Kent (disambiguation)
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Many things are named Kent:
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Counties
- County of Kent, England
- Chatham-Kent, Ontario (formerly Kent County)
- Kent County, Delaware
- Kent County, Maryland
- Kent County, Michigan
- Kent County, New Brunswick
- Kent County, Rhode Island
- Kent County, Texas
Universities
- Kent State University, Ohio, United States of America
- University of Kent at Canterbury
Smaller localities
- Kent, Connecticut
- Kent, Iowa
- Kent, Illinois
- Kent, Indiana
- Kent, Minnesota
- Kent, New York
- Kent, Ohio
- Kent, Oregon
- Kent, Texas
- Kent, Washington
- Kent City, Michigan
People (fictional or otherwise)
- Clark Kent, the fictional character
- James Tyler Kent, the physician
- Peter Kent, Global news reporter
- Rockwell Kent, the artist
- William Kent, the architect
- James Kent (Chancellor Kent),the legal scholar for whose family Kent, New York is named
- Kent (Fire Emblem), a fictional character from the Fire Emblem series.
- Corita Kent, artist and nun
Other things named Kent
- Kent cigarettes was a cigarette brand, first to introduce smoke filters in 1952
- Kent, the Swedish rock band
- HMS Kent, a ship
- The Duke of Kent
- The Kingdom of Kent
- The Earl of Kent
- Ford Kent engine is an engine used in for instance Ford Anglia
- Kent State shootings
- Fort Kent, Maine
- The Kent Applicative Operating System, a computer operating system
- Kent Acres, Delaware
- Kent City, Michigan
- Kent Group National Park, in Tasmania, Australia
- Kent Island, Maryland
- Kent Narrows, Maryland
- The Kent Recursive Calculator, a programming language
- Kentville, Nova Scotia
- New Kent County, Virginia
- Old Kent Road and New Kent Road in London
- Kent is also a brand of fireplace.
History
The name comes from the Kingdom of Kent, and probably from the Cantiaci tribe.
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