Kresge
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People and characters

  • Cliff Kresge
    Cliff Kresge
    Clifford Terry Kresge is an American professional golfer. He has played on the PGA Tour and Nationwide Tour since 1997....

     (born 1968), an American professional golfer
  • Geoff Kresge
    Geoff Kresge
    Geoff Kresge is a songwriter, guitarist, bassist, who played with AFI for most of their early career, from 1992 through 1997, and co-wrote the majority of their early material alongside frontman Davey Havok. During an AFI hiatus in 1993, he briefly moved to New York to join Blanks 77...

    , songwriter, guitarist, bassist with the band AFI
  • George Joseph Kresge (born 1935), American mentalist better known as Kreskin or The Amazing Kreskin
  • Karen Kresge
    Karen Kresge
    Karen Kresge is a British choreographer. She has choreographed many West End productions as well as "Seattle Symphony on Ice" in 1991. In 2006 Kresge was a judge on the ITV show Dancing on Ice. She left after one series. She went on to appear as a choreographer on Holiday on Ice in 2007 and 2009...

     (born 1957), a British choreographer
  • Lynne Kresge, a fictional character in the second season of the TV series 24
  • Sebastian Spering Kresge (1867–1966), noted merchant and philanthropist, founder of Kmart, formerly known as the S. S. Kresge Company

Companies and organizations

  • The Kresge Foundation
    The Kresge Foundation
    The Kresge Foundation is a U.S. philanthropic private foundation headquartered in Troy, Michigan. The goals and aspirations of seven programs guide its grantmaking and investing. Those programs are Arts & Culture, Community Development, Detroit, Education, Environment, Health, and Human Services...

    , a philanthropic organization established by Sebastian S. Kresge in 1924
  • Kresge Hearing Research Institute
    Kresge Hearing Research Institute
    The Kresge Hearing Research Institute is an institute of Otolaryngology of the Department of Otolaryngology in the University of Michigan.The research institute was officially opened in 1963 to investigate the human hearing and causes of deafness....

    , research institute of Department of Otolaryngology in Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • Kresge Auditorium
    Kresge Auditorium
    Kresge Auditorium is an auditorium building for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located at 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was designed by the noted architect Eero Saarinen, with ground-breaking in 1953 and dedication in 1955...

    , a main performance space for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Kresge Art Museum, an art museum in East Lansing, Michigan that houses Michigan State University
    Michigan State University
    Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,...

    's art collection
  • S. S. Kresge Corporation, predecessor of Kmart retail stores
  • Kresge College
    Kresge College
    Kresge College is one of the residential colleges that make up the University of California, Santa Cruz. Founded in 1971, Kresge is located on the western edge of the UCSC campus. Kresge is the sixth of ten colleges at UCSC, and originally one of the most experimental. The first provost of Kresge,...

    , one of the residential colleges that make up the University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Kresge-Newark
    Kresge-Newark
    Kresge-Newark was an upper-middle market department store based in Newark, New Jersey. The firm was started in the 1920s when its founder Sebastian Kresge purchased the Plautt Department store in downtown Newark and rebranded the business Kresge-Newark. This store had no management connection to...

    , a department store based in Newark, New Jersey, operated by Sebastian S. Kresge
  • Kresge Eye Institute
    Kresge Eye Institute
    The Kresge Eye Institute in Detroit, Michigan is a leading medical center for the preservation of sight and has an international reputation for its pioneering eye research program, basic science studies and as a major referral center for the treatment of difficult vision problems.-History:Founded...

  • Kresge Chapel
    MIT Chapel
    The MIT Chapel is a non-denominational chapel designed by noted architect Eero Saarinen. It is located on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, next to Kresge Auditorium and Kresge Oval, which Saarinen also designed, in Cambridge, Massachusetts...

  • S. S. Kresge World Headquarters
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