Places

• Lyon, Mississippi
  Lyon, Mississippi
  Lyon is a town in Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 418 at the 2000 census.-History:The village is named after the French city of Lyon, Rhône-Alpes. Lyon's biggest claim to fame is it is the site of Robert Johnson's murder. Robert Johnson was playing at a nightclub in...
  
  , USA
• Lyon Mountain (disambiguation), any of several places and mountains with the name
• Lyon, Perth and Kinross, Scotland
• Lyon County (disambiguation) for 5 US counties named Lyon
• Lyon Township (disambiguation) for several US townships named Lyon
• Lyon Village, Arlington, Virginia
• Loch Lyon
  Loch Lyon
  Loch Lyon is a freshwater loch in Glen Lyon, located in Perthshire, Scotland, which feeds the River Lyon, a tributary of the River Tay. The original natural loch was much expanded by a hydro-electric dam, part of the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Breadalbane scheme....
  
  , a lake in Scotland
• Fort Lyon
  Fort Lyon
  Fort Lyon, first named Fort Wise, was operated on the Colorado eastern plains until 1867. That year a new fort called Fort Lyon, and later Las Animas, Colorado, U.S. Naval Hospital and 5BN117, was built near the present-day town of Las Animas, Colorado. First named after Virginia governor Henry...
  
  , a former US Army base in Colorado
• Fort Lyon (Virginia), a temporary fortification erected to defend Washington DC during the American Civil War

Science

• The Lyon hypothesis, see X-inactivation
  X-inactivation
  X-inactivation is a process by which one of the two copies of the X chromosome present in female mammals is inactivated. The inactive X chromosome is silenced by packaging into transcriptionally inactive heterochromatin...
  
  
• 9381 Lyon
  9381 Lyon
  9381 Lyon is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 15, 1993 by H. Debehogne and E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...
  
  , a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1993

Organizations and institutions

• The Lyon-based football club, Olympique Lyonnais
  Olympique Lyonnais
  Olympique Lyonnais is a French association football club based in Lyon. They play in France's highest football division, Ligue 1. The club was formed as Lyon Olympique Universitaire in 1899, according to many supporters and sport historians, but was nationally established as a club in 1950. The...
  
  
• Lyon's
  Lyon's
  Lyon's Restaurant is a chain of diner-style restaurants, similar to Denny's. Their sites are all in Northern California, with their corporate headquarters in Sacramento.-History:...
  
  , a chain of restaurants headquartered in the US state of California
• J. Lyons and Co.
  J. Lyons and Co.
  J. Lyons & Co. was a market-dominant British restaurant-chain, food-manufacturing, and hotel conglomerate founded in 1887 as a spin-off from the Salmon & Gluckstein tobacco company....
  
  , a chain of restaurants in England
• Lyon & Healy, US company which manufactured harps
• Lyon & Lyon LLP
  Lyon & Lyon LLP
  Lyon & Lyon LLP was a Los Angeles-based law firm that specialized in domestic and international intellectual property law matters, with over 100 patent lawyers in six offices in California, New York, and Washington D.C. It was founded in 1901 when Frederick Saxton Lyon began practicing patent law...
  
  , a US legal company
• Lyon College
  Lyon College
  Lyon College is an independent, residential, co-educational, undergraduate liberal arts college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church . Founded in 1872, it is the oldest independent college in Arkansas...
  
  , an undergraduate liberal arts college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church
• Lyon Court, the institution that regulates heraldry in Scotland
• Lyon School
  Lyon School
  The Lyon School is a term for a group of French artists which gathered around Paul Chenavard. It was founded by Pierre Revoil, one of the representatives of the Troubadour style. It included Victor Orsel, Louis Janmot and Hippolyte Flandrin, and was nicknamed "the prison of painting" by Charles...
  
  , a style of painting that flourished around 1800
• Council of Lyon, two ecclesiastical councils of the Middle Ages held in Lyon, France:
  • First Council of Lyon
    First Council of Lyon
    The First Council of Lyon was the thirteenth ecumenical council, as numbered by the Catholic Church, taking place in 1245.The First General Council of Lyon was presided over by Pope Innocent IV...
    
