Lennox may refer to:

Places

Lennox (district) The Lennox ( gd, Leamhnachd, ) is a region of Scotland centred on The Vale of Leven, including its great loch: Loch Lomond. The Gaelic name of the river is ''Leamhn'', meaning ''the smooth stream'', which anglicises to ''Leven'' (as Gaelic ' ...

, Scotland * Lennox and Addington, electoral district in Ontario, Canada **

Lennox (electoral district) Lennox was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1904. It was located in the province of Ontario. It was created by the British North America Act of 1867. The County of Lennox consisted of the Tow ...

, a former electoral district in Ontario (1867–1904) * Lennox County, Ontario, Canada *

Lennox, Nova Scotia Isle Madame is an island off southeastern Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. It is part of the Municipality of the County of Richmond. Once part of the French colony of Île-Royale (New France), Île-Royale, it may have been named for Franço ...

, Canada *

Lennox Gardens, Canberra Lennox Gardens, a park in Canberra, Australia, lying on the south side of Lake Burley Griffin, close to Commonwealth Avenue Bridge and Albert Hall in the suburb of Yarralumla. Before the construction of Lake Burley Griffin a road ran through ...

, Australia * Lennox Head, New South Wales, Australia *

Lennox, California Lennox () is a census-designated place (CDP) in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 22,753 at the 2010 census, down from 22,950 at the 2000 census. Geography Lennox's boundaries are Century Boulevard to the north (al ...

, United States * Lennox, South Dakota, United States *

Lennox, Wisconsin Lennox is an unincorporated community located in the town of Schoepke, Oneida County, Wisconsin, United States. Lennox is located on County Highway B east-southeast of Rhinelander. Lennox is located just north of the unincorporated community ...

, United States * Lennoxtown, Scotland * Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada

People

Surname

Annie Lennox Ann Lennox (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the New wave music, new wave band the Tourists, she and fellow musician D ...

(born 1954), British singer * Ari Lennox (born 1991), American singer-songwriter * Betty Lennox (born 1976), American basketball player * Bobby Lennox (born 1943), British football player * Caroline Lennox (1723–1774), British nobility, later Caroline Fox, 1st Baroness Holland *

Charlotte Lennox Charlotte Lennox, ''née'' Ramsay (c. 1729 – 4 January 1804), was a Scottish novelist, playwright, poet, translator, essayist, and magazine editor, who has primarily been remembered as the author of ''The Female Quixote'', and for her associ ...

(1730–1804), British author * Dave Lennox (1855–1947), American inventor and businessman *

David Lennox David Lennox (1788 – 12 November 1873) was a Scottish-Australian bridge builder and master stonemason born in Ayr, Scotland. Personal details Trained as a stonemason, Lennox worked on Telford's Menai Suspension Bridge at Anglesey in Wales ...

(1788–1873), Australian stonemason and bridge-builder *

Douglas Lennox-Silva Douglas Lennox-Silva (born April 10, 1987 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) is a male butterfly swimmer from Puerto Rico, who was born in the United States. He represented Puerto Rico at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, PR China. He is the younger ...

(born 1987), Puerto Rican swimmer *

E. J. Lennox Edward James Lennox (September 12, 1854 – April 15, 1933) was a Toronto-based architect who designed several of the city's most notable landmarks in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Old City Hall and Casa Loma. He ...

(1844–1933), Canadian architect *

Elizabeth Lennox Elizabeth Lennox (March 16, 1894 – May 3, 1992), also known as Louise Terrell, was an American contralto singer. She made over 150 musical recordings in the 1920s, on the Brunswick, Edison, Victor, and Columbia labels. Early life Elizabe ...

(1894–1992), American contralto singer *

Jack Lennox John Patrick Lennox (21 March 1907 – 7 December 1943) was an Australian WWII serviceman and prisoner of war. He had played rugby league in the New South Wales premiership competition with St. George and South Sydney in the 1930s. Backgroun ...

(1907–1943), Australian rugby league player *

John Lennox John Carson Lennox (born 7 November 1943) is a Northern Irish mathematician, bioethicist and Christian apologist. He has written many books on religion, ethics, the relationship between science and faith (like his books, ''Has Science Buried Go ...

(born 1943), British mathematician *

Kristina Lennox-Silva Kristina Lennox-Silva (born April 24, 1985 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) is a female freestyle swimming, freestyle and butterfly swimming, butterfly swimmer from Puerto Rico, who was born in the United States. During her college career she swam fo ...

(born 1985), Puerto Rican swimmer *

Louisa Lennox Lady Louisa Conolly (5 December 1743 – August 1821) was an English-born Irish noblewoman. She was the third of the famous Lennox Sisters, and was notable among them for leading a wholly uncontroversial life filled with good works. Biograph ...

(1743–1821), British noblewoman *

Michael Lennox Michael Carson Lennox is a Northern Irish film director. Biography Born and raised in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, Lennox was inspired by cinema from an early age and began to make plans for a career as a filmmaker. In 2008, he made his fir ...

, British film director *

Noah Lennox Noah Benjamin Lennox (born July 17, 1978), also known by his moniker Panda Bear, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and co-founding member of the band Animal Collective. In addition to his work with that group, Len ...

(born 1978), American musician *

Lady Sarah Lennox Lady Sarah Lennox (14 February 1745 – August 1826) was the most notorious of the famous Lennox sisters, daughters of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond and Sarah Cadogan. Early life After the deaths of both her parents when she was only fi ...

(1745–1826), British noblewoman * Wilbraham Oates Lennox (1830–1897), British soldier *

William G. Lennox William Gordon Lennox (18 July 1884 – 21 July 1960) was an American neurologist and epileptologist who was a pioneer in the use of electroencephalography (EEG) for the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. He graduated from Colorado College and H ...

