Lon
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In television and film:
- Alice Lon (1926-1981), singer and dancer on the Lawrence Welk Show
- Lon Chaney, Jr.Lon Chaney, Jr.Lon Chaney, Jr. , born Creighton Tull Chaney, was an American character actor. He was best known for his roles in monster movies and as the son of famous silent film actor, Lon Chaney...
(1906-1973), American character actor - Lon Chaney, Sr.Lon Chaney, Sr.Lon Chaney , nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an American actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema...
(1883-1930), American actor during the age of silent films - Lon McCallisterLon McCallisterLon McCallister was an American actor.Born in Los Angeles, he began appearing in movies at the age of 13. The young actor had leads in a number of films; he usually played boyish young men from the country. Growing only to 5'6" he found it difficult to find roles as an adult. He appeared with...
(1923-2005), American actor - NY-LONNY-LONNY-LON is a British drama series that aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. The series was created and written by Simon Burke and Anya Camilleri...
, drama television programme broadcast by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom
In fiction:
- F'lon, fictional character in the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey
- Lon Cohen, fictional character in the Nero WolfeNero WolfeNero Wolfe is a fictional detective, created in 1934 by the American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe's confidential assistant Archie Goodwin narrates the cases of the detective genius. Stout wrote 33 novels and 39 short stories from 1934 to 1974, with most of them set in New York City. Wolfe's...
novels by Rex StoutRex StoutRex Todhunter Stout was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. Stout is best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the... - Lon Lon Ranch, fictional location in the Legend of Zelda series
- Lon Suder, fictional character on the television series Star Trek Voyager
In sports:
- Lon MyersLon MyersLaurence Eugene "Lon" Myers was an American sprinter and middle distance runner.Myers won 28 national championships. He also set world records at 11 different distances, and held every American record for races 50 yards to one mile. Myers set the world quarter-mile record while running the final...
(1858-99), American world-record-setting runner - Lon SimmonsLon SimmonsLon Simmons born on July 19, 1923, in Elko, Nevada, is an American baseball and football broadcaster, and is currently broadcasting part-time for the San Francisco Giants.-Career:...
, American baseball and football broadcaster - Lon WarnekeLon WarnekeLonnie Warneke , nicknamed the "The Arkansas Hummingbird," was a Major League Baseball player, Major League umpire, county judge, U.S. Military serviceman, and businessman from Montgomery County, Arkansas whose career won-loss record as a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs and St...
(1909-1976), American Major League Baseball pitcher
In other fields:
- LON (disambiguation), airports in the London area of the United Kingdom
- The League of Nations, precursor to the United Nations
- Legends of NorrathLegends of NorrathLegends Of Norrath is an online only collectible card game by Sony Online Entertainment. LoN is based on the popular MMORPGs EverQuest and EverQuest II. LoN is playable from within either of the two games, or via a stand-alone client....
, an online trading card game by Sony Online Entertainment - Lon HoriuchiLon HoriuchiLon Tomohisa Horiuchi is a U.S. FBI HRT sniper who was involved in controversial deployments during the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff and 1993 Waco Siege. In 1997, Horiuchi was charged with manslaughter for the death of Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge; the case was dismissed.-Early life:Horiuchi, the son of...
(born 1954), accused sniper in the Ruby Ridge shootings and the Waco standoff - Lon McEachernLon McEachernLon McEachern is an American sports broadcaster, who is most known for his hand-by-hand commentary on The World Series of Poker. McEachern, who graduated from the University of California Santa Barbara with a bachelor’s degree in communications, is also the host of Fox network's On the Pole. He has...
, poker analyst on The World Series of Poker - Lon Milo DuquetteLon Milo DuquetteLon Milo DuQuette, AKA Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford, is an American writer, lecturer, and occultist, best known as an author who applies humor in the field of Western Hermeticism.-Early life:...
(born 1948), American writer, lecturer, and occultist - Lon NolLon NolLon Nol was a Cambodian politician and general who served as Prime Minister of Cambodia twice, as well as serving repeatedly as Defense Minister...
(1913-1985), Cambodian politician, served as Prime Minister of Cambodia and Defence Minister - LonWorksLonWorksLonWorks is a networking platform specifically created to address the needs of control applications. The platform is built on a protocol created by Echelon Corporation for networking devices over media such as twisted pair, powerlines, fiber optics, and RF...
, a control network protocol