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Conway

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ233004
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Conway may refer to:

Places

United States

Conway, Arkansas

Conway County, Arkansas

Lake Conway, Arkansas

Conway, Florida

Conway, Iowa

Conway, Kansas

Conway, Louisiana

Conway, Massachusetts

Conway, Michigan

Conway Township, Michigan

Conway, Missouri

Conway, New Hampshire, a New England town

Conway (CDP), New Hampshire, village in the town

Conway, North Dakota

Conway, North Carolina

Conway, Pennsylvania

Conway, South Carolina

Conway River (Virginia)

Conway, Washington

Elsewhere

Conway, Queensland, a locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia

Conway River (New Zealand)

Conway, Wales, now spelt Conwy, a town with a castle in North Wales

River Conway, Wales, similarly respelt River Conwy

Ships

HMS Conway (school ship)

HMS Conway (1832), a 26-gun sixth rate launched in 1832

USS Conway (DD-70) or USS Craven (DD-70), a Caldwell class destroyer launched in 1918

USS Conway (DD-507), a Fletcher-class destroyer launched in 1942

Other uses

Conway (given name)

Conway (surname)

Conway Cabal, a 1777–78 conspiracy

Conway Publishing

Conway Recording Studios, California, US

Conway Yard, rail yard in Pennsylvania, US

FM Conway, British engineering company

Rolls-Royce Conway, the first turbofan aircraft engine to enter service

Conway, a retail chain operated by National Stores

FV 4004 Conway, a variant of the Centurion tank

Conway's Game of Life, a two-dimensional cellular automaton

John Horton Conway, creator of Conway's Game of Life

Conway the Machine, American rapper

See also

Conway High School (disambiguation)

Conway National Park, Australia

Conway Reef, an outlying coral reef in Fiji

Conway Hall, the London home since 1929 of the Conway Hall Ethical Society, the oldest surviving free-thought association in Britain

Conway Scenic Railroad, a heritage railroad in New Hampshire

Conway Summit, a mountain pass in California

Conway Lake, New Hampshire

Conwy (disambiguation)

Con-way, a freight transportation and logistics company based in Ann Arbor, MI (formerly based in California)

Conway's Law

Cornway College, commonly misspelt as Conway, in Mt Hampden, Zimbabwe.

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The public source identifies “Conway” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Conway, Wikimedia and disambiguation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1832, 1918, 1942, 1777—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Conway, Wikimedia and disambiguation providing the first useful test.
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