Leyden (disambiguation)

Leyden may refer to:

Places

Netherlands

• Leiden, a city and municipality in South Holland, the Netherlands

United States

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

People

• Lucas van Leyden (1494–1533), a Dutch engraver and painter
• Ernst Viktor von Leyden (1832–1910), a German physician
• Bill Leyden (1917–1970), an American television personality
• John Leyden (1775–1811), a British orientalist
• Norman Leyden (1917–2014), an American conductor, composer and musician

Food

• Leyden cheese, a spiced cheese made in the Netherlands

Medicine

• Factor V Leiden, a variant of human factor V that causes a hypercoagulability disorder

Science and technology

• Leyden jar, a device for storing electric charge invented in 1745.
• Leiden scale, a scale of temperature.

Epigraphy and papyrology

• 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

Ships

• USS Leyden, the name of more than one United States Navy ship