Dalton
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Dalton may refer to:

In Canada

  • Dalton, Algoma District, Ontario
  • Dalton Armoury
    Dalton Armoury
    Dalton Armoury is a Canadian Forces Primary Reserve facility located at 37 Mid-Dominion Acres, in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. The closest major intersection is Markham Road and Highway 401. It was opened on April 22, 2006....

    , a Canadian Forces facility primarily used by the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada

In the United Kingdom

  • Dalton, Cumbria
    Dalton, Cumbria
    Dalton is a hamlet in the English county of Cumbria.Dalton is located about a mile east of Burton-in-Kendal and gives its name to Dalton Crags and Dalton Hall.- External links :...

    , England
  • Dalton, Dumfries and Galloway
    Dalton, Dumfries and Galloway
    The village of Dalton is a small settlement about 10 miles southeast of Dumfries and 4 miles south of Lockerbie.The village has an 18th-century church, one of its past ministers being The Rev. John W. Morris MA, who is buried near the southern boundary of the church...

    , Scotland
  • Dalton, Lancashire
    Dalton, Lancashire
    Dalton is a village and civil parish in West Lancashire, near Skelmersdale and south of the River Douglas. Dalton was listed in the Domesday Book, and soon after the Norman conquest became part of the Barony of Manchester. It remained part of the Manchester fee as late as 1733...

    , England
  • Dalton, Hexham, Northumberland, England
  • Dalton, Ponteland, Northumberland, England
  • Dalton, Hambleton
    Dalton, Hambleton
    Dalton is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. It is about 4 miles south of Thirsk and near the A168 road....

    , North Yorkshire, England
  • Dalton, Richmondshire, North Yorkshire, England
  • Dalton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
  • Dalton, South Yorkshire
    Dalton, South Yorkshire
    Dalton is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. It has a population of 9,038....

    , England
  • Dalton, West Yorkshire, England
  • Dalton-in-Furness
    Dalton-in-Furness
    Dalton-in-Furness is a small town of 8,394 people, north east of Barrow-in-Furness, in Cumbria, England.-History:Dalton is mentioned in the Domesday Book, written as "Daltune" as one of the townships forming the Manor of Hougun held by Earl Tostig. Historically, it was the capital of Furness...

    , Cumbria, England
  • Dalton-on-Tees
    Dalton-on-Tees
    Dalton-on-Tees is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England, near the boundary with Durham. According to the 2001 Census there were 239 people living in the parish in 90 houses...

    , North Yorkshire, England

In the United States

  • Dalton, California
    Dalton, California
    Dalton is an unincorporated community in Modoc County, California. It is located on the former Great Northern Railway Bieber Line northwest of Newell, at an elevation of 4039 feet ....

  • Dalton, Georgia
    Dalton, Georgia
    Dalton is a city in Whitfield County, Georgia, United States. It is the county seat of Whitfield County and the principal city of the Dalton, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of both Murray and Whitfield counties. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 33,128...

  • Dalton Gardens, Idaho
    Dalton Gardens, Idaho
    Dalton Gardens is a city in Kootenai County, Idaho, United States. The population was 2,278 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Dalton Gardens is located at ....

  • Dalton City, Illinois
    Dalton City, Illinois
    Dalton City is a village in Moultrie County, Illinois, United States. It is in the center of the state near the Macon County line, located along Route 121 at its intersection with Route 128 and between the larger villages of Bethany and Mount Zion...

  • Dalton, Massachusetts
    Dalton, Massachusetts
    Dalton is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. Dalton is the transition town between the urban and rural pieces of Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 6,892 at the 2000 census.- History...

  • Dalton, Minnesota
    Dalton, Minnesota
    As of the census of 2000, there were 258 people, 115 households, and 60 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,077.3 people per square mile . There were 119 housing units at an average density of 496.9 per square mile...

  • Dalton, Missouri
    Dalton, Missouri
    Dalton is a village in Chariton County, Missouri, United States. The population was 27 at the 2000 census, at which time it was a town.-Geography:Dalton is located at ....

  • Dalton, Nebraska
    Dalton, Nebraska
    Dalton is a village in Cheyenne County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 332 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Dalton is located at ....

  • Dalton, New Hampshire
    Dalton, New Hampshire
    Dalton is a town in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 979 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Berlin, NH–VT Micropolitan Statistical Area.- History :...

  • Dalton, New York, hamlet in Nunda (town), New York
    Nunda (town), New York
    Nunda pronounced to the out of towner as "none day", is a town in Livingston County, New York, United States. The population was 3,017 at the 2000 census...

  • Dalton, Ohio
    Dalton, Ohio
    Dalton is a village in Wayne County, Ohio, United States. The population was 1,605 at the 2000 census. Dalton is served by a branch of the Wayne County Public Library.-Geography:Dalton is located at ....

