title: Macaulay
text: # Macaulay
  
  Macaulay, Macauley, MacAulay, or McAulay may refer to:
  
  ## Name
  
  ### Surname
  
  * Macaulay (surname), an English-language surname with multiple etymological origins (also includes surnames Macauley, MacAulay and McAulay).
  
  ## People
  
  ### Surname
  
  * Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, British historian and Whig politician who played a major (and controversial) role in reforming education in India.
  * List of people with surnames Macaulay, MacAulay or McAulay
  
  ### Given name
  
  * Macaulay Culkin, American actor
  * Macaulay Langstaff, English footballer
  
  ## Places
  
  * Macaulay River, in the South Island of New Zealand
  * Macaulay railway station, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  * The Macaulay Institute, a land use research institute based in Aberdeen, Scotland
  * William E. Macaulay Honors College, a school which is part of City University of New York, in New York, USA
  * MacAulay Field, Canadian football stadium in Sackville, NS, Canada
  
  ## Families
  
  * Clan MacAulay, a Scottish clan historically seated at Ardincaple Castle, in Scotland.
  * Macaulay family of Lewis, a Scottish family historically centred on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, in Scotland.
  
  ## Mathematics
  
  * Cohen–Macaulay ring, a commutative ring, named after Irvin Cohen and Francis Sowerby Macaulay (1862-1937).
  * Macaulay computer algebra system, a computer algebra system, named after Francis Sowerby Macaulay (1862-1937).
  * Macaulay2, a free computer algebra system, which is a successor of the preceding.
  * Macaulay matrix, a generalization of Sylvester matrix to n homogeneous polynomials in n variables.
  * Macaulay brackets, a notation used to describe the ramp function.
  * Macaulay Duration, a special case of bond duration, named after Frederick Macaulay (1882-1970).
  
  ## Other
  
  * Macaulay Cup, Scottish shinty cup
  * Macaulay Library, animal sound library
  * MacAulay and Co, BBC Radio Scotland daily magazine
  