Penrose may refer to:

Places

United States

  • Penrose, Arlington, Virginia, a neighborhood
  • Penrose, Colorado, a town
  • Penrose, St. Louis, Missouri, a neighborhood
  • Penrose, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a neighborhood
  • Penrose, North Carolina, an unincorporated community
  • Penrose, Utah, an unincorporated community
  • Penrose, Virginia, an historic district in Arlington County

Elsewhere

  • Penrose, New South Wales (Wingecarribee), Australia
  • Penrose, New South Wales (Wollongong), New South Wales, Australia
  • Penrose, Cornwall, a country house and National Trust estate in England<!-- there about ten other Penroses in England listed in the OS gazetteer but most are just farms; in Cornwall there are at least eight -->
  • Penrose, New Zealand
  • Penrose Peak (disambiguation)
  • Penrose railway station (disambiguation)

People

  • Penrose Stout (1887–1934), American architect
  • Penrose Hallowell (c. 1928–2021), Pennsylvania secretary of agriculture
  • Penrose (surname), including a list of people with the name

Other uses

  • Penrose (brand), a brand name owned by ConAgra Foods, Inc.
  • The Penrose Annual, a London-based review of graphic arts (1895–1982)
  • Penrose Building, a building of Somerville College, Oxford
  • Penrose drain, a rubber tube used in post-surgical wound care
  • Penrose Medal, awarded by the Geological Society of America
  • Penrose tiling, an aperiodic tiling discovered by Roger Penrose
  • Penrose triangle and Penrose stairs, optical illusions

See also

  • Penrhos (disambiguation)