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In the United States: *

Parsons, Kansas Parsons is a city in Labette County, Kansas, Labette County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 9,600. It is the most populous city of Labette County, and the second-most pop ...

, a city * Parsons, Missouri, an unincorporated community *

Parsons, Tennessee Parsons is a city in Decatur County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 2,373 at the 2010 census. Parsons is the largest city by population in Decatur County. History Created around 1889 by the Tennessee Midland Railroad Company (T ...

, a city *

Parsons, West Virginia Parsons is the largest city in and county seat of Tucker County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,322 at the 2020 census. Parsons is located at the confluence of the Shavers Fork and the Black Fork, forming the head of the ...

, a town * Camp Parsons, a Boy Scout camp in the state of Washington *

Lake Parsons Lake Parsons is a lake in the state of Kansas. Located north on highway 59 and west on 20th road from the city of Parsons, Kansas, United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a ...

, near Parsons, Kansas *

Parsons Field Parsons Field and Friedman Diamond is a 7,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Brookline, Massachusetts. It is home to the Northeastern University baseball, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's rugby, as well as ...

, a multi-purpose stadium in Brookline, Massachusetts *

Parsons Memorial Lodge The Parsons Memorial Lodge is a small building built in 1915 by the Sierra Club at the northern end of Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park. It was one of the earliest structures built of stone in a national park. Memorial The lodge is a ...

, Yosemite National Park, California * Parsons Peak, a mountain in Yosemite National Park *

Lucy Parsons Center The Lucy Parsons Center, located in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, is a radical, nonprofit independent bookstore and self-managed social center. Formed out of the Red Word bookstore, it is collectively run by volunteers. The center provide ...

, an all-volunteer, nonprofit collectively run radical, independent bookstore and community center, located in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts On the Moon: * Parsons (crater)

People

* Parsons (surname) * Parsons Baronets, four baronetcies, two in Ireland, one in England, and one in the United Kingdom

Companies

* CA Parsons & Company, company founded by Charles Parsons to build turbo-generators *

Parsons Corporation Parsons Corporation is an American multinational technology-focused defense, intelligence, and infrastructure engineering firm. Founded in 1944, Parsons is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, and serves both government and private sector orga ...

, engineering firm headquartered in Centreville, Virginia *

Parsons Dance Company Parsons Dance is a contemporary dance company founded in 1985 by choreographer David Parsons and lighting designer Howell Binkley that tours nationally and internationally and includes an annual season in New York City, its base. History Parson ...

, based in New York City *

Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, British engineering company based on the River Tyne at Wallsend, North East England. History Charles Algernon Parsons founded the company in 1897 with £500 ...

, company founded by Charles Parsons to build marine steam turbines *

WSP Global WSP Global Inc. is a Canadian consulting firm working mostly in the built environment. It was created in 2012, following Montreal-based Genivar's takeover of British firm WSP Group plc. It is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. After the pu ...

, formerly Parsons Brinckerhoff, engineering firm headquartered in New York City

Schools

Parsons School of Design The Parsons School of Design is a private art and design college under The New School located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhattan art ...

, part of The New School, New York City **

Parsons Paris (2013) Parsons Paris is a degree-granting school of art and design in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. It is the European branch campus of Parsons School of Design and part of The New School, a comprehensive university in New York City. Acad ...

, Paris school under Parsons School of Design *

Parsons College Parsons College was a private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college located in Fairfield, Iowa. The school was named for its wealthy benefactor, Lewis B. Parsons Sr., and was founded in 1875 with one ...

, a former private college in Fairfield, Iowa, closed in 1973 *

Parsons Senior High School Parsons Senior High School is a public secondary school in Parsons, Kansas, United States. It is operated by Parsons USD 503 school district, and serves students of grades 9 to 12. It is the sole high school in the school district. The sch ...

, Parsons, Kansas

Other uses

* USS ''Parsons'' (DD-949), a US Navy destroyer *

Parsons code The Parsons code, formally named the Parsons code for melodic contours, is a simple notation used to identify a piece of music through melodic motion – movements of the pitch up and down. Denys Parsons (father of Alan Parsons) developed thi ...

, a system of notation used to identify a musical work *

Parsonsite Parsonsite is a lead uranium phosphate mineral with chemical formula: Pb2(UO2)(PO4)2·2H2O. Parsonsite contains about 45% lead and 25% uranium. It forms elongated lathlike pseudo monoclinic crystals, radial spherulites, encrustations and powde ...

, a mineral

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