Doubleday
Doubleday can refer to one of the following:
Publishing imprints
- Doubleday (publisher), founded 1897, now merged with Knopf Publishing Group
- Doubleday Canada, imprint of Random House of Canada, owned by Bertelsmann AG
- Doubleday Religion, imprint of Crown Publishing Group, subsidiary of Random House
People
Doubleday publishing family
- Frank Nelson Doubleday (1862–1934), American businessman, founder of Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897
- Nelson Doubleday (1889–1949), American book publisher and president of Doubleday Company
- Nelson Doubleday, Jr. (1933–2015), last president of Doubleday and Company
- Neltje Doubleday Kings (born 1934), American artist and philanthropist, daughter of Nelson Doubleday
- Russell Doubleday (1872–1949), American author, editor and publisher, brother of Frank Nelson Doubleday
Doubleday military family
- Abner Doubleday (1819–1893), American Civil War Union general and disputed inventor of baseball
- Stephen Ward Doubleday, (1845–1926), American banker and Civil War soldier, son of Thomas D. Doubleday
- Thomas D. Doubleday (1792–1866), American bookstore owner and Civil War officer
- Ulysses Doubleday (general) (1824–1893), American Civil War general
- Ulysses F. Doubleday (1792–1866), American printer, congressman from New York, father of Thomas D. Doubleday, Abner Doubleday, and Ulysses Doubleday
Doubleday scientific family
- Edward Doubleday (1811–1849), English entomologist
- Henry Doubleday (1808–1875), English entomologist and ornithologist, brother of Edward Doubleday
- Henry Doubleday (1810–1902), English scientist and horticulturist, cousin of Henry and Edward Doubleday
Doubleday acting family
- Frank Doubleday, American actor, father of Portia Doubleday and Kaitlin Doubleday
- Kaitlin Doubleday (born 1984), American actress
- Portia Doubleday (born 1988), American actress
Other people
- Arthur Doubleday, (1865–1951), Bishop of Brentwood in the Roman Catholic Church
- Edmund Doubleday (died 1620), English politician who helped capture Guy Fawkes
- Jack Doubleday (1890–1918), Australian footballer
- John Doubleday (born 1947), British painter and sculptor
- John Gordon Doubleday (1920–1982), British diplomat
- Ken Doubleday (born 1926), Australian Olympian athlete
- Ralph R. Doubleday (1881–1958), American rodeo photographer
- Thomas Doubleday (1790–1870), English politician and author
Other
- Auburn Doubledays, minor league baseball team in Auburn, New York
- Colotis doubledayi, butterfly also known as Doubleday's Tip or Doubleday's Orange
- Doubleday Field, baseball stadium at Cooperstown, New York
- Doubleday Hill Monument, American Civil War monument in Williamsport, Maryland, named for Abner Doubleday
- Doubleday myth, the disputed story that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in 1839
- Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA), UK organic growing charity, home of the Heritage Seed Library
- Johnson Stadium at Doubleday Field, baseball stadium at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York
- SS Abner Doubleday, liberty ship built during World War II
- Sterling Award, formerly called the Doubleday Award, given to the top minor-league player under the New York Mets
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