Saxon (disambiguation)

The Saxons were a Germanic people during the Early Middle Ages, some of whom became the Anglo-Saxons.

Saxon may also refer to:

Places

United States

• Saxon, South Carolina, a census-designated place
• Saxon, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Saxon, Wisconsin, a town
  • Saxon (CDP), Wisconsin, an unincorporated census-designated place within the town
• Saxon Harbor, a harbor in Wisconsin
• Saxon Boulevard, a road in Volusia County, Florida

Elsewhere

• Saxon, Switzerland, a district of Martigny, canton of Valais
• Saxon River, New Zealand
• Saxon Elbeland, area near a river in Germany
• Saxon Street, a village in Woodditton parish, Cambridgeshire, England
• Saxon Uplands, hilly countryside in Saxony, Germany

Arts and entertainment

• Saxon (band), a British heavy metal band, formed in 1976
  • Saxon (album), a 1979 debut album by the band Saxon
• The Saxons, the original name of Scottish pop band Bay City Rollers
• Sky Saxon, a stage name of American rock and roll musician Richard Marsh (1937-2009)
• "Saxon", a song by Chase & Status
• Saxon (film), a 2007 independent British film
• Gar Saxon, a Mandalorian commander in the Star Wars universe
• Harold Saxon, a pseudonym of The Master, an enemy of Doctor Who
• Saxon Garvey, a character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
• Peter Saxon, house pseudonym used by various thriller writers from the 1950s to the 1970s
• Machinesmith, a Marvel Universe villain born Samuel "Starr" Saxon
• Saxon Greeting, a gymnastic routine performed by women in Nazi Germany
• Saxon World Chronicle, 13th century German universal history
• The Saxon Stories, series of historical novels by Bernard Cornwell

People

• Saxon (given name)
• Saxon (surname)
• Bruno the Saxon, 11th-century German chronicler of the eleventh century
• nickname of Matthew Saxon McEwan, late 19th century Scottish rugby football player
• Alex Saxon, pen name of Bill Pronzini (born 1943), American writer of detective fiction
• Inhabitants of one of three modern states (Länder) of Germany: Lower Saxony, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt
• Inhabitants of one of the predecessor states to the modern German states; see Saxony (disambiguation)#Historical German states

Other uses

• Saxon language (disambiguation), various old and modern languages
• Saxon pound, unit of currency in Anglo-Saxon England
• Saxon thaler, historical currency of the Kingdom of Saxony
• Saxon White, a large diamond from India
• Saxon (firework), a ground-based pyrotechnic device
• Saxon (horse), an American racehorse who won the 1874 Belmont Stakes
• Saxon Gold rabbit, a breed of rabbit
• Saxon Colour pigeons, a group of Saxon breeds of fancy pigeons
  • Saxon Fairy Swallow pigeon, a breed of fancy pigeon
  • Saxon Monk, a breed of fancy pigeon
  • Saxon Spot, a breed of fancy pigeon
  • Saxon Shield, a breed of fancy pigeon
• Saxon wasp, common social wasp found in Europe and Asia
• Saxon (vehicle), a British Army armoured personnel carrier
• Saxon Motor Car Company, American car maker from 1914 to 1922
  • Saxon (automobile), produced from 1913 to 1923
• Saxon Mill, former mill at Guy's Cliffe, Warwickshire, England
• Saxon-Upper Lusatian Railway Company, German railway company
• Saxon math, a mathematics learning program for grades K-12
• Saxon Studio International, London reggae sound system
• Saxon XSLT, an open-source XSLT and XQuery processor
• Alfred Saxons, an American collegiate athletic program
• England Saxons, current name of that country's "A" (second-level) men's national rugby union team
• Transylvanian Saxons, an ethnic German minority in Transylvania, Romania, who settled there from 12th century

See also

• Saxån, a river in Sweden
• Saxen, a district in Austria
• Saxony (disambiguation)