Yarrow (disambiguation)

Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) is a plant in the family Asteraceae.

Yarrow may also refer to:

  • Yarrow, other species within the genus Achillea

Places

  • Yarrow, British Columbia, a community in Canada
  • Yarrow, Northumberland, the location of the Kielder Reservoir dam
  • Yarrow, Somerset, a hamlet in England
  • River Yarrow (Lancashire), England
    • Yarrow Reservoir, Lancashire, England
  • Yarrow Water, Scotland
  • Yarrow, Scottish Borders, Scotland
  • Yarrow, Missouri, an unincorporated community in the United States

People with the name

  • Yarrow Maaytey, 17th-century Somali ruler
  • Alder Yarrow, American wine journalist and restaurant critic
  • Alfred Yarrow (1842–1932), British shipbuilder
  • Arnold Yarrow (born 1920), British actor
  • Catherine Yarrow (1904–1990), British artist
  • Eric Yarrow (1920–2018), British shipbuilder, son of Harold Yarrow
  • Ernest Yarrow (1876–1939), British-American missionary
  • Harold Yarrow (1884–1962), British shipbuilder, son of Alfred Yarrow
  • H. C. Yarrow (1840–1929), American naturalist, ornithologist, and surgeon
  • Peter Yarrow (born 1938), American singer and member of Peter, Paul and Mary

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Yarrow (novel), a novel by Charles de Lint
  • Yarrowstalks, an underground publication from the 1960s and 1970s

Brands and enterprises

  • Yarrow boiler, developed by Yarrow Shipbuilders and widely used in ships
  • Yarrow Shipbuilders, in Glasgow, Scotland

Other uses

  • Yarrow, a codename for the Fedora Core 1 Linux distribution
  • Yarrow algorithm. a family of cryptographic pseudorandom number generators
  • Yarrow baronets, a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
  • Yarrow Stadium, Westown, New Zealand
  • Yarrow sticks method, an approach to I Ching divination
  • USS Yarrow (SP-1010), a United States Navy patrol boat
  • Jarrow, a town in Tyne and Wear, England
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