Lon or LON may refer to:

People

Lon (photographer) Alonzo "Lon" Hanagan (December 20, 1911 – December 4, 1999) was an American physique photographer during the 1940s and 1950s. He produced erotic images of men under the alias "Lon of New York", or simply "Lon". Biography Early years Alonz ...

, pseudonym of Alonzo Hanagan, also known as "Lon of New York" *

Lon (name) Lon is a given name, nickname, stage name and surname. It may refer to: Given name, nickname or stage name * Lon Bender (born 1959), American Oscar-winning sound editor, business executive and inventor * Lon Borgerson (born 1950), Canadian politi ...

, a list of people with the given name, nickname or surname

Fictional characters

* Lon Cohen, a character in the Nero Wolfe novels by Rex Stout *

Lon Suder This is a list of minor fictional characters from the science fiction television series '' Star Trek: Voyager''. Characters here are members of the crew, or passengers, on the starship ''Voyager'' as it makes its way home through unknown space du ...

, a character on the television series ''Star Trek: Voyager''

Science and technology

Launch on Need Space Shuttle missions designated STS-3xx (officially called Launch On Need (LON) missions) were rescue missions which would have been mounted to rescue the crew of a Space Shuttle if their vehicle was damaged and deemed unable to make a success ...

, a Space Shuttle rescue mission which would have been mounted to rescue the crew of a Space Shuttle if needed *

Local Operating Network LonWorks or Local Operating Network is an open standard (ISO/IEC 14908) for networking platforms specifically created to address the needs of control applications. The platform is built on a protocol created by Echelon Corporation for networking ...

, a networking platform by Echelon Corporation *

Local oxidation nanolithography Local oxidation nanolithography (LON) is a tip-based nanofabrication method. It is based on the spatial confinement on an oxidation reaction under the sharp tip of an atomic force microscope. The first materials on which LON was demonstrated were ...

, a nanofabrication technique * ''Lon'' (butterfly), a genus of butterflies *

Lon protease family In molecular biology, the Lon protease family is a family of enzymes that break peptide bonds in proteins resulting in smaller peptides or amino acids. They are found in archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes. Lon proteases are ATP-dependent serine p ...

, in molecular biology *

Longitude Longitude (, ) is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east- west position of a point on the surface of the Earth, or another celestial body. It is an angular measurement, usually expressed in degrees and denoted by the Greek lett ...

(lon.), a geographic coordinate

Other uses

League of Nations The League of Nations (LN or LoN; , SdN) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920), Paris Peace ...

, the predecessor of the United Nations *

Airports of London The Greater London Built-up Area, metropolitan area of London, England, United Kingdom, is served by six international airports and several smaller airports. Together, these airports constitute the World's busiest city airport systems by passen ...

(IATA airport code: LON), UK *

Malawi Lomwe language Malawi Lomwe, known as ''Elhomwe'', is a dialect of the Lomwe language spoken in southeastern Malawi in parts of Mulanje and Thyolo. Background The Lomwe is one of the three largest languages of Malawi after Chewa and Chitumbuka. Many Lomwes m ...

(ISO 639-3 code: lon), spoken in southeastern Malawi

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