Lennox may refer to:
Places
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Lennox (district), Scotland
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Lennox and Addington
Lennox and Addington was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1904 to 1925. It was located in the province of Ontario. This riding was first created in 1903 from Addington and Lennox ridings. It consist ...
, electoral district in Ontario, Canada
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Lennox (electoral district), a former electoral district in Ontario (1867–1904)
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Lennox County, Ontario
Lennox County is a historic county in the Canadian province of Ontario which now forms part of Lennox and Addington County. It was named after Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond.
Its territory is the same as what now composes the town of Gre ...
, Canada
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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
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Lennox Gardens, Canberra, Australia
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Lennox Head, New South Wales
Lennox Head is a seaside village in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia, situated on the stretch of coast between Byron Bay and Ballina in Ballina Shire local government area. It had a population of 7,741 in the 2016 Aus ...
, Australia
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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 (a ...
, United States
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Lennox, South Dakota
Lennox is a city in Lincoln County, South Dakota, United States, located southwest of Sioux Falls. The population was 2,423 at the 2020 census.
History
The city has the name of Ben Lennox, private secretary to the general manager to the Milwa ...
, United States
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Lennox, Wisconsin, United States
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Lennoxtown
Lennoxtown ( gd, Baile na Leamhnachd, ) is a town in East Dunbartonshire council area and the historic county of Stirlingshire, Scotland at the foot of the Campsie Fells, which are just to the north. The town had a population of 4,094 at the 20 ...
, Scotland
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Lennoxville, Quebec
Lennoxville is an ''arrondissement'', or borough, of the city of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Lennoxville is located at the confluence of the St. Francis and Massawippi Rivers approximately five kilometres south of downtown Sherbrooke.
Lennoxvi ...
, Canada
People
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Annie Lennox (born 1954), British singer
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Ari Lennox
Courtney Shanade Salter (born March 26, 1991), known professionally as Ari Lennox, is an American R&B singer from Washington, D.C. She is the first female artist to be signed to J. Cole's record label, Dreamville Records. She began gaining re ...
(born 1991), American singer-songwriter
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Betty Lennox
Betty Bernice Lennox (born December 4, 1976) is an American retired professional basketball player. She played for the Minnesota Lynx, Miami Sol, Cleveland Rockers, Seattle Storm, Atlanta Dream, Los Angeles Sparks and Tulsa Shock in the Women's ...
(born 1976), American basketball player
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Bobby Lennox
Robert Lennox, MBE (born 30 August 1943, in Saltcoats, Ayrshire) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played for Celtic and was a member of their 1967 European Cup-winning team, known as the Lisbon Lions. He earned ten internation ...
(born 1943), British football player
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Caroline Lennox
Georgiana Carolina Fox, 1st Baroness Holland, of Holland (27 March 1723 – 24 July 1774), known as Lady Caroline Lennox before 1744 and as Lady Caroline Fox from 1744 to 1762, was the eldest of the Lennox sisters.
Family background
The Lenno ...
(1723–1774), British nobility, later Caroline Fox, 1st Baroness Holland
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Charlotte Lennox (1730–1804), British author
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Dave Lennox David Lennox (April 15, 1855 – February 15, 1947) was an American inventor and businessman. A furnace manufacturing business he founded in 1895 in Marshalltown, Iowa evolved into what is today known as Lennox International, a global corporat ...
(1855–1947), American inventor and businessman
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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
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Douglas Lennox-Silva (born 1987), Puerto Rican swimmer
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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
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Elizabeth Lennox (1894–1992), American contralto singer
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Jack Lennox (1907–1943), Australian rugby league player
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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
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Kristina Lennox-Silva (born 1985), Puerto Rican swimmer
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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
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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 fi ...
, British film director
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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, Le ...
(born 1978), American musician
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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 f ...
(1745–1826), British noblewoman
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Wilbraham Oates Lennox
Lieutenant-General Sir Wilbraham Oates Lennox (4 August 1830 – 7 February 1897) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to Briti ...
(1830–1897), British soldier
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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 ...
