Ridley

Ridley

"Ridley" can refer to several things:

Places

*Ridley, Cheshire, a civil parish in Cheshire
*Ridley, a place in Kent
*Ridley, a place in Northumberland
*Ridley College, a boarding and day school in Ontario, Canada
*Ridley College (Melbourne), an Australian evangelical theological college of the Anglican Church of Australia
* Ridley Township, Pennsylvania

People

*Ridley Scott, film director.
*F. A. Ridley, Marxist, secularist, and writer
*Harold Ridley (ophthalmologist), a pioneer of intraoclular lens implants
*Reverend Harold Ridley (Jesuit) ("Hap"), former President of Loyola College, Maryland
*Yvonne Ridley, English journalist
*Henry Nicholas Ridley, English botanist
*Jasper Ridley, a British writer
*Nicholas Ridley (martyr), an English bishop martyred for his beliefs and support of Lady Jane Grey
*Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, a British politician, a member of Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet
*Mark Ridley (physician) (1560–1624), English physician and mathematician
*Mark Ridley (zoologist) (born 1956), English zoologist
*Matt Ridley, British science writer, financier
*Viscount Ridley, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created in 1900 for Matthew Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley

Other

*Ridley, a recurring antagonist from the "Metroid" video game series
*Ridley, the female protagonist in the PS2 game "Radiata Stories"
*Ridley sea turtle, a genus of sea turtles with two species:
**Olive Ridley
**Kemp's Ridley
*Ridley Corporation Limited and its subsidiaries including:
**Ridley AgriProducts
**Ridley Inc.
*Ridley (bicycles), a Belgian bicycle brand
*Ridley's Family Markets, an Idaho-based grocery store


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