Loren is a given name, nickname and surname which may refer to:
Given name
Men
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Loren Acton
Loren Wilber Acton (born 7 March 1936) is an American physicist who flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-51-F as a Payload Specialist for the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory. He is also the father of Cheryll Glotfelty, a leading Ecocriticism ...
(born 1936), American physicist and astronaut
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Loren C. Ball (born 1948), amateur astronomer who has discovered more than 100 asteroids
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Loren M. Berry (1888–1980), American businessman
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Loren Bouchard
Loren Hal Bouchard (born October 10, 1969) is an American animator, writer, producer, director, and composer. He is the creator of several animated TV shows such as ''Bob's Burgers'', ''Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil'', and ''Central Park''. He i ...
(born 1970), American television writer and director
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Loren Cameron (born 1959), American photographer
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Loren Carpenter
Loren C. Carpenter (born February 7, 1947) is a computer graphics researcher and developer.
Biography
He was a co-founder and chief scientist of Pixar Animation Studios. He is the co-inventor of the Reyes rendering algorithm and is one of the ...
(born 1947), American computer graphics researcher and developer
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Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman (born July 12, 1947) is an American cryptozoologist who has written over 40 books on a number of topics, including the pseudoscience and subculture of cryptozoology.
Early life
Coleman was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and grew up in ...
(born 1947), American scientist and author
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Loren L. Coleman (born 1947), American science-fiction writer
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Loren W. Collins (1838–1912), American jurist and politician
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Loren Mazzacane Connors
Loren Mazzacane Connors (born October 22, 1949) is an American guitarist who has recorded and performed under several different names: Guitar Roberts, Loren Mazzacane, Loren Mattei, and currently Loren Connors. His music has touched on many genres ...
(born 1949), American musician
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Loren Crabtree (born 1940), American academic and chancellor
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Loren Cunningham
Loren Duane Cunningham (born June 30, 1935) is founder of the international Christian missionary movement Youth with a Mission (YWAM) and the University of the Nations. Cunningham founded YWAM in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1960 with his wife, Darle ...
(born 1936), American missionary organizer
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Loren Dean
Loren Dean (born July 31, 1969) is an American actor. He has appeared on stage and in feature films.
Early life
Loren Dean Jovicic was born July 31, 1969, in Las Vegas, Nevada. His parents divorced when he was a small child. His mother won custo ...
(born 1969), American actor
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Loren C. Dunn
Loren Charles Dunn (June 12, 1930 – May 16, 2001) was a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1968 until his death.
Dunn was born in Tooele, Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church to Aust ...
(1930–2001), American general authority of the LDS Church
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Loren Eiseley
Loren Eiseley (September 3, 1907 – July 9, 1977) was an American anthropologist, educator, philosopher, and natural science writer, who taught and published books from the 1950s through the 1970s. He received many honorary degrees and was a fel ...
(1907–1977), American scientist and writer
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Loren D. Estleman
Loren D. Estleman (born September 15, 1952, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American writer of detective and Western fiction. He is known for a series of crime novels featuring the investigator Amos Walker.
Life and work
Estleman graduated fro ...
(born 1952), American author
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Loren D. Everton
Loren Dale Everton (July 14, 1915 – February 15, 1991) was a highly decorated United States Marine Corps colonel. He was a flying ace credited with shooting down twelve enemy planes and was awarded the Navy Cross during World War II.
Early lif ...
(1915–1991), American Marine flying ace, Navy Cross recipient
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Loren Graham
Loren R. Graham (born June 29, 1933, in Hymera, Indiana) is an American historian of science, particularly science in Russia.
Career
He has taught and published at Indiana University, Columbia University, the Massachusetts Institute of Techno ...
(born 1933), American historian of science
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Loren Leman
Loren Dwight Leman (born December 2, 1950) is an American politician who served as the eighth lieutenant governor of Alaska, from 2002 to 2006. Before that, he served in both houses of the state legislature, and was elected as the Senate Majorit ...
