PIKE

'Pike' may refer to:

★ Pike (weapon), a long thrusting pole weapon used by infantry

★ Pike (fish)

★ Pike (surname)

★ Pike (programming language)

★ Pike (Cheerleading), a cheerleading jump

★ Pike, a breakdance move

★ Pike Square, military tactic developed by the Old Swiss Confederacy during the 15th century

★ Pikes on Cliffs, a small rural house in Estaca de Bares, Spain

★ Short for turnpike

★ A main highway (sometimes a toll road)

★ Pike, used as a verb, means to shorten a longbow in Archery

★ Pike expedition, American exploration (1806–1807) led by Army Captain Zebulon Pike to explore the Louisiana Purchase

★ Pikes Peak, mountain in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, USA

★ Pike's Peak Country, common name for what is now Colorado before it was organized

★ Pikes peak granite, a type of granite

★ Pikes Peak Marathon, annual marathon to the top of Pikes Peak

★ Pikes Peak or Bust!, slogan of miners heading to Colorado during the Colorado Gold Rush

Contents

Persons named Pike

Actual Persons

Fictional characters

Places in the United States

British mountains

Fish

Ships

Ciphers

Other

See also

Persons named Pike

Actual Persons

★ Albert Pike (1809–1891), American attorney, soldier, writer, and Confederate general

★ Alfred Pike

★ Austin F. Pike

★ Brian Pike

★ Bronwyn Pike

★ Burton Pike

★ Christopher Pike (author), pseudonym of author Kevin McFadden (1954–), American writer

★ Danny Pike

★ Dave Pike

★ Geoff Pike (author/illustrator), author of best-selling books and creator of the first video on tai-chi

★ Holly Pike (contemporary), Canadian politician, Newfoundland and Labrador, member of the New Democratic Party

★ James Pike (1913–1969), American Episcopal bishop, Diocese of California

★ James Shepherd Pike (19th century), journalist criticized for distorting Reconstruction era in South Carolina

★ Jay Pike

★ Jennifer Pike

★ Jill Pike (contemporary), American radio personality

★ Jim Pike

★ John Pike (settler) (1572–1654), settler in Newbury, Massachusetts

★ John E. Pike American science writer and political consultant

★ Jonathan Pike (1949–), British architectural painter

★ Kenneth L. Pike (1912–2000), American linguist and anthropologist

★ Lip Pike (1845–1893), American star of 19th century baseball

★ Martin Pike (1972–), Australian Football League player

★ Mervyn Pike (1918–2004), British Dame of the Order of the British Empire

★ Natalie Pike (1983–), English model, winner of the Miss British Isles Competition in 2004

★ Otis G. Pike

★ Patrice Pike

★ Peter Pike (1937–), British politician, Member of Parliament (–2005), member of the Labour Party

★ Rob Pike (1956–), American software engineer, worked at Bell Labs as a member of the Unix team, now works for Google

★ Rosamund Pike (1979–), British actress
Russell Pike (1938 Isle La Motte Vt)Married Nancy Pitney (Sister of singer Gene Pitney) Two sons: Jeremy and Johnathan (born 1973 & 1977)

★ Thomas Pike

★ William Pike (–1591), Catholic martyr

★ Zebulon Pike (1779–1813), American soldier and Exploration|explorer for whom Pikes Peak is named
Frank Pike (Canadian Soccer)

Fictional characters

★ Christopher Pike (Star Trek), character in Star Trek

★ Ernie Pike, Argentinian comics novel written by Hector German Oesterheld and drawn by Hugo Pratt

★ Private Frank Pike, naive young bank clerk and Home Guard private in ''Dad's Army'' and ''It Sticks Out Half a Mile''

★ Joe Pike, Elvis Cole's partner in a series of private-eye novels by Robert Crais

★ Pike (Buffyverse character), a character in the movie version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, played by Luke Perry

★ Pike Male elf character (skilled with a pike) in the comic book Elfquest

★ Asa Pike, a character in Children of the Red King novels.

Places in the United States

★ Pepper Pike, Ohio

★ Pike (town), New York

★ Pike (village), New York

★ Pike Bay Township, Minnesota

★ Pike Creek, Delaware, a census-designated place

★ Pike Creek Township, Minnesota

★ Pike Township, Marion County, Indiana

★ Pike Township, Minnesota

★ Pike Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania

★ Pike Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania

★ Pike Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania

★ Pike Township, Potter County, Pennsylvania

★ Pike County, Alabama

★ Pike County, Arkansas

★ Pike County, Georgia

★ Pike County, Illinois

★ Pike County, Indiana

★ Pike County, Kentucky

★ Pike County, Mississippi

★ Pike County, Missouri

★ Pike County, Ohio

★ Pike County, Pennsylvania

British mountains

★ Clougha Pike, mountain in Lancashire, England

★ Cold Pike, hill in the Lake District, England

★ Dollywaggon Pike, fell in the Lake District, England

★ Esk Pike, mountain in the Lake District, England

★ Nethermost Pike, mountain in the Lake District, England

★ Scafell Pike, mountain in the Lake District, England

Fish

★ Blue pike, extinct freshwater fish ''(Stizostedion vitreum)''

★ Mackerel pike, fish ''(Cololabis Saira)''

★ Northern pike, carnivorous freshwater fish ''(Esox lucius)''

★ Pike, genus of fish ''(Esox)''

Ships

★ USS Pike (SS-6), ''Plunger''-class submarine of the United States Navy 1903–1921

★ USS Pike (SS-173), submarine of the United States Navy 1935–1945

Ciphers

★ Pike (cipher), stream cipher invented by Ross Anderson

★ Red Pike, United Kingdom government cipher

Other

★ Minnesota Fighting Pike, former Arena Football League team in 1996

★ The Northern Pikes, Canadian rock band

★ Pike Place Market, open-air public market in Seattle, Washington, USA

★ The Pike School, private day school in Andover, Massachusetts, USA

★ The Pike, a tourist attraction and former amusement park in Long Beach, California, USA

★ Pontop Pike Television Transmitter, British transmitter tower near the village of Dipton, County Durham, England

See also

★ Pi Kappa Alpha, a fraternity

★ Piker, disambiguation page

★ Pyke