Prescott is of English origin; habitational name from any of the places so called, in southwestern Lancashire (now Merseyside), Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, and Devon, all of which are named from Old English preost ‘priest’ + cot ‘cottage’, ‘dwelling’. The surname is most common in Lancashire, and so it seems likely that the first of these places is the most frequent source. It is also present in Ireland, being recorded there first in the 15th century.

Prescott may refer to:

People

• Abel Prescott
  Abel Prescott
  Abel Prescott was a physician in Concord, Massachusetts and the father of two American patriots who sounded the alarm on April 19, 1775....
  
  
• Abel Prescott, Jr.
  Abel Prescott, Jr.
  Abel Prescott, Jr. was one of the Americans who rode to warn that the British soldiers were coming to Concord, Massachusetts on the eve of the American Revolution. His brother Samuel Prescott was also an American patriot....
  
  
• Abraham Prescott
  Abraham Prescott
  Abraham Prescott was a noted luthier, particularly of the double bass, who worked in Deerfield and Concord, New Hampshire during the 19th century. Prescott built his first double bass in 1819, building 207 over the course of his career....
  
  , 19th century New England luthier
• Alan Prescott
  Alan Prescott
  G. Alan Prescott was an English rugby league footballer and coach of the 1940s, '50s and '60s, playing initially at , and then later at , or /. In 404 matches for St. Helens. Prescott scored 31 tries for a total of 93 points...
  
  , English rugby league footballer
• Albert Benjamin Prescott
  Albert Benjamin Prescott
  Albert Benjamin Prescott was an American chemist, born in Hastings, New York. He graduated in medicine at the University of Michigan in 1864, and was made assistant professor of organic and applied chemistry in 1870, dean of the school of pharmacy in 1876, and director of the chemical laboratory...
  
  
• Benjamin F. Prescott
  Benjamin F. Prescott
  Benjamin Franklin Prescott was an American lawyer, newspaper editor, and politician from Epping, New Hampshire. Born in 1833 in Epping, he served two terms as a governor of New Hampshire. He died in 1895 in Concord, New Hampshire.He was an alumnus and trustee of Dartmouth College.-External links:*...
  
  
• Breidis Prescott
  Breidis Prescott
  Breidis Enrique Prescott Consuegra is a Colombian lightweight boxer. He has a reputation as a devastating puncher, with 19 of his 24 wins by way of knockout, with all coming in the first three rounds....
  
  , boxer
• Edward C. Prescott
  Edward C. Prescott
  Edward Christian Prescott is an American economist. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2004, sharing the award with Finn E. Kydland, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles"...
  
  , Nobel prize-winning economist
• H. F. M. Prescott
  H. F. M. Prescott
  Hilda Frances Margaret Prescott, more usually known as H. F. M. Prescott , was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, author, academic, and historian.-Biography:...
  
  , author, academic and historian
• Henry Prescott
  Henry Prescott
  Admiral Sir Henry Prescott GCB colonial governor born in Kew, England and died in London, England.Prescott joined the Royal Navy in 1796 and served in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic wars...
  
  
• Jacquelyn Prescott
• James W. Prescott
  James W. Prescott
  James W. Prescott is an American developmental psychologist, whose research focused on the origins of violence, particularly as it relates to a lack of mother-child bonding....
  
  , psychologist
• Jim Prescott, fictional character in TV series 24
• John Prescott
  John Prescott
  John Leslie Prescott, Baron Prescott is a British politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. Born in Prestatyn, Wales, he represented Hull East as the Labour Member of Parliament from 1970 to 2010...
  
  , The Noble Lord Baron Prescott, of Kingston upon Hull, British Labour politician and former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• John Robert Victor Prescott
  John Robert Victor Prescott
  John Robert Victor Prescott FASSA is an Australian academic, author, geographer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne.-Early life:Prescott earned his BSc and MA degrees at the University of Durham in the United Kingdom...
  
  , Australian geographer
• Johnathan Prescott
• Katherine Prescott
  Katherine Prescott
  Katherine Prescott was the sixth president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving , serving 1995-1997. Ms. Prescott's 16-year-old son was killed by a driver with a blood alcohol concentration of .17 percent, which is over twice the current maximum level. The tragedy led Ms...
  
  
• Norm Prescott
  Norm Prescott
  Norman "Norm" Prescott was co-founder and executive producer at Filmation Studios. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he began his radio career in the Hub, becoming program director at station WORL in the late 1940s. He went to work for Joseph E. Levine's Embassy Pictures Corp. in 1959, serving as...
  
