Ogden

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Ogden may refer to:

Contents 1 People 1.1 Surname 1.2 Given name 1.3 Fictional characters 2 Places 3 Ships 4 Other uses

[edit] People

[edit] Surname

• Aaron Ogden, governor of New Jersey
• Charles Ogden (children's writer)
• Charles Kay Ogden, a Cambridge University linguist, inventor of Basic English
• Charles Richard Ogden, a Canadian politician
• Deane Ogden, an American television and film score composer
• Edmund A. Ogden, U.S. Army officer who oversaw construction of Fort Riley, and namesake of Ogden, Kansas
• Eric Ogden, British politician
• John Ogden (academic), a co-founder of Fisk University
• John B. Ogden (1812-1889), an American lawyer and judge
• Jonathan Ogden, American football offensive tackle
• Jonathan Ogden (surgeon)
• Nigel Ogden, British theatre organist
• Peter Skene Ogden, alternately Skeene, Skein or Skeen, a Canadian explorer of the American West
• William Ogden
  • William Augustine Ogden (1841-1897), an American composer
  • William Butler Ogden (1805-1877), an American politician and first mayor of Chicago

See also

• John Ogdon, pianist

[edit] Given name

• Ogden R. Reid, a member of the United States House of Representatives
• Ogden L. Mills, an American businessman and politician
• Frederic Ogden Nash, an American poet

[edit] Fictional characters

• Hilda Ogden, a character in the British television series Coronation Street
• Irma Ogden, a character in the British television series Coronation Street

[edit] Places

In Canada:

• Ogden, Calgary, in Calgary, Alberta
• Ogdensville, British Columbia or Ogden City, alternate names for gold rush-era Seymour Arm, British Columbia
• Ogden, British Columbia, an unincorporated locality in the Bridge River Country of British Columbia
• Ogden Point, a landmark breakwater, lighthouse and port facility in Victoria, British Columbia

In England:

• Ogden, West Yorkshire

In the United States:

• Ogden, Arkansas
• Ogden, Illinois
• Ogden, Iowa
• Ogden, Kansas
• Ogden, New York
• Ogden, North Carolina
• Ogden, Utah
• Ogden Creek, a tributary of Back Creek in New Jersey
• Ogden Dunes, Indiana
• Ogden Township, Michigan
• North Ogden, Utah
• South Ogden, Utah

[edit] Ships

• USS Ogden (PF-39), commissioned in 1943, and received three battle stars for World War II service; named after Ogden, Utah
• USS Ogden (LPD-5), an Austin-class amphibious transport dock; also named after Ogden, Utah

[edit] Other uses

• Ogden (hyperelastic model), hyperelastic material model, used in continuum mechanics to model rubberlike material behaviour
• Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake, a concept album by the British rock band The Small Faces