  • Dalton, Pennsylvania
    Dalton, Pennsylvania
    Dalton is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, USA. It is located approximately 8 miles north of the city of Scranton, Pennsylvania in a growing suburban area known as the "Abingtons." Dalton is also approximately 3 miles north of Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, the hub of the Abington...

  • The Dalton Trail
    Dalton Trail
    The Dalton Trail is a trail that runs between Pyramid Harbor, west of Haines, Alaska in the United States, and Fort Selkirk, in the Yukon Territory of Canada, using the Chilkat Pass. It is 396 km long....

    , an old Tlingit trail

People

Surname
  • Dalton (surname)
    Dalton (surname)
    -Academics and literature:*Michael Dalton , American author*Roque Dalton , Salvadoran poet and journalist-Entertainment:*Abby Dalton , American actor*Audrey Dalton , Irish actress*Cal Dalton, American cartoon director...



Given name
  • Dalton Bales
    Dalton Bales
    Dalton Arthur Bales was an Ontario cabinet minister and lawyer.Bales joined the Toronto law firm of McLaughlin, Soward in 1946 while he was a law student. He was called to the bar in 1949 and eventually became partner....

    , Ontario cabinet minister and lawyer
  • Dalton Bell
    Dalton Bell
    Dalton Bell is a Canadian football quarterback for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. He was signed by the Carolina Panthers as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He was later signed by the Seattle Seahawks. He signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 2008 and was traded to...

    , Canadian football quarterback
  • Dalton Camp
    Dalton Camp
    Dalton Kingsley Camp, PC, OC was a Canadian journalist, politician, political strategist and commentator and supporter of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Despite having never been elected to a seat in the House of Commons, he was a prominent and influential politician and a popular...

    , Canadian journalist, politician, political strategist and commentator
  • Dalton Conley
    Dalton Conley
    Dalton Clark Conley is an American sociologist. He is University Professor of the Social Sciences and the Chair of the Department of Sociology at New York University...

    , American sociologist
  • Dalton Grant
    Dalton Grant
    Dalton Grant is a British high jumper, who has won a total number of four national titles for Great Britain in the men's high jump event. His personal best jump is 2.36 metres, achieved at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo. He has a personal indoor best of 2.37 metres...

    , British high jumper
  • Dalton Hilliard
    Dalton Hilliard
    Dalton Hilliard is a former professional American football running back for the New Orleans Saints from 1986-1993. He played his entire NFL career for the Saints and was a Pro Bowl selection in 1989...

    , former professional American football running back
  • Dalton Jones
    Dalton Jones
    James Dalton Jones is a former Major League Baseball player who played nine seasons in the big leagues for the Boston Red Sox , Detroit Tigers , and Texas Rangers .-Biography:...

    , former Major League Baseball player
  • Dalton Lindo, reggae artist popularly known as "Screwdriver"
  • Dalton McCarthy
    Dalton McCarthy
    Dalton McCarthy , or D'Alton McCarthy, was a Canadian lawyer and parliamentarian. It was his firm, Boulton & McCarthy in Barrie, that was the first incarnation of what is now Canada's largest law firm, McCarthy Tétrault.McCarthy was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1878...

    , Canadian lawyer and parliamentarian
  • Dalton McGuinty
    Dalton McGuinty
    Dalton James Patrick McGuinty, Jr., MPP is a Canadian lawyer, politician and, since October 23, 2003, the 24th and current Premier of the Canadian province of Ontario....

    , Ontario's premier
  • Dalton Alan Munaretto
    Dalton Alan Munaretto
    Dalton Alan Munaretto or simply Dalton , is a Brazilian goalkeeper. He is currently on a trail with Azerbaijani side FK Khazar Lankaran.-External links:...

    , Brazilian footballer
  • Dalton Philips
    Dalton Philips
    Dalton Philips is an Irish businessman, the current CEO of UK retailer Morrisons.Born in Ireland, Philips is the son of a County Wicklow egg farmer. He attended from 1981 to 1986 Stowe School, Buckingham, the fee-paying English public school, where he was a border in Grafton House...

    , Irish businessman
  • Dalton Prejean
    Dalton Prejean
    Dalton Prejean was an American murderer. He was tried, convicted, and executed by the electric chair in Louisiana for the murder of Louisiana State Police Trooper Donald Cleveland. Prejean was 17 years old at the time of the murder.-Background:Prejean was the second of four children...

    , American murderer executed by the electric chair in Louisiana in 1990
  • Dalton Trevisan
    Dalton Trevisan
    Dalton Jérson Trevisan is a Brazilian author of short stories. He has been described as an "acclaimed short-story chronicler of lower-class mores and popular dramas."...

    , Brazilian author of short stories
  • Dalton Trumbo
    Dalton Trumbo
    James Dalton Trumbo was an American screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry...

    , American screenwriter and author


Collective name
  • The Dalton Gang
    Dalton Gang
    The Dalton Gang, also known as The Dalton Brothers, was a family of both lawmen and outlaws in the American Old West during 1890-1892. They specialized in bank and train robberies. They were related to the Younger brothers, who rode with Jesse James, though they acted later and independently of...

