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Wollaston may refer to:
Places
Australia
- John Wollaston Anglican Community School, private school in Kelmscott, Perth, Western Australia
- Wollaston, Western Australia, suburb of Bunbury, Western Australia
Canada
- Wollaston Islands (Nunavut)
- Wollaston Peninsula, split between Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada
- Wollaston Lake, lake in north-eastern Saskatchewan
Chile
- Wollaston Islands, group of islands near Cape Horn
England
United States
- Mount Wollaston, neighborhood in Quincy, Massachusetts
- Wollaston (MBTA Station), MBTA station
- Wollaston Beach, public beach
Moon
- Wollaston (crater), lunar crater.
People
- Belinda Wollaston (b. 1983), Australian musical theatre actor
- Charles Wollaston (1849-1926), English footballer
- Charlton Wollaston (1733-1764), English physician
- Francis Wollaston (Scientist) (1694-1774)
- Francis Wollaston (Priest and Astronomer)(1737-1815)
- George Wollaston (1738-1828), Fellow of the Royal Society
- Gerald Wollaston (1874-1957), officer of arms at the College of Arms in London
- John Wollaston (1790-1856), Anglican clergyman in Western Australia
- Sandy Wollaston (1875-1930), British explorer
- Thomas Vernon Wollaston (1822-1878), English entomologist and malacologist
- William Wollaston (1659-1724), English philosophical writer
- William Wollaston (Ipswich MP elected 1733) (1693-1757)
- William Wollaston (Ipswich MP elected 1768) (1731-1797)
- William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828), English chemist, physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society
Miscellaneous
- Wollaston Medal, awarded for work in geology
- Wollaston prism, optical device, invented by William Hyde Wollaston
- Wollaston wire, a very fine platinum wire
- Wollaston's Roundleaf Bat, species of bat in the Hipposideridae family
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