Wakefield (disambiguation)

In England, Wakefield may refer to: Wakefield may also refer to:
 * The City of Wakefield, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England
 * Wakefield, West Yorkshire, or Wakefield proper, an urban settlement within the City of Wakefield
 * Wakefield Prison, located in this city
 * Wakefield (UK Parliament constituency), located in this city
 * Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, rugby league club located in city
 * Diocese of Wakefield, Church of England diocese based in the city

In Australia

 * Wakefield, New South Wales
 * Wakefield Street, Adelaide, in Adelaide, South Australia
 * Port Wakefield, South Australia
 * Wakefield Regional Council, including Port Wakefield, South Australia
 * Division of Wakefield, an Australian electoral division

In Canada

 * Wakefield, Quebec

In Jamaica

 * Wakefield, Jamaica

In New Zealand

 * Wakefield, New Zealand

In the United States

 * Wakefield, Kansas
 * Wakefield, Kentucky
 * Wakefield, Louisiana
 * Wakefield (Wakefield, Louisiana), listed on the NRHP in Louisiana
 * Wakefield, Massachusetts
 * Wakefield Historic District, listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts
 * Wakefield (MBTA station)
 * Wakefield, Michigan
 * Wakefield, Nebraska
 * Wakefield, New Hampshire
 * Wakefield, Bronx, New York
 * Wakefield, Virginia
 * Wakefield, Wisconsin, a ghost town
 * Wakefield Township, Michigan
 * Wakefield Township, Minnesota
 * Wakefield Township, Dixon County, Nebraska
 * Wakefield-Peacedale, Rhode Island, sometimes also referred to as Wakefield
 * Wakefield Plantation, in Raleigh, North Carolina

People

 * Category:Wakefield (surname)
 * Andrew Wakefield (born 1957), a former British gastroenterologist known for fraudulent research
 * Captain Arthur Wakefield (1799–1843), who died in the Wairau Affray, brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield
 * Charity Wakefield (born 1980), English actress
 * Charles Wakefield, 1st Viscount Wakefield of Hythe, a British peer
 * Daniel Wakefield (1776–1846), writer on political economy.
 * Daniel Bell Wakefield (1798–1858), brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield
 * Edward Wakefield (1774–1854) was an English philanthropist and statistician
 * Edward Wakefield (politician) (1845–1924), son of Felix Wakefield, New Zealand politician and journalist
 * Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862), an influential theorist on colonization
 * Edward Jerningham Wakefield (1820–1879), son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, New Zealand politician and author of Adventures in New Zealand
 * Edward Wakefield (1903–1969), British civil servant and Conservative Member of Parliament
 * Elsie Maud Wakefield, English mycologist
 * Felix Wakefield (1807–1875), brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield
 * Gilbert Wakefield (1756–1801), English scholar and controversialist.
 * Howard Wakefield, American football player
 * Humphry Wakefield, English baronet
 * James Wakefield, United States politician
 * John Allen Wakefield, United States politician and military leader
 * John Peter Wakefield (1915–1942), British racing car driver
 * Norman Arthur Wakefield (1918–1972), Australian naturalist
 * Priscilla Wakefield (nee Priscilla Bell, 1751–1832), author
 * Richard Wakefield American poet, and literary critic.
 * Rhys Wakefield, Australian actor
 * Robert Wakefield (died 1537), English linguist and scholar.
 * H. Russell Wakefield, author
 * Peter Wakefield (disambiguation)
 * S. A. Wakefield (1927–2009), Australian author
 * Tim Wakefield (born 1966), pitcher for the Boston Red Sox
 * Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal, British politician
 * Colonel William Wakefield (1801–1848), who founded Wellington, New Zealand, brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield
 * Stacey Wakefield Mascarenas (born 1967) United States politician, City of Fruita, Colorado

Other uses

 * Battle of Wakefield in the Wars of the Roses, 1460
 * Cushman & Wakefield, a commercial real estate company headquartered in New York City
 * Wakefield (band), an American rock band
 * Wakefield, a term for the area following a laser pulse in plasma acceleration
 * "Wakefield", an 1837 short story published in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales
 * "Wakefield", a 2008 short story by E. L. Doctorow
 * Wakefield Cycle, a manuscript containing thirty-two Medieval religious plays
 * Wakefield High School in several places
 * Wakefield Press, a South Australian publishing company
 * The Vicar of Wakefield, a novel by Oliver Goldsmith