Nelson
Nelson may be a proper name referring to a place, an institution or a vehicle, many derived from Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, better known as Lord Nelson, a British admiral famous for his participation in the Napoleonic Wars.
People
Nelson (surname)
Nelson (given name)
Geography
Australia
Nelson, New South Wales
Nelson, Victoria
Canada
Nelson, British Columbia
Nelson Head, Northwest Territories
Nelson River
Egypt
Nelson's Island
New Zealand
Nelson, New Zealand
Nelson Lakes National Park
United Kingdom
Nelson, Lancashire, in England
Nelson, Caerphilly, in Wales
Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London
United States
Nelson, Arizona
Nelson, California
Nelson, Georgia
Nelson, Illinois
Nelson, Minnesota
Nelson, Missouri
Nelson, Nebraska
Nelson, New Hampshire
Nelson, New York
Nelson, North Carolina
Nelson, Wisconsin
Schools
Nelson College, a secondary school for boys in Nelson, New Zealand
Nelson College for Girls, a secondary school for girls in Nelson, New Zealand
Nelson High School, in Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Lord Nelson Elementary School, in Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Ships
HMS Nelson (1814), a first rate
HMS Nelson (1881), an armoured cruiser
HMS Lord Nelson (1906), a battleship
HMS Nelson (1927), a battleship
USS Nelson (DD-623), an American Gleaves-class destroyer
HMNB Portsmouth, a naval base formed partly by a stone frigate called HMS Nelson
Sports
Nelson (cricket), a term in the sport of cricket
Nelson F.C., a football club based in Nelson, Lancashire
Nelson hold, a type of grappling and wrestling hold
Nelson Leafs, a junior B hockey team based in Nelson, British Columia
Nelson Piquet, a Brazilian F1 Driver
Other uses
Nelson (automobile)
Nelson (band)
Nelson (New Zealand electorate), parliamentary electorate
Nelson rules, a methodology in control theory
Nelson's syndrome, an endocrine disorder
Translation
The word "Nelson" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, German, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovenian, Finnish, Swedish, Turkish, Volapük.
Translation(s) in other languages: Korean: 넬슨, Italian: Nelson (disambigua), Hebrew: נלסון, Japanese: ネルソン, Russian: Нельсон.
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