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In the United States:
  • Greene, Indiana
    Greene, Indiana
    Greene is an unincorporated community in Greene Township, Jay County, Indiana....

    , unincorporated place
  • Greene, Iowa
    Greene, Iowa
    Greene is a city in Butler County, Iowa, along the Shell Rock River, and along Butler County's northern border, where Butler and Floyd counties meet. The population was 1,099 at the 2000 census. Greene is the headquarters of the Iowa Northern Railway...

    , city in Butler County
  • Greene, Maine
    Greene, Maine
    Greene is a town in Androscoggin County, Maine, United States. The population was 4,076 at the 2000 census. It is included in both the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine Metropolitan New England City and Town Area.-History:Greene was settled in 1773...

    , town in Androscoggin County
  • Greene (town), New York
    Greene (town), New York
    Greene is a town in Chenango County, New York, United States. The population was 5,729 at the 2000 census. The town is named after General Nathanael Greene. It is located in the southwest corner of the county and contains a village, also called Greene...

    , in Chenango County
    • Greene (village), New York
      Greene (village), New York
      Greene is a village in Chenango County, New York, USA. The population was 1,701 at the 2000 census. The village is named after General Nathanael Greene.The Village of Greene is within the Town of Greene and is northeast of Binghamton, New York....

      , in the town of Greene
  • Greene, Rhode Island
    Greene, Rhode Island
    Greene is a small village in the southwest corner of the town of Coventry, Rhode Island, United States. It is on the Connecticut border, just north of West Greenwich. The name derives from Nathanael Greene, a Rhode Island-born general in the American Revolution.- History :Greene was until 1854 a...

    , a village in the town of Coventry
  • Greene County, Alabama
    Greene County, Alabama
    Greene County is the least populous county in the U.S. state of Alabama. Its name is in honor of Revolutionary War General Nathanael Greene of Rhode Island. As of 2000 the population was 9,974. Its county seat is Eutaw....

  • Greene County, Arkansas
    Greene County, Arkansas
    Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of 2000, the population was 37,331. The county seat is Paragould, which sits atop Crowley's Ridge.The Paragould Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Greene County...

  • Greene County, Georgia
    Greene County, Georgia
    Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. It was created on February 3, 1786. As of 2000, the population is 14,406. The 2007 Census Estimate shows a population of 15,662 . The county seat is Greensboro, Georgia. The county is named for Nathanael Greene, an American...

  • Greene County, Illinois
    Greene County, Illinois
    Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of 2000, the population was 14,761. Its county seat is Carrollton, Illinois....

  • Greene County, Indiana
    Greene County, Indiana
    Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana, and determined by the U.S. Census Bureau to include the mean center of U.S. population in 1930. As of 2000, the population was 33,157. The county seat is Bloomfield....

  • Greene County, Mississippi
    Greene County, Mississippi
    Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It was established in 1811 and is named for General Nathanael Greene. As of 2000, the population was 13,299. Its county seat is Leakesville.-Geography:According to the U.S...

  • Greene County, Missouri
    Greene County, Missouri
    Greene County is a county located in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of 2000, the population was 240,391. Its county seat is Springfield...

  • Greene County, New York
    Greene County, New York
    Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. Its name is in honor of the American Revolutionary War general, Nathanael Greene...

  • Greene County, North Carolina
    Greene County, North Carolina
    Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of 2000, the population was 18,974. In 2006, it was estimated that the county's population was 20,157. It is included in the Greenville, North Carolina, Metropolitan Statistical Area...

  • Greene County, Ohio
    Greene County, Ohio
    Greene County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. As of 2000, the population was 147,886. Its county seat is Xenia, and it was named for General Nathanael Greene, an officer in the Revolutionary War. Greene County was established on March 24, 1803.Greene County is part of the...

  • Greene County, Pennsylvania
    Greene County, Pennsylvania
    Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and is part of the Pittsburgh DMA. As of 2000, the population was 40,672.Greene County was created on February 9, 1796, from part of Washington County and named for General Nathanael Greene....

