Wollaston may refer to:

Places

Antarctica

* Cape Wollaston, Palmer Archipelago

Australia

* John Wollaston Anglican Community School, private school in Kelmscott, Perth, Western Australia * Wollaston, Western Australia, suburb of Bunbury, Western Australia * Wollaston Island (Western Australia), off the coast of Kimberley

Canada

Wollaston, Ontario Wollaston is an incorporated township in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. The township had a population of 670 in the Canada 2016 Census. Property taxes provide the primary source of income for the township accounting for 61% of the revenue re ...

, a township * Wollaston Islands (Nunavut) *

Wollaston Peninsula The Wollaston Peninsula (previously, Wollaston Land) is a west-pointing peninsula located on southwestern Victoria Island, Canada. It is bordered by Prince Albert Sound to the north, Amundsen Gulf to the west and Dolphin and Union Strait to t ...

, split between Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada * Wollaston Lake, lake in north-eastern Saskatchewan ** Wollaston Lake Airport *

Wollaston Lake, Saskatchewan Wollaston may refer to: Places Antarctica * Cape Wollaston, Palmer Archipelago Australia * John Wollaston Anglican Community School, private school in Kelmscott, Perth, Western Australia * Wollaston, Western Australia, suburb of Bunbury, W ...

, a village

Chile

* Wollaston Islands, group of islands near Cape Horn

England

* Wollaston, Northamptonshire ** Wollaston School *

Wollaston, Shropshire Wollaston is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Alberbury with Cardeston, in the Shropshire district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England, only a quarter of a mile from the Welsh border. In 2001 the parish ...

* Wollaston, West Midlands

Greenland

Wollaston Foreland Wollaston Foreland ( da, Wollaston Forland) is a peninsula in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area. History This peninsula was named by William Scoresby in 1822 as a testimony ...

, peninsula in Northeast Greenland

United States

* Wollaston (Quincy, Massachusetts), neighborhood in Quincy, Massachusetts ** Wollaston (MBTA station), MBTA station **

Wollaston Beach Wollaston Beach is the largest public beach in the Boston harbor. The beach is located parallel to Quincy Shore Drive in North Quincy, Massachusetts, which was constructed to provide access to the bay beach for Greater Boston. Wollaston beach exp ...

, public beach ** Wollaston Theatre, historic building * Mount Wollaston, various locations in Quincy, Massachusetts

Moon

* Wollaston (crater), lunar crater

People

* Arthur Wollaston (1865–1933), English footballer, played for Aston Villa * Sir Arthur Naylor Wollaston KCIE (1842–1922), Superintendent of Records, India Office * Belinda Wollaston (born 1983), Australian musical theatre actor * Charles Wollaston (1849–1926), English footballer, played for Wanderers and England * Charlton Wollaston (1733–1764), English physician * Charlton James Wollaston, English, of ''Wollaston et Compagnie'', building the first international submarine telegraph cable (Dover-Calais) in 1851 with engineer

Thomas Russell Crampton Thomas Russell Crampton, MICE, MIMechE (6 August 1816 – 19 April 1888) was an English engineer born at Broadstairs, Kent, and trained on Brunel's Great Western Railway. He is best known for designing the Crampton locomotive but had many eng ...

* Francis Wollaston (scientist) (1694–1774) * Francis Wollaston (astronomer) (1731–1815) *

Francis Wollaston (philosopher) Francis John Hyde Wollaston FRS (13 April 1762, London – 12 October 1823) was an English natural philosopher and Jacksonian Professor at the University of Cambridge. Life Francis John Hyde Wollaston was the son of Francis Wollaston (1731–1 ...

(1762–1823) *

George Wollaston George Wollaston (1738–1826) was an English Anglican priest. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1763. He was the son of Francis Wollaston (1694-1774). He was educated at Charterhouse School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge ...

(1738–1826), Fellow of the Royal Society *

Gerald Wollaston Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston (2 June 1874 – 4 March 1957) was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. Wollaston's family had a firm tradition at the College of Arms. Wollaston's great-grandfather was Sir William Woods, ...

(1874–1957), officer of arms at the College of Arms in London * Sir Harry Wollaston (1846–1921), Australian public servant * James Wollaston (1873–1918), English footballer, played for Small Heath *

John Wollaston (clergyman) John Ramsden Wollaston (28 March 1791 – 3 May 1856) was an Anglican priest who was instrumental in the establishment of the Church of England in Western Australia. Wollaston was born in London and educated at Charterhouse School where his ...

(1791–1856), Anglican clergyman in Western Australia * John Wollaston (painter), English-born American portraitist * Richard Wollaston, English sea captain and pirate *

Sandy Wollaston Alexander Frederick Richmond "Sandy" Wollaston (22 May 1875, Clifton, Gloucestershire – 3 June 1930, Cambridge) was an English medical doctor, ornithologist, botanist, climber and explorer. After qualifying as a surgeon in 1903, Wollaston deci ...

(1875–1930), British explorer * Dr Sarah Wollaston (born 1962), British general practitioner and MP for Totnes (2010–2019) * Thomas Vernon Wollaston (1822–1878), English entomologist and malacologist * Tullie Cornthwaite Wollaston, opal dealer credited with introducing the claret ash to Australia at Raywood, Aldgate, SA * William Wollaston (1659–1724), English philosophical writer * William Wollaston (Ipswich MP elected 1733) (1693–1764) * William Wollaston (Ipswich MP elected 1768) (1730–1797) *

William Hyde Wollaston William Hyde Wollaston (; 6 August 1766 – 22 December 1828) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium. He also developed a way to process platinum ore into malleable ingot ...

(1766–1828), English chemist, physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society

Other

Wollaston Medal The Wollaston Medal is a scientific award for geology, the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London. The medal is named after William Hyde Wollaston, and was first awarded in 1831. It was originally made of gold (1831–1845), ...

, awarded for work in geology * Wollaston prism, optical device, invented by William Hyde Wollaston *

Wollaston's roundleaf bat Wollaston's roundleaf bat (''Hipposideros wollastoni'') is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It was named after the explorer Sandy Wollaston. Taxonomy and etymology It was ...

, species of bat in the family Hipposideridae