(born 1950), American politician
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Loren Long
Loren Long (born 1964) is an American author of children's books best known for illustration. He won the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators' (SCBWI) Golden Kite Award for picture book illustration in 2004 for ''I Dream of Trains'' ...
(born 1964), American author of children's books
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Loren Meyer
Loren Henry Meyer (born December 30, 1972) is a retired American professional basketball player who played three seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected by the Dallas Mavericks in the first round (24th pick overall) ...
(born 1972), American professional basketball player
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Loren Miller (activist)
Loren Miller was a civic reformer and libertarian activist in the first half of the 20th century. Perhaps Miller's most lasting contribution was his success in convincing business magnates to support libertarian causes and organizations. The most ...
, American civic reformer and libertarian activist
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Loren Miller (judge)
Loren Miller (January 20, 1903 – July 14, 1967) was an American journalist, civil rights activist, attorney, and judge. Miller was appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown in 1964 and served until h ...
(1903–1967), American California Superior Court judge
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Loren Mosher
Loren Richard Mosher (September 3, 1933, Monterey, California – July 10, 2004, Berlin) was an American psychiatrist, clinical professor of psychiatry, expert on schizophrenia and the chief of the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia in the Nation ...
(1933–2004), American psychiatrist
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Loren Murchison
Loren C. Murchison (December 17, 1898 – June 11, 1979) was an American athlete, double gold medal winner in 4×100 m relay at the Olympic Games.
Biography
Born in Farmersville, Texas, Loren Murchison was an AAU Champion in in 1920 and 1923 ...
(1898–1979), American athlete
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Loren Nerell
Loren Nerell (born November 30, 1960) is an American composer and performer of ambient American music and Balinese gamelan.
As a composer, Loren has written music for film, theater, dance, and interactive multi-media. He has performed with the Kr ...
(born 1960), American composer, ethnomusicologist and gamelan musician
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Loren Pope
Loren Brooks Pope (July 13, 1910 – September 23, 2008) was an American writer and educational consultant, best known for his book, ''Colleges That Change Lives''. He was also the education editor of ''The New York Times.''
Background
B ...
(1910–2008), American writer
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Loren Roberts
Loren Lloyd Roberts (born June 24, 1955) is an American professional golfer, who has played on the PGA Tour and the PGA Tour Champions.
Early life
Roberts was born in San Luis Obispo, California. He competed for San Luis Obispo Senior High Scho ...
(born 1955), American golfer
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Loren Schoenberg
Loren Schoenberg (born July 23, 1958) is a tenor saxophonist, conductor, educator, and jazz historian. He has won two Grammy Awards for Best Album Notes. He is the former Executive Director and currently Senior Scholar of the National Jazz Museum ...
(born 1958), American musician and historian
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Loren B. Sessions
Loren B. Sessions (October 12, 1827 – November 20, 1897) was an American lawyer and politician from New York (state), New York. He was most notable for his service in the New York State Senate from 1878 to 1881.
Life
Sessions was born in Brando ...
(1827–1897), New York politician
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Loren Shriver
Loren James Shriver (born September 23, 1944) is a former NASA astronaut, aviator, and a retired US Air Force Colonel.
Career
Shriver graduated from Paton High School in 1962. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineerin ...
(born 1944), American pilot and astronaut
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Loren A. Smith
Loren A. Smith (born December 22, 1944) is a senior judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims. He served as the court's Chief Judge from 1986 to 2000.
Early life, education, and career
Smith was born on December 22, 1944, in Chicago ...
(born 1944), American federal judge on the United States Court of Federal Claims
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Loren Taylor
Loren Taylor (born July 1977) is an American politician who has served on the Oakland City Council from 2019 to 2023. A Democrat, He represents the 6th district, which includes the East Oakland neighborhoods of Maxwell Park, Millsmont, Havensc ...
(born 1977), American politician
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Loren Toews
Loren James Toews (born November 3, 1951) is a retired NFL football player.
