Scholes - United States

United States

  • Scholes International Airport at Galveston

Scholes (also spelt Scales) is also a surname:

  • Myron Scholes (born 1941), Canadian, Nobel-Prize-winning economist and creator of the Black-Scholes model
    • Black–Scholes, a mathematical formula used in economics
  • Paul Scholes (born 1974), English footballer
  • Percy Scholes (1877–1958), English musician and journalist
  • Robert Scholes, American literary critic and theorist

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