Walcott
Encyclopedia
Places
England- Walcott, LincolnshireWalcott, LincolnshireWalcott is a small village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, about north of Billinghay and north east of the town of Sleaford, Lincolnshire....
- Walcott, NorfolkWalcott, NorfolkWalcott is a small village and civil parish on the North Norfolk coast in England between Mundesley and Happisburgh.The name derives from the Celtic word Walecote, which means village by the wood. The village is north east of Norwich, south east of Cromer and north east of London...
United States
- Walcott, IowaWalcott, IowaWalcott is a city in Muscatine and Scott counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 1,528 at the 2000 census. Walcott's interchange on Interstate 80 is home to an enormous complex of restaurants, motels and truck stops, including the Iowa 80 truck stop which is the world's largest.Most...
- Walcott, North DakotaWalcott, North DakotaAs of the census of 2000, there were 189 people, 78 households, and 49 families residing in the city. The population density was 184.7 people per square mile . There were 89 housing units at an average density of 87.0 per square mile . The racial makeup of the city was 99.47% White, and 0.53% from...
- Walcott, WyomingWalcott, WyomingWalcott is an unincorporated community in central Carbon County, Wyoming, United States. It lies along local roads near Interstate 80 and the concurrent U.S. Routes 30 and 287, east of the city of Rawlins, the county seat of Carbon County. Its elevation is 6,627 feet...
People
- Charles Doolittle WalcottCharles Doolittle WalcottCharles Doolittle Walcott was an American invertebrate paleontologist. He became known for his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada.-Early life:...
, American paleontologist specializing in invertebrates - Clyde WalcottClyde WalcottSir Clyde Leopold Walcott, KA, GCM was a West Indian cricketer. Walcott was a member of the "three W's", the other two being Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell: all were very successful batsmen from Barbados, born within a short distance of each other in Bridgetown, Barbados in a period of 18...
, a former West Indian cricketer - Derek WalcottDerek WalcottDerek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for White Egrets. His works include the Homeric epic Omeros...
, Nobel Laureate, poet, writer and artist of the post-colonial school of English language writing - Gregory WalcottGregory WalcottGregory Walcott is an American television and film actor. He is perhaps best known for having appeared in the 1959 Ed Wood film, the cult classic Plan 9 from Outer Space.-Early life and career:...
(b. 1928), actor and producer - Jennifer WalcottJennifer WalcottJennifer Walcott is an American glamour model and actress best known as Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for August 2001.- Early life :...
, Playboy playmate - Jersey Joe WalcottJersey Joe WalcottArnold Raymond Cream , better known as Jersey Joe Walcott, was a world heavyweight boxing champion. He broke the world's record for the oldest man to win the world's Heavyweight title when he earned it at the age of , a record that would be broken on November 5, 1994, by George Foreman, who...
, born Arnold Raymond Cream, a world Heavyweight boxing champion -- often compared to former world Welterweight champion Barbados Joe Walcott, thus nicknamed Jersey Joe Walcott - Mary WalcottMary WalcottMary Walcott was one of the witnesses at the Salem Witch Trials of Salem, Massachusetts in the years 1692 and 1693....
- Theo WalcottTheo WalcottTheo James Walcott is an English footballer of Jamaican descent who plays for Arsenal and the England national team. Walcott is a product of the Southampton F.C. Academy. He is a striker who is usually deployed on the right wing as a wide forward to exploit his speed...
, English footballer
See also
- de Walcott familyDe Walcott familyThe de Walcott family were Lords of the Manor of Walcott from the late 12th century until the late 14th century.This article is adapted from with permission.-Manor houses:...
- Walcot (disambiguation)
- Wolcott (disambiguation)
- Walcote (disambiguation)
- Walcott is the name of a song by Vampire WeekendVampire WeekendVampire Weekend is an American indie rock band from New York City that formed in 2006 and signed to XL Recordings. The Band has four members: Ezra Koenig, Rostam Batmanglij, Chris Tomson, and Chris Baio. The band released its first album Vampire Weekend in 2008, which produced the singles "Mansard...