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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

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From Wikitravel

There is more than one place called Nelson:

New Zealand

• Nelson (New Zealand) - A city on the South Island, in the Nelson Tasman region.

Canada

• Nelson (British Columbia) - A town in British Columbia.

United States

• Nelson County (North Dakota) - A county in North Dakota.

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From LoveToKnow 1911

There is more than one meaning of Nelson discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia. We are planning to let all links go to the correct meaning directly, but for now you will have to search it out from the list below by yourself. If you want to change the link that led you here yourself, it would be appreciated.

• Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson
• Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson
• Nelson, Canada
• Nelson, England
• Nelson, New Zealand
• Nelson Appleton Miles
• Nelson River
• Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich
• Robert Nelson
• Thomas Nelson Page

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

English

Etymology

Middle English "son of Neil" or "son of Nell".

• In the U.S. also an Anglicisation of Scandinavian surnames such as Nilsen, Nielsen, and Nilsson, equivalent to "son of Nicholas".

Proper noun

Nelson

1. Lord Nelson (1758-1805), a British admiral.
2. A patronymic surname.
3. A male given name, transferred from the surname.

Quotations

• 1994 Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom:

  Africans of my generation - and even today - generally have both a Western and an African name. Whites were either unable or unwilling to pronounce an African name, and considered it uncivilized to have one. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why she bestowed this particular name upon me I have no idea. Perhaps it had something to do with the great British sea captain Lord Nelson, but that would only be a guess.