Curzon

Curzon may refer to:

As a British family name, it particularly refers to the Curzon family, and is an Anglo-Norman territorial name. The Curzon family was involved in the Norman Conquest, and is named after the French town of Notre-Dame-de-Courson in Normandy from which they hail; their seat is at Kedleston Hall. The people listed below do not necessarily belong to this family.

People

• Aria Curzon (born 1987), American voice actress
• Christopher Curzon (born 1958), English cricketer
• Clifford Curzon (1907–1982), English pianist
• Drury Curzon Drury-Lowe (1830–1908), British general
• Ephraim Curzon (1883-unknown), English rugby league footballer
• Frederic Curzon (1899–1973), English composer, conductor, and musician.
• George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925), Viceroy of India and later British Foreign Secretary
• Grace Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (1879–1958), art collector and museum benefactor
• Mary Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston (1870–1906), Vicereine of India
• Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche (1810–1873), English traveler, travel writer, and diplomat
• Sarah Anne Curzon (1833–1898), early Canadian feminist poet, journalist, editor, and playwright
• "Viscount Curzon", a courtesy title used by the heir of Earl Howe

Places

• Curzon Street, a street in central London, UK
• Curzon Street Station, Birmingham, UK, a former mainline railway station and the world's oldest railway architecture.
• Curzon, Vendée, a commune of the Vendée département of France
• Curzon, Missouri, a community in the United States

Ships

• HMS Fittleton (M1136), a Ton-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy, renamed HMS Curzon between 1960 and 1975.
• HMS Curzon (K513) was a Captain-class frigate of the Royal Navy, in commission from 1943 to 1946.

Other

• Curzon Ashton F.C., a non-league football club from Greater Manchester, England
• Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon, an independent cinema in Clevedon, England, not related to the Curzon Cinemas chain
• Curzon Artificial Eye, a British company group which includes a cinema chain in London and film distributor Artificial Eye
• Curzon Cinemas, a small cinema chain based in London, England.
• Curzon Dax, an alien character from the television show Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Curzon, a cologne/parfum manufactured by Geo.F. Trumper
• Curzon Line, a boundary line proposed in 1919 by Lord Curzon of Kedleston as an armistice line between Poland and Bolshevik Russia