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Fairford
Fairford: Cotswold market town on the River Coln, Gloucestershire, near Cirencester; known for St Mary's Church medieval stained glass and RAF Fairford, a US-operated bomber base hosting RIAT.
Fairholme Capital Management
Fairholme Capital Management is a Miami-based investment adviser founded by Bruce Berkowitz in 1997, known for concentrated, free-cash-flow-driven value investing; its Fairholme Fund peaked at $20 billion in 2011.
Fairhope, Alabama
Fairhope, Alabama: Baldwin County city on Mobile Bay's eastern shore, founded 1894 as a Henry George single tax colony by E. B. Gaston, incorporated 1908, now a fast-growing arts and resort town of about 26,600.
Fairies Albums (百妖谱)
Fairies Albums (百妖谱) is a Chinese donghua adapted from Shaluo Shuangshu's novel, following ghost doctor Tao Yao who heals only demons; five Bilibili seasons since 2020, Douban 8.7, plus a 2026 Guo Jingming live-action drama.
Fairino Robot
Fairino (法奥机器人) is a Chinese collaborative-robot manufacturer founded in 2019 and headquartered in Suzhou, which builds cobots and their core components in-house, shipped over 10,000 units in 2025, and raised nearly USD 100 million in 2026.
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) is a private New Jersey university founded in 1942 in Rutherford, named for Becton Dickinson co-founder Fairleigh S. Dickinson; largest private university in New Jersey, with campuses in Teaneck, Madison, and Vancouver.
Fairless energy center
The Fairless Energy Center is a 1,338 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, owned by Edgewater Generation and in service since 2004.
Fairlie locomotive
The Fairlie locomotive is an articulated steam locomotive patented by Robert Fairlie in 1864, with all weight on powered bogies; the double Fairlie runs equally well in either direction.
Fairlight CMI
Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument): first commercially available digital sampling synthesizer and music workstation, by Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie, Sydney, 1979; 8-bit sampling, light pen, Page R sequencer, used by Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel.
Fairman Rogers
Fairman Rogers (1833–1900) was an American civil engineer, educator, and philanthropist from Philadelphia who taught at the University of Pennsylvania and helped found the National Academy of Sciences in 1863.
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts is a luxury hotel brand owned by Paris-based Accor, tracing its name to 1907, with landmark hotels including Fairmont Banff Springs and the Fairmont San Francisco.
Fairmount, Indiana
Fairmount, Indiana: small Grant County town (population about 2,670), settled 1830, once called Pucker; hometown and burial place of James Dean and home of Garfield creator Jim Davis, with an annual September James Dean festival.
Fairouz Ai (門田 ファイルーズ あい)
Fairouz Ai (ファイルーズあい), Japanese voice actress born 1993 in Tokyo to an Egyptian father and Japanese mother; debuted 2019 as Hibiki Sakura in How Heavy Are the Dumbbells?, famous as Jolyne Cujoh, Power, and Kikoru Shinomiya, Mouse Promotion.
Fairphone
Fairphone is a Dutch social enterprise based in Amsterdam, established in 2013 to make modular, repairable smartphones with user-replaceable parts, fair and recycled materials, and long software support.
Fairphone 6
The Fairphone 6 is a mid-range Android smartphone announced by the Dutch company Fairphone in Amsterdam on June 25, 2025, with 12 user-replaceable parts and support until 2033.
Fairplay, Colorado
Fairplay, Colorado: Park County seat in the South Park basin at 9,964 ft, founded by 1859 gold prospectors, briefly named South Park City (1869-1874), home of the South Park City Museum and Burro Days.
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention: British folk rock band formed 1967 in Muswell Hill, London, named after Simon Nicol's house. Credited with founding British folk rock via Liege & Lief (1969); runs the annual Cropredy festival.
Fairport's Cropredy Convention
Fairport's Cropredy Convention, also called Cropredy Festival, is Fairport Convention's annual single-stage folk and rock festival in Cropredy, Oxfordshire, begun with the band's 1979 farewell and 1980 reunion, capacity cut from 20,000 to 6,500 in 2025.
fairseq
fairseq is an open-source sequence modeling toolkit from Facebook AI Research, first released in 2017 and rewritten in PyTorch, used for machine translation, summarization, and language modeling.
Fairuz (فيروز)
Fairuz (فيروز), born Nouhad Haddad (1935 or 1934), is a Lebanese singer, one of the Arab world's most celebrated voices. She rose with the Rahbani Brothers, refused sides in the civil war, and lives in Paris, withdrawn from public life.
Fairuza Balk
Fairuza Balk (Fairuza Alejandra Feldthouse), American actress born 1974 in Point Reyes, California; child star as Dorothy in Return to Oz (1985), Independent Spirit honoree for Gas Food Lodging, and cult icon as Nancy Downs in The Craft (1996), later an indie-film actress and musician.
Fairview Gas Field
Fairview Gas Field is a coal seam gas field in the Bowen Basin of south east Queensland, north of Roma, discovered in 1994 and operated by Santos GLNG.
FairVote
FairVote, founded 1992 as Citizens for Proportional Representation and formerly the Center for Voting and Democracy, is a nonpartisan US electoral reform group advocating ranked choice voting and proportional representation.
Fairy
Fairy: supernatural being of European folklore, from human-sized dangerous otherworld residents (Irish daoine maithe, áes síde) to the modern small winged Tinker Bell figure; demonized in witch-hunt Scotland, Victorianized, and still reported today.
Fairy chess piece
Fairy chess piece, also called heterodox piece: any chess piece outside the orthodox six, used in fairy chess problems and variants; includes leapers, riders, hoppers, and compounds like the amazon, with computer-measured values.
Fairy Lake Botanical Garden
Fairy Lake Botanical Garden (仙湖植物园, Xianhu), Shenzhen, China; a 587-hectare botanical garden in Luohu District affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2008, opened 1988, with 7,800+ cultivated species, cycad conservation, and Hongfa Temple.
Fairy Queen (locomotive)
Fairy Queen is an 1855 steam locomotive built in Leeds, England, for the East Indian Railway and certified in 1998 as the world's oldest steam locomotive in regular operation.
Fairy ring
Fairy ring, also called fairy circle or elf ring, is a ring or arc of mushrooms or altered grass caused by radially growing soil fungi such as Marasmius oreades, producing green, dead, or mushroom-only rings through nitrogen release and soil hydrophobicity.
Fairy Tail (フェアリーテイル)
Fairy Tail (フェアリーテイル) is Hiro Mashima's battle fantasy manga, serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine 2006–2017, 545 chapters, 63 volumes, 60 million copies, adapted into a 328-episode anime, with sequel 100 Years Quest.
Fairy Tail (フェアリーテイル) (TV series)
Fairy Tail (フェアリーテイル) is the TV anime of Hiro Mashima's manga, aired 2009–2019 in 328 episodes by A-1 Pictures, with the 2024–2025 sequel Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest by J.C.Staff.