  • Greene County, Tennessee
    Greene County, Tennessee
    Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2000, the population was 62,909. The 2005 Census Estimate placed the population at 65,318 . Its county seat is Greeneville, and the current county mayor is Alan Broyles .-Geography:...

  • Greene County, Virginia
    Greene County, Virginia
    Greene County is a county in central Virginia in the eastern United States. As of 2000, the population was 15,244. Its county seat is Stanardsville.Greene County is part of the Charlottesville Metropolitan Statistical Area.- History :...

  • Greene Township, Pennsylvania
    Greene Township, Pennsylvania
    Greene Township is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania:*Greene Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania*Greene Township, Clinton County, Pennsylvania*Greene Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania*Greene Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania...

    , seven locations

  • Belle da Costa Greene
    Belle da Costa Greene
    Belle da Costa Greene was the librarian to J. P. Morgan and after his death she became the first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library....

    , librarian to J.
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In the United States:
  • Greene, Indiana
    Greene, Indiana
    Greene is an unincorporated community in Greene Township, Jay County, Indiana....

    , unincorporated place
  • Greene, Iowa
    Greene, Iowa
    Greene is a city in Butler County, Iowa, along the Shell Rock River, and along Butler County's northern border, where Butler and Floyd counties meet. The population was 1,099 at the 2000 census. Greene is the headquarters of the Iowa Northern Railway...

    , city in Butler County
  • Greene, Maine
    Greene, Maine
    Greene is a town in Androscoggin County, Maine, United States. The population was 4,076 at the 2000 census. It is included in both the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine Metropolitan New England City and Town Area.-History:Greene was settled in 1773...

    , town in Androscoggin County
  • Greene (town), New York
    Greene (town), New York
    Greene is a town in Chenango County, New York, United States. The population was 5,729 at the 2000 census. The town is named after General Nathanael Greene. It is located in the southwest corner of the county and contains a village, also called Greene...

    , in Chenango County
    • Greene (village), New York
      Greene (village), New York
      Greene is a village in Chenango County, New York, USA. The population was 1,701 at the 2000 census. The village is named after General Nathanael Greene.The Village of Greene is within the Town of Greene and is northeast of Binghamton, New York....

      , in the town of Greene
  • Greene, Rhode Island
    Greene, Rhode Island
    Greene is a small village in the southwest corner of the town of Coventry, Rhode Island, United States. It is on the Connecticut border, just north of West Greenwich. The name derives from Nathanael Greene, a Rhode Island-born general in the American Revolution.- History :Greene was until 1854 a...

    , a village in the town of Coventry
  • Greene County, Alabama
    Greene County, Alabama
    Greene County is the least populous county in the U.S. state of Alabama. Its name is in honor of Revolutionary War General Nathanael Greene of Rhode Island. As of 2000 the population was 9,974. Its county seat is Eutaw....

  • Greene County, Arkansas
    Greene County, Arkansas
    Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of 2000, the population was 37,331. The county seat is Paragould, which sits atop Crowley's Ridge.The Paragould Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Greene County...

  • Greene County, Georgia
    Greene County, Georgia
    Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. It was created on February 3, 1786. As of 2000, the population is 14,406. The 2007 Census Estimate shows a population of 15,662 . The county seat is Greensboro, Georgia. The county is named for Nathanael Greene, an American...

  • Greene County, Illinois
    Greene County, Illinois
    Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of 2000, the population was 14,761. Its county seat is Carrollton, Illinois....

  • Greene County, Indiana
    Greene County, Indiana
    Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana, and determined by the U.S. Census Bureau to include the mean center of U.S. population in 1930. As of 2000, the population was 33,157. The county seat is Bloomfield....

  • Greene County, Mississippi
    Greene County, Mississippi
    Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It was established in 1811 and is named for General Nathanael Greene. As of 2000, the population was 13,299. Its county seat is Leakesville.-Geography:According to the U.S...

  • Greene County, Missouri
    Greene County, Missouri
    Greene County is a county located in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of 2000, the population was 240,391. Its county seat is Springfield...

  • Greene County, New York
    Greene County, New York
    Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. Its name is in honor of the American Revolutionary War general, Nathanael Greene...

