The word Davis when used alone, has a number of possible meanings:

Schools name Davis:

• UC Davis

Places named Davis:

• Davis, California
• Davis, Illinois
• Davis, Oklahoma
• Davis Station - the Australian base in Antarctica

People named Davis:

• Geena Davis, actress
• Gray Davis, former governor of California
• Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America
• Miles Davis, Jazz musician
• Priscilla Davis, Fort Worth, Texas socialite
• Richard Harding Davis, writer and journalist
• T. Cullen Davis, owner of KenDavis Industries, accused of and found innocent of murdering Andrea Wilborn, the daughter of Priscilla Davis

Other uses:

• A company DAVIS which made video projectors
• Davis, an automobile manufacturer