Leyden (disambiguation)

Leyden, or Leiden, is a city and municipality in South Holland, Netherlands.

Leyden or Leiden may also refer to:

Places in France

 * Lyon, a major French city

Places in the United States

 * Leyden, Colorado
 * Leyden, Massachusetts
 * Leyden, New York
 * Leyden, Wisconsin
 * Leyden Street, Plymouth, Massachusetts
 * Leyden Township, Cook County, Illinois
 * Port Leyden, New York, a village partly within the Town of Leyden, New York

People

 * John of Leiden (1509–1536), Dutch Anabaptist leader
 * Bill Leyden (1917–1970), American television personality
 * John Leyden (1775–1811), British orientalist
 * Matt Leyden (c.1904–1975), Canadian ice hockey administrator
 * Norman Leyden (1917–2014), American conductor, composer and musician
 * Ernst Viktor von Leyden (1832–1910), German physician
 * Lucas van Leyden (1494–1533), Dutch engraver and painter

Science and medicine

 * Leyden jar, a device for storing electric charge invented in 1745
 * Leyden papyrus X (P. Leyden X), a 3rd-century papyrus codex written in Greek
 * Leiden scale, a temperature scale
 * Factor V Leiden, a variant of human factor V that causes a hypercoagulability disorder
 * Papyrus Leiden 334, an Egyptian hieratic papyrus made during the Nineteenth Dynasty

Sports

 * B.S. Leiden, a basketball club based in Leiden, Netherlands
 * ZVL Leiden, a water polo club in Leiden, Netherlands

Other uses

 * Leyden cheese, a spiced cheese made in the Netherlands
 * Leiden Conventions, an established set of rules, symbols, and brackets used to indicate the condition of an epigraphic or papyrological text in a modern edition
 * The Leiden school, a school of thought in linguistics
 * Leiden University, Leiden and The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
 * Leyden High School District 212, Cook County, Illinois
 * USS Leyden, the name of United States Navy ships