  • Greene County, North Carolina
    Greene County, North Carolina
    Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of 2000, the population was 18,974. In 2006, it was estimated that the county's population was 20,157. It is included in the Greenville, North Carolina, Metropolitan Statistical Area...

  • Greene County, Ohio
    Greene County, Ohio
    Greene County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. As of 2000, the population was 147,886. Its county seat is Xenia, and it was named for General Nathanael Greene, an officer in the Revolutionary War. Greene County was established on March 24, 1803.Greene County is part of the...

  • Greene County, Pennsylvania
    Greene County, Pennsylvania
    Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and is part of the Pittsburgh DMA. As of 2000, the population was 40,672.Greene County was created on February 9, 1796, from part of Washington County and named for General Nathanael Greene....

  • Greene County, Tennessee
    Greene County, Tennessee
    Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2000, the population was 62,909. The 2005 Census Estimate placed the population at 65,318 . Its county seat is Greeneville, and the current county mayor is Alan Broyles .-Geography:...

  • Greene County, Virginia
    Greene County, Virginia
    Greene County is a county in central Virginia in the eastern United States. As of 2000, the population was 15,244. Its county seat is Stanardsville.Greene County is part of the Charlottesville Metropolitan Statistical Area.- History :...

  • Greene Township, Pennsylvania
    Greene Township, Pennsylvania
    Greene Township is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania:*Greene Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania*Greene Township, Clinton County, Pennsylvania*Greene Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania*Greene Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania...

    , seven locations

People

  • Belle da Costa Greene
    Belle da Costa Greene
    Belle da Costa Greene was the librarian to J. P. Morgan and after his death she became the first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library....

    , librarian to J. P. Morgan, and after his death the first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library
  • Brian Greene
    Brian Greene
    Brian Greene is an American theoretical physicist and one of the best-known string theorists. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi-Yau manifolds...

    , American physicist
  • Charles Greene (athlete), American sprinter
  • Charlie Greene
    Charlie Greene
    Charles Patrick Greene is a former backup catcher who played in Major League Baseball with four different teams from 1996 through 2000...

    , major league catcher
  • Colton Greene
    Colton Greene
    Colton Greene was an American businessman and soldier. He served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War, mostly leading cavalry units...

    , Confederate general during the American Civil War
  • David Greene
    David Greene
    David Norman Greene is a former American football quarterback of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Georgia....

    , NFL quarterback
  • Edward Lee Greene
    Edward Lee Greene
    Edward Lee Greene was an American botanist.In 1876–1877, while Greene was an episcopal priest in Yreka, California, he discovered the first specimens of Phlox hirsuta, a small flowering plant found only in that area...

    , botanist
  • George S. Greene
    George S. Greene
    George Sears Greene was a civil engineer and a Union general during the American Civil War. He was part of the Greene family of Rhode Island, which had a distinguished military record for the United States. His greatest contribution during the war was his defense of the Union right flank at Culp's...

    , Union general during the American Civil War
  • Graham Greene
    Graham Greene
    Henry Graham Greene OM, CH was an English author, playwright and literary critic. His works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world...

    , English writer
  • Graham Greene (actor)
    Graham Greene (actor)
    Graham Greene is an Academy Award–nominated Canadian actor.-Early life:Greene is an Oneida, born in Ohsweken on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, the son of Lillian and John Greene, who was an ambulance driver and maintenance man. He lived in Hamilton, Ontario as a young adult...

    , Canadian actor
  • Harold H. Greene
    Harold H. Greene
    Harold H. Greene was a federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He was nominated by President Jimmy Carter in 1978.-Education:...

    , U.S. district court justice
  • Henry Greene and Charles Greene, American architects, better known as Greene and Greene
    Greene and Greene
    Brothers Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene , who established the architectural firm of Greene and Greene, were influential American architects...

  • J. Patrick Greene
    J. Patrick Greene
    Dr. J. Patrick Greene OBE, PhD, is an archaeologist and a museum director.-Biography:Greene was appointed in 1971 to conduct an exploratory excavation at Norton Priory near Runcorn in Cheshire, England...

