Atherton

Atherton may refer to:

Australia

 * Atherton, Queensland, a town on the Atherton Tablelands of Far North Queensland
 * Atherton Tableland, a fertile plateau in Queensland
 * Shire of Atherton, a former local government area of Queensland on the Atherton Tableland
 * Atherton Courthouse
 * Atherton Performing Arts Theatre, former military depot and now theatre
 * Atherton War Cemetery, built in 1942
 * Atherton War Memorial, memorial at Kennedy Highway

Canada

 * Atherton, Ontario, a hamlet in Norfolk County, Ontario
 * Mount Atherton, a mountain in Yukon

Malaysia

 * Ladang Atherton, part of the electoral district N.31 Bagan Pinang, Port Dickson

United Kingdom

 * Atherton, Greater Manchester, town in Wigan district, historically in Lancashire, England
 * Atherton (ward), electoral ward
 * Atherton Hall, Leigh, country house and estate
 * Atherton Urban District, local government district from 1863 until 1974
 * Atherton High School, Greater Manchester, mixed secondary free school
 * Atherton Line, section of the Manchester-Southport Line, between Wigan and Salford
 * Atherton railway station
 * Atherton Bag Lane railway station, a former station

California

 * Atherton, California, a town in San Mateo County in the San Francisco Bay Area
 * Atherton station, a former station on the Caltrain railway line in this town
 * Atherton House, also known as the Faxon Atherton Mansion, a historic building in San Francisco, California
 * Menlo-Atherton High School, a four-year public comprehensive secondary school

Indiana

 * Atherton, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Vigo County
 * West Atherton, Indiana
 * Atherton Building, Butler University

Hawaii

 * Atherton Field, home of the Hawaii Pacific Sharks

Kentucky

 * Athertonville, Kentucky, former home of Atherton pre-prohibition whiskey
 * Atherton High School, Louisville, public school in Louisville, Kentucky

Massachusetts

 * Atherton Bridge, a historic iron truss bridge in Lancaster, Massachusetts, spanning the South Branch of the Nashua River

Missouri

 * Atherton, Missouri, an unincorporated community in Jackson County

Michigan

 * Atherton Community Schools, a school district in the city of Burton, Michigan
 * Atherton Settlement, within the city of Burton, Michigan

North Carolina

 * Atherton Mill station, a station on the Charlotte Trolley line in the South End of Charlotte, NC

Oklahoma

 * The Atherton Hotel, within Oklahoma State University campus

Pennsylvania

 * Atherton Hall (Penn State), a Pennsylvania State University dormitory

Vermont

 * Atherton Farmstead, a historic farm property in Cavendish, Vermont

Elsewhere

 * Atherton Islands, off Antarctica
 * Atherton Peak, South Georgia

People

 * Atherton (surname), includes a list of notable people with the surname
 * Atherton Blight (1834–1909), American lawyer, diarist, and philanthropist who traveled extensively in the middle of the 19th century to Europe and the Middle East
 * Atherton D. Converse, American politician
 * Atherton Curtis (1863–1843), American art collector and art historian who lived in France
 * Atherton Martín, Dominican agronomist and environmentalist
 * Atherton Rawstorne (1855–1936), British Bishop of Whalley
 * Atherton Seidell (1878–1961), American chemist and library scientist
 * Atherton Thayer, sheriff of Norfolk County, Massachusetts from 1794 to 1798

Science

 * Atherton–Todd reaction, in organic chemistry
 * Jiles–Atherton model, magnetic hysteresis model

Organisms

 * Atherton antechinus (Antechinus godmani), also known as Godman's antechinus, a species of small carnivorous marsupial native to Australia
 * Atherton delma (Delma mitella), a species of lizard in the family Pygopodidae endemic to Australia
 * Atherton oak, the common name of the tall Australian tree Athertonia diversifolia
 * Athertonia, the monotypic genus of the Atherton oak, from the family
 * Rubus probus or Atherton raspberry, a wild tropical raspberry species native to Papua New Guinea and parts of Australia
 * Atherton sauropus (Sauropus macranthus), a rainforest tree from Asia, Melanesia and north-east Queensland
 * Atherton scrubwren (Sericornis keri), an Australian bird species

Sports

 * Atherton F.C., a former English association football team based in Atherton, Greater Manchester
 * Atherton Laburnum Rovers F.C., an English association football team based in Atherton, Greater Manchester.
 * Atherton Collieries A.F.C., an English association football team based in Atherton, Greater Manchester.
 * Atherton Roosters, a Cairns, Queensland Rugby team

Other uses

 * Atherton: The House of Power, a book by Patrick Carman
 * USS Atherton, a 1943 World War II Cannon class destroyer escort