  
• Paul Prescott
  Paul Prescott
  Paul Prescott is an English rugby league player. He plays prop for the Wigan Warriors. Paul is also known in celebrity circles for being the son of former UK deputy prime-minister and now lifelong Labour peer, John Prescott...
  
  
• Peter Prescott (disambiguation)
• Rebecca Minot Prescott
  Rebecca Minot Prescott
  Rebecca Minot Prescott was the second wife of Roger Sherman.She was the daughter of Benjamin and Rebecca Minot Prescott from Salem, Massachusetts; the niece of Roger Sherman’s brother Rev. Josiah Sherman and the second cousin once removed of Colonel William Prescott.Rebecca married Roger Sherman...
  
  
• Richard Prescott
  Richard Prescott
  Richard Prescott was a British officer, born in England.He was appointed a major of the 33rd Regiment of Foot, on 20 December 1756, transferred to the 72nd Regiment of Foot on 9 May 1758, and on 14 December 1761, lieutenant-colonel of the 17th Regiment of Foot, before in May 1762, transferring to...
  
  , British general who was captured twice during the American Revolution
• Robert Prescott
  Robert Prescott
  General Robert Prescott was a British soldier and colonial administrator. He enlisted in the British Army in 1745 and served during the Seven Years' War...
  
  
• Robert Prescott (actor)
  Robert Prescott (actor)
  Robert Prescott is an American actor who has starred in various roles in film and on television. He is best known for his role as Kent in the 1985 hit comedy film Real Genius...
  
  
• Samuel Prescott
  Samuel Prescott
  Samuel Prescott was a Massachusetts Patriot during the American Revolutionary War. He is best remembered for his role in the "midnight ride" to warn the townspeople of Concord of the impending British army move to capture military stores kept there at the beginning of the American Revolution...
  
  , American who completed Paul Revere's midnight ride
• Samuel Cate Prescott
  Samuel Cate Prescott
  Samuel Cate Prescott was an American food scientist and microbiologist who was involved in the development of food safety, food science, public health, and industrial microbiology.-Early life:...
  
  , MIT dean and pioneer food technologist
• Sidney Prescott
  Sidney Prescott
  Sidney Prescott is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Scream series of slasher films. The character was created by Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven and is portrayed by Canadian actress Neve Campbell. She first appeared in Scream followed by three sequels: Scream 2 , Scream 3 ...
  
  , fictional character in the Scream trilogy of movies
• Stef Prescott
  Stef Prescott
  Stefany Marisa Quintos Prescott, who is better known by her screen name Stef Prescott is a Filipina actress. She was an avenger from StarStruck: The Next Level and was known to be the most controversial of the batch because of her attitude...
  
  , Filipina actress
• William Prescott
  William Prescott
  William Prescott was an American colonel in the Revolutionary War who commanded the rebel forces in the Battle of Bunker Hill...
  
  , American revolutionary commander
• William H. Prescott
  William H. Prescott
  William Hickling Prescott was an American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian...
  
  , American historian
• W. W. Prescott
  W. W. Prescott
  William Warren Prescott was an influential administrator, educator, and scholar in the early Seventh-day Adventist Church.- Biography :Prescott's parents were part of the Millerite movement.W. W...
  
   (William Warren Prescott, 1855-1944), educator and administrator in the Seventh-day Adventist Church

Also

• James Prescott Joule
  James Prescott Joule
  James Prescott Joule FRS was an English physicist and brewer, born in Salford, Lancashire. Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work . This led to the theory of conservation of energy, which led to the development of the first law of thermodynamics. The...
  
  , English physicist, after whom the SI unit of work, the joule, is named
• Samuel P. Bush
  Samuel P. Bush
  Samuel Prescott Bush was an American industrialist and entrepreneur, and the patriarch of the Bush political family. He was the father of U.S. Senator Prescott Bush, grandfather of former U.S President George H. W. Bush, and great-grandfather of former U.S. President George W...
  
   (Samuel Prescott Bush)
• Prescott Bush
  Prescott Bush
  Prescott Sheldon Bush was a Wall Street executive banker and a United States Senator, representing Connecticut from 1952 until January 1963. He was the father of George H. W. Bush and the grandfather of George W...
  
  

Places

Canada

• Prescott, Ontario
  Prescott, Ontario
  Prescott is a town of approximately 4,180 people on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Ontario, Canada. The Ogdensburg-Prescott International Bridge, 5 km east of Prescott in Johnstown, connects it with Ogdensburg, New York...
  
  
• Prescott Island
  Prescott Island
  Prescott Island is one of the uninhabited Canadian Arctic islands in the territory of Nunavut. The island is situated in Peel Sound, between the Prince of Wales Island and Somerset Island.Prescott Island is oval-shaped, and has an area of...
  
