# Macaulay

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**Macaulay**, **MacAulay**, or **McAulay** may refer to:

## Name

### Surname

- [Macaulay (surname)](/source/Macaulay_(surname)), an English-language surname with multiple etymological origins (also includes surnames *Macauley*, *MacAulay* and *McAulay*).

## People

### Surname

- [Thomas Babington Macaulay](/source/Thomas_Babington_Macaulay), 1st Baron Macaulay, British historian and [Whig](/source/Whigs_(British_political_party)) politician who played a major (and controversial) role in reforming education in India.
- [List of people with surnames Macaulay, MacAulay or McAulay](/source/List_of_people_with_surnames_Macaulay,_MacAulay_or_McAulay)

### Given name

- [Macaulay Culkin](/source/Macaulay_Culkin), American actor
- [Macaulay Langstaff](/source/Macaulay_Langstaff), English footballer

## Places

- [Macaulay River](/source/Macaulay_River), in the South Island of New Zealand
- [Macaulay railway station](/source/Macaulay_railway_station), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- The [Macaulay Institute](/source/Macaulay_Institute), a land use research institute based in Aberdeen, Scotland
- [William E. Macaulay Honors College](/source/William_E._Macaulay_Honors_College), a school which is part of City University of New York, in New York, USA
- MacAulay Field, Canadian football stadium in Sackville, NS, Canada

## Families

- [Clan MacAulay](/source/Clan_MacAulay), a Scottish clan historically seated at Ardincaple Castle, in Scotland.
- [Macaulay family of Lewis](/source/Macaulay_family_of_Lewis), a Scottish family historically centred on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, in Scotland.

## Mathematics

- [Cohen–Macaulay ring](/source/Cohen%E2%80%93Macaulay_ring), a commutative ring, named after [Irvin Cohen](/source/Irvin_Cohen) and [Francis Sowerby Macaulay](/source/Francis_Sowerby_Macaulay) (1862-1937).
- [Macaulay computer algebra system](/source/Macaulay_computer_algebra_system), a computer algebra system, named after [Francis Sowerby Macaulay](/source/Francis_Sowerby_Macaulay) (1862-1937).
- [Macaulay2](/source/Macaulay2), a free computer algebra system, which is a successor of the preceding.
- [Macaulay matrix](/source/Macaulay_matrix), a generalization of [Sylvester matrix](/source/Sylvester_matrix) to *n* homogeneous polynomials in *n* variables.
- [Macaulay brackets](/source/Macaulay_brackets), a notation used to describe the [ramp function](/source/Ramp_function).
- [Macaulay Duration](/source/Macaulay_Duration), a special case of bond duration, named after [Frederick Macaulay](/source/Frederick_Macaulay) (1882-1970).

## Other

- [Macaulay Cup](/source/Macaulay_Cup), Scottish shinty cup
- [Macaulay Library](/source/Macaulay_Library), animal sound library
- [MacAulay and Co](/source/MacAulay_and_Co), BBC Radio Scotland daily magazine

## See also

- [McAuley (disambiguation)](/source/McAuley_(disambiguation))
- [McCauley (disambiguation)](/source/McCauley_(disambiguation))
- [Macaulayism](/source/Macaulayism), named after Thomas Babinage Macauly, colonial policy of liquidating indigenous culture
- [Aulay](/source/Aulay)
- [Maulay](/source/Maulay), France
- [Peter de Maulay](/source/Peter_de_Maulay) (died 1241) counsellor to King John

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