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Austin may refer to:

Place names

In Canada:

• Austin, Manitoba
• Austin, Ontario
• Austin, Quebec
• Austin Flat, British Columbia
• Austin Heights, British Columbia
• Austin Subdivision No 1, British Columbia
• Austin Subdivision No 2, British Columbia

In the United States:

• Austin, Chicago, in Illinois
• Austin, Minnesota
• Austin, Nevada
• Austin, Oregon
• Austin, Texas, the largest Austin

Elsewhere:

• Austin Road, Hong Kong
• Austin, Western Australia

People

• Austin Powers, a fictional movie spy
• Henry Austin, tennis player
• Henry Austin, American architect
• Henry Austin, American baseball player
• Herbert Austin, Sir Herbert Austin, founder of the Austin Motor Company
• John Austin (legal philosophy)
• J. L. Austin, philosopher
• John Arnold Austin, United States Navy warrant officer
• Lloyd J. Austin, United States Army general
• Ned Austin, American character actor
• Phil Austin, member of the Firesign Theatre
• Sherrie Austin, musician
• Stephen F. Austin, founder of Texas
• Austin the kangaroo from The Backyardigans
• Steve Austin (fictional character), the title character in Martin Caidin's novel Cyborg, which inspired the TV series "The Six Million Dollar Man", where that character was played by Lee Majors
• Stone Cold Steve Austin, a Professional wrestler turned actor
• Augustine of Hippo (Saint Augustine), noticeable in the English version "Austin Friars" to refer to the Augustinians

Other

• Austin College, a college in Sherman, Texas
• Austin Elementary School (Dunwoody, Georgia)
• Austin Motor Company, a British car manufacturer
• American Austin Car Company, a short lived United States make of automobile
• Austin (brand), a brand owned by the Kellogg Company
• USS Austin (sloop), a sloop-of-war (originally in the Texas Navy)
• USS Austin (DE-15), a destroyer escort
• USS Austin (LPD-4), an amphibious transport dock

See also

Jane Austen, the author