Penrose
Penrose stands for:
Places in the United States:
- Penrose (Arkansas ), place in Woodruff County, Arkansas, United States
- Penrose (Colorado), Census -designated place in Freemont County, Colorado, United States
- Penrose (Illinois), place in Whiteside County, Illinois, United States
- Penrose (North Carolina), place in Transylvania County, North Carolina, United States
- Penrose (Utah ), community Free Area iim Box Elder County, Utah, United States
Places in New Zealand:
- Penrose (New Zealand), suburb of Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand
Penrose is the surname of the following persons:
- Antony Penrose ( b. 1947 ), English writer and curator
- Beryl Penrose ( born 1930 ), Australian tennis player
- Boies Penrose (1860-1921), American politician
- Edith Penrose (1914-1996), American-British economist
- Francis Penrose (1817-1903), British architect, archaeologist and astronomer
- John Penrose ( Liskeard ), English politician
- John Penrose ( Helston ) ( 1611 -? ), English politician
- John Penrose ( archer ) ( 1850-1932 ), British archer
- John Penrose (actor ) ( 1914-1983 ), British actor
- John Penrose ( Weston -super- Mare) (born 1964 ), British politician
- Jonathan Penrose ( born 1933), English chess grandmaster
- Lionel Penrose (1898-1972), English psychologist
- Oliver Penrose ( born 1929 ), English mathematician
- Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose, Jr. (1863-1931), American geologist and entrepreneur
- Roger Penrose ( born 1931 ), English mathematician and physicist
- Roland Penrose (1900-1984), English artist, art historian and author
See also:
- Penrose diagram
- Penrose Triangle
- Penrose stairs
- Penrose effect
- Penrose tiling
- Square-root law of Penrose
- Penrose Gold Medal
- Disambiguation