Dillon

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Contents 1 People 1.1 Surname 1.2 Given name 2 Places 2.1 Cities, towns, and counties 2.2 Natural areas 2.3 Buildings and structures 2.4 Fictional Places 3 Fictional characters 4 Others 5 See also

Dillon may refer to:

[edit] People

[edit] Surname

See Dillon (surname)

[edit] Given name

• Dillon Anderson (1906–1974)
• Dillon Bell (1822–1898), a New Zealand politician of the late 19th century

[edit] Places

[edit] Cities, towns, and counties

In United States of America:

• Dillon Beach, California
• Dillon, Colorado
• Dillon, Georgia
• Dillon, Illinois
• Dillon, Kansas
• Dillon, Kentucky
• Dillon, Mississippi
• Dillon, Missouri
• Dillon, Montana
• Dillon, New Mexico
• Dillon, South Carolina
• Dillon County, South Carolina
• Dillon, Virginia
• Dillon, West Virginia
• Dillon, Wyoming

In other countries:

• Dillon, Martinique

[edit] Natural areas

• Dillon River, in New Zealand
• Dillons Run, a river in West Virginia, U.S.
• Dillon State Park, a state park in Ohio, U.S.

[edit] Buildings and structures

• Dillon Stadium, a stadium in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.

[edit] Fictional Places

• Dillon, Texas, the setting for the NBC television drama Friday Night Lights.

[edit] Fictional characters

• Marshal Matt Dillon, the U.S. Marshal of Dodge City, Kansas in the radio and television versions of Gunsmoke, played for twenty years on the television series by James Arness
• Kevin Dillon (character from children's literature), a character in Rodman Philbrick's young adult novel, Freak the Mighty, played by Kieran Culkin in the movie version The Mighty
• The Dillon family on the US soap opera All My Children:
  • Janet Marlowe Green Dillon (Jane Cox), played by Robin Mattson
  • Laurel Banning Dillon, played by Felicity LaFortune
  • Trevor Dillon, played by James Kiberd
• Dillon Quartermaine, a character on the US soap opera General Hospital, played by Scott Clifton

[edit] Others

Dillon is the name of the following things:

• 78393 Dillon, an asteroid
• Dillons, a grocery supermarket chain based in Hutchinson, Kansas, USA, part of the Kroger company
• Dillons, a former UK-based chain of bookstores, now part of Waterstone's
• Dillon Dam Brewery, a brewery and restaurant located in Dillon, Colorado
• The Dillon Round of the GATT talks in 1962
• Dillon v. Gloss (256 U.S. 368, 1921), a United States Supreme Court case that found it constitutional for the Congress of the United States to impose a time limit on the ratification of an amendment to the United States Constitution
• 9x25 Dillon, a wildcat pistol cartridge

[edit] See also

• Dylan
• Dhillon