Ogden
Encyclopedia

Surname

  • Aaron Ogden
    Aaron Ogden
    Aaron Ogden was a United States Senator and the 5th Governor of New Jersey.-Early life:Ogden was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey...

    , governor of New Jersey
  • Bud Ogden
    Bud Ogden
    Carlos C. "Bud" Ogden, Jr. is a retired American professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association ...

    , American professional basketball player
  • Carlos C. Ogden
    Carlos C. Ogden
    Carlos C. Ogden, Sr. was a United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration — the Medal of Honor — for his actions in World War II....

    , American Medal of Honor recipient
  • Charles Ogden (children's writer)
    Charles Ogden (children's writer)
    Charles Ogden is the pen name used by a collection of authors at Star Farm Productions for the Edgar & Ellen book series for children and young adults. The pen name is credited with nine books , published by both Tricycle Press, and more recently, Simon & Schuster...

  • Charles Kay Ogden
    Charles Kay Ogden
    Charles Kay Ogden was an English linguist, philosopher, and writer. Described as a polymath but also an eccentric and outsider, he took part in many ventures related to literature, politics, the arts and philosophy, having a broad impact particularly as an editor, translator, and activist on...

    , Cambridge University linguist, inventor of Basic English
  • Charles Richard Ogden
    Charles Richard Ogden
    Charles Richard Ogden was a Joint Premier of the Province of Canada for Canada East from 1842 with William Henry Draper PM for Canada West. Odgen was a member of the Château Clique....

    , Canadian politician
  • Chris 'Godhammer' Ogden, Reichstag of Poetry, Somerset House of Prose
  • David W. Ogden
    David W. Ogden
    David William Ogden , known professionally as David W. Ogden, is the former Deputy Attorney General of the United States...

    , Deputy Attorney General of the United States
  • Darius A. Ogden
    Darius A. Ogden
    Darius Adams Ogden was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:...

     (1813-1889), New York politician
  • Elias B. D. Ogden
    Elias B. D. Ogden
    Elias B. Dayton Ogden was an American attorney and jurist who served three terms as an associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1848 until his death in 1865. He was the son of New Jersey Governor Aaron Ogden. Ogden graduated from Princeton College in 1819. He was admitted to the bar...

     (1800-1865), Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
  • Eric Ogden
    Eric Ogden
    Eric Ogden was a British politician.Eric Ogden was a miner and studied at the Wigan and District Mining and Technical College....

    , British politician
  • Frederick B. Ogden
    Frederick B. Ogden
    Frederick Beasley Ogden was an American attorney, jurist, and politician who served as the eighth mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey from 1865-1867. He was the grandson of United States Senator and New Jersey Governor Aaron Ogden and the son of New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Elias B. D. Ogden...

     (1827-1893), 8th Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey
  • John B. Ogden
    John B. Ogden
    John B. Ogden was an Arkansas judge.John B. Ogden was the son of Col John B. Ogden and Sarah Buck. His father died in 1813 from the effects of a wound received during the War of 1812. His mother Sarah Ogden died in 1873. John B...

     (1812-1889), American lawyer and judge
  • Jonathan Ogden
    Jonathan Ogden
    Jonathan Phillip Ogden is a former American football offensive tackle who played for the Baltimore Ravens.-College:He received his education at St. Albans School, excelling not only in football but also in track and field...

    , American football offensive tackle
  • Jonathan Ogden (surgeon)
    Jonathan Ogden (surgeon)
    Dr. Jonathan Ogden surgeon and chief justice of Newfoundland, Canada.Born Nova Scotia, Ogden was sent to St. John's in 1784 as assistant surgeon for the Royal Navy. In 1794, he was appointed magistrate for St. John's and then in 1798 as magistrate of all of Newfoundland and deputy naval officer...

  • Nigel Ogden
    Nigel Ogden
    Nigel Ogden is an organist and radio broadcaster in the UK who presents The Organist Entertains on BBC Radio 2. Inspired by theatre organists such as Reginald Dixon, he took up playing the organ at the age of 12, and was first heard on The Organist Entertains in 1972...

    , British theatre organist
  • Peter Skene Ogden
    Peter Skene Ogden
    Peter Skene Ogden , was a fur trader and a Canadian explorer of what is now British Columbia and the American West...

    , alternately Skeene, Skein or Skeen, a Canadian explorer of the American West
  • Ralph Ogden
    Ralph Ogden
    Ralph A. Ogden is a retired American professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association . Ogden played for one season with the San Francisco Warriors. He recorded career totals of 42 points, 32 rebounds and 9 assists.Ogden spent his prep years...

    , American professional basketball player
  • William Ogden (disambiguation)


See also
  • John Ogdon
    John Ogdon
    John Andrew Howard Ogdon was an English pianist and composer.-Biography:Ogdon was born in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, and attended Manchester Grammar School, before studying at the Royal Northern College of Music between 1953 and 1957, where his fellow students under Richard Hall...