     (1245; Pope Innocent IV; regarding the Crusades)
  • Second Council of Lyon
    Second Council of Lyon
    The Second Council of Lyon was the fourteenth ecumenical council of the Catholic Church, convoked on 31 March 1272 and convened in Lyon, France, in 1274. Pope Gregory X presided over the council, called to act on a pledge by Byzantine emperor Michael VIII to reunite the Eastern church with the West...
    
     (1274; Pope Gregory X; regarding papal election procedures)
• Lord Lyon King of Arms
  Lord Lyon King of Arms
  The Lord Lyon King of Arms, the head of Lyon Court, is the most junior of the Great Officers of State in Scotland and is the Scottish official with responsibility for regulating heraldry in that country, issuing new grants of arms, and serving as the judge of the Court of the Lord Lyon, the oldest...
  
  , head of Lyon Court, a Scottish heraldic official
• Clan Lyon
  Clan Lyon
  Clan Lyon is a Scottish clan, but is not associated with the lands of Glen Lyon in Perthshire, Scotland.-Origin of the name:*Leon, Normandy, France....
  
  , Scottish clan associated with the lands of Glen Lyon in Perthshire, Scotland

Naval vessels

• Lyon class battleship
  Lyon class battleship
  The Lyon was a class of battleship which was planned for the French Navy, beginning in 1914. However, construction was halted and then cancelled due to the outbreak of World War I. No ship of the Lyon type was laid down.-Design:...
  
  , a proposed fleet of 4 battleshipf for the French Navy (1914)
• General Lyon
  General Lyon
  General Lyon was a U.S. screw steamer built in the spring of 1863 ....
  
  , a US steamship (1863)
• USS General Lyon (1860)
  USS General Lyon (1860)
  USS General Lyon, originally the De Soto, was recaptured from the Confederate States of America and renamed the USS De Soto, and then USS General Lyon, after Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon....
  
  , US warship in US Civil War
• USS Lyon (AP-71)
  USS Lyon (AP-71)
  USS Lyon was a ship of the United States Navy which played an extensive role in naval transportation during World War II. The Lyon was built as the Mormactide under a Maritime Commission contract by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Company of Pascagoula, Mississippi. She was laid down August 21, 1939, and...
  
  , a US warship of World War II

People with the family name Lyon

• A. Laurence Lyon
  A. Laurence Lyon
  A. Laurence Lyon was a prolific composer of music, usually sacred music with a Latter-day Saint theme. He also served for 30 years as a professor at Western Oregon University.Lyon was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands where his father, T...
  
   (1934-2006), US music composer
• Alex Lyon
  Alex Lyon
  Alexander Ward Lyon was a British Labour politician.- Early life :Lyon was educated at West Leeds High School and University College, London. He became a barrister, called to the Bar at Inner Temple in 1954. He was a member of the Bar Council and of the Fabian Society...
  
   (1931-1993), British politician
• Alistair Lyon
  Alistair Lyon
  Alastair Lyon is a South African rugby union player. A prop forward, he currently plays his club rugby for Newport Gwent Dragons.-External links:*...
  
  , South African rugby player
• Arthur Lyon
  Arthur Lyon
  Arthur Lyon was an American Olympic fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team foil event at the 1920 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
   (1876-1952), US fencer
• Arthur Sidney Lyon
  Arthur Sidney Lyon
  Arthur Sidney Lyon , was a journalist and newspaper proprietor, who was also known as 'the father of the press in colonial Queensland'...
  
   (1817-1861), Australian newspaper pioneer
• Asa Lyon
  Asa Lyon
  Asa Lyon was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Pomfret, Connecticut. He attended the common schools and was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1790. He was a divinity student with the Rev. Charles Backus at Somers, Connecticut and was ordained the pastor of the...
  