    , English archaeologist and museum director
  • Joe Greene (American football)
    Joe Greene (American football)
    Charles Edward Greene, known as “Mean Joe” Greene, is a former all-pro American football defensive tackle who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL. Throughout the early 1970s he developed into arguably the most dominant defensive lineman in the NFL...

    , known as "Mean Joe" Greene, American football Hall-of-Famer
  • Khalil Greene
    Khalil Greene
    Khalil Thabit Greene is a Major League Baseball shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals. He bats and throws right-handed.-College career:...

    , major league infielder
  • Lorne Greene
    Lorne Greene
    Lorne Greene , was the stage name of Lyon Himan Green O.C., LL.D., a Canadian actor.His television roles include Ben Cartwright on the long-running western Bonanza, and Commander Adama in the original science fiction TV Series Battlestar Galactica...

    , Canadian actor
  • Maurice Greene (athlete)
    Maurice Greene (athlete)
    Maurice Greene is an American former track and field sprinter who specialised in the 100 meters and 200 meters. He is a former 100 m world record holder with a time of 9.79 seconds. During the height of his career he won two Olympic gold medals and was a five-time World Champion...

    , former 100m record holder
  • Nathanael Greene
    Nathanael Greene
    Nathaniel Greene was a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. When the war began, Greene was a militia private, the lowest rank possible; he emerged from the war with a reputation as George Washington's most gifted and dependable officer...

    , American general (and a name source for many US locations)
  • Peter Greene
    Peter Greene
    Peter Greene is an American character actor.A native of Montclair, New Jersey, Greene did not pursue a career in acting until his mid 20s...

    , American actor
  • Robert Greene (16th century)
    Robert Greene (16th century)
    Robert Greene was an English author best known today for his pamphlet Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit, containing a polemic attack on William Shakespeare. He was born in Norwich and attended Cambridge University, receiving a BA in 1580, and a MA in 1583 before moving to London, where he arguably...

    , 16th century poet
  • Robert Greene (author), contemporary author
  • Serginho Greene
    Serginho Greene
    Serginho Greene, is a Dutch soccer player who is currently a free agent.-Early life:Greene's life was all about football since he was a little kid, growing up in the south-eastern part of Amsterdam where playing street football was a daily routine...

    , Dutch soccer player
  • Ted Greene
    Ted Greene
    Theodore Greene was an American fingerstyle jazz guitarist, music columnist, and music educator active in Encino, California.-Career:...

    , guitarist and music educator
  • Vincent Graves Greene
    Vincent Graves Greene
    Vincent Graves Greene was a Canadian philatelist, so prominent in the field of Canadian philately that he was often referred to as “Canada's Grand Old Man” by fellow philatelists.-Philatelic literature:...

     (1893-1988) a Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     philatelist
    Philately
    Philately is the study of stamps and related items. Philately is distinct from stamp collecting which does not usually involve the study of stamps. It is possible to be a philatelist without owning any stamps...

  • William Cornell Greene
    William Cornell Greene
    William Cornell Greene was an American businessman, who was famous for discovering rich copper reserves in Cananea Mexico and founded the Greene Consolidated Copper Company in 1899. By 1905, William Greene was one of the wealthiest businessmen in the world.- Early life :Greene was born in...

    , Copper Magnate


Fictional characters
  • Mark Greene
    Mark Greene
    Dr. Mark Greene was a fictional medical doctor from the television series ER, portrayed by the actor Anthony Edwards. For most of his time on the series, Greene's role was that of a mediator and occasional authority figure, and was considered the main character of the series for the first eight...

     (ER - TV series)
  • Rachel Green
    Rachel Green
    Rachel Karen Green is a fictional character on the popular U.S. television sitcom Friends , played by Jennifer Aniston, who received an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe for her performances.-Background:...

     (Friends - TV series)
  • Dominic Greene
    Dominic Greene
    Dominic Greene is a fictional character and the primary antagonist in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace. He is portrayed by French actor Mathieu Amalric.-In the film:...

     (James Bond: Quantum of Solace - Film)