title: Pentecost (disambiguation)
text: # Pentecost (disambiguation)
  
  Pentecost is one of the prominent feasts in the Christian liturgical year.
  
  It is also one of the English-language names for the Jewish holiday of Shavuot.
  
  Pentecost may also refer to:
  
  ## Other religious and cultural events
  
  * Pinksteren (Dutch word meaning "Pentecost"), often pronounced in English as "Pinkster"
  
  ## Places
  
  * Pentecost, Mississippi, U.S.
  * Pentecost Island, one of the islands of Vanuatu
  * Pentecost River, a river in Western Australia
  
  ## People
  
  * Pentecost Dodderidge (died c. 1650), MP for Barnstaple, England
  * Denie Pentecost (born 1970), Australian footballer
  * George Frederick Pentecost (1842–1920), American evangelist
  * Hugh O. Pentecost (1848–1907), American minister, editor, lawyer, and lecturer
  * J. Dwight Pentecost (1915–2014), American theologian
  * Max Pentecost (born 1993), American baseball player
  * Del Pentecost (born 1963), American actor and cast member of the 2008 play Almost an Evening
  
  ## Arts, entertainment, and media
  
  * Pentecost (El Greco), one of the canvasses that composed the Doña María de Aragón Altarpiece by El Greco
  * Pentecost (film), a 2011 Irish live action short film
  * Pentecost (Moretto), a 1543-1544 painting by Moretto da Brescia
  * Pentecost (play), a 1994 British dramatic play
  * Pentecost III, an EP by the British doom metal band Anathema
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Pentecost University College, Sowutuom, Ghana
  