Lane (disambiguation)
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  • Abbe Lane
    Abbe Lane
    -Biography:Born Abigail Francine Lassman in a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, Lane began her career as a child actress on radio, and from there she progressed to singing and dancing on Broadway....

    , American actress
  • Abigail Lane
    Abigail Lane
    Abigail Lane is an English artist. Lane was one of the exhibitors in the 1988 Damien Hirst-led Freeze exhibition—a mixed show of art which was significant in the development of the later-to-be YBA scene of art.-Life and work:...

  • Allen Lane
    Allen Lane
    Sir Allen Lane was a British publisher who founded Penguin Books, bringing high quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to the mass market.-Early life and family:...

  • Alycia Lane
    Alycia Lane
    Alycia Lane is an American television journalist. She serves as weekday morning anchor at KNBC-TV in Los Angeles. Until January 2008, she was co-anchor of the weekday evening newscasts on KYW-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

  • Andrew Lane
    Andrew Lane
    Andrew Lane is a horn soloist and conductor. Lane is the principal pops and resident conductor of the Orlando Philharmonic, of which he is a founding member...

    , U.S. musician and conductor
  • Andy Lane
    Andy Lane
    Andrew Lane , who also writes as Andy Lane, is a British author and journalist. He has written a number of spin-off novels in the Virgin New Adventures range and audio dramas for Big Finish based on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who , as well as assorted non fiction books based...

  • Anita Lane
    Anita Lane
    Anita Lane is an Australian singer and songwriter who directly influenced the early 1980s European post-punk landscape.-Birthday Party:Lane was born in Melbourne, Australia in the late 1950s. Lane began singing and writing songs at age 16. She was a classmate with Rowland S. Howard who would...

    , Australian singer and songwriter
  • Anthony Lane
    Anthony Lane
    Anthony Lane is a film critic for The New Yorker magazine.-Personal life:Lane lives in Cambridge with Allison Pearson, a British writer and former Daily Mail columnist...

    , British film reviewer
  • Arthur Bliss Lane
    Arthur Bliss Lane
    Arthur Bliss Lane was the United States Ambassador to Poland .- Biography :Lane was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. He was appointed U.S. Minister to Nicaragua ; Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania ; Kingdom of Yugoslavia, ; and Costa Rica . He was then appointed U.S...

     (1894–1956), U.S. diplomat

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  • Billy Lane
    Billy Lane
    For other people of the same name see Billy Lane and Billy Lane William David Lane is widely known as a builder of custom motorcycles, owner of Choppers Inc. in Melbourne, Florida — and for his 2009 conviction following a drunk-driving incident in 2006, where Lane's driving resulted in the...

    , U.S. motorcycle builder
  • Burton Lane
    Burton Lane
    Burton Lane was an American composer and lyricist. His most popular and successful work is the musical Finian's Rainbow, "the score for which Lane will always be most remembered."-Biography:...

     (1912–1997), U.S. composer and lyricist

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  • Carla Lane
    Carla Lane
    Carla Lane, OBE is an English television writer responsible for many successful sitcoms, including The Liver Birds , Butterflies , and Bread ....

     (born 1937), British television writer
  • Charles Lane (actor)
    Charles Lane (actor)
    Charles Gerstle Levison , better known as Charles Lane, was an American character actor seen in many movies and TV shows, and at the time of his death may have been the oldest living professional American actor. Lane appeared in many Frank Capra films, including You Can't Take It With You , Mr...

     (born 1905), U.S. actor
  • Charles Lane (journalist)
    Charles Lane (journalist)
    Charles "Chuck" Lane is an American journalist and editor who is a staff writer for The Washington Post. His articles are concerned chiefly with the activities and cases of the Supreme Court of the United States and judicial system. He was the lead editor of The New Republic from 1997 to 1999...

    , Washington Post reporter
  • Charles Lane (African-American actor/filmmaker)
    Charles Lane (African-American actor/filmmaker)
    Charles Lane is an African-American actor and filmmaker.While attending SUNY Purchase as a film student, he made a short titled "A Place in Time" based on the famous Kitty Genovese incident. This short gained him a certain amount of attention, including a student Academy Award win...

     (born 1953) U.S. actor
  • Chei Mi Lane
    Chei Mi Lane
    Chei Mi Lane lives in Saint Louis, Missouri and is coauthor of the book Anna May Wong: A Complete Guide to Her Film, Stage, Radio and Television along with Philip Leibfried.-References:...

