Atherton may refer to:
Places
Australia
- Atherton, Queensland, a town on the Atherton Tablelands of Far North Queensland
- Atherton Tableland, a fertile plateau in Queensland
- Shire of Atherton, a former local government area of Queensland on the Atherton Tableland
- Atherton Courthouse
- Atherton Performing Arts Theatre, former military depot and now theatre
- Atherton War Cemetery, built in 1942
- Atherton War Memorial, memorial at Kennedy Highway
Canada
- Atherton, Ontario, a hamlet in Norfolk County, Ontario
- Mount Atherton, a mountain in Yukon
Malaysia
- Ladang Atherton, part of the electoral district N.31 Bagan Pinang, Port Dickson
United Kingdom
- Atherton, Greater Manchester, town in Wigan district, historically in Lancashire, England
- Atherton (ward), electoral ward
- Atherton Hall, Leigh, country house and estate
- Atherton Urban District, local government district from 1863 until 1974
- Atherton High School, Greater Manchester, mixed secondary free school
- Atherton Line, section of the Manchester-Southport Line, between Wigan and Salford
- Atherton railway station
- Atherton Bag Lane railway station, a former station
United States
California
- Atherton, California, a town in San Mateo County in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Atherton station, a former station on the Caltrain railway line in this town
- Atherton House, also known as the Faxon Atherton Mansion, a historic building in San Francisco, California
- Menlo-Atherton High School, a four-year public comprehensive secondary school
Indiana
- Atherton, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Vigo County
- West Atherton, Indiana
- Atherton Building, Butler University
Hawaii
- Atherton Field, home of the Hawaii Pacific Sharks
Kentucky
- Athertonville, Kentucky, former home of Atherton pre-prohibition whiskey
- Atherton High School, Louisville, public school in Louisville, Kentucky
Massachusetts
- Atherton Bridge, a historic iron truss bridge in Lancaster, Massachusetts, spanning the South Branch of the Nashua River
Missouri
- Atherton, Missouri, an unincorporated community in Jackson County
Michigan
- Atherton Community Schools, a school district in the city of Burton, Michigan
- Atherton Settlement, within the city of Burton, Michigan
North Carolina
- Atherton Mill station, a station on the Charlotte Trolley line in the South End of Charlotte, NC
Oklahoma
- The Atherton Hotel, within Oklahoma State University campus
Pennsylvania
- Atherton Hall (Penn State), a Pennsylvania State University dormitory
Vermont
- Atherton Farmstead, a historic farm property in Cavendish, Vermont
Elsewhere
- Atherton Islands, off Antarctica
- Atherton Peak, South Georgia
People
- Atherton (surname), includes a list of notable people with the surname
- Atherton Blight (1834–1909), American lawyer, diarist, and philanthropist who traveled extensively in the middle of the 19th century to Europe and the Middle East
- Atherton D. Converse, American politician
- Atherton Curtis (1863–1843), American art collector and art historian who lived in France
- Atherton Martín, Dominican agronomist and environmentalist
- Atherton Rawstorne (1855–1936), British Bishop of Whalley
- Atherton Seidell (1878–1961), American chemist and library scientist
- Atherton Thayer, sheriff of Norfolk County, Massachusetts from 1794 to 1798
Science
- Atherton–Todd reaction, in organic chemistry
- Jiles–Atherton model, magnetic hysteresis model
Organisms
- Atherton antechinus (Antechinus godmani), also known as Godman's antechinus, a species of small carnivorous marsupial native to Australia
- Atherton delma (Delma mitella), a species of lizard in the family Pygopodidae endemic to Australia
- Atherton oak, the common name of the tall Australian tree Athertonia diversifolia
- Athertonia, the monotypic genus of the Atherton oak, from the family
- Rubus probus or Atherton raspberry, a wild tropical raspberry species native to Papua New Guinea and parts of Australia
- Atherton sauropus (Sauropus macranthus), a rainforest tree from Asia, Melanesia and north-east Queensland
- Atherton scrubwren (Sericornis keri), an Australian bird species
Sports
- Atherton F.C., a former English association football team based in Atherton, Greater Manchester
- Atherton Laburnum Rovers F.C., an English association football team based in Atherton, Greater Manchester.
- Atherton Collieries A.F.C., an English association football team based in Atherton, Greater Manchester.
- Atherton Roosters, a Cairns, Queensland Rugby team
Other uses
- Atherton: The House of Power, a book by Patrick Carman
- USS Atherton, a 1943 World War II Cannon class destroyer escort