Rutherford may refer to:

Places

Australia

  • Rutherford, New South Wales, a suburb of Maitland
  • Rutherford (Parish), New South Wales, a civil parish of Yungnulgra County

Canada

  • Mount Rutherford, Jasper National Park
  • Rutherford, Edmonton, neighbourhood
  • Rutherford House, in Edmonton, Alberta
  • Rutherford Library, University of Alberta

United Kingdom

  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire

United States

  • Rutherford, California, in Napa County
  • East Rutherford, New Jersey
  • Rutherford, New Jersey
  • Rutherford, Pennsylvania
  • Rutherford, West Virginia
  • Rutherford County, North Carolina
  • Rutherford County, Tennessee

People

  • Rutherford (name), people with the surname or given name

Fiction

  • Rutherford the Brave, a character from Gamehendge, the fictional setting for a number of songs by the rock band Phish
  • Rutherford, Ohio, fictional setting of the television series 3rd Rock from the Sun
  • Cullen Stanton Rutherford, a character from the Dragon Age franchise
  • Ensign Sam Rutherford, a major character in Star Trek: Lower Decks
  • Rutherford Hall, fictional setting in the detective novel 4:50 from Paddington

Transportation

  • Rutherford GO Station, a station in the GO Transit network located in the community of Maple, Ontario, Canada
  • Rutherford Intermodal Yard, a large rail yard located in Swatara Township, Dauphin County, just east of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
  • Rutherford (NJT station), a train station on New Jersey Transit's Bergen County Line
  • , a British frigate in commission in the Royal Navy from 1943 to 1945

Science

  • Rutherford (unit), a unit of radioactivity
  • Rutherford scattering, a phenomenon in physics which led to the development of the Rutherford model (or planetary model) of the atom and eventually to the Bohr model
  • Rutherford (lunar crater), a small impact crater on the Moons far side
  • Rutherford (Martian crater), a crater on Mars

Economics

  • R & I.S. Rutherford Brothers of St John's, issued the first traders' Halfpenny tokens for Newfoundland in 1841

Education

  • Rutherford College (disambiguation), more than one college
  • Rutherford High School (disambiguation), several schools
  • Rutherford School (disambiguation), several schools

Other uses

  • Rutherford Institute, a public interest law firm and resource center in Charlottesville, Virginia
  • The Rutherford Journal, an academic journal
  • Rutherford (rocket engine), a rocket engine developed by Rocket Lab
  • Rutherford statistical area in Nelson, New Zealand

See also

  • John Rutherfoord
  • Rutherfurd (disambiguation)