    , U.S. author
  • Colin Lane
    Colin Lane
    Colin Stuart Lane is a comedian and actor, best known for being one-half of former comedy duo, Lano and Woodley.-Lano and Woodley:...

    , Australian comedian

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  • David Lane (activist)
    David Lane (activist)
    David Lane is an American political activist who works to increase the political strength of religious groups on the Christian right, to promote social conservative values in the United States....

     (c. 1955), American social conservative Christian political activist
  • David Lane (director)
    David Lane (director)
    David Lane is a British television and film director, best known for his association with series produced by Gerry Anderson's AP Films.Lane directed several episodes of the Thunderbirds television series, including "Attack of the Alligators!", as well as the two cinema films Thunderbirds are GO and...

    , director of the film Thunderbirds are GO and various episodes of Gerry Anderson TV series
  • David Lane (lawyer)
    David Lane (lawyer)
    David Lane is an attorney in Denver, Colorado with the firm of Killmer, Lane & Newman LLP. He is a member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and previously represented Ward Churchill. In March 2006, geography teacher Jay Bennish hired him to assist in his reinstatement after being suspended...

    , American lawyer
  • David Lane (musician), Australian musician - member of You Am I
  • David Lane (politician)
    David Lane (politician)
    David William Stennis Stuart Lane was a British Conservative Party politician.Lane was educated at Eton College, Trinity College, Cambridge and Yale University. He became a barrister, called to the bar by Middle Temple in 1955. From 1956 to 1959 he was secretary of the British Iron and Steel...

     (1922–1998), British Conservative Party politician
  • David Lane (white nationalist) (1938–2007), American white nationalist leader, author and convict
  • David A. Lane (scientist)
    David A. Lane (scientist)
    David A. Lane is an American economist, who developed the theory of artifact innovation. At the Santa Fe Institute he has been defining the notion of economic complexity and the Santa Fe approach...

    , former president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
  • David C. Lane
    David C. Lane
    David Christopher Lane is a professor of philosophy and sociology at Mt. San Antonio College, in Walnut, California. He is most notable for exposing Eckankar as a cult and its founder, Paul Twitchell, as a plagiarist in his book The Making of a Spiritual Movement: The Untold Story of Paul...

     (born 1956), American professor of philosophy and critic of certain new religious movements
  • David Ian Lane
    David Ian
    David Ian Lane , is a former actor and now a theatre producer who The Stage has called "the most powerful man in UK theatre".-Biography:...

     (born 1961), English stage actor and theatre producer who goes by the name David Ian
  • David J. Lane
    David J. Lane
    David J. Lane is a Canadian astronomer at Saint Mary's University, the past president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Director of the Burke-Gaffney, owner of the Abbey-Ridge observatories, and creator of the planetarium software entitled the Earth Centered Universe. Asteroid 117032...

    , Canadian astronomer
  • Sir David P. Lane
    David P. Lane
    Sir David Philip Lane FRS, FRSE FRCPath is a British oncologist. He is best known for his work on the p53 tumour suppressor protein. Besides his position at the University of Dundee, he also founded the Cyclacel biotechnology company and is the Chief Scientist of Cancer Research UK.He was made a...

     (born 1952), British oncologist
  • Devinn Lane
    Devinn Lane
    Devinn Lane is an inactive adult model, pornographic actress, writer, director and producer. She is sometimes credited as Devin Lane or Devon Lane. She was chosen Penthouse Pet of the Month October 1999.- Biography :Lane became pregnant at 16 and began stripping to support herself and her child in...

  • Diane Lane
    Diane Lane
    Diane Lane is an American film actress.Born and raised in New York City, Lane made her screen debut at the age of 13 in George Roy Hill's 1979 film A Little Romance, starring opposite Sir Laurence Olivier. Soon after, she was featured on the cover of Time magazine...

     (born 1965), U.S. actress
  • Dick Lane
    Richard Douglas Lane
    Richard Lane was an American scholar, author, collector, and dealer of Japanese art. He lived in Japan for much of his life, and had a long association with the Honolulu Academy of Arts in Hawaii, which now holds his vast art collection.-Life:...

