Wakefield (disambiguation)

Wakefield is the name of several places in the world:

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• Wakefield, New South Wales
• Port Wakefield, South Australia
• Wakefield Regional Council, South Australia
• Wakefield, Quebec, Canada
• Wakefield, Yorkshire, England
• Wakefield Prison http://www.wakefield.org.uk/Historic/Highlights/CastlesAndBuildings/WakefieldPrison/History/default.htm
• Wakefield, New Zealand
• In the United States of America:
• Wakefield, Kansas
• Wakefield, Massachusetts
• Wakefield, Michigan
• Wakefield, Nebraska
• Wakefield, New Hampshire
• Wakefield, Bronx, New York
• Wakefield Township, Minnesota
• Wakefield Township, Michigan
• Wakefield, Virginia

There is also:

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• Wakefield-Peacedale, Rhode Island, United States of America, sometimes also referred to as Wakefield.
• a rock band called Wakefield
• Tim Wakefield, 1966- , pitcher for the Boston Red Sox

And then there is the Wakefield family, several of whom did much to settle New Zealand:

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• Catherine Gurney Wakefield, 1793-1873
• Edward Gibbon Wakefield, 1796-1862, the driving force behind the New Zealand Company
• Daniel Bell Wakefield, 1798-1858
• Captain Arthur Wakefield, 1799?1843, who died in the Wairau Affray
• Colonel William Wakefield,1801-1848, who founded Wellington, New Zealand
• John Howard Wakefield, 1803-1862
• Felix Wakefield, 1807-1875
• Priscilla Wakefield, 1809-1887
• Edward Jerningham Wakefield, 1820-1879, son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield
• Dan Wakefield 1932-Present, American author