Gibbon (disambiguation)
Appearance
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Gibbon is a family of apes; it may also refer to:
- People
- Edward Gibbon (1737–1794), English historian and MP
- Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862), British politician
- Edward Howard-Gibbon (1799–1849), English surgeon, lawyer, and officer of arms
- John Gibbon (1827–1896), United States Army officer
- John Heysham Gibbon (1903–1973), US surgeon and inventor of the heart-lung machine
- Lardner A. Gibbon (Aug. 13, 1820 – Jan. 10, 1910), US Navy lieutenant, Amazon explorer, co-author of Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon.
- Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901–1935), Scottish writer
- Ray Gibbon (died 1999), former mayor of St. Albert, Canada
- Roger Gibbon (born 1944), track cyclist from Trinidad and Tobago
- William Monk Gibbon (1896–1987), Irish poet and prolific author
- Places
- Gibbon, Minnesota, USA
- Gibbon, Nebraska, USA
- Gibbon, Oregon, USA
- Gibbon Bay, South Orkney Islands, Antarctica
- Ray Gibbon Drive, St Albert, Canada
- Other
- Gibbon (comics), character in Marvel Comics' Spider-Man titles
- Gibbon, a Death Eater character in Harry Potter
- scallion, an edible plant with hollow green leaves
See also
- Gibbons, surname
- Gutsy Gibbon, release of Ubuntu
- "Funky Gibbon", song by The Goodies