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Melling, is the name of several places in England; one in New Zealand and one in Styria, Austria. The name was once used on a locomotive. Melling originates from the Anglo-Saxon roots for "The homestead of Maella", (or Malla), first settled in Lancashire, England by Maella's family in the 6th century. As a surname it derives from the places in England, and is also found in fiction as character names and place names.

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People

Fictional people and places

  • Actor Sir Michael Caine played Victor Melling in the film Miss Congeniality
  • Margaret Biggs is the author of the Melling School series of books for girls, published in the 1950s and 1960s, and reprinted and extended in the 2000s.
  • Robin Klein is the author of All in the Blue Unclouded Weather. This is a collection of interlinked nostalgic stories set in a late 1940s Australian country town, which focus on the four young Melling sisters: Vivienne, Cathy, Heather, and Grace.

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