Eddington

Eddington or Edington may refer to:

Places

Australia

• Eddington, Victoria

United Kingdom

• Eddington, Berkshire
• Eddington, Kent
• Edington, Somerset
• Edington, Wiltshire

United States of America

• Eddington, Maine
• Eddington, Pennsylvania
  • Eddington (SEPTA station)

People

Surname

• Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944), English astrophysicist
• Patrick G. Eddington, a former CIA imagery analyst
• Paul Eddington (1927–1995), English actor
• Rod Eddington (born 1950), Australian businessman
• Jonathon Edington (born 1977), American patent lawyer.
• Sophie Edington (born 1984), Australian swimmer.
• Stump Edington (1891–1969), American baseball player.
• William Edington (died 1366), English bishop and administrator

Given name

• Eddington Varmah, Liberian politician

Things named after Arthur Stanley Eddington

• Eddington (crater), on the Moon
• Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates, used in the theory of general relativity
• Eddington luminosity, or Eddington limit, relating to the maximum mass of a star
• Eddington Medal, awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society
• Eddington mission, a proposed ESA mission to search for extrasolar planets
• Eddington-Dirac number, alternative name for the Dirac large numbers hypothesis

Fiction

• Michael Eddington, a fictional character in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine