Wright Wright is an occupational surname originating in England and Scotland. The term 'Wright' comes from the circa 700 AD Old English word 'wryhta' or 'wyrhta', meaning worker or shaper of wood. Later it became any occupational worker (for example, a ...

an occupational surname originating in England, meaning worker or shaper of wood. Wright or Wrights may also refer to:

Places

Earth

Australia

* Wright, Australian Capital Territory *

Division of Wright The Division of Wright is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The current MP is Scott Buchholz of the Liberal National Party of Queensland. Geography Federal electoral division ...

, federal electoral division in Queensland * Electoral district of Wright, state electoral district in South Australia * Wright railway station, Melbourne * Wright Rock, Tasmanian island in northern Bass Strait

Canada

* Wright, Quebec, a former municipality, now part of Gracefield * Mont Wright (Quebec), mountain near Fermont, Quebec

United States

Wright, Florida Wright is a census-designated place (CDP) in Okaloosa County, Florida, United States. The population was 26,277 at the 2020 United States census, up from 23,127 at the 2010 United States Census. It is part of the Crestview– Fort Walton B ...

* Wright, Iowa * Wright, Kansas * Wright, Minnesota * Wright, New York * Wright, West Virginia *

Wright, Wyoming Wright is a town in Campbell County, Wyoming, Campbell County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 1,644 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. History Ten thousand years ago, the first people came to the high plains to hunt buf ...

Wright City, Missouri Wright City is a city in Warren County, Missouri, United States. It is located on Interstate 70 at mile marker 200 approximately west of downtown St. Louis. Wright City is a small, semi-rural community area with primarily single-family housing, ...

* Wright City, Oklahoma *

Wright County (disambiguation) Wright County is the name of three counties in the United States: *Wright County, Iowa Wright County is a county in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,943. The county seat is Clarion. The county organizatio ...

, several counties * Wright Township (disambiguation), several townships

Solar System

1747 Wright 1747 Wright, provisional designation , is a stony asteroid and a sizable Mars-crosser, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 14 July 1947, by American astronomer Carl Wirtanen at Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton near S ...

, an asteroid *

Wright (lunar crater) Wright is a lunar impact crater that is located near the western limb of the Moon. It lies on the irregular plain between the Montes Cordillera and Montes Rook, two ring-shaped mountain ranges that surround the Mare Orientale. Just to the so ...

Wright (Martian crater) Wright is an occupational surname originating in England and Scotland. The term 'Wright' comes from the circa 700 AD Old English word 'wryhta' or 'wyrhta', meaning worker or shaper of wood. Later it became any occupational worker (for example, a ...

Wright Mons Wright Mons is a large, roughly circular mountain and likely cryovolcano on the dwarf planet Pluto. Discovered by the ''New Horizons'' spacecraft in 2015, it is located southwest of Sputnik Planitia within List of geological features on Pluto#P ...

, a mountain on Pluto

Art, entertainment, and media

*Pastor Leon Wright, a fictional character in ''The Returned'' (U.S. TV series) *'' Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney'', a game with the name of the titular character for the Game Boy Advance

Brands, enterprises and organizations

Wright Aeronautical Wright Aeronautical (1919–1929) was an American aircraft manufacturer headquartered in Paterson, New Jersey. It was the successor corporation to Wright-Martin. It built aircraft and was a supplier of aircraft engines to other builders in the g ...

, an American aircraft and aircraft engine manufacturer *

Wright Company The Wright Company was the commercial aviation business venture of the Wright brothers, established by them on November 22, 1909, in conjunction with several prominent industrialists from New York and Detroit with the intention of capitalizing on ...

, the Wright brothers' initial aviation business *

Wright Electric Wright Electric is an American startup company developing an electric airliner. Design The aircraft is to run on batteries and handle flights of under 300 miles. It will feature high aspect-ratio wings for energy efficient flight, distributed e ...

, an American company developing an electric airliner *

Wright State University Wright State University is a public research university in Fairborn, Ohio, United States. Originally opened in 1964 as a branch campus of Miami University and Ohio State University, it became an independent institution in 1967 and was named in ...

, located in Dayton, Ohio *

Wilbur Wright College Wilbur Wright College, formerly known as Wright Junior College, is a public community college in Chicago. Part of the City Colleges of Chicago system, it offers two-year associate's degrees, as well as occupational training in IT, manufacturing, ...

, a community college in Chicago *

Wright's Coal Tar Soap Created by William Valentine Wright in 1860, Wright's Coal Tar Soap is a British brand of antiseptic soap designed to cleanse the skin thoroughly. It is an orange colour. For over 150 years, Wright's Coal Tar Soap was a popular brand of hous ...

, a popular brand of antiseptic soap *

Wrightbus Wrightbus is a Northern Irish bus manufacturer and a pioneer of the low-floor bus. The company was established in 1946 by Robert Wright and was later run by his son William Wright, until it was acquired in 2019 by British businessman Jo Bamf ...

, an Irish bus (body) manufacturer * Wrights (textile manufacturers)

Other uses

* Wright (ADL), a software architecture description language developed by Carnegie Mellon University *

Homer Wright rosettes In histopathology, a palisade is a single layer of relatively long cells, arranged loosely perpendicular to a surface and parallel to each other. A rosette is a palisade in a halo or spoke-and-wheel arrangement, surrounding a central core or hub. ...

, a clinical sign of certain types of cancer * USS ''Wright'', the name of two ships of the United States Navy *

Millwright A millwright is a craftsman or skilled tradesman who installs, dismantles, maintains, repairs, reassembles, and moves machinery in factories, power plants, and construction sites. The term ''millwright'' (also known as ''industrial mechanic'') ...

, an industrial mechanic