     (1936–2002), scholar, author, collector, and dealer of Japanese art
  • Dick Lane (American football) (1928–2002), American football player
  • Dick Lane (baseball)
    Dick Lane (baseball)
    Richard Harrison Lane is a former Major League Baseball left fielder. He played for the Chicago White Sox during the middle of the 1949 season , making his major league debut against the Washington Senators at Griffith Stadium.Lane was a typical example of what Mike González termed "good field,...

     (born 1927), U.S. baseball player
  • Dick Lane (TV announcer)
    Dick Lane (TV announcer)
    Richard Lane , more commonly known as Dick Lane, was an American television announcer and actor who made his mark broadcasting wrestling and roller derby shows on KTLA-TV, mainly from the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, California.-Early years:Lane was born in 1899 in Rice Lake, Wisconsin...

     (1899–1982), television announcer
  • Don Lane
    Don Lane
    Don Lane , born Morton Donald Isaacson, was an American-born talk show host and singer. Don Lane is best known for hosting The Don Lane Show, which was aired on The Nine Network in Australia from 1975 to 1983....


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  • Eastwood Lane
    Eastwood Lane
    Eastwood Lane was an American composer who wrote piano suites and ballet music.Eastwood Lane was born in Brewerton, New York....

     (1879–1951), U.S. composer
  • Edward William Lane
    Edward William Lane
    Edward William Lane was a British Orientalist, translator and lexicographer....

     (1801–1876), British scholar
  • Elizabeth Lane
    Elizabeth Lane
    Dame Elizabeth Lane, DBE was one of the first women to practise as a barrister in the United Kingdom.Born Elizabeth Kathleen Coulborn, she was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1940...

    , British lawyer

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  • Fitz Hugh Lane
    Fitz Hugh Lane
    Fitz Henry Lane was an American painter and printmaker of a style that would later be called Luminism, for its use of pervasive light....

     (1804–1865), U.S. painter
  • Frank Lane
    Frank Lane
    Frank Lane was an American executive in professional baseball, most notably serving as a general manager in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox, St...

     (1896–1981), U.S. baseball executive
  • Franklin Knight Lane
    Franklin Knight Lane
    Franklin Knight Lane was an American Democratic politician from California who served as United States Secretary of the Interior from 1913 to 1920...

     (1864–1921), Canadian-American politician
  • Fred Lane (1975–2000), American football player
  • Frederick Lane
    Frederick Lane
    Frederick Claude Vivian Lane was an Australian swimmer.Lane, from Manly, New South Wales, was the first Australian to represent his country in swimming at the Olympic Games, although he was actually a part of the British team when he competed at the 1900 Paris Games and won two gold medals.He...

     (1888–1969), Australian swimmer

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  • Gary Lane
    Gary Lane
    Gary William Lane is a professional chess player and author. He became an International Master in 1987 and won the Commonwealth Chess Championship in 1988...

  • Geoffrey Lane, Baron Lane
    Geoffrey Lane, Baron Lane
    Geoffrey Dawson Lane, Baron Lane AFC PC QC was a British Judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of England from 1980 to 1992. The later part of his term was marred by a succession of disputed convictions...

  • George Martin Lane
    George Martin Lane
    George Martin Lane , American scholar, was born at Charlestown, Massachusetts.He graduated in 1846 at Harvard, and in 1847-1851 studied at the universities of Berlin, Bonn, Heidelberg and Göttingen...

     (1823–1897), U.S. scholar
  • Gord Lane
    Gord Lane
    Gordon Thomas Lawrence Lane is a retired Canadian ice hockey defenceman.Lane played junior in the WCHL, first with the Brandon Wheat Kings and after a trade with the New Westminster Bruins...


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  • Harlan Lane
    Harlan Lane
    Harlan Lane is Distinguished University professor of psychology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States, and founder of the Center for Research in Hearing, Speech, and Language. His research is focused on speech, Deaf culture, and sign language. Lane was born in...

    , professor of psychology and linguistics, Northeastern University, Boston
  • Harriet Lane
    Harriet Lane
    Harriet Rebecca Lane Johnston , niece of lifelong bachelor United States President James Buchanan, acted as First Lady of the United States from 1857 to 1861. She was one of the few women to hold the position of First Lady while not being married to the President.-Early life:Harriet Lane's family...

     (1830–1903), James Buchanan's niece
  • Harry Lane
    Harry Lane
    Harry Lane was an American physician and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of the state, he worked as the head of the state insane asylum before entering local politics and served as mayor of Portland...

