Kent (disambiguation)
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Many things are named Kent:
Contents
Counties
- County of Kent, England
- Chatham-Kent, Ontario (formerly Kent County)
- Kent County, Delaware
- Kent County, Maryland
- Kent County, Michigan
- Kent County, New Brunswick
- Kent County, Rhode Island
- Kent County, Texas
- New Kent County, Virginia
Universities
- Kent State University, Ohio, United States of America
- University of Kent at Canterbury
Municipalities
- Kent, Connecticut
- Kent, Iowa
- Kent, Illinois
- Kent, Indiana
- Kent, Minnesota
- Kent, New York
- Kent, Ohio
- Kent, Oregon
- Kent, Texas
- Kent, Washington
- Kent City, Michigan
People (fictional or otherwise)
- Kent (Fire Emblem), a fictional character from the Fire Emblem series.
- Kent Brockman, fictional TV news anchor on "The Simpsons."
- Arthur Kent, Canadian television journalist
- Arthur Atwater Kent, engineer and inventor.
- Clark Kent, a fictional character, and the secret identity of Superman
- Corita Kent, artist and nun
- The Earl of Kent, a character in Shakespeare's tragedy, King Lear
- James Kent (Chancellor Kent), the legal scholar for whose family Kent, New York is named
- James Tyler Kent, the physician
- Jeff Kent, Dodgers baseball player
- Peter Kent, Global news reporter
- Rockwell Kent, the artist
- William Kent, the architect
Other things named Kent
- Kent was a cigarette brand, first to introduce smoke filters in 1952
- Kent, a Swedish rock band, and their album by the same name
- HMS Kent, a ship
- The Duke of Kent
- The Kingdom of Kent
- The Earl of Kent
- Ford Kent engine is an engine used in for instance Ford Anglia
- Kent State shootings
- Fort Kent, Maine
- The Kent Applicative Operating System, a computer operating system
- Kent Acres, Delaware
- Kent City, Michigan
- Kent Group of islands, in Bass Strait, Australia
- Kent Island, Maryland
- Kent Narrows, Maryland
- The Kent Recursive Calculator, a programming language
- Kent School District
- Kentville, Nova Scotia
- Old Kent Road and New Kent Road in London
- Kent Building Supplies, a Canadian retail hardware chain
- Kent is also a brand of fireplace.
History
The name comes from the Kingdom of Kent, and probably from the Cantiaci tribe.
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