  , Nunavut

USA

• Prescott, Arizona
  Prescott, Arizona
  Prescott is a city in Yavapai County, Arizona, USA. It was designated "Arizona's Christmas City" by Arizona Governor Rose Mofford in the late 1980s....
  
  
  • Prescott College
    Prescott College
    Prescott College is a private liberal arts college in Prescott, Arizona, founded in 1966. It is a non-profit organization which has an undergraduate body of roughly 800 students, and an average student to faculty ratio of 7:1 in on-campus classrooms...
    
    , a small liberal arts school specializing in environmental studies
• Prescott, Arkansas
  Prescott, Arkansas
  Prescott is a city and the county seat of Nevada County, Arkansas. The community had a population of 3,868 at the 2000 census. Prescott is part of the Hope Micropolitan Statistical Area....
  
  
  • Prescott and Northwestern Railroad
    Prescott and Northwestern Railroad
    The Prescott and Northwestern Railroad is a short-line railroad headquartered in Prescott, Arkansas. The railroad was chartered in 1890, for the purpose of constructing a railroad north-northwest from Prescott to access timberlands for the Ozan Lumber Company...
    
    , a railroad in southwest Arkansas
• Prescott, Iowa
  Prescott, Iowa
  Prescott is a city in Prescott Township, Adams County, Iowa, United States. The population was 266 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Prescott is located at ....
  
  
• Prescott, Kansas
  Prescott, Kansas
  Prescott is a city in Linn County, Kansas, United States. The population was 280 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Prescott is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
  
  
• Prescott, Massachusetts
  Prescott, Massachusetts
  Prescott is a former town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It was incorporated in 1822 from portions of Pelham and New Salem. It was named in honor of Colonel William Prescott, who commanded the American forces at the Battle of Bunker Hill. It was disincorporated on April 28, 1938 as part of...
  
  , former town
• Prescott, Michigan
  Prescott, Michigan
  Prescott is a village in Ogemaw County of the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 286 at the 2000 census. The village is within Richland Township.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land....
  
  
• Prescott, Oregon
  Prescott, Oregon
  Prescott is a city in Columbia County, Oregon, United States. It was named in 1905 for the owner of the local sawmill. The population was 72 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land....
  
  
• Prescott, Washington
  Prescott, Washington
  Prescott is a town in central Walla Walla County, Washington. The population was 318 at the 2010 census.-History:Prescott was named in 1881 after C.H...
  
  
• Prescott, Wisconsin
  Prescott, Wisconsin
  Prescott is a city in Pierce County, Wisconsin at the confluence of the St. Croix River and Mississippi River. The population was 4,258 at the 2010 census, making it the second-largest city in the county after River Falls, and the largest entirely within Pierce County.Prescott was home to the...
  
  
• Prescott Township, Minnesota
  Prescott Township, Minnesota
  Prescott Township is a township in Faribault County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 222 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 36.1 square miles , of which, 35.9 square miles of it is land and...
  
  

United Kingdom

• Prescott, Gloucestershire
  Prescott, Gloucestershire
  Prescott is a parish in the English county of Gloucestershire: there is no village.-Historic buildings:Pardon Hill Farm is a 17th century timber-framed farmhouse...
  
  , parish in Gloucestershire
• Prescot
  Prescot
  Prescot is a town and civil parish, within the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley in Merseyside, England. It is 8 miles to the east of Liverpool city centre and lies within the historic boundaries of Lancashire. At the 2001 Census, the population was 11,184 .Prescot marks the beginning of the...
  
  , Merseyside

Other uses

• Prescott, the code name of a generation of Intel Pentium 4 processors
• Prescott Speed Hillclimb
  Prescott Speed Hillclimb
  Prescott Speed Hill Climb is a hillclimb in Gloucestershire, England. The course used for most events is in length, and as of late 2007 the hill record was held by Scott Moran, who set a time of 36.35 seconds on 2 September 2007 for an average speed of . The track was extended in 1960 to form the...
  
  , a motorsport event in Gloucestershire, England
• Prescott Pharmaceuticals, a fictional medical company used by Stephen Colbert on the segment "Cheating Death with Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, DFA" on The Colbert Report
• Prescott Observatory
  Prescott Observatory
  Prescott Observatory was built by Paul G. Comba and is now owned and operated by Matt Francis. The observatory is located south of Prescott Arizona and is dedicated to the study of cosmology. Refurbished in 2011, the observatory houses a PlaneWave CDK 24 inch telescope with two Takahashi wide...
  
  , an astronomical observatory in Arizona