Peel
Appearance
Peel or Peeling may refer to:
Places
[edit]Australia
[edit]Canada
[edit]- Peel Parish, New Brunswick
- Peel, New Brunswick, an unincorporated community in Peel Parish
- Peel River (Canada), tributary of the Mackenzie River
- Peel Sound, Nunavut
- Regional Municipality of Peel, Ontario (Peel County until 1973)
United Kingdom
[edit]- Peel Fell, a hill in Kielder Forest
- Peels, Northumberland, in Harbottle
United States
[edit]Elsewhere
[edit]People
[edit]Surname
[edit]- Andrée Peel (1905–2010), member of the French Resistance during the Second World War
- Ann Peel (born 1961), Canadian race walker
- Arthur Peel (disambiguation)
- Clifford Peel (1894–1918), Australian World War I pilot
- David Peel (actor) (1920–1981), British film actor
- David Peel (musician) (1942–2017), New York underground rock musician
- Dwayne Peel (born 1981), Welsh rugby union player
- Edward Peel (big-game fisherman) (1884–1961), British army officer, businessman and amateur sportsman
- Edward Peel (born 1943), British actor
- Frederick Peel (1823–1906), British politician and railway commissioner
- Harry Peel (disambiguation)
- Homer Peel (1902–1997), American Major League Baseball player
- Jennie Hallam-Peel, British debutante and chairwoman of the Queen Charlotte's Ball
- John Peel (disambiguation)
- Jonathan Peel (1799–1879), British soldier and politician
- Lawrence Peel (judge) (1799–1884), British judge in India
- Mark Peel (historian) (born 1959), Australian historian and academic
- Paul Peel (1860–1892), Canadian painter
- Peter Peel (1866–1960), United States soccer administrator
- Robert Peel (1788–1850), British founder of the (London) Metropolitan Police, later Prime Minister
- Robert Peel (disambiguation)
- Samuel W. Peel (1831–1924), U.S. Representative from Arkansas
- Sir Sidney Peel, 1st Baronet (1870–1938), British soldier, financier and politician
- Thomas Peel (1793–1865), early settler of Western Australia
- William Peel (disambiguation)
Titles
[edit]- Earl Peel, title in the British peerage
- Peel baronets, three separate British baronetcies
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Music
[edit]- Peel (California band), a US band active from 1999–2001 formed by Kevin Ridel from Los Angeles, California
- Peel (Texas band), indie rock band from Austin, Texas
Other arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]- Peel (1982 film), an Australian short film directed by Jane Campion
- Peel (2019 film), a British comedy-drama starring Emile Hirsch
- Emma Peel, a fictional character in the television series The Avengers
- Peel Godred is a station on the Island of Sodor, in the fiction book series The Railway Series.
Brands and enterprises
[edit]- Peel Hotels, UK hotel company
- Peel Engineering Company, Manx boat and car manufacturer
- Peel Technologies, makers of the Peel Smart Remote, an Android and iOS app to control TV and other home devices
- The Peel Group or Peel Holdings, UK property company, especially infrastructure, owner of several "Peel Centres"
Technology
[edit]- Peel (software), Mac application for listening to songs from MP3 blogs
- Peel (tool), long-handled tool used in baking
- PEEL, programmable electrically erasable logic, variant of the GAL (generic array logic)
- Bitrate peeling, Ogg Vorbis technique for changing the bitrate of an audio stream
Transit
[edit]- Peel Hall tram stop, in Manchester, England
- Peel railway station (Isle of Man), in Peel, Isle of Man
- Peel Road railway station, in Peel, Isle of Man
- Peel station (Montreal Metro), in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Skin or rind
[edit]- Peel (fruit), skin of fruit
- Peeling of animal skin, also called moulting
- Peeling of human skin, also called desquamation, such as from a sunburn
- Chemical peel, a treatment that uses a chemical solution to remove the outer layer of dead skin
Sports
[edit]- Peel A.F.C., an association football club from Peel, Isle of Man
- Peel Thunder Football Club, an Australian rules football club
- Peel, a croquet term
Other uses
[edit]- Center peel, or "Peel", infantry retreat technique
- Peel Commission, Royal Commission of Inquiry into Palestine, 1936–1937
- Peel tower, a fortified keep or watchtower