Lincoln

The now widespread name Lincoln originated in a city in eastern England. Its name is a contraction of the Latin Lindum Colonia, which was the name of a colony for veteran Roman soldiers. When the English counties (called "shires" at that time) were established in around the eleventh century, Lincoln became the principal town of Lincolnshire.

Lincoln’s name was later taken as a surname. The most widely known person with the surname Lincoln was Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States of America. Various municipalities in the Commonwealth of Nations are named in honor of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, and a plethora of municipalities, geographic features, institutions, and public infrastructures in the United States are named primarily in honor of the former U.S. president.

Lincoln may refer to:

People

• Aaron of Lincoln, the 12th century creditor of King Henry II of England
• Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States
• Blanche Lincoln, an Arkansas senator
• Levi Lincoln, Sr. (1749-1820), a United States Representative from Massachusetts, and briefly Governor
• Levi Lincoln, Jr. (1782-1868), son of the senior Levi Lincoln, Governor of Massachusetts before becoming a Representative.
• Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, and United States Secretary of War
• Saint Hugh of Lincoln
• Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln
• The several Earls of Lincoln

Place names (municipalities)

In Argentina

• Lincoln, Buenos Aires in Argentina

In Australia

• Port Lincoln, South Australia in Australia

In Canada

• Lincoln, Ontario in Canada
• Lincoln County, Ontario
• Lincoln, a former federal electoral district

In New Zealand

• Lincoln, New Zealand

In the United Kingdom

• Lincoln, county town of Lincolnshire: the original place called "Lincoln"

In the United States

Named Lincoln

• Lincoln, Alabama
• Lincoln, Arkansas
• Lincoln, California
• Lincoln, Sussex County, Delaware
• Lincoln, Illinois
• Lincoln, Iowa
• Lincoln, Maine
• Lincoln, Massachusetts
• Lincoln, Michigan
• Lincoln, Missouri
• Lincoln, Montana
• Lincoln, Nebraska, the state capital of Nebraska
• Lincoln, New Hampshire
• Lincoln, New York
• Lincoln, North Dakota
• Lincoln, Pennsylvania
• Lincoln, Rhode Island
• Lincoln, Vermont
• Lincoln, Loudoun County, Virginia
• Lincoln, Wisconsin (12)
• Lincoln, a proposed U.S. state, to be named in honor of President Lincoln, would have merged the Idaho Panhandle and Eastern Washington in 1901.

With Lincoln in the name

• Lincoln Center, Kansas
• Lincoln City, Indiana
• Lincoln City, Oregon
• Lincoln Heights, Ohio
• several Lincoln Parks
• Lincoln Township, Michigan (8)
• Lincoln Township, Minnesota (2)
• Lincoln Township, Pennsylvania (3)
• Lincoln Village, Ohio
• Lincoln County is the name of counties in 24 U.S. states (called Lincoln Parish in Louisiana)

Place names (geographic features)

There are five mountains in the United States called Mount Lincoln. There's one in:

• Colorado
• Massachusetts
• Nevada
• New Hampshire
• Washington

Educational institutions

Post-secondary institutions

• Lincoln College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, named after a fifteenth-century Bishop of Lincoln
• Lincoln College, a Further Education college in Lincolnshire, England
• Lincoln University (California)
• Lincoln University (Missouri)
• Lincoln University (New Zealand)
• Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)
• University of Lincoln (England)
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Secondary institutions

• Abraham Lincoln High School (Des Moines) (Iowa)
• Abraham Lincoln High School (Los Angeles) (California)
• Abraham Lincoln High School (San Francisco) (California)
• Abraham Lincoln High School (San Jose) (California)
• Abraham Lincoln High School (New York) (New York)
• Lincoln High School (Jersey City) (New Jersey)
• Lincoln High School (Lincoln, NE) (Nebraska)
• Lincoln High School (Manitowoc) (Wisconsin)
• Lincoln High School (Portland) (Oregon)

Buildings and roads

• Lincoln Highway
• MIT Lincoln Laboratory
• Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City
• Lincoln Cathedral
• Lincoln Castle
• Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
• Lincoln Tunnel

Culture

• Lincoln Records, a record label from the 1920s, prominently featuring President Lincoln's image in its logo.
• Lincoln, an album by the band They Might Be Giants, named in honor of Lincoln, Massachusetts.
• Lincoln is the title of three separate TV programs about the U.S. president, portrayed by
  • Hal Holbrook (1975)
  • Sam Waterston (1988)
  • Jason Robards (1992)
• Lincoln is a slang term for the United States five dollar bill, which bears the President's image on its obverse
• Lincoln Imp, a purported evil sprite petrified in the Lincoln Cathedral

Automotive

• Lincoln — luxury automobile division of the Ford Motor Company (named in honor of United States President Abraham Lincoln)

Ships

• Four Royal Navy warships
  • HMS Lincoln of the 18th century.
  • HMS Lincoln, at some time also HNMS Lincoln and HMCS Lincoln - a Destroyers For Bases Agreement destroyer.
  • HMS Lincoln
  • HMS Lincoln City
• Two U.S. Navy ships,
  • USS Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602) - a submarine
  • USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) - an aircraft carrier

Miscellanea

• Lincoln, a breed of sheep originally bred in Lincolnshire, England
• Lincoln red cattle a breed of cattle originally bred in Lincolnshire, England
• Lincoln Logs, a popular children's toy