Playfair

Playfair

=Real people=

Playfair is a surname, and may refer to

* Andrew W. Playfair (1790–1868), Canadian politician, son of William
* Henry Playfair (born 1983), Australian rules footballer
* Ian Stanley Ord Playfair (1894-1972), a general in the British Army
* James Playfair (1755-1794), Scottish architect, brother of John and William, father of William Henry
* Jim Playfair (born 1964), Canadian ice hockey player and coach, brother of Larry
* John Playfair (1748-1819), Scottish scientist, brother of James and William
* Judy Playfair (born 1953), Australian swimmer
* Larry Playfair (born 1958), Canadian ice hockey player and announcer, brother of Jim
* Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair (1818-1898), promoter of the Playfair cipher, manual symmetric encryption technique
* Sir Nigel Playfair (1874–1934), British actor and theater manager
* Patrick Playfair (1889–1974), British air marshal in WWI & WWII
* Wendy Playfair, Australian actress
* William Playfair (1759-1823), Scottish engineer and political economist, inventor of statistical graphics, brother of James and John
* William Henry Playfair (1790-1857), Scottish architect (National Gallery of Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy), son of James

Other uses

* The "T.S. Playfair", a Canadian sail training vessel. Brigantine rigged.
* PlayFair - software that removes Apple's FairPlay DRM file encryption, now succeeded by Hymn
* Playfair Project
* Playfair cipher - a manual encryption technique invented in 1854 by Charles Wheatstone
* Playfair Cricket Annual

There is more than one crater named Playfair:
* Playfair (lunar crater)
* Playfair (crater on Mars)


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  • Playfair (Begriffsklärung) — Playfair bezeichnet das Verschlüsselungsverfahren Playfair und ist der Name von folgenden Personen Ian Stanley Ord Playfair (1894–1972), britischer Militärhistoriker und Major General der British Army Jim Playfair (* 1964), kanadischer… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Playfair Cricket Monthly — was a monthly British cricket magazine that ran from May, 1960 to April, 1973, when it was absorbed by The Cricketer . Its comprehensive statistical content was taken on by The Cricketer Quarterly. It was edited by Gordon Ross and until his death …   Wikipedia

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