de Havilland (disambiguation)

de Havilland a defunct British aviation manufacturer established in 1920.

de Havilland may also refer to:

Organisations

  • de Havilland Engine Company, offshoot of the original British de Havilland aircraft building company later taken over by Rolls Royce
  • de Havilland Canada, former subsidiary of the original, now independent and the only remaining aircraft manufacturer bearing this name
  • de Havilland Australia former subsidiary, later merged into Boeing Australia
  • De Havilland Aviation, a jet engineering company founded in 1988, based at Bournemouth Airport, England
  • DeHavilland, a UK-based political information company

People

  • Captain Geoffrey de Havilland (1882–1965), the founder of the aircraft company
  • Geoffrey de Havilland, Jr. (1910–1946), his son, a test pilot
  • Hereward de Havilland (1894–1976), British aviator, brother of Geoffrey de Havilland, Sr.
  • Olivia de Havilland (born 1916), British-American actress, appeared in Gone with the Wind, cousin of Geoffrey Sr. and Hereward
  • Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, birth name of Joan Fontaine (1917–2013), British-American actress and younger sister of Olivia de Havilland
  • Walter de Havilland (1872–1968), British patent attorney and Go player, father of Olivia and Joan
  • Will de Havilland (1994-), English professional footballer
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