Partridge (disambiguation)

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Astronomy

Birds

Plants

<i>Mitchella repens</i> species of plant

Mitchella repens is the best known plant in the genus Mitchella. It is a creeping prostrate herbaceous woody shrub occurring in North America belonging to the madder family (Rubiaceae).

<i>Chamaecrista fasciculata</i> species of plant

Chamaecrista fasciculata, the partridge pea, is a species of legume native to most of the eastern United States. It is an annual which grows to approximately 0.5 meters tall. It has bright yellow flowers from early summer until first frost, with flowers through the entire flowering season if rainfall is sufficient.

People

Alex Partridge is a British rower, and an Olympic silver and bronze medallist.

Andy Partridge British musician

Andrew John Partridge is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded the rock band XTC. He and Colin Moulding each acted as a songwriter and frontman for XTC, with Partridge writing and singing about two-thirds of the group's material. While the band were a formative punk group, Partridge's music drew heavily from British Invasion songwriters, and his style gradually shifted to more traditional pop, often with pastoral themes. The band's only British top 10 hit, "Senses Working Overtime" (1982), was written by Partridge. He is sometimes regarded as the "godfather" of Britpop.

Brendan David Partridge is an English former footballer who played as an outside left for Stockport County and Darlington of the Football League.

Places

Partridge, Kansas City in Kansas, United States

Partridge is a city in Reno County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 248.

John Partridge House

The John Partridge House is a historic house at 315 Exchange Street in Millis, Massachusetts. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame house, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, large central chimney, a front entry with Greek Revival surround. It was built in the second half of the 17th century, and is among the oldest buildings in the town. John Partridge, Sr. or his son John, Jr. was its likely builder, the former having been granted the land in 1659.

Organizations and companies

Partridge Jewellers

Partridge Jewellers Ltd, trading as Partridge Jewellers is a luxury jewellery manufacturer and retailer operating in New Zealand.

Entertainment

Alan Partridge fictional radio and television presenter

Alan Gordon Partridge is a comic character portrayed by English actor Steve Coogan. A parody of British television personalities, Partridge is an inept broadcaster whose inflated sense of celebrity drives him to treachery and shameless self-promotion. Coogan described Partridge as a Little Englander, with right-wing values and poor taste.

<i>The Partridge Family</i> television series

The Partridge Family is an American musical sitcom starring Shirley Jones and featuring David Cassidy. Jones plays a widowed mother, and Cassidy plays the oldest of her five children who embark on a music career. It ran from September 25, 1970, until March 23, 1974, on the ABC network as part of a Friday-night lineup, and had subsequent runs in syndication. The family was loosely based on the real-life musical family the Cowsills, a popular band in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Royal Navy

Several ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Partridge, after the bird.

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