Blackstone

Blackstone refers to various people, places and concepts.

Businesses

*Blackstone Group, U.S. private equity and asset management firm
*Blackstone Winery, winery located in Sonoma county, California
*Blackstone Technology Group, U.S. consulting, IT infrastructure and staffing services company

People

*Charles Blackstone, an American author
*Elliott Blackstone, once sergeant of the San Francisco Police Department and advocate for the lesbian, gay and transgendered community in that city
*Gay Blackstone, widow of Harry Blackstone, Jr
*Harry Blackstone, Sr. (1885–1965), a famous American magician known as "The Great Blackstone" and father of Harry Blackstone, Jr.
*Harry Blackstone, Jr. (1934–1997), popular stage magician and television performer of the late 20th century
*Ian Blackstone, an English former footballer
*Jerry Blackstone, director of choirs at the University of Michigan
*Tessa Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone, British politician
*Timothy Blackstone, Chicago Railroad and Stock Yard president
*William Blackstone (1723–1780), English jurist
*William Seymour Blackstone, 19th-century British MP and grandson of William Blackstone the jurist, above
**Blackstone's formulation, a principle in criminal law named for the jurist
**The "Commentaries on the Laws of England" by William Blackstone, a major legal text of the 18th century; often referred to as "Blackstone" or "Blackstone's "Commentaries"
*William Blackstone, aka William Blaxton (1595–1675), early English settler in New England
*William Eugene Blackstone, an American evangelist and Christian Zionist

Geography

*Blackstone, Queensland, Australia
*Blackstone, Western Australia, Australia
*Blackstone, West Sussex, England
*Blackstone, Massachusetts, United States
*Blackstone, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, a neighborhood
*Blackstone, Virginia, United States
*Blackstone Heights, Tasmania
*Blackstone Valley, a river valley and National Heritage Corridor in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, United States

Fiction

*Edmund 'Beau' Blackstone, a fictional 19th century detective created by Richard Falkirk (Derek Lambert)
*Blackstone Chronicles (novel series), a series of mystery and thriller novels authored by John Saul
*Blackstone Fortress, a type of space station in the fictional universe of "Warhammer 40,000"
*Blackstone (Greyhawk), a fictional mining town in the "World of Greyhawk" campaign setting for the "Dungeons & Dragons" roleplaying game
*The Blackstones, a proposed spin-off of the Flintstones cartoon from the 1970s about a black family in the Stone Age

Other

Blackstone may also refer to:
*Black Stone, a Muslim object of reverence,
*Blackstone Avenue, a major roadway in Fresno, California, USA
*Blackstone Brewing Company, a brewery in Nashville, Tennessee, USA
*Blackstone Edge, an area of moorland along the Lancashire (Greater Manchester) and West Yorkshire county boundary in England
*Blackstone Library, Chicago's first public library
*Blackstone Hall, a dormitory at the University of Chicago
*Blackstone Hotel, a Chicago hotel
*Blackstone Hotel (Omaha), an Omaha landmark currently known as the Blackstone Center
*Blackstone Memorial, a Zionist petition written by William Eugene Blackstone
*Blackstone Valley Rail
*Blackstone, a codename for ColdFusion 7.0 - beta of ColdFusion MX 7.0, a product of Macromedia
*Blackstone, in reference to the Black P. Stones
*Blackstone Society, the Law Students’ Society at the University of Western Australia
*Blackstone, the Magic Detective, a radio series which aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System in the late 1940s
*Operation Blackstone, part of Operation Torch, the Allied landings in Africa during World War II
*Blackstone Army Air Field, Virginia, United States
* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=201454623 Blackstone Singers] , a native American Pow Wow drum band from Alberta, Canada.

ee also

*Blackstone Lake, Ontario
*Blackstone River (disambiguation)
*Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School