Lanier is a surname, after which various places, schools, etc, are named.
People
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Lanier (surname) Lanier is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
* Alex Lanier (born 2005), French badminton player
* Allen Lanier (1946–2013), American musician and original member of the band Blue Öyster Cult
* Anthony Lanier (born 1993), America ...
, list of people with the name
Places in the United States
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Lanier, Florida Lanier was platted in 1886 by Colonel Thomas C. Lanier. The 1895 census shows a population of 87 persons along with a post office, express office and a railroad depot. However, the town was abandoned shortly thereafter when dual freezes wiped out t ...
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Lanier, Georgia
Lanier is an unincorporated community in Bryan County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is located about 4 miles east of Pembroke, Georgia
Pembroke is a city and county seat in Bryan County, Georgia, Bryan County, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, ...
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Lanier County, Georgia
Lanier County is a county in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 10,078. The county seat and only incorporated municipality is Lakeland. The county is named after the Georgia poet S ...
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Lake Lanier
Lake Lanier (officially Lake Sidney Lanier) is a reservoir in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. It was created by the completion of Buford Dam on the Chattahoochee River in 1956, and is also fed by the waters of the Chestatee Ri ...
, an artificial lake on the Chattahoochee River, Georgia
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Lanier Mansion
The Lanier Mansion is a historic house located at 601 West First Street in the Madison Historic District of Madison, Indiana. Built by wealthy banker James F. D. Lanier in 1844, the house was declared a State Memorial in 1926, and remains an i ...
, Madison, Indiana, home of James F. D. Lanier
Schools in the United States
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Lanier Middle School (Houston)
Bob Lanier Middle School, formerly Sidney Lanier Junior High School/Middle School, is a middle school (lower secondary school) in Houston, Texas, United States, with a ZIP code of 77098. Lanier, a school of the Houston Independent School District ...
, Houston, Texas
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Lanier Middle School (Buford, Georgia)
The Gwinnett County Public School District is a school district operating in Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States. GCPS is the largest school system in Georgia,[Lanier Middle School (Fairfax, Virginia)
This list of Fairfax County Public Schools middle schools encompasses public middle schools operated by the Fairfax County Public Schools school district of Virginia, United States.
One middle school, Johnson Middle School, is located in the city ...]
, Fairfax, Virginia
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Sidney Lanier High School
Sidney Lanier High School is a public high school in Montgomery, Alabama, United States.
History
Established in 1910 on the southern outskirts of downtown Montgomery, Alabama, the school was named for a Southern poet, Sidney Lanier, who lived in ...
, Montgomery, Alabama
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Lanier High School (Austin, Texas)
Juan Navarro Early College High School (formerly Sidney Lanier High School) was established in 1961 as the sixth high school in the Austin Independent School District (AISD) and was originally located in the building which today houses Burnet Mid ...
, Austin, Texas
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Lanier High School (Jackson, Mississippi)
Lanier High School is a high school in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. It is part of the Jackson Public School District. The current principal is Valerie Bradley. There were a total of 872 students enrolled in Lanier High during the 2006– ...
, Jackson, Mississippi
* Lanier High School, Macon, Georgia (now part of
Central High School)
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Lanier University
Lanier University, named after "poet of the Confederacy" Sidney Lanier, was a short-lived university in today's Morningside-Lenox Park neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. It was notable for its connections with the second Ku Klux Klan, which wa ...
, a short-lived Baptist then KKK-run university in Atlanta, Georgia
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Lanier Technical College, Gainesville, Georgia
Other uses
* Lanier, a brand of printers (subsidiary of
Ricoh
is a Japanese multinational imaging and electronics company (law), company. It was founded by the now-defunct commercial division of the Riken, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (Riken) known as the ''Riken concern (business), Concer ...
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USS ''Lanier'' (APA-125), a US Navy attack transport ship, of World War II vintage
See also
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