Preston (disambiguation)

Preston is the name of a number of people and places in the world:

Places

Australia

*Preston, Victoria

Canada

*Preston, Nova Scotia
*Preston, Ontario: now part of the city of Cambridge.

England

*Preston, Devon
*Preston, Dorset
*Preston, Cotswold, Gloucestershire (near Cirencester)
*Preston, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire (near Ledbury)
*Preston, Hertfordshire
*Preston near Faversham, Kent
*Preston near Wingham, East Kent
*Preston, Lancashire (City)
*Preston, Northumberland
*Preston, Rutland
*Preston, Suffolk
*Preston Village, Brighton, Sussex
*Preston on Tees, Eaglescliffe, Teesside
*Preston, Tynemouth, Northumberland
*Preston, Wiltshire
*Preston, near Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire
*Preston, a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
*Preston Deanery, a village in Northamptonshire
*Preston Manor, Middlesex in the London Borough of Brent

Scotland

*Preston in the Scottish Borders
*Preston, East Lothian

United States

*Preston, Connecticut
*Preston, Georgia
*Preston, Idaho (Location and setting for the film Napoleon Dynamite)
*Preston, Iowa
*Preston, Kansas
*Preston, Kentucky
*Preston, Maryland
*Preston, Minnesota
*Preston, Mississippi
*Preston, New York
*Preston, Oklahoma
*Preston Road, Important thoroughfare to the history and growth of Dallas, Texas. Built over a historically important cattle trail.
*Preston, Washington
*Preston County, West Virginia
*Preston, Adams County, Wisconsin
*Preston, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin

People

*Preston Brooks U.S. politician
*Preston Manning, founder of the Reform Party of Canada.
*Andrew Preston, American businessman, founder of United Fruit Company.
*Douglas Preston, author (b. 1956).
*Duke Preston, American Football player
*Kenneth O. Preston, a military leader of the US Army.
*Robert Preston, actor (1918-1987).
*Richard Preston, author (b. 1954).
*Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara, Irish soldier.
*Simon Preston, organist and composer.
*Samuel Preston (known simply as "Preston"), lead singer and guitarist of The Ordinary Boys.
*William Preston (freemason), author of Illustrations of Masonry.
*William Preston (American actor) (1921-1998)
*William Ballard Preston U.S. politician.
*William Campbell Preston U.S. politician
*Preston Tucker, automobile designer and entrepreneur.

Fictional characters

*Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
*Dr. Preston Burke, Grey's Anatomy
*Preston the robot dog in the Wallace and Gromit film A Close Shave
*Preston of the Spaceways is a fictional fictional character from the Honorverse
*Preston (played by Colin Hanks) is Carl Denham's assisstant in King Kong