Yale

The name Yale is often derived from the English spelling of the Welsh place name, Iâl in Denbighshire.

Yale can refer to:

Educational institutions

• Yale University, the United States' third-oldest institution of higher education
• Yale College, the undergraduate component of Yale University
• Yale College Wrexham, a college in Wales

People

• Elihu Yale, after whom Yale University is named
• Frankie Yale (né Ioele), American gangster
• James Murray Yale, trader for Hudson's Bay Company in Canada
• Linus Yale, Sr.
• Linus Yale, Jr.

Places

Canada

• Yale, British Columbia, originally Fort Yale, named after James Murray Yale, one of the two "capitals" of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush and the namesake of:
  • Old Yale Road, the original "highway" in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia
  • Yale Land District, one of the primary Land Districts of British Columbia (cadastral survey/land titles system)
  • Yale (electoral district), a defunct federal electoral district in British Columbia (1872-1892 and 1914-1952)
  • Yale—Cariboo, a defunct federal electoral district in British Columbia (1892-1914)
  • Yale District, a defunct federal electoral district in British Columbia (1871 only)
  • Yale (provincial electoral district), a defunct provincial electoral district in British Columbia
  • Yale-Lillooet, a defunct provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada
  • Yaletown, an area of downtown Vancouver

United States

• Yale, Illinois
• Yale, Iowa
• Yale, Michigan
• Yale, Mississippi
• Yale, Oklahoma
• Yale, Virginia
• Yale, Washington
• Yale (RTD), a light rail station in the RTD service of Denver, Colorado

Other uses

• Yale (mythical creature), a creature in European mythology
• Yale language, a Papuan language
• Yale (company), a lock manufacturer
• Yale Romanization, a set of romanization schemes for some East Asian languages
• North American Yale, a single-engine aircraft used for training fighter pilots during World War II
• SS Yale, a US Navy steamboat used in World War I
• RapidMiner (previous name: YALE), an open-source software for data mining, machine learning, and knowledge discovery
• Yale Atlético Clube, a former Brazilian sports club
• The Yale, part of the Shire in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien
• Yale First Nation, a band government of the Sto:lo people headquartered at Yale, British Columbia

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