Toews graduated from Del Mar High School in San Jose, California and later University of California, Berkeley where he received his degree in biological sciences. In ...
(born 1951), American football player
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Loren H. White (1863–1923), New York politician
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Loren Wiseman
Loren Keith Wiseman (March 7, 1951 – February 14, 2017) was an American wargame and role-playing game designer, game developer and editor.
Career Game Designers' Workshop
After graduating from Illinois State University, Loren Wiseman co ...
, American board game designer and developer
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Loren Wright
Loren James Wright (May 11, 1917 – September 10, 2005) was an American professional basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with t ...
(1917–2005), American professional basketball player
Women
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Loren Galler-Rabinowitz
Loren Galler-Rabinowitz (born January 19, 1986) is a physician, an American former ice dancer, and pageant titleholder. She is the 2004 U.S. ice dancing bronze medalist with David Mitchell and competed in the Miss America 2011 pageant.
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(born 1986), American ice dancer
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Loren Gray
Loren Gray Beech (born April 19, 2002) is an American social media personality and singer best known for the TikTok career she began in 2016, at the age of 13. She is the seventeenth most-followed individual on TikTok as of December 2022, and w ...
(born 2002), American singer and social media personality
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Loren Horsley
Loren Horsley (born 1977) is a New Zealand-born actress and writer. She played Lily in the 2007 film ''Eagle vs Shark'', which she co-wrote with her then-partner, Taika Waititi.
Charity work
Horsley does voiceovers, casting, and acting in t ...
(born 1977), New Zealand actress
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Loren Rowney
Loren Rowney (born 14 October 1988) is an Australian former racing cyclist. She rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships. In October 2015 it was announced that Rowney would join for the 2016 season after her previous team disbanded. After ...
(born 1988), Australian racing cyclist
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Loren Legarda
Lorna Regina "Loren" Bautista Legarda (born January 28, 1960) is a Filipina politician, environmentalist, cultural worker, and former journalist who is currently serving as a Senator and the president pro tempore of the Senate of the Philippin ...
(born 1960), Filipina journalist and politician
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Loren Morón (footballer, born 1993), Spanish footballer
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Lorenzo Juarros García
Lorenzo Juarros García (born 7 October 1966), known as Loren, is a Spanish retired footballer who played as either a central defender or striker.
In a professional career which spanned nearly twenty years, he represented mainly Real Sociedad ...
(born 1966), Spanish retired footballer
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Loren Morón (footballer, born 1970)
Lorenzo Morón Vizcaíno (born 16 February 1970), known as Loren, is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a central defender, currently a manager.
He amassed Segunda División totals of 279 games and 11 goals, representing five clubs. He ...
, Spanish footballer and manager
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Loren (born 1995), South Korean musician
Surname
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Donna Loren
Donna Loren is an American singer and actress. A prolific performer in the 1960s, she was the "Dr Pepper Girl" from 1963 to 1968, featured female vocalist on ''Shindig'', and a cast member of the American International Pictures ''Beach Party' ...
(born 1947), American actress
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Eric Loren
Eric Loren is an American film and television actor based in London. He played Mr Diagoras and the Dalek Sec Hybrid in the long-running British TV series '' Doctor Who''. He also played Kurtis Trent in '' Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness'' ...
, American actor
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Giselle Loren
Giselle Loren is an American actress most known for her voice-over work in animation and video games. She voiced Adélie Chica in ''Happy Feet'', Courtney Whitmore (comics), Stargirl in ''Justice League Unlimited'', and Martha Connors in ''Spider- ...
, American voice actor
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Josie Loren
Josie Loren Lopez (born March 19, 1987) is an American attorney and former actress, best known for the role of Kaylie Cruz in the ABC Family series ''Make It or Break It'', and as FBI Agent Michelle Vega in the TV series ''The Mentalist''.
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(born 1987), American actress
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Nanda Loren (born 1988), Brazilian singer
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Sophia Loren
Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone (; born 20 September 1934), known professionally as Sophia Loren ( , ), is an Italian actress. She was named by the American Film Institute as one of the greatest female stars of Classical Hollywood ci ...
