Yeoman (disambiguation)

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Yeoman may refer to:

Contents 1 Types of people 2 Surname 3 Places 4 Ships 5 Music 6 Miscellaneous

[edit] Types of people

• A freeborn servant in a royal or noble household of high standing, below that of a squire, and above pages and grooms; equivalent to a sergeant or corporal depending on status
• Yeoman, a late medieval British farmer of middling social status
• Yeomen of the Guard, royal bodyguard
• Yeomen Warders, of the Tower of London
• "Yeoman of the Goths", according to the Westrogothic law, the lawspeaker who was appointed for life by the yeomen of the province
• "Yeoman", a naval rating of secretary/clerk in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard. In navies derivative of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, it can denote someone responsible for a specific duty, such as the Chief Yeoman of Signals, or someone acting as an aide to a superior for certain functions, such as the Navigator's Yeoman.
• Yeoman (F), a United States Naval rating for women in the US Navy around the time of World War I.
• Yeoman Cavalry, in 18th century Ireland, locally based counter-insurgency units raised by local landowners as first line of defence against threatened rebellion (see Irish Rebellion of 1798)
• Plain Folk of the Old South were also called yeoman

[edit] Surname

• Bill Yeoman
• Owain Yeoman
• Ray Yeoman
• Richard S. Yeoman
• Robert Yeoman
• Richard Yeoman-Clark

[edit] Places

• Yeoman, Indiana, a town in the United States

[edit] Ships

• Yeoman, the name given by Owen Aisher, the UK yachtsman, to the succession of racing yachts he owned
• Yeoman Rose, a ship owned by Foster Yeoman, Ltd.
• Yeoman Bridge, a ship owned by Foster Yeoman, Ltd.

[edit] Music

• The Yeomen of the Guard, a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Banded Yeoman, a forest or woodlands butterfly[1]
• The Oberlin College sports teams, along with "Yeowomen"
• The York University sports teams, along with "Yeowomen", prior to changing their name and mascot to the "Lions"
• Foster Yeoman, Europe's largest independent asphalt and quarrying company
• The Yeoman Plotter, an item of navigational equipment
• The Chevrolet Yeoman, a station wagon based on the Chevrolet Bel Air. See also Chevrolet Brookwood