Wollaston
# Wollaston

Wollaston may refer to:

## Places

### Antarctica

* Cape Wollaston, Palmer Archipelago

### Australia

* John Wollaston Anglican Community School, private school in Kelmscott, Perth, Western Australia
* Wollaston, Western Australia, suburb of Bunbury, Western Australia
* Wollaston Island (Western Australia), off the coast of Kimberley

### Canada

* Wollaston, Ontario, a township
* Wollaston Islands (Nunavut)
* Wollaston Peninsula, split between Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada
* Wollaston Lake, lake in north-eastern Saskatchewan
   * Wollaston Lake Airport
* Wollaston Lake, Saskatchewan, a village

### Chile

* Wollaston Islands, group of islands near Cape Horn

### England

* Wollaston, Northamptonshire
   * Wollaston School
* Wollaston, Shropshire
* Wollaston, West Midlands

### Greenland

* Wollaston Foreland, peninsula in Northeast Greenland

### United States

* Wollaston (Quincy, Massachusetts), neighborhood in Quincy, Massachusetts
   * Wollaston (MBTA station), MBTA station
   * Wollaston Beach, public beach
   * Wollaston Theatre, historic building
* Mount Wollaston, various locations in Quincy, Massachusetts

### Moon

* Wollaston (crater), lunar crater

## People

* Arthur Wollaston (1865–1933), English footballer, played for Aston Villa
* Sir Arthur Naylor Wollaston KCIE (1842–1922), Superintendent of Records, India Office
* Belinda Wollaston (born 1983), Australian musical theatre actor
* Charles Wollaston (1849–1926), English footballer, played for Wanderers and England
* Charlton Wollaston (1733–1764), English physician
* Charlton James Wollaston, English, of Wollaston et Compagnie, building the first international submarine telegraph cable (Dover-Calais) in 1851 with engineer Thomas Russell Crampton
* Francis Wollaston (scientist) (1694–1774)
* Francis Wollaston (astronomer) (1731–1815)
* Francis Wollaston (philosopher) (1762–1823)
* George Wollaston (1738–1826), Fellow of the Royal Society
* Gerald Wollaston (1874–1957), officer of arms at the College of Arms in London
* Sir Harry Wollaston (1846–1921), Australian public servant
* James Wollaston (1873–1918), English footballer, played for Small Heath
* John Wollaston (clergyman) (1791–1856), Anglican clergyman in Western Australia
* John Wollaston (painter), English-born American portraitist
* Richard Wollaston, English sea captain and pirate
* Sandy Wollaston (1875–1930), British explorer
* Dr Sarah Wollaston (born 1962), British general practitioner and MP for Totnes (2010–2019)
* Thomas Vernon Wollaston (1822–1878), English entomologist and malacologist
* Tullie Cornthwaite Wollaston, opal dealer credited with introducing the claret ash to Australia at Raywood, Aldgate, SA
* William Wollaston (1659–1724), English philosophical writer
* William Wollaston (Ipswich MP elected 1733) (1693–1764)
* William Wollaston (Ipswich MP elected 1768) (1730–1797)
* William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828), English chemist, physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society

## Other

* Wollaston Medal, awarded for work in geology
* Wollaston prism, optical device, invented by William Hyde Wollaston
* Wollaston's roundleaf bat, species of bat in the family Hipposideridae
