Digby
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Digby may refer to:
Geographic locations
Australia
- Digby, Victoria, a town
Canada
- Digby County, Nova Scotia
- Digby, Nova Scotia, a town
- Digby, Nova Scotia (municipal district), the eastern half of Digby County
- Digby (electoral district), a former federal electoral district in Nova Scotia (1867–1914)
- Digby (provincial electoral district), a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia (1867–1993)
England
- Digby, Devon, a village in Exeter
- Digby, Lincolnshire, a village and civil parish in North Kesteven
People
Surname
- Anne Digby, prolific British children's author
- Andrew Digby, astronomer and ecologist researching and conserving New Zealand's endangered endemic birds.
- Edward Digby (disambiguation)
- Everard Digby (1578–1606), participant in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to assassinate King James I of England and VI of Scotland
- Fraser Digby (born 1967), English football coach and retired goalkeeper
- George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol (1612–1677), eldest son of John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol and his wife Beatrice Walcott
- Henry Digby (disambiguation)
- Jane Digby (1807–1881), English aristocrat who lived a life of wild adventure
- John Digby (disambiguation)
- Kenelm Digby (disambiguation)
- Kristian Digby (1977–2010), British TV presenter and director
- Marié Digby (born 1983), American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist
- Paul Digby (born 1995), English footballer
- Robert Digby (disambiguation)
- Simon Digby (disambiguation)
- Suzi Digby, British conductor, musician and teacher
- William Digby (disambiguation)
Given name
- Digby Anderson, founder and former director of the Social Affairs Unit
- Digby Blight, former Director of Premier and Cabinet, Western Australia
- Digby Denham (1859–1944), Premier of Queensland, Australia
- Digby Fairweather (born 1946), British jazz trumpeter and cornetist
- Digby George Gerahty, British author
- Digby Ioane (born 1985), Australian rugby union footballer
- Digby Jephson (1871–1926), cricketer who played for Cambridge University and Surrey
- Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham (born 1955), British businessman and politician
- Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848–1867), English poet
- Digby McLaren (1919–2004), Canadian geologist and palaeontologist
- Digby Morrell (born 1979), former Australian rules footballer
- Digby Pearson (born 1962), British musician who founded Earache Records
- Digby Smith (born 1935), British military historian
- Digby Tantam (born 1948), British psychiatrist and Professor of Psychotherapy
- Digby Tatham-Warter (1917-1993), British army officer in the Second World War
- Digby Willoughby (disambiguation)
- Digby Wolfe (1929–2012), English actor, screenwriter and university lecturer
Pen name
- Digby (blogger), pen name of the writer of Hullabaloo, an influential liberal blog
Fictional characters
- Digby Geste, one of three brothers in the novel Beau Geste and its various adaptations
- the title character of Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World, a 1973 film starring Jim Dale
- Archangel Digby, in the novel Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
- Albert Fitzwilliam Digby, Dan Dare's batman from the UK comic book science fiction series from the 1950s and 60s
- Salu Digby, a fictional character in the Legion of Super-Heroes
- Digby, a Golden Retriever on the television show Pushing Daisies
- Digby, a Cavalier King Charles featured in the movie "The Interview (2014 film)"
- Digby is the name of the dog featured in the music video clip for the song All I Want by Irish rock band Kodaline, included in their album In a Perfect World
- Sir Digby Chicken Caesar, a character from That Mitchell and Webb Look
- Digby (Kento), a character in Animal Crossing
In the military
- B-18 Bolo, a bomber used by the United States Army Air Corps and the Royal Canadian Air Force, named by the latter the Douglas Digby
- HMCS Digby (J267), a Royal Canadian Navy Second World War minesweeper
- RAF Digby, Lincolnshire, England, a former Royal Air Force station, now a tri-service military signals installation
Other
- Baron Digby, a title in the Peerage of Ireland
- Digby (band), a Louisville, Kentucky power pop band
- Digby (play), a 1985 play by Joseph Dougherty
See also
- Robert James Thomas Digby-Jones (1876–1900), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross
- E. Digby Baltzell (1915-1996), American sociologist, academic and author
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