  • Homer Lane
    Homer Lane
    Homer Lane was an American-born educator who believed that the behaviour and character of children improved when they were given more control over their lives....

  • Hugh Lane
    Hugh Lane
    Sir Hugh Percy Lane is best known for establishing Dublin's Municipal Gallery of Modern Art and for his remarkable contribution to the visual arts in Ireland...

     (1875–1915), Irish(Irish-British) Art Collector and Philanthropist

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  • Jackie Lane
    Jackie Lane
    Jackie Lane is an English actress noted for her role as Dodo Chaplet, a companion of the Doctor, in the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who....

     (born 1947), British actress
  • James D. Lane
    James D. Lane
    Jimmy D. Lane is an American blues guitarist.-Biography:Lane was born to the Chess blues musician Jimmy Rogers and his wife Dorothy. In his childhood, he got to know many older bluesmen who worked with his father, including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Mabon, Little Walter and Albert King...

  • James H. Lane (Senator)
    James H. Lane (Senator)
    James Henry Lane also known as Jim Lane was a partisan during the Bleeding Kansas period that immediately preceded the American Civil War. During the war, Lane served as a United States Senator and as a general who fought for the Union...

     (1814–1866), U.S. politician and abolitionist
  • James H. Lane (general)
    James H. Lane (general)
    James Henry Lane was a university professor and Confederate general in the American Civil War.He is considered to be the father of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and is the namesake of the University's oldest building, Lane Hall.-Early life:Lane was born in Mathews Court...

     (1833–1907), Confederate general
  • Jane Lane (author)
    Jane Lane (author)
    Jane Lane was the pen name of Elaine Kidner Dakers, a British historical novelist and biographer distantly related to the Jane Lane who aided Charles II after his defeat at Worcester. She is best known for her books about the Stuart period and 18th century Scotland, written from a Catholic and...

  • Jani Lane
    Jani Lane
    Jani Lane , born John Kennedy Oswald, later changed to John Patrick Oswald, was an American recording artist and the lead vocalist, frontman, lyricist and main songwriter for the hard rock band Warrant....

     (born 1964), U.S. singer (Warrant)
  • Jason Lane
    Jason Lane
    Jason Dean Lane is a Major League Baseball outfielder in the Toronto Blue Jays organization. He was drafted out of the sixth round in . Lane graduated from El Molino High School in Forestville, California in 1995...

  • Jay Lane
    Jay Lane
    Jay Lane is an American drummer from the San Francisco Bay Area. He is currently a member of Primus, as well as Bob Weir's RatDog, Scaring the Children with Weir and Rob Wasserman, and the hip hop/jazz fusion group Alphabet Soup. In 2002, Lane was named "drummer of the year" by the California...

  • Jeffrey Lane
    Jeffrey Lane
    Jeffrey Lane is an author, television scriptwriter, film producer and actor. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University.-Broadway:Lane wrote the book for the musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which ran on Broadway in 2005 and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical...

  • Jim Lane
    Jim Lane
    Jim Lane is an Irish republican and socialist. He was born on Devonshire Street North in Cork's north inner city...

     (Irish republican)
  • Jim Lane (Microsoft)
    Jim Lane (Microsoft)
    Jim Lane is an American who was one of the original staff of Microsoft. He worked on forging the relationship between Microsoft and Intel, the so-called "Wintel" alliance. Bob Wallace, Gordon Letwin, and Jim Lane were the original members of Microsoft's Languages group...

  • Jocelyn Lane
    Jocelyn Lane
    Jocelyn Lane, also known as Jackie Lane, was a model and actress active in the 1960s. She was married to Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.-Early life:...

     (born 1937), model, actress and jewellery designer
  • John Lane (publisher)
    John Lane (publisher)
    -Biography:Originally from Devon, where he was born into a farming family, Lane moved to London already in his teens. While working as a clerk at the Railway Clearing House, he acquired knowledge as an autodidact....

     (1854–1925), British publisher
  • John Carey Lane
    John Carey Lane
    -Early years:Born at Makao, Oahu, Lane was educated at Hauula School and St. Louis College. He held various jobs as a clerk, and from 1893 to 1900 farmed near Honolulu...

