Cornwallis (disambiguation)

Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738–1805) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator.

Cornwallis may also refer to:

Antarctica

 * Cornwallis Island (South Shetland Islands)

Australia

 * Cornwallis, New South Wales
 * Dauan Island or Cornwallis Island, one of the Torres Strait Islands

Canada

 * Cornwallis, Manitoba (rural municipality)
 * Cornwallis Island (Nunavut)
 * Cornwallis River, Kings County, Nova Scotia
 * Cornwallis Township, Kings County, Nova Scotia
 * Cornwallis Park, Nova Scotia
 * Cornwallis Square, Nova Scotia
 * Cornwallis Junior High School in Halifax
 * CFB Cornwallis, a former Canadian Forces Base
 * Little Cornwallis Island, Nunavut

New Zealand

 * Cornwallis, New Zealand, Auckland Region
 * Cornwallis Beach

United Kingdom

 * Cornwallis Academy, Kent, England

United States

 * Cornwallis, West Virginia

Other uses

 * Cornwallis Valley Railway, a branchline of the Dominion Atlantic Railway
 * SS Cornwallis, a Canadian freighter attacked by German submarine U-514
 * HMS Cornwallis, several ships of the Royal Navy
 * Cornwallis, one of several 18th-19th century vessels
 * Fort Cornwallis, a star fort built by the British East India Company in Penang, present-day Malaysia

People with the surname

 * Kinahan Cornwallis (1883–1959), British diplomat
 * Thomas Cornwallis (1605–1675), one of the first commissioners of the Province of Maryland (brother of Sir William)
 * Thomas Cornwallis (died 1604), MP for Grampound
 * Sir William Cornwallis (died 1614) (c. 1579 – 1614), British essayist
 * George Cornwallis-West (1874–1951), stepfather of Winston Churchill

Aristocratic title

 * Baron Cornwallis
 * Earl Cornwallis
 * Marquess Cornwallis

Aristocratic English family

 * Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis (1655–1698), who served as First Lord of the Admiralty
 * Edward Cornwallis (1713–1776), British colonialist and founder of Halifax, Canada
 * Frederick Cornwallis (1713–1783), Archbishop of Canterbury
 * Sir William Cornwallis (1744–1819), British admiral during the Napoleonic Wars

People with the given name

 * William Cornwallis Symonds (1810–1841), British officer in New Zealand