Scott
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Places
Scott is the name of several places in the United States of America:
- Scott, Arkansas
- Scott, Louisiana
- Scott, New York
- Scott, Wisconsin (several places)
- Scott, Ohio
- Scott City, Kansas
- Scott City, Missouri
- various counties named Scott County
- Scott Township, Minnesota
- Scott Township, Pennsylvania (several places)
Elsewhere in the world is:
- Scott Island near Antarctica
"Scott" is also part of the name of:
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People
Many famous people have "Scott" as a first, middle, or last name:
- Alfred Angas Scott, founder of The Scott Motorcycle Company
- Arthur E. Scott, an American professional photographer
- Camilla Scott, a former talk show host for Camilla Scott for CTV between 1996 and 1997
- Davis Scott, an American Astronomer
- Dred Scott, slave whose case before the United States Supreme Court was one of the most famous in the 19th century
- Francis Scott Key, poet and lawyer, author of the poem that became the U. S. national anthem
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, author, cousin of Francis Scott Key and named for him
- George C. Scott, actor
- George Gilbert Scott (1811 - 1878), an English architect
- Lisa Scott, a news reporter for WIVB-TV (a CBS affiliate in Buffalo in the 1990s and the 2000s
- Montgomery Scott (Scotty), a fictional character in Star Trek
- Randolph Scott, actor
- Ridley Scott, an English director
- Robert Falcon Scott, Antarctic explorer and British naval officer
- Scott Joplin, composer
- Sir Walter Scott, author
- Thomas Scott, bigoted Orangeman, eventually executed in the Red River Rebellion led by Louis Riel
- Thomas Scott (politician), US congressman
- Thomas Walter Scott, the first premier of Saskatchewan
- Various Tom Scotts
- Winfield Scott, general and candidate for the presidency of the United States
- Winfield Scott Hancock, general and candidate for the presidency of the United States
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Other
- USS Scott, a Kidd class destroyer, formerly in the U.S. Navy.
- The Scott Motorcycle Company
- The Scott Tournament of Hearts womens curling Canadian championships
- The Scott Monument, to Sir Walter Scott, in Edinburgh
