Hungerford (disambiguation)

Hungerford (disambiguation)

Hungerford may refer to one of several places or artifacts:
*In the United Kingdom:
**Hungerford - a town in Berkshire
**Hungerford Bridge - a bridge over the Thames at London
** Farleigh Hungerford - a village in Somerset
**The Hungerford Massacre - a mass shooting in 1987 at Hungerford, Berkshire

*In the United States: the town of Hungerford, Texas

*In Australia: the town of Hungerford, in south west Queensland

*A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #8473)

Notable people named Hungerford

*Anne Hungerford, mistress of Henry VIII
*Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford of Heytesbury, first Englishman to be executed for homosexuality, in 1540
*Thomas W. Hungerford, a mathematician
*Bruce Hungerford, a pianist


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