    , brotherhood of outlaws in the American Old West
  • Jesse and Festus
    Jesse and Festus
    Jesse and Festus, also once known as The Dalton Boys, were an American professional wrestling tag team made up of Ray Gordy and Drew Hankinson . As of April 22, 2010, Ray Gordy was released by World Wrestling Entertainment...

    , once known as The Daltons, a professional wrestling tag team made up of Jesse Dalton and Festus Dalton
  • The Dalton Brothers
    The Dalton Brothers (band)
    The Dalton Brothers were a short-lived fictional, spoof country band, created and performed by U2, as their own opening act, on three dates of their Joshua Tree tour - "fictional" only in that they did not exist separately from U2...

    , a spoof country band created and portrayed by U2
    U2
    U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...

     that served as its opening act for several concerts in 1987

Entertainment

  • Dalton, working title for Code of Vengeance
    Code of Vengeance
    Code of Vengeance is the umbrella title for a series of American television programs, produced by Universal Television, that aired on NBC in 1985 and 1986. Charles Taylor stars as David Dalton, a Vietnam veteran who has become a drifter, travelling across the United States in a camper van with only...

     television series
  • Dalton (Buffyverse), minor character from Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series
  • Dalton (Chrono Trigger), non-playable main character in Chrono Trigger
  • Dalton Russell, character played by Clive Owen in 2006 film Inside Man

Science

  • Dalton (unit) (Da), the atomic mass unit, named after the chemist John Dalton
    John Dalton
    John Dalton FRS was an English chemist, meteorologist and physicist. He is best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern atomic theory, and his research into colour blindness .-Early life:John Dalton was born into a Quaker family at Eaglesfield, near Cockermouth, Cumberland,...

  • Dalton (crater)
    Dalton (crater)
    Dalton is a lunar impact crater that is located near the western limb of the Moon's near side. It is attached to the eastern rim of the walled plain Einstein, with Balboa lying just to the north and Vasco da Gama due south. The rim of this crater is not heavily eroded, and the interior walls are...

    , lunar crater
  • Dalton (program), quantum chemistry software program
  • Dalton Transactions
    Dalton Transactions
    Dalton Transactions is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing original research and review articles on all aspects of the chemistry of inorganic, bioinorganic, and organometallic compounds. It is published weekly by the Royal Society of Chemistry...

    , scientific journal covering inorganic chemistry

Other

  • Dalton Airport (Michigan) in Flushing, Michigan
    Flushing, Michigan
    Flushing is a city in Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 8,348 at the 2000 census. Flushing is considered a suburb of Flint. It is situated within the area of Flushing Charter Township, but is administratively autonomous...

    , United States
  • Dalton Barracks, current name of former Royal Air Force station near Abingdon, Oxfordshire
  • Dalton Castle
    Dalton Castle
    Dalton Castle is a 14th-century peel tower situated in Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, and in the ownership of the National Trust. It was constructed by the monks of Furness Abbey for the protection of the nearby market town, and was the building from which the Abbot administered the area and...

    , 14th-century peel tower situated in Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria, England
  • Dalton Municipal Airport
    Dalton Municipal Airport
    Dalton Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located six miles southeast of the central business district of Dalton, a city in Whitfield County, Georgia, United States.- Facilities and aircraft :...

     in Dalton, Georgia, United States
  • Dalton State College
    Dalton State College
    Dalton State College, also referred to as DSC or Dalton State, is one of eight state colleges in the University System of Georgia; it is also one of four University System units with a Technical Division supervised by the separate Technical College System of Georgia...

    , one of eight state colleges in the University System of Georgia
  • Daltons
    Daltons
    Daltons Weekly is a newspaper published in England. It is published every Thursday.Established during the late 1860s by Herbert Dalton, Daltons Weekly was initially a single broadsheet listing 'Accommodation for Gentleman' in the then fashionable middle class suburbs around Vauxhall in South London...

    , a weekly newspaper
  • The Dalton Plan
    Dalton Plan
    The Dalton Plan is an educational concept created by Helen Parkhurst.Inspired by the intellectual ferment at the turn of the 19th century, educational thinkers such as Maria Montessori and John Dewey began to cast a bold vision of a new progressive approach to education...

    , educational concept created by Helen Parkhurst
    • The Dalton School, private school in New York City founded by Helen Parkhurst based on the Dalton Plan

See also

  • D'Alton (disambiguation)
  • Dalton v. Specter
    Dalton v. Specter
    Dalton v. Specter, , was a case heard before the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held that an Executive Order to shut down the Philadelphia Naval Base cannot be held subject to judicial review, since the authorizing statute provided for non-Constitutional remedies for statutory...

    , case heard before the United States Supreme Court in 1994
  • Daltoni
    Daltoni
    Daltoni was a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band from Niš, notable for being one of the pioneers of the former Yugoslav rock scene.-1963 - 1970:...

    , former Yugoslav rock band
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