   (1763-1841), US politician
• Babe Lyon
  Babe Lyon
  George Cardinal Lyon was a professional football player in the National Football League and the second American Football League. Over the span of his career, Babe played for the New York Giants, Portsmouth Spartans, Cleveland Indians, Chicago Bears, Brooklyn Dodgers and St. Louis Gunners of the NFL...
  
   (1907-1970), US football player
• Barbara Lyon
  Barbara Lyon
  Barbara Bebe Lyon was a singer of popular songs and actress, born in the United States but primarily active in the United Kingdom....
  
   (1931-1995), US-born female singer who lived and worked mostly in England
• Barrett Lyon
  Barrett Lyon
  -Early life and education:The son of a lawyer, Lyon was raised in Auburn, California. Although he initially struggled in school due to dyslexia, in middle school he became fascinated with computers. He soon found that the methods he used to overcome dyslexia allowed him to quickly gain an expert...
  
   (born 1978), US computer entrepreneur
• Ben Lyon
  Ben Lyon
  Ben Lyon was an American film actor and a 20th Century Fox studio executive.-Life:Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Lyon entered films in 1918 after a successful appearance on Broadway opposite Jeanne Eagels. He attracted attention in the highly successful film Flaming Youth , and steadily developed into...
  
   (1901-1979), US film actor
• Ben Lyon (explorer), British cave explorer
• Beverley Lyon
  Beverley Lyon
  Beverley Hamilton "Bev" Lyon, born at Caterham, Surrey on 19 January 1902 and died at Balcombe, Sussex on 22 June 1970, was a cricketer who played for Oxford University and Gloucestershire...
  
   (1902-1970), British cricketer
• Bill Lyon
  Bill Lyon
  Bill Lyon was an Australian rules footballer who played with University in the Victorian Football League in 1910 and 1911.-Sources:...
  
  , Australian football player
• Billy Lyon
  Billy Lyon
  William Morton Lyon is a former American football defensive end and defensive tackle in the National Football League who played for the Green Bay Packers and the Minnesota Vikings. Lyon played collegiate ball for Marshall University and played professionally for 6 seasons...
  
   (born 1973), US football player
• Bob Lyon
  Bob Lyon
  Bob Lyon, an American politician, is a former Kansas State Senator from the city of Winchester. A civil engineer, Lyon is a graduate of the University of Virginia and George Washington University....
  
  , US politician
• Brandon Lyon
  Brandon Lyon
  Brandon James Lyon is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the Houston Astros. He throws a 4-seam fastball, 12-6 curveball, slider, and changeup.-Toronto Blue Jays:...
  
   (born 1979), American baseball pitcher
• Bruce Lyon
  Bruce Lyon
  Bruce Lyon is an Oscar winning film producer, animator, and artist.In 1980 he won an Academy Award in the Scientific Technical Achievement Category for inventing the Lyon Lamb Video Animation System a single frame video device for pre-testing animation art before it's committed to final production...
  
  , US film producer
• Caleb Lyon
  Caleb Lyon
  Caleb Lyon was governor of Idaho Territory from 1864 to 1865 during the last half of the American Civil War....
  
   (1822-1875), US politician (Governor of Idaho Territory)
• Charles Lyon
  Charles Lyon
  Charles Harry Lyon DSO, CMG was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1902.Lyon was born at The Lodge, Rocester, Staffordshire, the son of Charles William Lyon and his wife Florence...
  
   (1878-1959), British cricketer
• Charles W. Lyon
  Charles W. Lyon
  Charles W. Lyon was an American attorney from California who served as a Republican in the California State Assembly and the California State Senate. Lyon was Assembly Speaker from 1943 to 1946. Lyon was admitted to the Bar in 1910 and was first elected to the Assembly in 1914...
  
   (1887-1960), US politician
• Chittenden Lyon
  Chittenden Lyon
  Chittenden Lyon was a United States Representative from Kentucky and the son of Matthew Lyon. He was born in Fair Haven, Vermont and attended the common schools. In 1801, he moved to Kentucky with his parents, who settled in Caldwell County, Kentucky...
  
