Atherton may refer to:

Places

Australia

  • Atherton, Queensland, a town on the Atherton Tablelands of Far North Queensland
  • Atherton Tableland, a fertile plateau in Queensland
  • Shire of Atherton, a former local government area of Queensland on the Atherton Tableland
  • Atherton Courthouse
  • Atherton Performing Arts Theatre, former military depot and now theatre
  • Atherton War Cemetery, built in 1942
  • Atherton War Memorial, memorial at Kennedy Highway

Canada

  • Atherton, Ontario, a hamlet in Norfolk County, Ontario
  • Mount Atherton, a mountain in Yukon

Malaysia

  • Ladang Atherton, part of the electoral district N.31 Bagan Pinang, Port Dickson

United Kingdom

  • Atherton, Greater Manchester, town in Wigan district, historically in Lancashire, England
  • Atherton (ward), electoral ward
  • Atherton Hall, Leigh, country house and estate
  • Atherton Urban District, local government district from 1863 until 1974
  • Atherton High School, Greater Manchester, mixed secondary free school
  • Atherton Line, section of the Manchester-Southport Line, between Wigan and Salford
  • Atherton railway station
  • Atherton Bag Lane railway station, a former station

United States

California

  • Atherton, California, a town in San Mateo County in the San Francisco Bay Area
  • Atherton station, a former station on the Caltrain railway line in this town
  • Atherton House, also known as the Faxon Atherton Mansion, a historic building in San Francisco, California
  • Menlo-Atherton High School, a four-year public comprehensive secondary school

Hawaii

  • Atherton Field, home of the Hawaii Pacific Sharks

Indiana

  • Atherton, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Vigo County
  • West Atherton, Indiana
  • Atherton Building, Butler University

Kentucky

  • Athertonville, Kentucky, former home of Atherton pre-prohibition whiskey
  • Atherton High School, Louisville, public school in Louisville, Kentucky

Massachusetts

  • Atherton Bridge, a historic iron truss bridge in Lancaster, Massachusetts, spanning the South Branch of the Nashua River

Michigan

  • Atherton Community Schools, a school district in the city of Burton, Michigan
  • Atherton Settlement, within the city of Burton, Michigan

Missouri

  • Atherton, Missouri, an unincorporated community in Jackson County

North Carolina

  • Atherton Mill station, a station on the Charlotte Trolley line in the South End of Charlotte, NC

Oklahoma

  • The Atherton Hotel, within Oklahoma State University campus

Pennsylvania

  • Atherton Hall (Penn State), a Pennsylvania State University dormitory

Vermont

  • Atherton Farmstead, a historic farm property in Cavendish, Vermont

Elsewhere

  • Atherton Islands, off Antarctica
  • Atherton Peak, South Georgia

People

  • Atherton (surname), includes a list of notable people with the surname
  • Atherton Blight (1834–1909), American lawyer, diarist, and philanthropist who traveled extensively in the middle of the 19th century to Europe and the Middle East
  • Atherton D. Converse (1877–1956), American politician
  • Atherton Curtis (1863–1843), American art collector and art historian who lived in France
  • Atherton Martín, Dominican agronomist and environmentalist
  • Atherton Rawstorne (1855–1936), British Bishop of Whalley
  • Atherton Seidell (1878–1961), American chemist and library scientist
  • Atherton Thayer, sheriff of Norfolk County, Massachusetts from 1794 to 1798

Science

  • Atherton–Todd reaction, in organic chemistry
  • Jiles–Atherton model, magnetic hysteresis model

Organisms

  • Atherton antechinus (Antechinus godmani), also known as Godman's antechinus, a species of small carnivorous marsupial native to Australia
  • Atherton delma (Delma mitella), a species of lizard in the family Pygopodidae endemic to Australia
  • Atherton oak, the common name of the tall Australian tree Athertonia diversifolia
  • Athertonia, the monotypic genus of the Atherton oak, from the family
  • Rubus probus or Atherton raspberry, a wild tropical raspberry species native to Papua New Guinea and parts of Australia
  • Atherton sauropus (Sauropus macranthus), a rainforest tree from Asia, Melanesia and north-east Queensland
  • Atherton scrubwren (Sericornis keri), an Australian bird species

Sports

  • Atherton F.C., a former English association football team based in Atherton, Greater Manchester
  • Atherton Laburnum Rovers F.C., an English association football team based in Atherton, Greater Manchester.
  • Atherton Collieries A.F.C., an English association football team based in Atherton, Greater Manchester.
  • Atherton Roosters, a Cairns, Queensland Rugby team

Other uses

  • Atherton: The House of Power, a book by Patrick Carman
  • USS Atherton, a 1943 World War II Cannon class destroyer escort