Orton

Orton

Orton can refer to more than one place/person:

Contents

Places

England
Scotland
  • Orton, Moray
Canada
  • Orton, Ontario; a small community located in the township of East Garafraxa, Dufferin County, Ontario, Canada.

People

  • Beth Orton, English singer-songwriter
  • Bill Orton, US Congressman from Utah
  • Edward Orton, Sr., American geologist
  • Edward Orton, Jr., his son, a businessman and philanthropist
  • Joe Orton, English playwright
  • Kyle Orton, American football player
  • P. D. Orton, British mycologist
  • Samuel Orton, pioneered the study of learning disabilities. He is best known for his work examining the causes and treatment of reading disability, or dyslexia
  • A family of American professional wrestlers, consisting of:

Other

See also

  • Oreton (disambiguation)

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  • Orton — Orton, Joe (1933 67) an English writer of ↑black comedy, whose most famous plays are Entertaining Mr Sloan (1964) and Loot (1966). He was murdered by his lover Keith Halliwall …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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  • Orton (photography) — Orton imagery, also called an Orton slide sandwich, is a photography technique which blends two completely different photos of the same scene, resulting in a distinctive mix of high and low detail areas within the same photo.[1] It was originated …   Wikipedia

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