    , pianist

Given name

  • Ogden L. Mills
    Ogden L. Mills
    Ogden Livingston Mills was an American businessman and politician.-Biography:The son of Ogden Mills and Ruth T. Livingston, he had twin sisters Beatrice Mills and Gladys Livingston Mills. Odgen L. Mills was the grandson of Darius O...

    , an American businessman and politician
  • Ogden Nash
    Ogden Nash
    Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for his light verse. At the time of his death in 1971, the New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry".-Early life:Nash was born in Rye, New York...

    , an American poet
  • Ogden R. Reid
    Ogden R. Reid
    Ogden Rogers Reid is a former United States Representative from New York.Reid was born in New York, New York and he graduated from Deerfield Academy and Yale University. He was widely known by his nickname, "Brownie." His family owned the New York Herald Tribune and, before that the New York...

    , a member of the United States House of Representatives
  • Ogden Rood
    Ogden Rood
    Ogden Nicholas Rood was an American physicist best known for his work in color theory. He studied in Berlin and Munich before his appointment as Chair of Physics at Columbia University, a position he held from 1863 until his death...

    , an American physicist
  • David Ogden Stiers
    David Ogden Stiers
    David Ogden Stiers is an American actor, director, vocal actor, and musician, noted for his roles in Disney movies, as well as his performances in the television series M*A*S*H as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III and the science fiction drama The Dead Zone as Reverend Gene Purdy...

    , actor

Fictional characters

  • Hilda Ogden
    Hilda Ogden
    Hilda Alice Ogden is a fictional character from the television series Coronation Street, one of the best-known of all the regular characters in the soap opera, whose name became synonymous with a certain type of working-class woman...

    , a character in the British television series Coronation Street
  • Irma Ogden, a character in the British television series Coronation Street
  • Ogden Wernstrom, a character from the television series Futurama

Places

In Canada:
  • Ogden, Calgary, in Calgary, Alberta
  • Ogden, Quebec
    Ogden, Quebec
    Ogden is a municipality of 750 people, part of the Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec. It comprises the hamlets of Tomifobia and Graniteville.-References:...

    , a small municipality in the Eastern Townships
    Eastern Townships
    The Eastern Townships is a tourist region and a former administrative region in south-eastern Quebec, lying between the former seigneuries south of the Saint Lawrence River and the United States border. Its northern boundary roughly followed Logan's Line, the geologic boundary between the flat,...

    .
  • Ogdensville, British Columbia or Ogden City, alternate names for gold rush-era Seymour Arm, British Columbia
  • Ogden, British Columbia
    Ogden, British Columbia
    Ogden is an unincorporated locality on the outskirts of the gold-mining ghost of Bralorne, British Columbia, Canada. Now mostly abandoned, Ogden was once a bustling centre of commercial activities not tolerated in the company-run town, many of its establishments built on the highway easement or...

    , an unincorporated locality in the Bridge River Country of British Columbia
  • Ogden Point
    Ogden Point
    Ogden Point is a deep water port facility located in the southwestern corner of the city of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Its location in the historic and beautiful city on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, by the Strait of Juan de Fuca not far from Vancouver and Seattle, USA, has made it...

    , a landmark breakwater, lighthouse and port facility in Victoria, British Columbia
  • Ogden, Nova Scotia
    Ogden, Nova Scotia
    Ogden is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Municipality of the District of Guysborough in Guysborough County.-References:*...


In England:
  • Ogden, West Yorkshire
    Ogden, West Yorkshire
    Ogden in West Yorkshire is a small hamlet to the north of Halifax. Its most recognisable landmarks are a wind farm, which can be seen from as far as Scammonden reservoir near Huddersfield; a golf course, which offers views of the surrounding moorland; and Ogden reservoir, around which are footpaths...



In the United States:
  • Ogden, Arkansas
    Ogden, Arkansas
    Ogden is a town in Little River County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 214 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Ogden is located at ....

  • Ogden, Illinois
    Ogden, Illinois
    Ogden is a village in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 810 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Ogden is located at ....

  • Ogden, Iowa
    Ogden, Iowa
    Ogden is a city in Yell Township, Boone County, Iowa, United States. The population was 2,023 at the 2000 census. It is part of the 'Boone, Iowa Micropolitan Statistical Area', which is a part of the larger 'Ames-Boone, Iowa Combined Statistical Area'....

  • Ogden, Kansas
    Ogden, Kansas
    Ogden is a city in Riley County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 2,087. It is part of the Manhattan, Kansas Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...

  • Ogden, New York
    Ogden, New York
    Ogden is a town in Monroe County, New York, USA. The population was 19,856 at the 2010 census.The Erie Canal passes through the Town of Ogden.-Geography:...

  • Ogden, North Carolina
    Ogden, North Carolina
    Ogden is a census-designated place in New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States. It is both a suburb of the city of Wilmington and part of the Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area...

