What is "slingsby"

Slingsby may refer to:

• Slingsby (surname)
• Slingsby, North Yorkshire
• Slingsby Aviation, formerly Slingsby Sailplanes, a manufacturer of gliders and other aircraft
• Slingsby Channel, a strait in the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada
• Slingsby Baronets
• HC Slingsby PLC, a historical British company started in 1893

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

• Francis Slingsby, Anglo-Irish soldier of the late sixteenth century
• Fred Slingsby, founder of Slingsby Sailplanes Ltd
• Guildford Slingsby (1610–1643), Irish politician
• Guylford Slingsby (1565–1631), administrator who went on to be Comptroller of the Navy
• Henry Slingsby (disambiguation), several people
• John Francis Waller (1810–1894), writer publishing magazine articles under the pseudonym of Jonathan Freke Slingsby
• John Slingsby (1788–1826), English amateur cricketer
• Mary Slingsby (fl. 1670–1685), English actress
• Slingsby Bethel (1617–1697), Member of Parliament with republican sympathies, during the period of the English Civil War
• Tom Slingsby (born 1984), Australian sailor
• William Cecil Slingsby (1849–1929), English mountain climber and alpine explorer