Langston is a name of
English origin. People with the name include:
People with the given name
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Langston Galloway (born 1991), American basketball player
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Langston Hall (born 1991), American basketball player
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Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hug ...
(1902–1967), African-American poet, novelist, playwright, and newspaper columnist
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Langston Love
Langston Hasan Love (born April 21, 2002) is an American college basketball player for the Baylor Bears of the Big 12 Conference.
High school career
Love began his high school career at Steele High School in Cibolo, Texas. He averaged 23.1 poi ...
(born 2002), American basketball player
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Langston Moore (born 1981), American football player
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Langston Walker
Langston Branden Walker (born September 3, 1979) is a former American football offensive tackle in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the second round of the 2002 NFL Draft and has also played for the Buffalo B ...
(born 1979), American football player
People with the surname
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Big E Langston
Ettore Ewen (born March 1, 1986) is an American professional wrestler and former powerlifter. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Big E, but is currently inactive due to a broken neck. In ...
(born 1986), American professional wrestler
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Charles Henry Langston (1817–1892), African-American abolitionist and political activist
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Clinton Langston (born 1962), British Anglican priest and military chaplain
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Dicey Langston (1766–1837), Patriot spy at the time of the American Revolution
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Grant Langston (motorcyclist)
Grant Langston (born 17 June 1982), is a South African former professional motocross racer. He competed in the Motocross World Championships from 1998 to 2000 and in the AMA Motocross Championships from 2001 to 2008. He was the 2000 125cc motoc ...
(born 1982), South African motocross champion
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Grant Langston (musician)
Grant Langston (born July 19, 1966 in Gadsden, Alabama) is an American country singer-songwriter.
Langston's music has been featured in a variety of TV shows and films including: HBO's ''True Blood'', ABC TV's ''Army Wives'', the Mike Figgis fil ...
(born 1966), American singer-songwriter
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John Langston (MP) (–1812), English merchant banker and politician, Member of Parliament (MP) 1784–1807
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John Mercer Langston (1829–1897), U.S. civil rights pioneer, first African-American member of Congress
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Mark Langston (born 1960), Major League Baseball pitcher
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Michael Langston
Michael Allen Langston is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Tennessee. In several publications with Michael Fellows in the late 1980s, he showed that the Robertson–Seymour theorem could be used to pr ...
, computer scientist in field of bioinformatics and computational biology
* Murray Langston, Canadian-American known as
The Unknown Comic
Murray Langston (born June 27, 1944), who frequently performed using the stage name "The Unknown Comic", is a Canadian actor and stand-up comedian best known for his performances on '' The Gong Show'', during which he usually appeared with a pa ...
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Peter Langston (born 1946), computer programmer
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Wann Langston, Jr.
Wann Langston Jr. (1921 – April 7, 2013) was an American paleontologist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Langston worked on a number of different reptiles and amphibians in his long career, beginning with the 1950 description ...
(1921–2013), American paleontologist
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William Langston, American neurologist
People with the middle name
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John Langston Gwaltney (1928–1998), African-American writer and anthropologist
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Jamie Langston Turner (born 1949), American novelist
Fictional characters
*Howard Langston, a fictional character from the 1996 film ''
Jingle All the Way''
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Langston Wilde Cramer, a fictional character from the American soap opera ''One Life to Live''
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Langston Field, a fictional technology found in the book ''The Mote in God's Eye''
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Langston Graham, a fictional character from the television series ''Chuck''
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Raymond Langston
Dr. Raymond Langston is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', portrayed by Laurence Fishburne. He joined the show in season 9, after the departure of Gil Grissom, played by William Petersen. His last nam ...
, a fictional character from the television series ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation''
*Sally Langston, a fictional character from the television series ''Scandal''
*Baby Langston, "Sugarland Express"
See also
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