   (1787-1842), US politician
• Christopher Lyon
  Christopher Lyon
  Christopher Lyon is an opposition researcher who has worked for Republican party candidates in New York, Virginia, New Jersey, and on the national level....
  
  , US political worker
• Daniel Lyon
  Super Dragon
  Daniel Lyon , better known by his ring name Super Dragon, is an American professional wrestler. Beginning his career in 1997, he has competed in companies such as All Pro Wrestling, Revolution Pro, Combat Zone Wrestling, All Japan Pro Wrestling and Ring of Honor...
  
   (born 1975), US wrestler (professional name Super Dragon)
• Danny Lyon (born 1942), US photographer and filmmaker
• Dave Lyon
  Dave Lyon
  David George "Dave" Lyon is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League as a defender for Bury, Huddersfield Town, Mansfield Town, Cambridge United and Northampton Town during the 1960s and 1970s.-References:...
  
   (born 1951), English footballer
• David Lyon, Canadian university professor
• David Murray Lyon (1819-1903), Scottish historian
• Dar Lyon
  Dar Lyon
  Malcolm Douglas Lyon , generally known as Dar Lyon was an English first-class cricketer who played for Somerset County Cricket Club through the 1920s...
  
   (1898-1964), English cricketer
• Duffy Lyon (1929 – 2011), American farmer and butter sculptor
• Edward E. Lyon
  Edward E. Lyon
  Edward Eugene Lyon was a United States Army private received the Medal of Honor for actions on May 13, 1899 during the Philippine–American War. Private Lyon was part of the Young's Scouts, 2nd Oregon Volunteer Regiment...
  
   (1871-1931), US soldier and war hero
• Elinor Lyon
  Elinor Lyon
  Elinor Bruce Lyon was an English children's author.Lyon was born in Guisborough, Yorkshire and educated at Headington School, Oxford. Her father was P. H. B. Lyon. After living for a time in Switzerland, she returned to Oxford to read English at Lady Margaret Hall just as World War II began...
  
   (1921-2008), English female author
• Ernest Russell Lyon
  Ernest Russell Lyon
  Ernest Russell Lyon was a Flying Officer in 234 Squadron of the Royal Air Force during part of World War 2. He was known as Russell. Volunteering to join the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve just three months after his 18th birthday he undertook pilot training in the USA, after which he became a...
  
   1922-1944 RAF 234 Squadron Spitfire Pilot
• Francis D. Lyon
  Francis D. Lyon
  Francis D. Lyon was an American film director and film editor. He and Robert Parrish won the Academy Award for Film Editing for the 1947 film, Body and Soul....
  
   (1905–1996), American film editor
• Francis Strother Lyon
  Francis Strother Lyon
  Francis Strother Lyon was a prominent Alabama attorney and politician. He served two terms in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War after being an antebellum member of the United States Congress.-Early life:Lyon was born in Stokes County, North Carolina...
  
   (1800–1882), American and Confederate States politician
• Frederick A. Lyon
  Frederick A. Lyon
  Frederick A. Lyon was a corporal in the Union Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in the American Civil War.-Medal of Honor citation:...
  
   (1843-1911), US soldier in the Union Army during the US Civil War, war hero
• Gail Lyon
  Gail Lyon
  - Filmography :*Gattaca*Erin Brokovich *Stewart Little 2 *Win a Date With Tad Hamilton *Stick It *Edge of Darkness - External links :* at the Internet Movie Database*...
  
  , US filmmaker
• Garry Lyon
  Garry Lyon
  Garry Peter Lyon is a former professional Australian rules football player and was captain of the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League. Since his retirement from football, he has been mainly an Australian rules football media personality, featuring on television, radio and in...
  
   (born 1967), Australian rules footballer
• George Lyon (disambiguation)
  George Lyon (disambiguation)
  George Lyon may refer to:*Babe Lyon , American football player*George Lyon , Scottish Liberal Democrat politician...
  
