Lanny is a masculine personal name attributed as a variation of
Laurence
Laurence is an English and French given name (usually female in French and usually male in English). The English masculine name is a variant of Lawrence and it originates from a French form of the Latin ''Laurentius'', a name meaning "man from ...
Roland
Roland (; frk, *Hrōþiland; lat-med, Hruodlandus or ''Rotholandus''; it, Orlando or ''Rolando''; died 15 August 778) was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the ...
(from the renowned land) and may refer to:
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Lanny Bassham
Lanny Robert Bassham (born January 2, 1947) is an American sport shooter who won a gold medal in the 1976 Summer Olympics, and a silver medal in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Early life
Bassham was born in Comanche, Texas.Lanny Berman (born 1943), American psychologist, psychotherapist, and suicidologist
* Lanny Boleski (born c. 1941), retired Canadian Football League player
* Lanny Breuer (born 1958), American lawyer and former Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice
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Lanny Cordola
Lanny Cordola (born 1961) is an American guitarist, songwriter and producer. He has been a member of bands such as Giuffria, House of Lords and Magdallan (also known as Magdalen after Ken Tamplin's departure).
Before joining Giuffria, Cordola w ...
(born 1961), American guitarist
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Lanny Davis
Lanny Jesse Davis (born December 12, 1945) is an American political operative, lawyer, consultant, lobbyist, author, and television commentator. He is the co-founder and partner of the law firm of Davis Goldberg & Galper PLLC, and co-founder and ...
(born 1945), American lawyer
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Alan O. Ebenstein
Alan Oliver (Lanny) Ebenstein (born May 28, 1959) is an American political scientist, educator and author, known from his biographical works on Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman.
Biography
Born in Princeton, New Jersey, to William Ebenstein (1 ...
(born 1959), American political scientist, educator and author
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Lanny Fite
Lanny E. Fite (born c. 1950) is a retired county judge for Saline County, Arkansas, who is a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for District 23.
In 2014, he was elected without opposition to succeed the term-limited Ann ...
(born c. 1950), American politician
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Lanny Frattare
Lanny Lawrence Frattare (born March 23, 1948) is an American former sportscaster. For 33 years he was a play-by-play announcer for Major League Baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates, the longest such tenure in the team's history. In 2008, he was nominat ...
(born 1948), American former sportscaster
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Lanny Gare
Lanny Gare (born September 5, 1978) is a Canadian-born German professional ice hockey centre. He is currently playing in the German lower leagues with Löwen Frankfurt.
He is the nephew of former National Hockey League winger Danny Gare
Daniel ...
(born 1978), Canadian-born German professional ice hockey player
* Neal Lane Lanny Johnson (born 1940), American politician and school superintendent
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Lanny McDonald
Lanny King McDonald (born February 16, 1953) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Colorado Rockies and Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL). He played over 1,100 games during a 16-year c ...
(born 1953), Canadian former National Hockey League player
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Lanny Meyers
Lanny Meyers is an American composer, orchestrator, principal arranger and musical director. He has composed the ballet ''The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'' (Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and Oklahoma City
Ballet), '' The Hunt of the Unique-Horn ...
(born 1956), American composer, orchestrator, principal arranger and musical director
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Lanny Morgan
Lanny Morgan (born March 30, 1934 in Des Moines, Iowa) is an American jazz alto saxophonist chiefly active on the West Coast jazz scene.
Morgan was raised in Los Angeles. In the 1950s he played with Charlie Barnet, Si Zentner, Terry Gibbs, and ...
(born 1934), American jazz alto saxophonist
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Lanny Poffo
Lanny Mark Poffo (born December 28, 1954), better known by his ring names "Leaping" Lanny Poffo and The Genius, is a Canadian Americans, Canadian-American professional wrestling, professional wrestler, motivational speaker, poet, and actor. Poffo ...
(born 1954), Canadian-American professional wrestler
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Lanny Ross
Lancelot Patrick Ross (January 19, 1906 – April 25, 1988)DeLong, Thomas A. (1996). ''Radio Stars: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 through 1960''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . P. was an American singer, pianist an ...
(1906-1988), American singer, pianist and songwriter
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Lanny D. Schmidt
Lanny D. Schmidt (May 6, 1938 – March 27, 2020) was an American chemist, inventor, author, and Regents Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. He is well known for his extensive work in surfac ...
(born 1938), American chemist
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Lanny Steele
Robert L. Steele ("Lanny") (December 30, 1933 – October 21, 1994) was an American jazz pianist, educator, composer, and jazz festival promoter. He founded the Texas Southern University Jazz Ensemble.
Steele graduated from Lamar High School in H ...
(1933-1994), American jazz pianist
* Jerry Lanston
Lanny Wadkins
Jerry Lanston "Lanny" Wadkins Jr. (born December 5, 1949) is an American professional golfer. He ranked in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking for 86 weeks from the ranking's debut in 1986 to 1988.
Early years
Born in Richmond, Virg ...
(born 1949), American golfer
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Lanny Wolfe Lanny is a masculine personal name attributed as a variation of Laurence ( bay tree) or Roland (from the renowned land) and may refer to:
People
* Lanny Bassham (born 1947), American sports shooter, 1976 Olympic champion
* Lanny Berman (born 1943), ...
(born 1942), American Christian music songwriter
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Larry Worden
Larry is a masculine given name in English, derived from Lawrence or Laurence. It can be a shortened form of those names.
Larry may refer to the following:
People Arts and entertainment
*Larry D. Alexander, American artist/writer
*Larry Boone, ...
(born 1961), American Senator
Fictional characters
* Lanny Budd, protagonist of 11 novels by
Upton Sinclair
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in seve ...
*Lanny Lloyd, main character in ''Lanny'', a novel by Max Porter.
*Lanny, a worker bee who served in the stinging fields in
BC Fourteen
BC Fourteen (born December 2, 1972) is an American screenwriter, novelist, film director and editor. He began his career with a slate of award-winning short films and music videos, and has written commercially for the page and screen under numer ...