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Wimbledon usually refers to:
- Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London
- The Championships, Wimbledon, a lawn tennis tournament, one of the four Grand Slam championships
It may also refer to:
Places
- Wimbledon, London
- Municipal Borough of Wimbledon, a former borough
- Wimbledon (ecclesiastical parish)
- Wimbledon (UK Parliament constituency) based there
- Wimbledon station, a major railway station, a tube station and a Tramlink stop in the suburb
- Wimbledon Chase railway station, a railway station in the area
- South Wimbledon tube station, a London Underground station in the area
- Wimbledon Park tube station, a London Underground station in the area
- Wimbledon College, Roman Catholic secondary school
- Other
- Wimbledon, North Dakota, a small town in the United States
- Wimbledon, New Zealand, a locality in the Tararua District of New Zealand
Sport
- The Championships, Wimbledon, a lawn court tennis tournament, one of the four Grand Slam championships
- The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, venue for the tournament
- Wimbledon (film), a fictional film set around the championships
- Wimbledon Effect, nickname for the success of foreign financial firms in London, analogous to the success of foreign players in the championships
- Radio Wimbledon, the official radio station for the Wimbledon Tennis Championships
- Wimbledon RFC, one of a number of rugby clubs based in Wimbledon
- AFC Wimbledon, a professional football club set up by former fans of Wimbledon F.C.
- AFC Wimbledon Ladies, a ladies football club, with affiliation to AFC Wimbledon
- Wimbledon F.C., a former football club (1899-2004), now relocated elsewhere
- Wimbledon Dons, former speedway team
- Wimbledon Stadium, a dog racing track located in Earlsfield in southwest London, England
- Wimbledon Cup (disambiguation) – any of several competitions and their trophies
Other
- Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon (1572–1638)
- SS Wimbledon, a British ship, and a legal case named for it, adjudicated by the Permanent Court of International Justice in 1923
- Wimbledon, Mimi's cat from What About Mimi?
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