title: Prentiss
text: # Prentiss
  
  Prentiss may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  ### Given name
  
  * Prentiss Barnes (1925–2006), U.S. singer
  * Prentiss M. Brown (1889–1973), Michigan politician
  * Robert Prentiss Daniel (1902–1968), U.S. academic
  * Prentiss Douglass (1884–1949), U.S. American football coach and player
  * Prentiss Hubb (born 1999), American basketball player for Notre Dame
  * Prentiss Ingraham (1843–1904), soldier and mercenary
  * Prentiss Mellen (1764–1840), Massachusetts jurist
  * Prentiss Oakley, Louisiana police officer
  * Prentiss Taylor (1907–1991), U.S. artist
  * Prentiss Waggner (born 1990), U.S. American football player
  * Prentiss Walker (1917–1998), Mississippi politician
  
  ### Surname
  
  * Adella Prentiss Hughes (1869–1950; nee Prentiss), U.S musician
  * Ann Prentiss (1939–2010), U.S. actress
  * Anna Marie Prentiss, American archeologist
  * Benjamin Prentiss (1819–1901), Union general in American civil war
  * Elizabeth Prentiss (1818–1878), U.S. songwriter, poet, writer
  * John Holmes Prentiss (1784–1861), New York politician
  * Melodye Prentiss, 1968 Playboy model
  * Paula Prentiss (born 1938), U.S. actress, wife of Richard Benjamin
  * Robert Prentiss (1936-2022), American politician
  * Samuel Prentiss (1782–1857), Vermont politician
  * Seargent Smith Prentiss (1808–1850), Mississippi politician
  * Theodore Prentiss (1818–1906), Wisconsin politician
  * William A. Prentiss (1799–1892), Wisconsin politician
  
  ### Fictional people
  
  * Adelaide Prentiss, a character from the novel One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
  * Amy Prentiss, title character in the American TV series Amy Prentiss
  * Charles Prentiss, senior partner of Prentiss-McCabe in BBC television and radio series Absolute Power
  * David Prentiss (Mayor/President), a character from the novel series Chaos Walking
  * Emily Prentiss, a character in the American television series Criminal Minds
  * Jane Prentiss, a character from the horror-fiction podcast The Magnus Archives
  * Nora Prentiss, title character of 1947 film
  * Pimli Prentiss, a character from The Dark Tower
  * Vanessa Prentiss, a character from The Young and the Restless
  
  ## Places in the United States
  
  * Prentiss, Kentucky
  * Prentiss, Maine
  * Prentiss, Mississippi
  * Prentiss, Ohio
  * Prentiss County, Mississippi
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Prentiss Bridge, a covered bridge in Langdon, New Hampshire, U.S.
  * Prentiss County School District, Mississippi, U.S.
  * Prentiss M. Brown Freeway, Michigan, U.S.
  * USS Prentiss, a U.S. Navy ship name
     * USS Prentiss (AKA-102), WWII attack cargo ship
     * USS A. G. Prentiss (1912), WWI tugboat
  * Mary Prentiss Inn, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
  