  , any of several men with the name
• Gordon Lyon, computer expert
• Guy J. Lyon
  Guy J. Lyon
  Guy J. Lyon was an American horse trainer in Thoroughbred racing. He trained primarily in New Jersey for more than three decades. Among his stakes race wins were the 1980 Lamplighter and Eatontown Handicaps at Monmouth Park Racetrack.Lyon was living at Eatontown, New Jersey at the time of his...
  
   (1933-2001), US horse trainer
• Harris Merton Lyon
  Harris Merton Lyon
  -Biography:Harris Merton Lyon was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1882. He attended the University of Missouri while working at a restaurant and laundrette. By the early 1900s, he moved to New York City to work as a journalist and as a short story writer...
  
   (1882-1916), US author
• Harry Lyon (disambiguation), any of several men with the name
• Hart Lyon (1721-1800), Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom
• Homer L. Lyon
  Homer L. Lyon
  Homer Le Grand Lyon was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.Born in Elizabethtown, North Carolina, Lyon attended the public schools, the Davis Military School, Winston, North Carolina, and the law department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.He was admitted to the bar in...
  
   (1879-1956), US politician
• Hylan B. Lyon
  Hylan B. Lyon
  Hylan Benton Lyon was a career officer in the United States Army until the start of the American Civil War, when he resigned rather than fight against the South...
  
   (1836-1907), Confederate General in the US Civil War
• Ivan Lyon
  Ivan Lyon
  Lieutenant-Colonel Ivan Lyon DSO, MBE was a British soldier and military intelligence agent during Second World War...
  
   (1915-1944), British soldier and war hero
• James Lyon (disambiguation), any of several men with the name
• Jamie Lyon
  Jamie Lyon
  Jamie Lyon is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who currently captains for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles of the National Rugby League...
  
   (born 1982), Australian rugby league player
• Jason Lyon
  Jason Lyon
  Jason Lyon is an archer from Canada. Lyon is a member of the Canadian National archery team who has competed in the 2004 World Junior Archery Championships, 2005 World Senior Archery Championships, the 2007 World Senior Archery Championships, the 2007 Pan-American Games and many other events...
  
   (born 1986), Australian archer
• Jean Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne
  Jean Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne
  Jean Lyon was the Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne and the wife of Thomas Lyon, 8th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and one of the ancestors of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon...
  
   (1713-1778), British female member of royalty
• Jennifer Lyon
  Jennifer Lyon
  Jennifer "Jenn" Jane Lyon was one of the competitors in Survivor: Palau. Lyon finished fourth in the competition. Lyon was the first former castaway of Survivor to die.-Early life:...
  
   (1972-2010), US television actress
• Jimmy Lyon
  Jimmy Lyon
  Jimmy Lyon is an American rock guitarist.Lyon is known primarily as the guitarist for Eddie Money in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and as a member of the Greg Kihn Band in the early 1990s....
  
   (born 1955), US rock musician
• Jo Anne Lyon (born 1940), US female religious figure
• John Lyon (disambiguation), any of several men with the name
• Joshua Lyon
  Joshua Lyon
  Joshua Kennedy Lyon is an American journalist and author. Lyon has worked for several major print publications, as well as the Sundance Channel. He is the author of Pill Head: The Secret Life of a Painkiller Addict, published by Hyperion on July 7, 2009...
  
   (born 1974), US author
• Juliet Lyon
  Juliet Lyon
  Juliet Lyon CBE is the director of the Prison Reform Trust.-External links:*...
  
  , director of Prison Reform Trust
• Leo De Lyon
  Leo De Lyon
  Leo De Lyon is an American voice actor famous for his role as Spook and Brain in the cartoon Top Cat. In the mid and late 1970s he performed on stage as pianist and vocal entertainer and was musical director for several artists s.a. Sandler and Young...
  
  , US voice actor
• Lisa Lyon
  Lisa Lyon
  Lisa Lyon is a female bodybuilder from the United States. Her stats as taken on October 1980: She stands at 5'3" and weighs only 105 pounds, but she can dead-lift 225 pounds, bench-press 120 pounds, and squat 265 pounds; two and a half times her own weight....
  
