Faraday
Faraday may refer to:
Places
Geography
- Faraday (ward), an electoral ward in the London Borough of Southwark, named after Michael Faraday
- Faraday, Ontario, Canada
- Faraday, Victoria, Australia, scene of the 1972 Faraday School kidnapping
- Faraday, West Virginia, USA, the most southern community in the state, located in McDowell County
Outer space
- Faraday (crater), a lunar crater
- 37582 Faraday, a main-belt asteroid
Man made structures
- Faraday building, the first telephone exchange to open in London, later the first International Switching Centre
- Faraday Dam, a dam on the Clackamas River in the U.S. state of Oregon
- Faraday Hall, a hall of residence at Loughborough University
- Faraday Research Station, a former British research station in Antarctica, now called Vernadsky Research Base and operated by Ukraine
People
- David Faraday, a victim of the serial killer nicknamed the Zodiac Killer
- Michael Faraday, an early 19th century British scientist (physicist and chemist)
- Philip Michael Faraday an English lawyer, composer and theatrical producer
Fictional characters
- Daniel Faraday, a fictional character on the TV series Lost
- King Faraday, a fictional secret agent featured in DC Comics
- Max Faraday, the title character of Divine Right: The Adventures of Max Faraday
- Faraday, a fictional planet in Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Faraday, a protagonist in the Wayfarer Redemption series by Sara Douglass
- Kay Faraday, a character from the Nintendo DS game, Ace Attorney Investigations
- Dr. Louis Faraday, a NASA scientist and antagonist from Flight of the Navigator
Science
- Faraday (unit), faraday, an obsolete unit of charge that has been superseded by the coulomb
- farad, SI unit of capacitance
- Faraday cage, an enclosure of conductive mesh used to block electric fields
- Faraday constant, the amount of electric charge per mole of electrons
- Faraday's law of induction
- Faraday cup
Ships
- CS Faraday (1874), a Siemens AG cable ship launched in 1874
- CS Faraday (1923), a Siemens AG cable ship launched in 1923
Other uses
- Faraday (company), a Florham Park, NJ company specializing in fire protection.
- Faraday Flashlight, a mechanically powered flashlight
- Faraday Future, American electric vehicle manufacturer
See also
- All pages with titles containing Faraday
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