Elgin

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Elgin may refer to:

Places

Australia

• Elgin, Western Australia, a locality in the Shire of Capel

Canada

• Elgin County, Ontario
• Elgin Settlement, a 19th-century community for freed slaves located in present-day North Buxton and South Buxton, Chatham-Kent, Ontario
• Elgin, a village in Rideau Lakes, Ontario
• Port Elgin, Ontario, Bruce County
• Elgin, Manitoba
• Elgin Parish, New Brunswick
  • Elgin, New Brunswick, a community in Elgin Parish
• Elgin, Nova Scotia
• Elgin, Quebec
• Elgin Street (Ottawa), a street in the Downtown core of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Port Elgin, New Brunswick

Hong Kong

• Elgin Street, Hong Kong, a street in Central, Hong Kong
• Elgin Street, former name of Haiphong Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon

New Zealand

• Elgin, New Zealand, a suburb of Gisborne

South Africa

• Elgin, Western Cape, a large valley famous for deciduous farming, which lies to the south-east of Cape Town

United Kingdom

• Elgin, Moray, the administrative and commercial centre for Moray, Scotland, from which other names derive
  • Elgin railway station
• Elgin Avenue, a street in Maida Vale, London
• Elgin Crescent, a street in Notting Hill, London
• Elgin Street, Bacup, in Lancashire, one of the world's shortest streets

United States

• Elgin, Alabama
• Elgin, Arizona
• Elgin, Illinois
  • Elgin station (Illinois), a train station
• Elgin, Iowa
• Elgin, Kansas
• Elgin, Minnesota
• Elgin (Natchez, Mississippi), listed on the NRHP in Mississippi
• Elgin, Missouri
• Elgin, Nebraska
• Elgin, Nevada
• Elgin (Warrenton, North Carolina), listed on the NRHP in North Carolina
• Elgin, North Dakota
• Elgin, Ohio
• Elgin, Oklahoma
• Elgin, Oregon
• Elgin, Pennsylvania
• Elgin, Kershaw County, South Carolina
• Elgin, Lancaster County, South Carolina
• Elgin, Tennessee
• Elgin, Texas
• Elgin, Utah
• Elgin Township (disambiguation)

Constituencies and electoral districts

Canada

• Elgin (federal electoral district) (1935–1997), a federal electoral district in the province of Ontario
• Elgin (provincial electoral district), a provincial riding in Ontario, Canada, that was merged into the riding of Elgin-Middlesex

United Kingdom

• Elgin (Parliament of Scotland constituency)
• Elgin Burghs (UK Parliament constituency), a District of Burghs constituency from 1708 to 1918
• Elginshire (UK Parliament constituency), a county constituency from 1708 to 1832

People

• Elgin (name)
• Earl of Elgin or Lord Elgin, the title of several individuals
  • Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), British diplomat
  • James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811–1863), Canadian governor

Art, entertainment, and media

Art

• The Elgin Marbles, Greek bas-reliefs housed at the British Museum

Literature

• The Elginists, an organization featured in Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway novel A Room Full of Bones (2012) that describes itself as "dedicated to the return of cultural artefacts to their countries of origin", including the Elgin Marbles

Music

• Elgin (album), a 2011 album by American R&B singer and songwriter Ginuwine
• The Elgins, a Motown group active from 1962 to 1967
• "The Elgins", an early name used by The Temptations in their pre-David Ruffin era

Brands and enterprises

• Elgin (automobile), manufactured by Elgin Motor Car Corporation (1916–1923) and Elgin Motors, Inc. (1923–1924)
• Elgin, Ladbroke Grove, a public house in Ladbroke Grove, London
• The Elgin, Darjeeling, the summer residence of the Maharaja of Cooch Behar, converted to a hotel
• Elgin National Watch Company (1864–1968), a US watch company that sold watches under the names Elgin, Lord Elgin, and Lady Elgin
• Elgin tablets, a name for a tablet
• Glen Elgin, a single malt whisky from Speyside
• The Elgin American Company, a manufacturer of compacts, cigarette cases and lighters, dresser sets, etc.; the sponsor of the US game show You Bet Your Life from 1947 to 1950

Other uses

• Elgin Formation, a geologic formation in Minnesota, United States
• Elgin Park Secondary School, a high school in Surrey, British Columbia
• The Elgin–Franklin fields in the North Sea

See also

• Eglin (disambiguation)
• Elgin Academy (disambiguation)
• Elgin High School (disambiguation)
• Elgin Museum (disambiguation)
• Elgin Theatre (disambiguation)
• Elginia, a turtle-like parareptile of the Late Permian period
• Lady Elgin (disambiguation)