Sturgeon (disambiguation)

Sturgeon (disambiguation)

Sturgeon can refer to:

People

* Daniel Sturgeon, American physician, banker and Democratic Party politician from Uniontown, Pennsylvania
* Nicola Sturgeon, Current Deputy First Minister of Scotland
* Theodore Sturgeon, American science fiction author
* William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor who made the first electromagnets

Places

* Sturgeons House, Georgian house in Essex, England
* Sturgeon, Missouri, city in Boone County, Missouri
* Sturgeon Bay, arm of the Bay of Green Bay extending approximately 10 miles east into the Door Peninsula at the city of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
* Sturgeon Creek, former provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba
* Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, community in the Nipissing District of northeastern Ontario
* Sturgeon Lake, disambiguation
* Sturgeon River, disambiguation

Other

* Sturgeon, the common name for many species of fish
* Sturgeon's law, adage derived from a quote by author Theodore Sturgeon
* USS "Sturgeon", three submarines of the United States Navy
* Several ships of the of the British Royal Navy have been named "Sturgeon", among them HMS "Sturgeon" (1894), a Victorian era destroyer
* Sturgeon (cryptography), World War II Non-Morse wireless traffic encyphered with the Siemens and Halske T52 machine


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