Primrose
Primrose may refer to:
Botany
- Primulaceae, a family of flowering plants
 - Primula vulgaris, commonly known as the primrose (also called the common primrose or English primrose)
 - Oenothera, commonly known as evening primrose, a plant genus
 - Onagraceae, commonly known as the willowherb family or evening primrose family
 
Places
- Britain
 
- Primrose Hill in London
 
- South Africa
 
- United States
 
- Primrose, Alaska
 - Primrose, Kentucky
 - Primrose, Nebraska
 - Primrose, Ohio
 - Primrose, Rhode Island
 -  Primrose, Wisconsin, a town
- Primrose (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
 
 
People
- Archibald Primrose – various people
 - Francis Ward Primrose (1785–1860), M.P. for Stirling District of Burghs
 - George Primrose, member of the blackface song-and-dance team Primrose and West
 - Vice-Admiral George Anson Primrose (1849–1930)
 - Gilbert E. Primrose (1848–1935), Scottish international footballer
 - Sir Henry Primrose (1846–1923), Scottish civil servant who became Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue
 - William Primrose, a violist
 - Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery
 - Earl of Rosebery
 - Laird of Burnbrae
 - Primrose, Katniss's sister [role played by Willow Shields] in The Hunger Games movie trilogy
 
Other
- Primrose (musical), a musical comedy
 - Primrose Brook, a tributary of the Passaic River
 - Primrose Day, the anniversary of the death of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli
 - Primrose League, an organisation founded in 1883 to promote Toryism
 - Primrose High School, an 11-19 comprehensive school in Leeds, UK
 - Primrose path, an idiom in the English language
 - Operation Primrose, the code name later given to the capture of German submarine U-110
 - Primrose, a video game for the Nintendo DSi
 - HMS Primrose (1807)
 - HMS Primrose was a Flower-class corvette commissioned 15 July 1940. It was sold in 1946 and scrapped in 1953.
 - MV Primrose, A freight and passenger ferry.
 - MV Primrose, Hong Kong freighter grounded on North Sentinel Island.
 
See also
| Look up primrose in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. | 
- All pages beginning with "Primrose"
 - Primrose Path (disambiguation)
 
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