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Thane , is a city in Maharashtra, India, part of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, northeastern suburb of Mumbai at the head of the Thane Creek. It is the administrative headquarters of Thane district. On 16 April 1853, G.I.P...

is a city in Maharashtra, India.

Thane may also refer to:

Place names

  • Thane (Juneau), Alaska, United States
  • Thane (Lok Sabha constituency)
    Thane (Lok Sabha Constituency)
    Thane Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 48 Lok Sabha constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India.-Assembly segments:...

    , a Lok Sabha parliamentary constituency

Other uses

  • Thane (Scotland)
    Thane (Scotland)
    Thane was the title given to a local royal official in medieval eastern Scotland, equivalent to a count, who was at the head of an administrative and socio-economic unit known as a shires or thanages....

    , a hereditary non-military tenant of the Crown in medieval Scotland
    • Thane, a title for Macbeth
      Macbeth (character)
      Macbeth is the title character in William Shakespeare's Macbeth . The character is based on the historical king Macbeth of Scotland, and is derived largely from the account in Holinshed's Chronicles , a history of Britain. Macbeth is a Scottish noble and a valiant military man. He is portrayed...

       in Shakespeare's play Macbeth
  • HMS Thane (D48)
    HMS Thane (D48)
    The USS Sunset was assigned on 23 August 1942 to MC hull 259, a modified C3-S-A1 laid down on 23 February 1943 by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding of Tacoma, Washington; launched on 15 July and redesignated CVE-48 the same day; sponsored by Mrs. C.E...

    , a Bogue class aircraft carrier
  • Thane, the marble figure in the Titanic Memorial
    Titanic Memorial (Belfast)
    The Titanic Memorial is a memorial in Belfast, Northern Ireland to those who died in the disaster. It is located in the grounds of Belfast City Hall. For some time it was obscured by the Belfast Wheel which was removed in April 2010.-Construction:...

    , Belfast

People with the surname

  • Elswyth Thane
    Elswyth Thane
    Helen Elswyth Thane Ricker Beebe was an American romance novelist. Born in Burlington, Iowa, she was the daughter of a local teacher and high school principal." The family moved to New York City in 1918, and "Helen Ricker" changed her name to "Elswyth Thane"...

     (1900–1984), American romance novelist
  • Lucy Thane
    Lucy Thane
    Lucy Thane is a documentary filmmaker.One of her most notable works is It Changed My Life: Bikini Kill In The UK in which she followed the 1990s riot grrrl band Bikini Kill while they were on tour in the UK with Huggy Bear....

     (21st century), American documentary filmmaker

People with the given name

  • Thane Baker
    Thane Baker
    Walter Thane Baker is a former American athlete and winner of the gold medal in the 4x100 m relay at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with a new world record of 39.5 seconds. At those Olympics Baker also won a silver medal in the 100-meter and a bronze in the 200-meter...

     (born 1931), American former athlete
  • Thane Bettany
    Thane Bettany
    Thane William Howard Hardcastle Christopher Bettany is a British actor and former dancer. He is the father of film actor Paul Bettany and father-in-law of the Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Connelly.-Early years:...

     (born 1930), English actor
  • Thane Campbell (1895–1978), Prince Edward Island politician and jurist
  • Thane Camus
    Thane Camus
    -Biography:Camus was born in New York on November 27, 1970. He is the grandson of Nobel Prize laureate novelist/philosopher Albert Camus. Camus arrived in Japan in 1980 and graduated from a board school in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was the first male graduate of St. Maur International...

     (born 1970), French American screen actor
  • Thane Gustafson
    Thane Gustafson
    Thane Gustafson is a professor of political science at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA. He specializes in comparative politics and the political history of Russia and the former USSR....

    , political scientist
  • Thane Houser
    Thane Houser
    Thane Houser was an American racecar driver. He was the uncle of fellow driver Norm Houser....

     (1891–1967), American racecar driver
  • Thane Maynard
    Thane Maynard
    Thane Maynard is a wildlife expert. In addition to being the President of the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, he is an author and the host of The 90-Second Naturalist, a 1½-minute radio program played on WGUC. Regularly appearing on Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Maynard has also been featured...

    , wildlife expert
  • Thane Rosenbaum
    Thane Rosenbaum
    Thane Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, and law professor . He is the author of two novels, The Golems of Gotham and Second Hand Smoke , and a collection of short stories, Elijah Visible Thane Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, and law professor (http://thanerosenbaum.com/). He is the author of...

    , American novelist

Fictional

  • Thane Krios, a character from Mass Effect 2

See also

  • Thegn
    Thegn
    The term thegn , from OE þegn, ðegn "servant, attendant, retainer", is commonly used to describe either an aristocratic retainer of a king or nobleman in Anglo-Saxon England, or as a class term, the majority of the aristocracy below the ranks of ealdormen and high-reeves...

    , a retainer, attendant, servant or official of a king or other noble lord in Anglo-Saxon England and early medieval Scandinavia
  • Thain
    Thain
    In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, the Thain was the traditional military leader of the Hobbits of the Shire. The Hobbits first chose a Thain to "hold the authority of the king" when Arvedui, last King of Arnor, was lost and the kingship in the North discontinued. The...

    , the leader of the Took clan of Hobbits in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth
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