Pansy (disambiguation)

Thepansyis a member of a large group of hybrid plants of the genusViolacultivated as garden flowers.

Pansymay also refer to:

Places

Canada

• Pansy, Manitoba,an unincorporated community

United States

• Pansy, Arkansas,an unincorporated community
• Pansy, Kentucky,an unincorporated community
• Pansy, Missouri,a community and former post office
• Pansy, Ohio,an unincorporated community
• Pansy, Pennsylvania,an unincorporated community
• Pansy, West Virginia,an unincorporated community

People

• Isabella Macdonald Alden(1841–1930), an American author who used the pseudonym "Pansy"

Flora and fauna

• Junonia,a genus of nymphalid butterflies commonly known as pansies
• Sea pansy,a marine organism formed of a collection of polyps
• Several other species of the sectionMelaniumof genusViola

Ships

• HMSPansy,a 1916 Royal Navy Arabis-class sloop
• USSPansy,an 1861 steamer acquired by the Union Navy from the Union Army during the American Civil War

Other uses

• Pansy (Fabergé egg)
• Pansy Parkinson,a minor character in the Harry Potter fiction series
• apejorative term for a gay man
  • Pansy Craze,a LGBT cultural phenomenon in the United States from the late-1920s to the mid-1930s
• the name of the locomotive on theRichmond–Kurrajong railway line
• Frank Iero's Les Paul guitar