Kurland may refer to:
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Abraham Kurland
Abraham Kurland (10 June 1912 – 14 March 1999) was a Danish Olympic silver medalist wrestler. Kurland won 12 Denmark championships from 1932-49, won a silver medal in lightweight Greco Roman wrestling at the 1932 Olympics and a gold medal i ...
(1912-1999), Danish Olympic medalist in wrestling
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Ben Kurland, American actor
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Bob Kurland
Robert Albert Kurland (December 23, 1924 – September 29, 2013) was a American basketball center, who played for the two-time NCAA champion Oklahoma A&M Aggies (now Oklahoma State Cowboys) basketball team. He led the U.S. basketball team to go ...
, American basketball center
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Cys Kurland
Laicy Cecil "Cys" Kurland was a South African international footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American foot ...
, South African footballer
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Gilbert Kurland
Gilbert Kurland (November 28, 1904 – February 26, 1978) was an American sound engineer and production manager. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the films '' Imitation of Life'' (1934) and ''Bride of ...
, American sound engineer and production manager
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Justine Kurland
Justine Kurland (born 1969) is an American fine art photographer, based in New York City.
Early life and education
Kurland was born in Warsaw, New York. She earned her B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in 1996. She went on to study with Greg ...
, American fine art photographer
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Lynn Kurland
Lynn Kurland is a best-selling American author of historical, time travel, and fantasy romance novels. The characters in most of her books all belong to one of three extended families (Macleod, McKinnon, de Piaget) and her love scenes are not a ...
, American author
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Michael Kurland
Michael Joseph Kurland (born March 1, 1938) is an American author, best known for his works of science fiction and detective fiction. Kurland lives in San Luis Obispo, California.
Writing career
Kurland's early career was devoted to works of sc ...
, American author
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Peter Kurland
Peter Franklin Kurland (born 1958) is an American production sound mixer.
Kurland has done boom operation work along with sound mixing on many films, such as ''Walk the Line'', '' The Ladykillers'', ''Intolerable Cruelty'', ''Men in Black'', '' ...
, American motion picture sound mixer
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Sheldon Kurland
Sheldon "Shelly" Kurland (June 9, 1928 – January 6, 2010) was a violinist and musical arranger who worked as a session musician in Nashville and provided arrangements for a number of prominent country musicians.
Life and career
Sheldon Kurland ...
, American violinist and musical arranger
Places
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Courland
Courland (; lv, Kurzeme; liv, Kurāmō; German and Scandinavian languages: ''Kurland''; la, Curonia/; russian: Курляндия; Estonian: ''Kuramaa''; lt, Kuršas; pl, Kurlandia) is one of the Historical Latvian Lands in western Latvia. ...
(German: ''Kurland''), a region of Latvia
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Curland, a village and civil parish in Somerset, England
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Duchy of Courland and Semigallia
The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia ( la, Ducatus Curlandiæ et Semigalliæ; german: Herzogtum Kurland und Semgallen; lv, Kurzemes un Zemgales hercogiste; lt, Kuršo ir Žiemgalos kunigaikštystė; pl, Księstwo Kurlandii i Semigalii) was ...
, a former duchy in the Baltic region
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Kurland, Norway
Kurland is a village in Viken, Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The ...
, village in Akershus, Norway
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Courland (disambiguation)
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