comma
• Oxford English, a formal style of English
• Oxford "-er", a type of slang

Religion

• Oxford Group, a 20th-century religious movement which became Moral Re-Armament
• Oxford Movement, 19th century Anglo-Catholic theological movement

Sport

• Oxford Blue, a sporting award
• Oxford City F.C., an English Conference North football club
• Oxford F.C., a 19th-century football club in Glasgow, Scotland
• Oxford Plains Speedway, a race track in Oxford, Maine
• Oxford Rugby League, a rugby league club in Oxford, England
• Oxford United F.C., an English League Two football club
• Oxford United Stars F.C., a football club in Northern Ireland

Transport

• Manchester Oxford Road railway station, a railway station in Manchester, England
• Oxford Airport, England
• Oxford / City of Sheridan (RTD), a transit station in Sheridan, Colorado, USA
• Oxford railway station, England
• Oxford Rewley Road railway station, a former railway station in Oxford, England
• Oxford Road Halt railway station, a former railway station near Oxford, England
• Oxford services, a motorway service station near Oxford, England
• Oxford station (Ohio), a proposed Amtrak station in Oxford, Ohio, USA
• Oxford Tube, an express coach service between Oxford and London

Vehicles

• Airspeed Oxford, World War II–era twin-engine trainer aircraft
• HMS Oxford, two ships of the Royal Navy
• Morris Oxford, a car
• Nuffield Oxford Taxi, or Wolseley Oxford Taxi, a taxicab
• SS City of Oxford, merchant ship sunk in the Second World War

Other uses

• Oxford Archaeology, an archaeological unit of sedimentary rock
• Oxford Clay, a type of sedimentary rock
• Oxford Round Table, a series of interdisciplinary conferences

See also

• Ox Ford, an action during the Battle of North Anna in the American Civil War
• All pages beginning with Oxford
• All pages with a title containing Oxford