Lanyon is a surname which originates from the hamlet of

Lanyon (Madron) Lanyon is a hamlet in the parish of Madron in Cornwall, England, UK. It is situated on a north facing slope on the Madron to Morvah road. The nearest town is Penzance to the south. Toponymy Lanyon derives from ''Lyn yeyn'' in the Cornish langua ...

Cornwall Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...

, and may refer to: *

Charles Lanyon Sir Charles Lanyon DL, JP (6 January 1813 – 31 May 1889) was an English architect of the 19th century. His work is most closely associated with Belfast, Northern Ireland. Biography Lanyon was born in Eastbourne, Sussex (now East Sussex) in ...

(1813−1889), English architect * George Lanyon Hacker (born 1928), English Suffragan Bishop of Penrith *

Ellen Lanyon Ellen Lanyon (December 21, 1926 – October 7, 2013) was a painter and printmaker from Chicago, Illinois. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), her MFA from the University of Iowa School of Art and Art His ...

(1926–2013), American painter and printmaker * Hastie Lanyon, a fictional character in ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' *

John Lanyon Whiting John Lanyon Whiting (February 23, 1851 – September 15, 1922) was a lawyer and politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as mayor of Kingston in 1886. The son of Reverend Richard Whiting and Mary Philp, both natives of England, he was born in ...

(1851–1922), Canadian lawyer and politician * Karen Lanyon, Australian senior career officer of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade * Mike Lanyon (born 1951), former Australian rules footballer *

Owen Lanyon Colonel Sir William Owen Lanyon KCMG CB (21 July 1842 – 6 April 1887) was a British colonial administrator and British Army officer. Early life and career Lanyon was born in County Antrim, Ireland, to Sir Charles Lanyon and his wife Elizabe ...

(1842−1887), British colonial administrator *

Peter Lanyon George Peter Lanyon (8 February 1918 – 31 August 1964) was a British painter of landscapes leaning heavily towards abstraction. Lanyon was one of the most important artists to emerge in post-war Britain. Despite his early death at the age ...

(1918−1964), Cornish painter *

Ted Lanyon Edward George Lanyon (June 11, 1939 – May 21, 2008) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played five games in the National Hockey League for the Pittsburgh Penguins The Pittsburgh Penguins (colloquially known as the Pens) are a ...

(1939–2008), Canadian retired professional ice hockey player * Walter C. Lanyon (1887−1967), English religious writer * Wesley E. Lanyon (1926–2017), American ornithologist and museum curator * William Carlton Lanyon Dawe, generally known as Carlton Dawe (1865–1935), Australian author *

William James Lanyon Smith William James Lanyon Smith (1 December 1922 – 2 December 2018) was a New Zealand naval officer. He served in the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve during World War II and was second-in-command of a midget submarine during an attack i ...

(1922–2018), New Zealand naval officer

Places

In Antarctica *

Lanyon Peak Lanyon Peak () is a sharp rock peak east of Victoria Upper Glacier in the Saint Johns Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Margaret C. Lanyon, a New Zealand national who for many years i ...

, a sharp rock peak in Victoria Land *

Mount Lanyon The Prince Charles Mountains are a major group of mountains in Mac. Robertson Land in Antarctica, including the Athos Range, the Porthos Range, and the Aramis Range. The highest peak is Mount Menzies, with a height of . Other prominent peaks are ...

, a large mountain in the Prince Charles Mountains In Australia *

Lanyon High School Lanyon High School is a secondary school located in Conder, Australian Capital Territory. It serves the Lanyon Valley and surrounding rural areas in the Tuggeranong district of Canberra, Australia. The school was established in 1996 by the ACT ...

, a school in Canberra *

Lanyon Homestead Lanyon is an historic homestead and grazing property located on the southern outskirts of Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. History The site was first occupied following white settlement by Timothy Beard, who depastured cattle on th ...

, an historic site in Canberra *

Lanyon Valley Lanyon Valley ({{IPAc-en, ˈ, l, æ, n, j, ə, n) is a district located at the southeast end of Canberra, Australia, including the suburbs of Gordon, Conder, and Banks. Region The Lanyon Valley is a small community containing five schools: Lanyo ...

, a suburb of Canberra In the United Kingdom *

, a farm and hamlet in Cornwall *

Lanyon Place railway station Belfast Lanyon Place (formerly Belfast Central, and known colloquially as Central Station) is a railway station serving the city of Belfast in Northern Ireland. Located on Bridge Street in the Laganside area of central Belfast, it is one of four ...

, a railway station in Belfast *

Lanyon Quoit Lanyon Quoit is a dolmen in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, 2 miles southeast of Morvah. It collapsed in a storm in 1815 and was re-erected nine years later, and as a result the dolmen is now very different from its original appearance. Locat ...

, a dolmen in Cornwall *

West Lanyon Quoit West Lanyon Quoit, also known as Lower Lanyon Quoit, is the remains of a prehistoric dolmen situated in the parish of Madron in Cornwall . It was excavated in the late 18th century, and much of the structure has since been destroyed. Location We ...

, a dolmen in Cornwall In the United States of America *

Lanyon, Iowa Lanyon is an unincorporated community in Lost Grove Township in Webster County, Iowa. Geography It is located 17 miles south of the county seat of Fort Dodge, 2.65 miles south and one mile west of Harcourt (on U.S. Route 169), and 3.3 miles ...

, an unincorporated area

Arts and entertainment

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The Spectre of Lanyon Moor ''The Spectre of Lanyon Moor'' is a Big Finish Productions List of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish, audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction on television, science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Plot The Six ...

'', a Big Finish Productions audio drama

Companies

Lanyon, Lynn and Lanyon Lanyon, Lynn & Lanyon, Civil Engineers and Architects was a 19th-century firm working mainly in Dublin and Belfast, and the leading architectural firm in Belfast during the 1860s. Its partners were Charles Lanyon, William Henry Lynn, and Charle ...

, a 19th-century firm of Civil Engineers and Architects in Ireland * Lanyon Solutions, a software company {{disambiguation, geo, surname