Cavendish
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Cavendish may refer to:
- Cavendish banana, the dominant commercial variety of banana
- Cavendish Invitational, high stakes bridge tournament in Las Vegas
- Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge
- Cavendish experiment weighing the Earth
- Cavendish Tobacco, both a type and brand of pipe tobacco
- Cavendish Motor Services, a bus company part-owned by Renown Travel, operating several routes in East Sussex, England
- "Cavendish Foods", a fictional supermarket chain appearing on the British sitcom To the Manor Born
[edit] People
- The House of Cavendish, a British noble family, and its members and descendants
[edit] As a surname
- Margaret Cavendish (born 1623), English aristocrat, writer, and philosopher
- Ada Cavendish (1839-1895), British actress
- Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), British physicist, discoverer of hydrogen
- Mark Cavendish (born 1985), cyclist from the Isle of Man
- Michael Cavendish (born c. 1565), English composer
- Lord Richard Cavendish (1752-1781) Member of the Parliament of Great Britain
- Lord Richard Frederick Cavendish (1871-1946) British aristocrat, author, magistrate and politician
- Richard Cavendish (occult writer) (born 1930), British writer on topics dealing with the occult
- Thomas Cavendish (admiral) (1564-1593), English admiral
- George Cavendish (writer) (c. 1494 – 1562) English writer and biographer of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
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[edit] As a given name
- Charles Cavendish Boyle (1849-1916), British colonial administrator
- Edward Montagu Cavendish Stanley, Lord Stanley (1894-1938), British politician
[edit] As a pen name, pseudonym, or nom de plume
- Henry Jones ("Cavendish") (1831-1899), authority on card games and tennis
[edit] Places
- Cavendish, Alberta, Canada
- Cavendish, Bermuda
- Cavendish, Idaho, United States
- Cavendish, Missouri, United States
- Cavendish, Newfoundland, Canada
- Cavendish, Ontario, Canada
- Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Canada
- Cavendish, Queensland, Australia
- Cavendish, Suffolk, England
- Cavendish, Vermont, United States
- Cavendish, Victoria, Australia
- Cavendish (crater), a crater on the moon
- Cavendish Bay, Newfoundland, Canada
- Cavendish Hall at the University of Nottingham
- Cavendish Lake, Ontario, Canada
- Cavendish Square, London, England
- Fort Cavendish, Illinois, United States
- Lac Cavendish, Quebec, Canada
- Mount Cavendish, Christchurch, New Zealand
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