   (born 1953), US female bodybuilder
• Lucius Lyon
  Lucius Lyon
  Lucius Lyon was a U.S. statesman from the state of Michigan. He was born in Shelburne, Vermont, where he received a common school education and studied engineering and surveying...
  
   (1800-1851), US politician
• Mary Lyon
  Mary Lyon
  Mary Mason Lyon , surname pronounced , was a pioneer in women's education. She established the Wheaton Female Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts, . Within two years, she raised $15,000 to build the Mount Holyoke School...
  
   (1797 - 1849), female pioneer in women's education in America
• Mary Lyon (writer)
  Mary Lyon (writer)
  Mary Lyon is an American columnist, political commentator and jewelry designer.-Early life and education:Lyon received a bachelor's degree in Studio Art from the University of California, Irvine.-Career:...
  
  , US female author
• Mary F. Lyon
  Mary F. Lyon
  Mary Frances Lyon, FRS is an English geneticist, who is best known for her discovery of X-chromosome inactivation, an important cytogenetic phenomenon.-Childhood and education:...
  
   (born 1925), English female geneticist
• Matthew Lyon
  Matthew Lyon
  Matthew Lyon , father of Chittenden Lyon and great-grandfather of William Peters Hepburn, was a printer, farmer, soldier and politician, serving as a United States Representative from both Vermont and Kentucky....
  
   (1749-1822), US politician
• Myer Lyon
  Myer Lyon
  Myer Lyon , better known by his stage name Michael Leoni, was a hazzan at the Great Synagogue of London who achieved fame as a tenor opera singer in London and Dublin, and as the mentor of the singer John Braham.-Origins and early career:Myer Lyon was appointed meshorrer to Isaac Polack, hazzan...
  
   (1750-1797), German-born English singer
• Nathan Lyon (chef), US television personality and chef
• Nathan Lyon (cricketer)
  Nathan Lyon (cricketer)
  Nathan Lyon is an Australian cricketer. He has also worked as a member of the ground staff team at the Adelaide Oval after completing a four year apprenticeship at Manuka Oval.-Early career:...
  
  , Australian cricketer
• Nathaniel Lyon
  Nathaniel Lyon
  Nathaniel Lyon was the first Union general to be killed in the American Civil War and is noted for his actions in the state of Missouri at the beginning of the conflict....
  
   (1818–1861), US Civil War general
• Nick Lyon
  Nick Lyon
  Nick Lyon is a Los Angeles-based director and writer. A native of Portland, Oregon, he spent 9 years in Germany where he attended the renowned Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany....
  
  , US filmmaker
• Noah Lyon
  Noah Lyon
  Noah Lyon is a visual artist and musician based in New York City.A graduate of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Noah Lyon works in drawing, painting, artist's books, sound, video, new media, writing, performance and installation...
  
   (born 1979), US artist
• Peter Lyon
  Peter Lyon
  Peter Lyon is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League during the 1960s....
  
   (born 1941), Australian football player
• Richard Lyon (disambiguation), any of several men with the name
• Rick Lyon
  Rick Lyon
  Rick Lyon is a puppeteer, actor, and puppet designer and builder originally from Rochester, New York, who has worked for the Jim Henson Company as one of the operators of Big Bird...
  
  , US puppeteer
• Robert Lyon (disambiguation), any of several men with the name
• Rod Lyon
  Rod Lyon
  Rod Lyon was born in Cornwall and trained as a civil engineer. After spending some early years at sea, he worked until retirement as a Local Government Officer. He was the Grand Bard of the Gorseth Kernow between 2003-2006 with the bardic name of "Tewennow"...
  
  , British radio personality
• Ross Lyon
  Ross Lyon
  Ross Lyon is a former Australian rules football player for Fitzroy and the Brisbane Bears. He is the current senior coach of the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League .-Playing career:...
  
   (born 1966), Australian football player and coach
• Russ Lyon
  Russ Lyon
  Russell Mayo Lyon was a Major League Baseball catcher who played for one season. He played in seven games for the Cleveland Indians during the 1944 Cleveland Indians season.-External links:...
  