    , former Mayor of Honolulu
  • Jonathan Homer Lane
    Jonathan Homer Lane
    Jonathan Homer Lane was an American astrophysicist and inventor.His education was at the Phillips Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University in 1846. He worked for the U.S. Patent Office, and became a principal examiner in 1851...

     (1819–1880), American astrophysicist and inventor
  • Joseph Lane
    Joseph Lane
    Joseph Lane was an American general during the Mexican-American War and a United States Senator from Oregon.-Early life:...

     (1801–1881), U.S. general
  • Joshua Lane (born 1988), Writer

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  • Lafayette Lane
    Lafayette Lane
    Lafayette Lane was a Representative from the U.S. state of Oregon. He was the son of Oregon Senator Joseph Lane and an uncle of future Oregon Senator Harry Lane.-Early life:...

     (1842–1896), U.S. politician
  • Lana Lane
    Lana Lane
    Lana Lane is a North American rock singer. She sings lead in her eponymous band, and has sung backing vocals for the band Rocket Scientists and guest sung on Ayreon and Erik Norlander albums....

  • Lauren Lane
    Lauren Lane
    Lauren Lane is a television and stage actress. She is best known for her role as C. C. Babcock on The Nanny.-Biography:Lane was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and raised in Texas....

     (born 1961), U.S. actress
  • Lenny Lane
    Lenny Lane
    Leonard "Lenny" Carlson is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his time in World Championship Wrestling under the ring name Lenny Lane. During his time tenure in WCW, he was a one time Cruiserweight Champion....

     (born 1970), U.S. professional wrestler, real name Leonard Carlson
  • Leota Lane (1913–1963), one of the Lane Sisters
    Lane Sisters
    The Lane Sisters refers to a group of sisters, three of whom achieved success in the 1920s and 1930s as a singing act, with their popularity onstage leading to a series of successful films. A fourth sister was not successful and left this milieu and a fifth avoided show business altogether...

  • Lisa Lane
    Lisa Lane
    Marianne Elizabeth Lane Hickey is an American former chess player. Her combination of good looks and chess-playing ability made her an international celebrity, even though she never achieved the title of chess master...

     (born 1938), U.S. chess player
  • Lola Lane
    Lane Sisters
    The Lane Sisters refers to a group of sisters, three of whom achieved success in the 1920s and 1930s as a singing act, with their popularity onstage leading to a series of successful films. A fourth sister was not successful and left this milieu and a fifth avoided show business altogether...

     (1906–1981), one of the Lane Sisters
    Lane Sisters
    The Lane Sisters refers to a group of sisters, three of whom achieved success in the 1920s and 1930s as a singing act, with their popularity onstage leading to a series of successful films. A fourth sister was not successful and left this milieu and a fifth avoided show business altogether...

  • Lupino Lane
    Lupino Lane
    Lupino Lane was an English actor and theatre manager, and a member of the famous Lupino family. Lane started out as a child performer, known as 'Little Nipper', and went on to appear in a wide range of theatrical, music hall and film performances...


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  • Mark Lane
    Mark Lane (author)
    Mark Lane is an American lawyer who has written many books, including Rush to Judgment, one of two major books published in the immediate wake of the John F. Kennedy assassination that questioned the conclusions of the Warren Commission. Another book, Plausible Denial, published in 1991, continued...

    , author of Rush to Judgment
    Rush to Judgment
    Rush to Judgment is a book by American lawyer Mark Lane. It is about the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and takes issue with the conclusions of the Warren Commission, suggesting there was a conspiracy to assassinate John F...

  • Martin Lane
    Martin Lane
    Martin Lane is an English former footballer who played mainly as a full-back. Born in Altrincham, he made appearances in The Football League for four clubs, with most of his career being spent with Chester City.-Playing career:...

    , former English footballer
  • Mills Lane
    Mills Lane
    Mills Bee Lane III is a retired boxing referee, a former boxer, was a two term Washoe County District Court Judge, and television personality...

     (born 1936), U.S. judge and boxing referee
  • Morgan D. Lane
    Morgan D. Lane
    Morgan D. Lane was a Chief Bugler in the Union Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his role in the American Civil War.-Medal of Honor citation:...

    , American Civil War
    American Civil War
    The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

     Medal of Honor
    Medal of Honor
    The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...

     recipient

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  • Patrick Lane
    Patrick Lane
    Patrick Lane is an award-winning Canadian poet. He has written in several other genres, including essays, short stories, and is the author of the novel Red Dog, Red Dog.-Biography:...