(born 1934), Italian actress
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Todd Loren
Todd or Todds may refer to:
Places
;Australia:
* Todd River, an ephemeral river
;United States:
* Todd Valley, California, also known as Todd, an unincorporated community
* Todd, Missouri, a ghost town
* Todd, North Carolina, an unincorporate ...
(1960–1992), American comic book publisher
Fictional characters
* Loren McWilliams, the male protagonist of the 1985 film ''
The New Kids
''The New Kids'' is a 1985 American horror thriller film, directed by Sean S. Cunningham and starring Shannon Presby, Lori Loughlin and James Spader. The film was released on January 18, 1985, by Columbia Pictures.
Plot
When Abby and Lore ...
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* Loren Silvercloak, in the
Fionavar Tapestry
''The Fionavar Tapestry'' is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Canadian author Guy Gavriel Kay, published between 1984 and 1986. The novels are partly set in our own contemporary world, but mostly in the fictional world of Fionavar. It is the stor ...
novels by
Guy Gavriel Kay
Guy Gavriel Kay (born November 7, 1954) is a Canadian writer of fantasy fiction. The majority of his novels take place in fictional settings that resemble real places during real historical periods, such as Constantinople during the reign of Jus ...
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Loren Singer
Loren Adelson Singer (March 5, 1923, – December 19, 2009) was an American novelist, known best for his 1970 political thriller ''The Parallax View'', which was made as a successful 1974 movie, of the same name.Grimes, William"Loren Singer ...
, a main character in the TV series ''
JAG''
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Loren Smith (character)
Dirk Pitt is a fictional character created by American novelist Clive Cussler and featured in a series of novels published from 1976 to 2021. Pitt is a larger-than-life hero reminiscent of pulp magazine icon Doc Savage. Pitt is a citizen of the ...
, in the Dirk Pitt novels by Clive Cussler
* Loren, in the ''Animorphs'' novel series (appearing in ''
The Andalite Chronicles
''The Andalite Chronicles'' is a science-fiction novel and is the first companion book to the ''Animorphs'' series, written by K. A. Applegate. Within the timeline of the series, this book takes place before the first book in the series, ''The ...
'' and ''
The Diversion'')
* Frederick Loren, a character in the film ''
House on Haunted Hill
''House on Haunted Hill'' is a 1959 American horror film produced and directed by William Castle, written by Robb White and starring Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Alan Marshal, Carolyn Craig and Elisha Cook Jr. Price plays an ec ...
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Lauren (disambiguation) Lauren is a feminine given name and a surname. It may also refer to:
* Lauren (perfume), a Ralph Lauren fragrance
* ''Lauren'' (EP) (2016), by Keke Palmer
* Lauren Engineers & Constructors
* Penn, North Dakota, also known as Lauren, an unincorpo ...
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Loran (disambiguation)
LORAN, short for long range navigation, was a Hyperbolic navigation, hyperbolic radio navigation system developed in the United States during World War II. It was similar to the UK's Gee (navigation), Gee system but operated at lower frequencies ...
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Lorens (given name) Lorens is a Scandinavian given name. Notable people with the name include:
* Lorens Berg, Norwegian teacher and local historian
* Lorens Marmstedt (1908–1966), Swedish film producer
* Lorens Pasch the Elder, Swedish portrait painter
See also
* L ...
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Lorenz
Lorenz is an originally German name derived from the Roman surname Laurentius, which means "from Laurentum".
Given name
People with the given name Lorenz include:
* Prince Lorenz of Belgium (born 1955), member of the Belgian royal family by h ...
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Lorne (disambiguation) Lorne is a given name and place name especially popular in Canada, due to the Marquess of Lorne, who was Governor General of Canada (1878–1883). Lorne may refer to:
People Given name
*Lorne Anderson (1931–1984), Canadian hockey player
* Lorne ...
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