(1884–1960), American neurologist
First name
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Lennox Alves (born 1956), Guyanese cricketer
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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
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Lennox Blackmoore (born 1950), Guyanese boxer
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Lennox Broster (1889–1965), South African surgeon
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Lennox Cato (born 1961), British antiques dealer
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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
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Lennox Cowie (born 1950), British astronomer
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Lennox Gordon (born 1978), American football player
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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
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Lennox Lagu (1938–2011), South African general
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Lennox Lewis (born 1965), British boxer
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Lennox Miller
Lennox Valencia Miller (8 October 1946 in Kingston, Jamaica – 8 November 2004 in Pasadena, California) was a champion runner and father of Inger Miller.
Representing Jamaica, Miller won the silver medal in the 100 meters in the 1968 Summ ...
(1946–2004), Jamaican athlete
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Lennox Mohammed, Trinidadian musician
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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
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Lennox Pawle
Lennox Pawle (27 April 1872, in Marylebone, Middlesex – 22 February 1936, in Los Angeles, California) was an English stage and film actor.
Life and career
John Lennox Pawle was born in Marylebone, London, on 27 April 1872, the son of John C ...
(1872–1936), British actor
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Lennox Raphael (born 1939), Trinidadian writer
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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 in ...
(1886–1958), Irish writer
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Lennox Sebe
Lennox Leslie Wongama Sebe (26 July 1926 – 23 July 1994) was chief minister of the Xhosa bantustan of Ciskei after its self-rule in 1972, and the nominally independent country's first president from 1983.
Early life
Born in Belstone, near K ...
(1926–1994), South African politician
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Lennox Sharpe
Lennox "Boogsie" Sharpe (born 28 October 1953 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) is a successful and popular composer and arranger of steelpan music.
Biography
Sharpe began his career with Starlift steelband where he worked as a co-arrang ...
(born 1953), Trinidadian musician
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Lennox Yearwood
Lennox Yearwood, Jr. is a minister and community activist who is also an influential member of political hip hop. Yearwood currently serves as president of the Hip Hop Caucus, a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that empowers young pe ...
(born 1969), American activist
Fictional characters
*Lennox Elizabeth Scanlon, a teenage girl character from the TV show ''
Melissa & Joey
''Melissa & Joey'' is an American television sitcom starring Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence that aired for four seasons between 2010 and 2015 on ABC Family (now Freeform). The series follows local politician Mel Burke (Hart) and Joe Longo ...
'', 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''
Peerages
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Duke of Lennox
The title Duke of Lennox has been created several times in the peerage of Scotland, for Clan Stewart of Darnley. The dukedom, named for the district of Lennox in Dumbarton, was first created in 1581, and had formerly been the Earldom of Lenno ...
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Earl of Lennox
The Earl or Mormaer of Lennox was the ruler of the region of the Lennox in western Scotland. It was first created in the 12th century for David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon and later held by the Stewart dynasty.
Ancient earls
The first ear ...
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Mormaer of Lennox
The Earl or Mormaer of Lennox was the ruler of the region of the Lennox in western Scotland. It was first created in the 12th century for David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon and later held by the Stewart dynasty.
Ancient earls
The first earl ...
Other uses
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HMS ''Lennox'', the name of two ships of the Royal Navy
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Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), difficult-to-treat form of childhood-onset epilepsy
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Lennox Football Club
Lennox Football Club was an English 19th century rugby union football club that disbanded in the early twentieth century. It is notable for producing a number of international players and for its role in the Rugby Football Union fight against ...
, 19th-century English rugby club
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Lennox Generating Station, a power station in Ontario, Canada
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Lennox International
Lennox International Inc. is a provider of climate control products for the heating, ventilation, air conditioning, (in the complex colloquially called: HVAC) and refrigeration markets. The company is based outside Dallas, Texas in the United ...
, a global manufacturer of furnaces and central air conditioners
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Lennox Stakes
The Lennox Stakes is a Group 2 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three years or older. It is run at Goodwood over a distance of 7 furlongs (1,408 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each ...
, a horse race
See also
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Lenox (disambiguation)
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Linux
Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, w ...
, an open-source Unix-like operating-system kernel
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Zion & Lennox
Zion & Lennox are a reggaeton music duo from Carolina, Puerto Rico. In 2004, Zion & Lennox released their first studio album titled '' Motivando A La Yal'' under White Lion Records. After their first album, Zion & Lennox decided to start their ow ...
, a reggaeton music duo from Carolina, Puerto Rico
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