Ballou may refer to:

Places

United States

Ballou, Illinois Ballou is an unincorporated community in southern Will County, Illinois, United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal ...

, an unincorporated community * Ballou, Ohio, an unincorporated community * Ballou, Oklahoma, a census-designated place * Ballou, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community *

Ballou High School Frank W. Ballou Senior High School is a public school located in Washington, D.C., United States. Ballou is a part of the District of Columbia Public Schools. History Ballou High School was founded in the early 1960s to serve residents in the So ...

in Washington, D.C.

Elsewhere

* Mount Ballou, Victoria Land, Antarctica * Ballou,

Senegal Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. It borders Mauritania to Mauritania–Senegal border, the north, Mali to Mali–Senegal border, the east, Guinea t ...

People

In arts and media

Writers

* Addie L. Ballou (1837–1916), American suffragist, poet, artist, author and lecturer *

Ella Maria Ballou Ella Maria Ballou (November 15, 1852 – July 29, 1937) was an American writer who worked as a stenographer, reporter, and essayist. She started her career as a teacher, but finding the compensation for women in this vocation too small, she too ...

(1852-1937), American stenographer, reporter, essayist, and educator *

Emily Ballou Emily Ballou is an Australian-American poet, novelist and screenwriter. Her poetry collection ''The Darwin Poems'', a verse portrait of Charles Darwin, was published by University of Western Australia Press in 2009.

, Australian-American poet, novelist and screenwriter *

Hosea Ballou Hosea Ballou D.D. (April 30, 1771 – June 7, 1852) was an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer. Originally a Baptist, he converted to Universalism in 1789. He preached in a number of towns in Vermont, New Hampshire, an ...

(1771–1852), American clergyman and theological writer *

Joyce Ballou Gregorian Joyce Ballou Gregorian Hampshire (July 5, 1946 – April 29, 1991) was an American author, expert on Oriental rugs, and horse breeder. Life Joyce Ballou Gregorian was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the third child of Phebe Ballou, of New England ...

(1946–1991), American author * Mary Ballou (1809–1904), American memoirist *

Maturin Murray Ballou Maturin Murray Ballou (April 14, 1820March 27, 1895) was a writer and publisher in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. He co-founded ''Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, Gleason's Pictorial'', was the first editor of the ''Boston Daily Glo ...

(1820–1895), writer and publisher

Musicians

Dave Ballou Dave Ballou is an American jazz trumpeter and professor of music at Towson University, in Maryland. Early life and education Ballou was born in Peace Dale, Rhode Island. He started playing the trumpet at age 11. Ballou received his bachelor's ...

, American musician * Esther Ballou (1915–1973), American musician and composer *

Kurt Ballou Kurt Ballou (born February 1, 1974) is an American musician and record producer based in Massachusetts, best known as the guitarist for metalcore band Converge and for his recording and production work at his own GodCity Studio. Early and pe ...

(born 1974), American guitarist with the band Converge

In other arts

Bud Ballou Dudley "Bud" Ballou (December 11, 1942 – April 15, 1977) was an American disc jockey and radio personality active for fifteen years on several commercial radio stations during the 1960s and 1970s. Ballou was born and raised in Liverpool, New York ...

(1942–1977), American radio personality * Michael Ballou, American artist * Tyson Ballou (born 1976), fashion model

In education and academia

Clinton Ballou Clinton Edward Ballou (June 18, 1923 – March 8, 2021) was an American academic who was a professor of biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focused on the metabolism of carbohydrates and the structures of microbial ...

(born 1923), American biochemist *

David Ballou David P. Ballou is a professor emeritus of biological chemistry at the University of Michigan Medical School in the United States. He is best known for his development of rapid-reaction techniques, including stopped flow and rapid freeze-quench ...

, American chemist and professor *

(1852-1937), American stenographer, reporter, essayist, and educator *

Frank Ballou Frank Washington Ballou (February 22, 1879 – February 2, 1955) was superintendent of Washington D.C. public schools from 1920 to 1943. Frank W. Ballou High School is named in his honor. He was the first president of the National Association of D ...

(1879–1955), American school administrator *

Hosea Ballou II Hosea Ballou II (October 18, 1796May 27, 1861) was an American Universalist minister and the first president of Tufts University from 1853 to 1861. Ballou was named after his uncle and went by the name "Hosea Ballou 2d. " Publishers, friends, e ...

(1796–1861), first president of Tufts University, grand-nephew of clergyman Hosea Ballou

In religion

Adin Ballou Adin Ballou (April 23, 1803 – August 5, 1890) was an American proponent of Christian nonresistance, Christian anarchism, and Christian socialism. He was also an abolitionist and the founder of the Hopedale Community. Through his long career ...

(1803–1890), American pacifist and Unitarian minister *

(1771–1852), American clergyman and theological writer

In politics

* Addie L. Ballou (1837–1916), American suffragist, poet, artist, author and lecturer *

(1803–1890), American pacifist *

Latimer Whipple Ballou Latimer Whipple Ballou (March 1, 1812 – May 9, 1900) was a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island. Biography Latimer Whipple Ballou was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island on March 1, 1812. He attended the public schools and the local academie ...

(1812–1900), American politician *

Maude Ballou Maude Lerita Williams Ballou (September 13, 1925 – August 26, 2019) was an American civil rights activist. She and her husband were personal friends of Martin Luther King Jr. and she worked as King's secretary between 1955 and 1960. Early li ...

(1925-2009), American Civil Rights activist * Phineas D. Ballou (1823–1877), American businessperson and politician * Sidney M. Ballou (1870–1929), American judge *

Sullivan Ballou Sullivan Ballou (March 28, 1829July 29, 1861) was an American lawyer and politician from Rhode Island, and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He is remembered for an eloquent letter he wrote to his wife Sarah a week be ...

(1829–1861), American politician

In sport

Adam Ballou Adam Ballou (born May 29, 1992) is an American soccer player and cerebral palsy football player. Ballou has cerebral palsy as a result of an intrauterine stroke, he was diagnosed at six months old. He attended James Madison University, graduatin ...

(born 1992), American Paralympic soccer player * Ballou Tabla (born 1999), Canadian soccer player *

Mike Ballou Mikell Randolph Ballou (born September 11, 1947) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Boston Patriots in 1970. He attended Los Angeles High School, then Santa Moni ...

(born 1947), American football player * Win Ballou (1897–1963), American Major League Baseball pitcher

Others

* Adin Ballou Underwood (1828–1888), American army officer

Other uses

* The title character of ''

Cat Ballou ''Cat Ballou'' is a 1965 American western comedy film starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin, who won an Academy Award for his dual role. The story involves a woman who hires a notorious gunman to protect her father's ranch, and later to avenge his ...

'', a 1965 comedy western film * Wally Ballou, a fictional recurring character created by the American comedy duo

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