Yale (disambiguation)

Yale (disambiguation)

"The name Yale is often derived from the English spelling of the Welsh place name, "Iâl" in Denbighshire.

Yale can refer to:

Educational institutions

*Yale University, the United States' third-oldest institution of higher education
*Yale College Wrexham, a college in Wales

People

*Elihu Yale, after whom Yale University is named
*James Murray Yale, trader for Hudson's Bay Company in Canada
*Linus Yale, Sr.
*Linus Yale, Jr.

Places

Canada

*Yale, British Columbia (named after James Murray Yale), one of the two "capitals" of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush and the namesake of:
**Old Yale Road, the original "highway" in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia
**Yale (electoral district), a defunct federal electoral district in British Columbia (1872-1892 and 1914-1952)
**Yale—Cariboo, a defunct federal electoral district in British Columbia (1892-1914)
**Yale District, a defunct federal electoral district in British Columbia (1871 only)
**Yale (provincial electoral district), a defunct provincial electoral district in British Columbia
**Yale-Lillooet, a current provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada
**Yaletown, an area of downtown Vancouver

United States

*Yale, Illinois
*Yale, Iowa
*Yale, Michigan
*Yale, Oklahoma
*Yale, Virginia
*Yale, Washington
*Yale (RTD), a light rail station in the RTD service of Denver, Colorado

Other uses

*Yale (mythical creature), a creature in European mythology
*Yale language, a Papuan language
*Yale lock, a brand of locks owned by Assa Abloy
*Yale Motorcycles, made by Consolidated Manufacturing Co., of California and, later, Toledo, Ohio, USA circa 1910s-1930s
*Yale Romanization, a set of romanization schemes for some East Asian languages
*North American Yale, a single-engine aircraft used for training fighter pilots during World War II
*SS "Yale", a US Navy steamboat used in World War I
*RapidMiner (previous name: YALE), an open-source software for data mining, machine learning, and knowledge discovery
*Yale Atlético Clube, a former Brazilian sports club
*The Yale, part of the Shire in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien


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