   (1913-1975), US baseball player
• Sterling Lyon
  Sterling Lyon
  Sterling Rufus Lyon, PC, OC was a lawyer, cabinet minister, and the 17th Premier of Manitoba, Canada from 1977 to 1981. His government introduced several fiscally-conservative measures, and was sometimes seen as a local version of the government of Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom...
  
   (born 1927), Premier of Manitoba from 1977 to 1981
• Steve Lyon
  Steve Lyon
  Steve Lyon is a professional ice hockey player who played three games in the National Hockey League. He played with the Pittsburgh Penguins.- References :...
  
   (born 1952), Canadian hockey player
• Sue Lyon
  Sue Lyon
  - Lolita :Sue Lyon was 14 years old when she was cast in the role of Dolores "Lolita" Haze, the sexually charged adolescent and the object of an older man's obsessions in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 film, Lolita. She was chosen for the role partly because her curvy figure suggested an older adolescent...
  
  , (born 1946), US actress
• T. Edgar Lyon
  T. Edgar Lyon
  Thomas Edgar "Ed" Lyon was a prominent Latter-day Saint historian and educator. He is most noted for his work on 19th century Latter-day Saint history. He also wrote on Latter-day Saint doctrine....
  
   (1903-1978), US scholar
• Thomas Lyon (disambiguation), any of several men with the name
• Tom Lyon
  Tom Lyon
  Tom Lyon is a British escapologist and magician who has appeared a number times on Blue Peter and Richard & Judy amongst other television shows.-Background:...
  
  , British escape artist
• Waldo K. Lyon
  Waldo K. Lyon
  Waldo Kampmeier Lyon was the founder and chief research scientist for the U.S. Navy of the Arctic Submarine Laboratory at the Naval Electronics Laboratory.He retired in 1996 after 55 years of government service...
  
   (1914-1998), US naval scientist
• Walter Lyon
  Walter Lyon
  Walter Scott Stuart Lyon Son of Walter F. K. and Isabella R. Lyon, of Tantallon Lodge, North Berwick.One of the war poets. He was one of five brothers from North Berwick, Scotland, three of whom were killed in the war and one died at Haileybury...
  
   (1887-1913), British war poet
• Walter Lyon (Pennsylvania)
  Walter Lyon (Pennsylvania)
  Walter Lyon was the Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania from 1895 to 1899.He was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, now part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He also served as the United States District Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania and a member of Pennsylvania State Senate from...
  
   (1853-1933), US politician
• William Lyon
  William Lyon
  William A. Lyon was an American film editor, from 1935 to 1971.He was born in Texas, and died in California. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing six times, and won twice, for From Here to Eternity and Picnic .-External links:...
  
   (1903-1974), US film editor
• William Lyon (bishop)
  William Lyon (bishop)
  -Life:He educated at Oxford, probably either at Oriel College or St, John's College, he went to Ireland about 1570. He became vicar of Naas in 1573, and in 1580 Elizabeth I gave him the additional vicarage of Bodenstown in Kildare. In 1577 he had license to enjoy the profits of his parish even when...
  
   (died 1670), British cleric
• William C. Lyon
  William C. Lyon
  William Cotter Lyon was an American Republican politician who served as the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio from 1888 to 1890....
  
  , US politician (Governor of Ohio 1888-1890)
• William Durie Lyon
  William Durie Lyon
  William Durie Lyon was an Ontario merchant and political figure. He represented Halton in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal member from 1875 to 1879....
  
   (died 1893), Canadian politician
• William P. Lyon
  William P. Lyon
  William Penn Lyon was a Wisconsin jurist, soldier, and legislator.Born in Chatham, New York, Penn and his family moved to Walworth County, Wisconsin. There, he studied law and was admitted to the Wisconsin Bar...
  
   (1822-1913), US politician

Fictional characters

• Lyon (Suikoden), a major character in the video game Suikoden V
• Lyon (Fire Emblem), the main antagonist in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
• Merriman Lyon, a main character in Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising book series