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In England, Wakefield may refer to:

  • The City of Wakefield, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England
    • Wakefield, West Yorkshire, or Wakefield proper, an urban settlement within the City of Wakefield
    • Wakefield Prison, located in this city
    • Wakefield (UK Parliament constituency), located in this city
    • Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, rugby league club located in city
    • Diocese of Wakefield, Church of England diocese based in the city

Wakefield may also refer to:

Places[]

In Australia[]

  • Wakefield, New South Wales
  • Wakefield Street, Adelaide, in Adelaide, South Australia
  • Port Wakefield, South Australia
  • Wakefield Regional Council, including Port Wakefield, South Australia
  • Division of Wakefield, an Australian electoral division

In Canada[]

  • Wakefield, Quebec

In Jamaica[]

  • Wakefield, Jamaica

In New Zealand[]

In the United States[]

  • Wakefield, Kansas
  • Wakefield, Kentucky
  • Wakefield, Louisiana
    • Wakefield (Wakefield, Louisiana), listed on the NRHP in Louisiana
  • Wakefield, Massachusetts
    • Wakefield Historic District, listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts
    • Wakefield (MBTA station)
  • Wakefield, Michigan
  • Wakefield, Nebraska
  • Wakefield, New Hampshire
  • Wakefield, Bronx, New York
  • Wakefield, Virginia
  • Wakefield, Wisconsin, a ghost town
  • Wakefield Township, Michigan
  • Wakefield Township, Minnesota
  • Wakefield Township, Dixon County, Nebraska
  • Wakefield-Peacedale, Rhode Island, sometimes also referred to as Wakefield
  • Wakefield Plantation, in Raleigh, North Carolina

People[]

  • Category:Wakefield (surname)
  • Andrew Wakefield (born 1957), a former British gastroenterologist known for fraudulent research
  • Captain Arthur Wakefield (1799–1843), who died in the Wairau Affray, brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield
  • Charity Wakefield (born 1980), English actress
  • Charles Wakefield, 1st Viscount Wakefield of Hythe, a British peer
  • Daniel Wakefield (1776–1846), writer on political economy.
  • Daniel Bell Wakefield (1798–1858), brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield
  • Edward Wakefield (1774–1854) was an English philanthropist and statistician
  • Edward Wakefield (politician) (1845–1924), son of Felix Wakefield, New Zealand politician and journalist
  • Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862), an influential theorist on colonization
  • Edward Jerningham Wakefield (1820–1879), son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, New Zealand politician and author of Adventures in New Zealand
  • Edward Wakefield (1903–1969), British civil servant and Conservative Member of Parliament
  • Elsie Maud Wakefield, English mycologist
  • Felix Wakefield (1807–1875), brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield
  • Gilbert Wakefield (1756–1801), English scholar and controversialist.
  • Howard Wakefield, American football player
  • Humphry Wakefield, English baronet
  • James Wakefield, United States politician
  • John Allen Wakefield, United States politician and military leader
  • John Peter Wakefield (1915–1942), British racing car driver
  • Norman Arthur Wakefield (1918–1972), Australian naturalist
  • Priscilla Wakefield (nee Priscilla Bell, 1751–1832), author
  • Richard Wakefield American poet, and literary critic.
  • Rhys Wakefield, Australian actor
  • Robert Wakefield (died 1537), English linguist and scholar.
  • H. Russell Wakefield, author
  • Peter Wakefield (disambiguation)
  • S. A. Wakefield (1927–2009), Australian author
  • Tim Wakefield (born 1966), pitcher for the Boston Red Sox
  • Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal, British politician
  • Colonel William Wakefield (1801–1848), who founded Wellington, New Zealand, brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield
  • Stacey Wakefield Mascarenas (born 1967) United States politician, City of Fruita, Colorado

Other uses[]

  • Battle of Wakefield in the Wars of the Roses, 1460
  • Cushman & Wakefield, a commercial real estate company headquartered in New York City
  • Wakefield (band), an American rock band
  • Wakefield, a term for the area following a laser pulse in plasma acceleration
  • "Wakefield", an 1837 short story published in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales
  • "Wakefield", a 2008 short story by E. L. Doctorow
  • Wakefield Cycle, a manuscript containing thirty-two Medieval religious plays
  • Wakefield High School in several places
  • Wakefield Press, a South Australian publishing company
  • The Vicar of Wakefield, a novel by Oliver Goldsmith
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