  • Ogden, Utah
    Ogden, Utah
    Ogden is a city in Weber County, Utah, United States. Ogden serves as the county seat of Weber County. The population was 82,825 according to the 2010 Census. The city served as a major railway hub through much of its history, and still handles a great deal of freight rail traffic which makes it a...

  • Ogden Creek
    Ogden Creek
    Ogden Creek is a tributary of Back Creek in Cumberland County, New Jersey in the United States.Joseph Ogden owned land at Mill Creek in Fairfield Township. Presumably, the creek was named after him and his family....

    , a tributary of Back Creek in New Jersey
  • Ogden Dunes, Indiana
    Ogden Dunes, Indiana
    Ogden Dunes is a town in Portage Township, Porter County, Indiana, United States. The population was 1,110 at the 2000 census. It is named for Francis A. Ogden, who owned the land there before his death in 1914.-History:...

  • Ogden River
    Ogden River
    The Ogden River is a long river in Utah.The Ogden River's three forks begin in the Wasatch Range in Weber County and converge at Pineview Reservoir, near Huntsville...

    , Utah
  • Ogden Township, Michigan
    Ogden Township, Michigan
    Ogden Township is a civil township of Lenawee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,063 as of the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , all land.-Demographics:...

  • Ogdensburg, New York
    Ogdensburg, New York
    Ogdensburg is a city in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. The population was 11,128 at the 2010 census. In the late 18th century, European-American settlers named the community after American land owner and developer Samuel Ogden....

  • North Ogden, Utah
    North Ogden, Utah
    North Ogden is a city in Weber County, Utah, United States. The population was 15,027 at the 2000 census. North Ogden is on SR-235, three miles north of Ogden. It is a suburb of that city and is part of the Ogden –Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:North Ogden was...

  • South Ogden, Utah
    South Ogden, Utah
    South Ogden is a city in Weber County, Utah, United States. The population was 14,377 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Ogden–Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:South Ogden is located at ....

  • Mount Ogden
    Mount Ogden
    Mount Ogden is a peak in Weber County, Utah, in the northern Wasatch Range.Mount Ogden has an elevation of 9570 feet . The peak is popular with hikers, particularly in its three main canyons: Beus, Waterfall, and Taylor Canyons. The mountain’s east face has some good technical crack and face...

    , Utah
  • The Ogden Theater
    Ogden Theater
    The Odgen Theater is a music venue and former movie theater in Denver, Colorado, United States. Located at 935 E. Colfax Avenue in the neighborhood of Capitol Hill, it was built in 1917 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.- History :...

     in Denver

Ships

  • USS Ogden (PF-39)
    USS Ogden (PF-39)
    USS Ogden , a , originally classified as PG-137, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Ogden, Utah.The first Ogden was laid down at the Consolidated Steel Corporation shipyard in Los Angeles, California, on 21 May 1943; launched on 23 June 1943, sponsored by Miss Margaret S...

    , commissioned in 1943, and received three battle stars for World War II service; named after Ogden, Utah
  • USS Ogden (LPD-5)
    USS Ogden (LPD-5)
    USS Ogden , an Austin-class amphibious transport dock, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Ogden, Utah....

    , an Austin-class amphibious transport dock; also named after Ogden, Utah

Other uses

  • Ogden (horse)
    Ogden (horse)
    Ogden was a British-bred Thoroughbred racehorse that was imported to the United States at a young age and became one of the top sires in the US during the 1910s. He notably sired Sir Martin, winner of the 1910 Coronation Cup in the UK, and The Finn, 1915 Belmont Stakes winner.-Pedigree:Ogden was...

    , a British-American Thoroughbred racehorse
  • Ogden (hyperelastic model)
    Ogden (hyperelastic model)
    The Ogden material model is a hyperelastic material model used to describe the non-linear stress-strain behaviour of complex materials such as rubbers, polymers, and biological tissue. The model was developed by Ray W. Ogden in 1972...

    , hyperelastic material model, used in continuum mechanics to model rubberlike material behaviour
  • Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
    Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
    Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake was a successful concept album by the English rock band Small Faces. Released on 24 May 1968 the LP became a number one hit in the UK Album Charts on 29 June where it remained for a total of six weeks....

    , a concept album by the British rock band The Small Faces
  • Ogden tables
    Ogden tables
    Ogden tables are a set of statistical tables and other information for use in court cases in the UK.Their purpose is to make it easier to calculate future losses in personal injury and fatal accident cases. The tables take into account life expectancy and provide a range of discount rates from...

    , actuarial tables produced by the United Kingdom Government Actuary's Department, used for calculating future losses in personal injury and fatal accident cases
  • Ogden (film)
    Ogden (film)
    Ogden is a short film written and directed by Eric Whiptastic and Mike Wilson. It stars and was scored by Mike Wilson, Directed and Edited by Eric Whiptastic. Ogden, will premier at the 2011 Royal Flush Film Festival.- Plot :...

    , a short film loosely based on the politician Ogden L. Mills
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