Peabody
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Peabody may refer to any of the following.
General
- Peabody Award, given annually for excellence in radio and television broadcasting
- Peabody College, a teachers' college located in Nashville, Tennessee, which has merged with Vanderbilt University.
- Peabody Conservatory of Music, a prestigious musical institution
- Peabody dance, a fast foxtrot-type dance done to ragtime music.
- Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins, a conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland, founded by George Peabody.
- Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, founded by George Peabody.
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Peabody (band), a band from Australia.
- Peabody action, an early from of breech loading firearm action
People
- Elizabeth Peabody (1804-1894), a United States educator.
- Endicott Peabody (1920–1997), a United States politican, Governor of Massachusetts.
- George Peabody (1795–1869), a United States entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Peabody Institute and Museum.
- George Foster Peabody (1852–1938), a Southern United States banker and philanthropist.
- James Hamilton Peabody, a former governor of the U.S. state of Colorado.
- Sophia Peabody (1809-1871), a United States painter and illustrator.