     (born 1939), Canadian poet
  • Priscilla Lane (1915–1995), one of the Lane Sisters
    Lane Sisters
    The Lane Sisters refers to a group of sisters, three of whom achieved success in the 1920s and 1930s as a singing act, with their popularity onstage leading to a series of successful films. A fourth sister was not successful and left this milieu and a fifth avoided show business altogether...


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  • Ralph Lane
    Ralph Lane
    Sir Ralph Lane was an English explorer of the Elizabethan era. He was part of the unsuccessful attempt in 1585 to colonize Roanoke Island, North Carolina. He also served the Crown in Ireland and was knighted by the Queen in 1593....

     (c.1530-1603), English explorer
  • Richard James Lane
    Richard James Lane
    Richard James Lane was a prolific English Victorian engraver and lithographer. The National Portrait Gallery has some 850 lithographs of his portraits and figure studies, done between 1825 and 1850. The images include portraits of royalty, society notables and theatre personalities.-Life:The elder...

     (1800–1872), English master lithographer and line-engraver
  • Richard Lane
    Richard Douglas Lane
    Richard Lane was an American scholar, author, collector, and dealer of Japanese art. He lived in Japan for much of his life, and had a long association with the Honolulu Academy of Arts in Hawaii, which now holds his vast art collection.-Life:...

     (1936–2002), scholar, author, collector, and dealer of Japanese art
  • Richard Lane (architect)
    Richard Lane (architect)
    Richard Lane was a distinguished English architect of the early and mid 19th century. Born in London and based in Manchester, he was known in great part for his restrained and austere Greek-inspired classicism. He also designed a few buildings – mainly churches – in the Gothic style...

     (1795–1880), English architect of the late Georgian
    Georgian architecture
    Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840. It is eponymous for the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover—George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United...

     and early Victorian
    Victorian architecture
    The term Victorian architecture refers collectively to several architectural styles employed predominantly during the middle and late 19th century. The period that it indicates may slightly overlap the actual reign, 20 June 1837 – 22 January 1901, of Queen Victoria. This represents the British and...

     period.
  • Richard Lane (writer)
    Richard Lane (writer)
    Richard Lane was an Australian writer known particularly for his skillful adaptation of plays and films for radio. He is often called the father of Australian radio drama. His career spanned over 60 years, and he is recognised not only for his writing achievements but for his contribution to the...

     (1918–2008), Australian playwright/dramatist
  • Ronnie Lane
    Ronnie Lane
    Ronald Frederick "Ronnie" Lane was an English musician, songwriter, and producer who is best known as the bass guitarist and founding member of two prominent English rock and roll bands; the Small Faces where he was nicknamed "Plonk", – and, after losing the band's frontman, Faces, with two new...

     (1946–1997), British singer and songwriter
  • Rose Wilder Lane
    Rose Wilder Lane
    Rose Wilder Lane was an American journalist, travel writer, novelist, and political theorist...

     (1886–1968), U.S. writer
  • Rosemary Lane
    Lane Sisters
    The Lane Sisters refers to a group of sisters, three of whom achieved success in the 1920s and 1930s as a singing act, with their popularity onstage leading to a series of successful films. A fourth sister was not successful and left this milieu and a fifth avoided show business altogether...

     (1914–1974), one of the Lane Sisters
    Lane Sisters
    The Lane Sisters refers to a group of sisters, three of whom achieved success in the 1920s and 1930s as a singing act, with their popularity onstage leading to a series of successful films. A fourth sister was not successful and left this milieu and a fifth avoided show business altogether...

  • Roy Lane
    Roy Lane
    Roy Lane was a British racing driver. He is best known for his great success in hillclimbing, having won the British Hillclimb Championship on four occasions in a career spanning more than three decades...

    , British racing driver

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  • Sam Lane
  • Samantha Lane
    Samantha Lane
    Samantha Jane Lane is an Australian television personality, sports reporter and daughter of football journalist and commentator Tim Lane....

  • Sarah Lane
    Sarah Lane
    Sarah Christina Lane is an American television and Internet personality. She is most notably known for her appearances on TechTV's The Screen Savers, G4's Attack of the Show!, and Revision3's popSiren...

