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Calvin

Calvin \Cal"vin\ n. 1. John Calvin, a French theologian and reformer; born 1509, died 1564.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Calvin

John Calvin (1509-1564), Protestant leader, born Jean Caulvin, the surname related to French Chauvin (compare chauvinism), from Latin calvus "bald," from PIE *kle-wo- "bald."

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Calvin, ND -- U.S. city in North Dakota
Population (2000): 26
Housing Units (2000): 19
Land area (2000): 0.217911 sq. miles (0.564388 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.217911 sq. miles (0.564388 sq. km)
FIPS code: 11700
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 48.851162 N, 98.937397 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 58323
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Calvin, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 279
Housing Units (2000): 144
Land area (2000): 0.482229 sq. miles (1.248967 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.482229 sq. miles (1.248967 sq. km)
FIPS code: 11100
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 34.967315 N, 96.249811 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 74531
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Calvin, LA -- U.S. village in Louisiana
Population (2000): 236
Housing Units (2000): 111
Land area (2000): 2.287907 sq. miles (5.925652 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.287907 sq. miles (5.925652 sq. km)
FIPS code: 11930
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 31.963299 N, 92.779853 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Calvin (given name)

Calvin is a masculine given name. It has been especially popular among American Protestants, who may be baptized as John Calvin to honor the religious leader, but are later known as "Calvin", "Cal", or "JC".

Notable people with this name include:

  • John Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States.
  • Calvin Abrams, Major League Baseball outfielder.
  • Calvin Abueva (born 1988), Filipino professional basketball player
  • Calvin Andrew (born 1986), English footballer.
  • Calvin Borel, thoroughbred horse jockey.
  • Calvin Broadus, rapper, better known as Snoop Dogg.
  • Calvin Chen, a member of the Taiwanese boyband Fahrenheit.
  • Calvin Cheng, fashion mogul.
  • Calvin Gotlieb (born 1921), Canadian professor.
  • Calvin Harris, Scottish electro musician/singer.
  • Calvin Hill, former NFL player.
  • Calvin Johnson (musician), frontman of Beat Happening and owner of indie label K Records.
  • Calvin Johnson (American football), National Football League player.
  • Calvin Klein (fashion designer).
  • Calvin Shen (Doctor).
  • Calvin Murphy, former National Basketball Association player.
  • Calvin Ripken, Jr., former Major League Baseball player.
  • Calvin Ripken, Sr., former Major League Baseball player.
  • Calvin Trillin, writer.

Fictional characters:

  • Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes), a main character of the retired comic strip Calvin and Hobbes.
  • Calvin Cambridge, main character in the 2002 film Like Mike
  • Calvin Valentine, on the soap opera Hollyoaks.
Calvin

Calvin may refer to:

Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)

Calvin is a fictional character, and is the title character of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. Calvin demonstrates a level of wisdom, vocabulary and humor unusual for a six-year-old boy. However, he is a stereotyped six-year-old and is seen as a misfit among his classmates: he absolutely hates baths, fears and hates his babysitter, refuses to go to school, frequently disobeys his parents, and is lazy and selfish. Calvin frequently loses himself in various fantastical worlds of his own imagining. On the rare occasions on which he applies himself, Calvin's projects in school are very well received, to his confusion or indifference. He shows relatively minor interest or success in interacting with any "real" characters, choosing instead to spend the majority of his time with Hobbes, with whom he frequently embarks on adventures, debates philosophical issues, plots various pranks against girls, and fights.

Calvin (horse)

Calvin (1872–1879) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1875 Belmont Stakes.

Calvin (surname)

Calvin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Henry Calvin (1918-1975), American comic actor
  • Hiram Augustus Calvin (1841–1932), Canadian businessman and politician
  • John Calvin (1509-1564), theologian, founder of Calvinism
  • Idelette Calvin (died 1549), wife of John Calvin
  • Kathy Calvin (born 1949), chief executive officer of the United Nations Foundation
  • Melvin Calvin (1911-1997), American chemist; discoverer of the Calvin Cycle (see below)
  • Samuel Calvin (1811–1890), Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
  • Samuel Calvin (geologist) (1840-1911), American geologist
  • Tom Calvin (born 1926), former National Football League halfback
  • William H. Calvin (born 1939), American neurophysiologist
  • Wyn Calvin (born 1926), Welsh comedian and entertainer

Usage examples of "calvin".

Considered the rising star in the academic community, Chamberlain accepts a prestigious Chair at Bowdoin, formerly held by the renowned Calvin Stowe, husband of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Peter the Hermit, Calvin, and Robespierre, each at an interval of three hundred years and all three from the same region, were, politically speaking, the Archimedean screws of their age,--at each epoch a Thought which found its fulcrum in the self-interest of mankind.

Practically nothing was defined save what had already been taken up in the Augsburg Confession or in the writings of Calvin, of Zwingli and of the Anabaptists.

To human eyes, a Calvin cycler was a shiny metal coffin built for a minivan: to the botfly it was a muted tangle of EM emissions.

I was stationed in Paris and occasionally in London at that time, and fascinating though those capitals were to a young American happy to have escaped from the incredible smugness and emptiness of the Calvin Coolidge era, they paled a little when one came to Berlin and Munich.

Nike and Foot Locker, Abercrombie and the Gap, Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, and Gadzooks and Wet Seal.

The Genevese were not then so rich in literature as they afterwards became, and they were not prepared to answer the challenge, when Calvin did it for them.

Which made Calvin wonder if there was fog along the coast, too, and fog between the Mexica lands and the lands that Tenskwa-Tawa had taken under his protection.

It was quite a scramble to find all the muskets and close them off before the tiring started, but it helped that the Mexica commander kept shouting for them to surrender, while the panicky horses kept the Mexica in an uproar long enough for Calvin to finish the job.

Two priests cut their clothing open and laid bare their chests, and Calvin could hear the screaming as one by one they had their hearts torn from them and held up as an offering to whatever god the Mexica thought might prevent the eruption of Popocatepetl.

A man Millhouse called Calvin opened the door and pushed her inside with Trent and the others.

Monday 9am Byron Lars, 11am Mark Eisen, 2pm Nicole Miller, 6pm Ghost, Tuesday 10am Ralph Lauren, Wednesday 11am Anna Sui, 2pm Calvin Klein, 4pm Bill Blass, 7pm Isaac Mizrahi, Thursday 9am Donna Karan, 5pm Todd Oldham and on and on until Sunday.

To lose his Augustine, and his Calvin, and his Musculus, and his Zanchius, and his Amesius, and his Suarez, and his Estius was a sore stroke to such a man.

Calvin had found Gene following the Ophion through steep terrain as it wound its way among the Nemesis Mountains of Crius, the day region just west of Rhea.

Breaking and entering, robbery, larceny, aggravated assault--the crime rate in Newport has successfully been cut in half since Chief Calvin and I sat down to map out an anticrime strategy at the beginning of his tenure here.