Yarrow (disambiguation)

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Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) is a plant in the family Asteraceae.

Yarrow may also refer to:

• Yarrow, other species within the Achillea genus

Places

• Yarrow, British Columbia, a community in Canada
• Yarrow, Northumberland, the location of the Kielder Reservoir dam
• Yarrow, Somerset, a hamlet in England
• River Yarrow (Lancashire), England
  • Yarrow Reservoir, Lancashire, England
• Yarrow Water, Scotland
• Yarrow, Scottish Borders, Scotland
• Yarrow, Missouri, an unincorporated community in the United States

Other uses

• Yarrow (novel), a novel by Charles de Lint
• The Yarrow, a rock band from Provo, Utah
• USS Yarrow (SP-1010), a United States Navy patrol boat
• Yarrow baronets, a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
• Yarrow Shipbuilders, in Glasgow, Scotland
• Yarrow Stadium, Westown, New Zealand
• Yarrow, a codename for the Fedora Core 1 Linux distribution
• Yarrow algorithm. a family of cryptographic pseudorandom number generators

People with the name

• Alder Yarrow, American wine journalist and restaurant critic
• Alfred Yarrow (1842–1932), British shipbuilder
• Eric Yarrow (1920–2018), British shipbuilder, son of Harold Yarrow
• Ernest Yarrow (1876–1939), British-American missionary
• Harold Yarrow (1884–1962), British shipbuilder, son of Alfred Yarrow
• H. C. Yarrow (1840–1929), American naturalist, ornithologist, and surgeon
• Peter Yarrow (born 1938), American singer and member of Peter, Paul and Mary
• Yarrow Maaytey, 17th-century Somali ruler

See also

• Jarrow, a town in Tyne and Wear, England
• Yarrow algorithm, a random number generator in cryptography
• Yarrow boiler, developed by Yarrow Shipbuilders and widely used in ships