Dillon

Dillon

Dillon may refer to:

Contents

People

Surname

See Dillon (surname)

Given name

Titles

Places

Cities, towns, and counties

In United States of America:

In other countries:

  • Dillon, Martinique
  • Dillon, Saskatchewan


Natural areas

  • Dillons River, in Big Bear Lake ,CA.
  • Dillons Run, a river in West Virginia, U.S.
  • Dillon State Park, in Ohio, U.S.

Buildings and structures

Fictional places

  • Dillon, Texas, the setting for the NBC television drama Friday Night Lights

Fictional characters

  • Major George Dillon, character from the film Predator, played by Carl Weathers
  • Marshal Matt Dillon, the U.S. Marshal of Dodge City, Kansas in the radio and television versions of Gunsmoke, played for twenty years on the television series by James Arness
  • Kevin Dillon (character), a character in Rodman Philbrick's young adult novel, Freak the Mighty, played by Kieran Culkin in the movie version The Mighty
  • The Dillon family on the US soap opera All My Children:
    • Janet Dillon, played by Robin Mattson
    • Laurel Banning Dillon, played by Felicity LaFortune
    • Trevor Dillon, played by James Kiberd
  • Dillon Quartermaine, a character on the US soap opera General Hospital, played by Scott Clifton

Others

  • 78393 Dillon, an asteroid
  • Dillons, a grocery supermarket chain based in Hutchinson, Kansas, USA, part of the Kroger company
  • Dillons, a former UK-based chain of bookstores, now part of Waterstone's
  • Dillon Dam Brewery, a brewery and restaurant located in Dillon, Colorado
  • The Dillon Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) talks in 1962
  • Dillon v. Gloss (256 U.S. 368, 1921), a United States Supreme Court case that found it constitutional for the Congress of the United States to impose a time limit on the ratification of an amendment to the United States Constitution
  • 9x25 Dillon, a wildcat pistol cartridge
  • Dillon Aero, a Scottsdale, Arizona, manufacturing company

See also


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  • Dillon — Dillon, MT U.S. city in Montana Population (2000): 3752 Housing Units (2000): 1831 Land area (2000): 1.630822 sq. miles (4.223810 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.630822 sq. miles (4.223810 sq.… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Dillon, CO — U.S. town in Colorado Population (2000): 802 Housing Units (2000): 1280 Land area (2000): 1.533507 sq. miles (3.971765 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.849711 sq. miles (2.200741 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2.383218 sq. miles (6.172506 sq. km) FIPS… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Dillon, MT — U.S. city in Montana Population (2000): 3752 Housing Units (2000): 1831 Land area (2000): 1.630822 sq. miles (4.223810 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.630822 sq. miles (4.223810 sq. km) FIPS… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Dillon, SC — U.S. city in South Carolina Population (2000): 6316 Housing Units (2000): 2837 Land area (2000): 4.820778 sq. miles (12.485756 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.011165 sq. miles (0.028916 sq. km) Total area (2000): 4.831943 sq. miles (12.514672 sq.… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Dillon — m English: variant spelling of DYLAN (SEE Dylan), based on an English surname of different origin. The surname Dillon or Dyllon derives in part from a now extinct Norman French personal name of Germanic origin; in part it is a local name for… …   First names dictionary

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  • Dillon — Dillon, 1) John, irischer Politiker, geb. 1851, Sohn des Advokaten John Blake D., der an dem irischen Aufstand von 1818 beteiligt war, studierte zu Dublin Medizin und ward daselbst Arzt. 1880 wurde er für die Grafschaft Tipperary ins Unterhaus… …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Dillon — (spr. dill n), John, irischer Politiker, geb. 1851 zu Dublin als Sohn des irischen Agitators John Blake D. (1816 60), Parlamentsmitglied, Anhänger der Homerulers, 1896 99 Führer der Antiparnelliten …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

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