Prescott, Samuel, 1751-c.1777, American Revolutionary figure, b. Concord, Mass. On the night of Apr. 18, 1775, he, Paul Revere, and William Dawes set out to warn the countryside of the British advance toward Concord. Revere was captured on the way, but Prescott got through with the news. He was later captured and died in prison.

Prescott may refer to:

People

• Abel Prescott
• Abel Prescott, Jr.
• Abraham Prescott
• Alan Prescott, English rugby league footballer
• Albert Benjamin Prescott
• Benjamin F. Prescott
• Breidis Prescott, boxer
• Edward C. Prescott, Nobel prize-winning economist
• H. F. M. Prescott, author, academic and historian
• Henry Prescott
• Jacquelyn Prescott
• James W. Prescott, psychologist
• Jim Prescott
• John Prescott, British Labour politician and former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• Johnathan Prescott
• Katherine Prescott
• Norm Prescott
• Paul Prescott
• Peter Prescott
• Peter Prescott (American musician)
• Peter Prescott QC
• Rebecca Minot Prescott
• Richard Prescott, British general who was captured twice during the American Revolution
• Robert Prescott
• Robert Prescott (actor)
• Samuel Cate Prescott, MIT Dean and pioneer food technologist
• Samuel Prescott, American who completed Paul Revere's midnight ride
• Sidney Prescott (Scream series), fictional character
• William Prescott, American revolutionary commander
• William Hickling Prescott, American historian
• William Warren Prescott (1855-1944), educator and administrator in the Seventh-day Adventist Church

Also

• James Prescott Joule, English physicist, after whom the SI unit of work, the joule, is named
• Samuel P. Bush (Samuel Prescott Bush)
• Prescott Bush

Places

Canada

• Prescott, Ontario
• Prescott Island, NunavutUSA
• Prescott, Arizona
• Prescott College, a small liberal arts school specializing in environmental studies
• Prescott, Arkansas
• Prescott and Northwestern Railroad, a railroad in southwest Arkansas
• Prescott, Iowa
• Prescott, Kansas
• Prescott, Massachusetts
• Prescott, Michigan
• Prescott, Oregon
• Prescott, Washington
• Prescott, Wisconsin
• Prescott Township, MinnesotaUnited Kingdom
• Prescott, Gloucestershire, parish in Gloucestershire

Other uses

• Prescott, the code name of a generation of Intel Pentium 4 processors
• Prescott Speed Hillclimb, a motorsport event in Gloucestershire, England
• Prescott Pharmaceuticals, a fictional medical company used by Stephen Colbert on the segment "Cheating Death with Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, DFA" on The Colbert Report
• Prescott Observatory, an astronomical observatory in Arizona

See also

• Prescot