     (born 1976), U.S. television personality
  • Selwyn George (Bill) Lane
    Selwyn George (Bill) Lane
    Selwyn George Lane E.D. R.L. was an Australian amateur ornithologist who worked for the Sydney County Council for most of life until he retired in 1983. He joined the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union in 1947, was a State Representative for NSW on that body 1964-1967, and a Vice President...

    , Australian ornithologist
  • Shawn Lane
    Shawn Lane
    Shawn Lane was an American musician. Although piano was his first instrument, he quickly became a noted player in underground guitar circles and joined Black Oak Arkansas when he was just fourteen years old....

     (1963–2003), U.S. musician (Black Oak Arkansas)
  • Stan Lane
    Stan Lane
    Wallace Stanfield "Stan" Lane is an American professional wrestler, trained by Ric Flair, who started wrestling in 1974 in Championship Wrestling from Florida. For a brief time in Florida, he was nicknamed Nature Boy...

     (born 1953), U.S. professional wrestler
  • Stanley Lane-Poole
    Stanley Lane-Poole
    Stanley Lane-Poole was a British orientalist and archaeologist. His uncle was Edward William Lane.Born in London, England, from 1874 to 1892 he worked in the British Museum, and after that in Egypt researching on Egyptian archaeology...


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  • Terry Lane
    Terry Lane
    Terry Lane is a radio broadcaster and newspaper columnist based in Melbourne, Australia.He was born in South Australia and educated at Gawler High School. After studying for the ministry at the Churches of Christ College of the Bible in Melbourne, Lane was a minister for six years before working in...

    , Australian radio broadcaster and newspaper columnist
  • Thomas Lane, various including:
    • Thomas Lane (VC), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Thomas J. Lane
    Thomas J. Lane
    Thomas Joseph Lane was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1941 to 1963, notable for having been re-elected after serving time in federal prison....

  • Tim Lane (disambiguation)
  • Tory Lane
    Tory Lane
    Tory Lane is an American nude model, exotic dancer, pornographic actress and adult film director.Lane was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and is of Polish and Italian descent. She worked as a bartender at a club called The Elbo Room on Ft. Lauderdale Beach...


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  • Walter P. Lane
    Walter P. Lane
    Walter Paye Lane was a Confederate general during the American Civil War who also served in the armies of the Republic of Texas and the United States of America.-Early life:...

     (1817–1892), Confederate general
  • William Lane
    William Lane
    William Lane was a journalist, advocate of Australian labour politics and a utopian.-Early life:Lane was born in Bristol, England, eldest son of James Lane,from Ireland a Protestant Master Gardener , and his English wife Caroline, née Hall...

     (1861–1917), Australian labour leader
  • William Carr Lane
    William Carr Lane
    William Carr Lane was a doctor and the first Mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, serving from 1823 to 1829 and 1837 to 1840...

  • William Henry Lane, known as Master Juba
  • William Preston Lane, Jr.
    William Preston Lane, Jr.
    William Preston Lane, Jr. was the 52nd Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1947 to 1951.-Early life and career:...

     (1892–1967), U.S. politician

Fictional characters

  • Drury Lane (fictional detective)
    Drury Lane (fictional detective)
    Drury Lane is a fictional detective created by Ellery Queen in the 1930s under the byline of Barnaby Ross. He is a retired Shakespearian actor who lives in a lavish castle on the Hudson River. His backstory involves leaving the theatre because he lost his sense of hearing, and the novels...

    , created by Ellery Queen
  • Jane Lane
    Jane Lane (Daria)
    Jane Lane is a fictional character who appeared regularly on the MTV cartoon show Daria, voiced by Wendy Hoopes.In the show, she was main character Daria Morgendorffer's best friend and as of the show's final season was aged 18 years. She lived at 111 Howard Drive in Lawndale, and graduated from...

     (Daria)
  • Lois Lane
    Lois Lane
    Lois Lane is a fictional character, the primary love interest of Superman in the comic books of DC Comics. Created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, she first appeared in Action Comics #1 ....

     (Superman stories)
  • Lucy Lane
    Lucy Lane
    Lucy Lane is a fictional character in the DC universe. She is the younger sister of Lois Lane and the most recent person to take on the identity of Superwoman.-Fictional character biography:...

    , Lois Lane's sister
  • Sam Lane, Lois & Lucy's father
  • Brian Lane (New Tricks)
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