(1884–1960), American neurologist

First name

Lennox Alves Lennox Alves (born 7 March 1956) is a former Guyanese cricketer who played a single first-class match for Essequibo in the final of the 1980–81 inter-county Jones Cup. Alves, a right-handed batsman, was born in Suddie in what was then Brit ...

(born 1956), Guyanese cricketer *

Lennox Berkeley Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley (12 May 190326 December 1989) was an English composer. Biography Berkeley was born on 12 May 1903 in Oxford, England, the younger child and only son of Aline Carla (1863–1935), daughter of Sir James Char ...

(1903–1989), British composer *

Lennox Blackmoore Lennox Blackmoore (born July 10, 1950) is a Guyanese professional light/ light welter/ welter/ light middle/ middleweight boxer of the 1970s and 80s. His professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. lightweight to , i.e. middleweight. Lennox ...

(born 1950), Guyanese boxer *

Lennox Broster Lennox Ross Broster, OBE (1889 – 12 April 1965) was a South African-born surgeon who spent most of his career as a consultant at Charing Cross Hospital, London. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I, for which he was ...

(1889–1965), South African surgeon *

Lennox Cato Lennox Paul Cato DL (born 1961) is a British antiques dealer specialising in furniture and decorative items from the Georgian and Regency periods. He has been an expert on the BBC's ''Antiques Roadshow'' since 2004. Biography The second to yo ...

(born 1961), British antiques dealer *

Lennox Clarke Lennox Clarke is an English professional boxer who held the British and Commonwealth super-middleweight titles from 2021 to 2022. Professional career Clarke made his professional debut on 16 November 2013, scoring a second-round technical kno ...

(born 1991), English professional boxer *

Lennox Cowie Lennox Lauchlan Cowie Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (born 18 October 1950, Jedburgh, Scotland) is a British astronomer, and professor at the Institute for Astronomy (Hawaii), Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii. Biography In 1970, Co ...

(born 1950), British astronomer *

Lennox Gordon Lennox Constantine Gordon (born April 9, 1978) to Jamaican parents, is a former American football running back who played two seasons in the National Football League with the Buffalo Bills and Indianapolis Colts. He played college football at the ...

(born 1978), American football player *

Lennox Grafton Lennox Grafton (3 December 1919 – 24 March 2017) was a Canadian architect and one of the first women to be trained as architects in Canada. She completed her undergraduate education in University of Alberta during 1938-1941 and graduated from th ...

(1919–2017), one of the first women to be trained as an architect in Canada *

Lennox Lagu Lennox Lagu, born Mongameli Johnson Tshali (16 October 1938 7 September 2011) was a commander of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). He was a major general in the South African National Defence Force (S ...

(1938–2011), South African general *

Lennox Lewis Lennox Claudius Lewis (born 2 September 1965) is a former professional boxer and boxing commentator who competed from 1989 to 2003. He is a three-time world heavyweight champion, a two-time lineal champion, and the last heavyweight to hold ...

(born 1965), British boxer * Lennox Miller (1946–2004), Jamaican athlete *

Lennox Mohammed Lennox Sylvanus "Bobby" Mohammed (2 June 1942 - 25 May 2021) was a musician and pannist from Trinidad and Tobago. He was the youngest arranger to win Panorama. Career Lennox Mohammed was born on 2 June 1942 in Siparia; his family moved to Mo ...

, Trinidadian musician *

Lennox Napier Major-General Lennox Alexander Hawkins Napier (28 June 1928 – 21 July 2020) was a British Army officer. Military career Educated at Radley College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Napier was commissioned into the South Wales Bor ...

(1928–2020), British Army officer * Lennox Pawle (1872–1936), British actor *

Lennox Raphael Lennox Raphael (born September 17, 1939, in Trinidad, West Indies) is a journalist, poet, and playwright. His writings have been published in ''Negro Digest'', ''American Dialog'', ''New Black Poetry'', ''Natural Process'' and ''Freedomways''. A l ...

(born 1939), Trinidadian writer *

Lennox Robinson Esmé Stuart Lennox Robinson (4 October 1886 – 15 October 1958) was an Irish dramatist, poet and theatre producer and director who was involved with the Abbey Theatre. Life Robinson was born in Westgrove, Douglas, County Cork and raised i ...

(1886–1958), Irish writer * Lennox Sebe (1926–1994), South African politician * Lennox Sharpe (born 1953), Trinidadian musician * Lennox Yearwood (born 1969), American activist

Fictional characters

*Lennox Elizabeth Scanlon, a teenage girl character from the TV show '' Melissa & Joey'', played by Taylor Spreitler *William Lennox, a soldier character from the ''Transformers'' film series, played by Josh Duhamel *Tom Lennox, the White House Chief of Staff of President Wayne Palmer in the sixth season of the television series ''24'', played by Peter MacNicol *Thane of Lennox, in William Shakespeare's ''

Macbeth ''Macbeth'' (, full title ''The Tragedie of Macbeth'') is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those w ...

Peerages

* Duke of Lennox * Earl of Lennox * Mormaer of Lennox

Other uses

* HMS ''Lennox'', the name of two ships of the Royal Navy * Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), difficult-to-treat form of childhood-onset epilepsy * Lennox Football Club, 19th-century English rugby club *

Lennox Generating Station Lennox Generating Station is a natural gas- and fuel oil- fired power station in Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada. Owned and operated by Ontario Power Generation, it is situated on Highway 33 on the north shore of Lake Ontario, west o ...

, a power station in Ontario, Canada * Lennox International, a global manufacturer of furnaces and central air conditioners * Lennox Stakes, a horse race