Heath - 2 reference results
Heath can mean:
- Heath (habitat), a landscape characterised by open, low growing woody vegetation.
- Any of several related genera of flowering plants in the Heath habitat -
- Erica (the genus most widely so known as heath)
- Calluna, genus growing in the heath habitat
- Cassiope, genus growing in the heath habitat
- Daboecia, genus growing in the heath habitat
- Epacris (also known as Australian Heath), genus growing in the heath habitat
- Leucopogon (Beard-heath), genus growing in the heath habitat
- Phyllodoce (Mountainheath), genus growing in the heath habitat
- Ericaceae, Plant family containing Erica
Places
United Kingdom
- Heath, Cardiff, Wales
- Heath, Cheshire, England
- Heath, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
- Heath, Devon, England
- Heath, Shropshire, England
- Heath, West Yorkshire, England
United States
- Heath, Alabama
- Heath, Indiana (extinct)
- Heath, Massachusetts
- Heath, Ohio
- Heath, Texas
- Heath Township, Michigan
- Heath Township, Pennsylvania
Denmark
Elsewhere
- Heath River, border between Peru and Bolivia
People
Surname
- Benjamin Heath (1704-1766), British scholar
- Darren Heath (born 1968), motor sports photographer
- David Heath (born 1954), British politician
- Edward Heath (1916-2005), British politician
- Eric Heath (born 1923), New Zealand cartoonist
- Ted Heath (bandleader) (1902-1969)
- Harrison Heath, creator of Connect 4
- Lewis Heath (1885-1954), British general
- Lilian Heath, American doctor
- Michael Heath (born 1935), cartoonist
- Monroe Heath (1827-1894), American politician
- Samantha Heath, British politician
- Sir Thomas Little (T.L.) Heath (1861-1940), British mathematician and historian of classical Greek mathematics
- Thomas Heath (instrument maker) (1719-1773), English scientific and mathematical instrument maker.
- William Heath (1737-1814), American soldier and politician
- William Heath (artist) (1795-1840), British artist and caricaturist
- Joseph Heath (born 1967), Canadian philosopher
- The Heath Brothers: Jimmy (born 1926), Percy (1923-2005), and Tootie (born 1935), all American musicians
Forename
- Heath Ledger (1979-2008), Australian actor
- Heath Bell (born 1977) , pitcher for the San Diego Padres.
- Heath Miller (born 1982), American football player
- Heath Ramsay (born 1981), Australian butterfly swimmer
- W. Heath Robinson (1872-1944), British cartoonist
- Heath Shuler (born 1971), Washington Redskins quarterback, now Democratic representative from North Carolina
- Heath Streak (born 1974), Zimbabwean cricketer
- Heath (bassist) (born 1968), bassist of X Japan
- Heath Lamberts (1941-2005), Broadway actor who originated the role of Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast.
- Heath Herring (born 1978), American heavyweight mixed martial artist, veteran of UFC, Pride Fighting Championships, K-1 and World Vale Tudo Championship
- Heath, a gay character in Greek
Court cases
- Heath v. Alabama, 478 U.S. 82 (1985), interpreting the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
Other uses
- Heath bar, a popular candy bar
- Heath, a wyvern knight in the video game Fire Emblem.
- Heath, also known as Tucker, the owner of the Battle Dome from the Pokémon series.
- Heath, the thesaurus, a dinosaur on the PBS Kids show "Between the Lions".
- Heaths, a number of unrelated Lepidoptera found in heathland. They include moths (e.g. the Latticed Heath of the Geometridae) as well as butterflies (e.g. species of Coenonympha of the Nymphalidae)
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