Many things are named Kent:

Counties

• County of Kent, England
• Chatham-Kent, Ontario (formerly Kent County)
• Kent County, Delaware
• Kent County, Maryland
• Kent County, Michigan
• Kent County, New Brunswick
• Kent County, Rhode Island
• Kent County, Texas

Universities

• Kent State University, Ohio, United States of America
• University of Kent at Canterbury

Smaller localities

• Kent, Connecticut
• Kent, Iowa
• Kent, Illinois
• Kent, Indiana
• Kent, Minnesota
• Kent, New York
• Kent, Ohio
• Kent, Oregon
• Kent, Texas
• Kent, Washington
• Kent City, Michigan

People (fictional or otherwise)

• Clark Kent, the fictional character
• James Tyler Kent, the physician
• Peter Kent, Global news reporter
• Rockwell Kent, the artist
• William Kent, the architect
• James Kent (Chancellor Kent),the legal scholar for whose family Kent, New York is named
• Kent (Fire Emblem) , a fictional character from the Fire Emblem series.

Other things named Kent

• Kent cigarettes was a cigarette brand, first to introduce smoke filters in 1952
• Kent, the Swedish rock band
• HMS Kent, a ship
• The Duke of Kent
• The Kingdom of Kent
• The Earl of Kent
• Ford Kent engine is an engine used in for instance Ford Anglia
• Kent State shootings
• Fort Kent, Maine
• The Kent Applicative Operating System, a computer operating system
• Kent Acres, Delaware
• Kent City, Michigan
• Kent Group National Park, in Tasmania, Australia
• Kent Island, Maryland
• Kent Narrows, Maryland
• The Kent Recursive Calculator, a programming language
• Kentville, Nova Scotia
• New Kent County, Virginia
• Old Kent Road and New Kent Road in London
• Kent is also a brand of fireplace.

History

The name comes from the Kingdom of Kent, and probably from the Cantiaci tribe.