Lyle may refer to:
People
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Lyle (surname)
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Lyle Alzado (1949–1992), American NFL All-Pro football player
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Lyle Beerbohm (born 1979), professional mixed martial arts fighter
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Lyle Bennett
Lyle Bennett (June 23, 1903 – March 24, 2005) was an American football and track coach. He served as the head football coach at Central Michigan University program from 1947 to 1949, compiling a record of 8–15–1. Bennett was also the hea ...
(1903–2005), head coach of the Central Michigan college football program from 1947 to 1949
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Lyle Berman (born 1941), professional poker player and business executive
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Lyle Bettger (1915–2003), character actor known most for his Hollywood roles from the 1950s
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Lyle Bigbee
Lyle Randolph "Al" Bigbee (August 22, 1893 in Waterloo, Oregon – August 5, 1942 in Portland, Oregon) was an outfielder and pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics and Pittsburgh Pirates and end for the Milwaukee Badgers in 1922.
Bigbee's bro ...
(1893–1942), outfielder, pitcher and halfback
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Lyle Blackwood
Lyle Vernon Blackwood (born May 24, 1951) is a former professional football player. He played safety position in the National Football League (NFL). Blackwood's best season was in 1977, when he intercepted 10 passes for the Baltimore Colts, helpi ...
(born 1951), played in the National Football League with the Miami Dolphins
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Lyle Boren
Lyle Hagler Boren (May 11, 1909 – July 2, 1992) was a United States, U.S. Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Oklahoma, serving from 1937 to 1947 and was d ...
(1909–1992), Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma
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Lyle Bouck
Lyle Joseph Bouck, Jr. (December 17, 1923 – December 2, 2016) enlisted in the Missouri National Guard at age 14. During World War II, he was a 20-year-old lieutenant in charge of the Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon, 394th Infantry Regi ...
(1923–2016), lieutenant of the I&R Platoon of the 394th Infantry Regiment of the 99th Infantry Division in World War II
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Lyle Bradley
Walter Lyle Bradley (July 31, 1943 – August 12, 2022) was a Canadian ice hockey centre. He played 6 games in the National Hockey League with the California Golden Seals and Cleveland Barons between 1974 and 1977: four games in 1974 with Califor ...
(born 1943), former ice hockey center
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Lyle Campbell (born 1942), linguist and leading expert on American Indian languages
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Lyle Craker Lyle E. Craker was a Professor in the Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Since 2001, Craker has been trying to obtain a permit from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to gr ...
, professor in the department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences at the University of Massachusetts
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Lyle Green
Lyle Green (born February 4, 1976, in Kitchener, Ontario) is a former gridiron football fullback. He was a member of the BC Lions and Calgary Stampeders.
Green went to the University of Toledo. With the Lions he is number 28. Green is 6'1" and ...
(born 1976), fullback for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League
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Lyle Hanson
Lyle L. Hanson (May 11, 1935 – December 23, 2020) was a North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party member of the North Dakota House of Representatives
The North Dakota House of Representatives is the lower house of the North Dakota Legislative Assemb ...
(1935-2020), American politician from North Dakota
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Lyle W. Hillyard
Lyle W. Hillyard (born September 25, 1940) is a Utah politician and an attorney. A Republican, he was a member of the Utah State Senate, representing the state's 25th senate district in Cache and Rich Counties including the city of Logan. He s ...
(born 1940), American politician and attorney from Utah
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Lyle Kessler, American playwright and screenwriter
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Lyle Franklin Lane (1926–2013), United States diplomat
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Lyle H. Lanier
Lyle H. Lanier (January 11, 1903 – December 30, 1988) was an American experimental psychology, experimental psychologist and writer.
As a faculty member at Vanderbilt University from 1929 to 1938, Lanier published research comparing the mental a ...
(1903–1988), American experimental psychologist, university professor and administrator.
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Lyle Larson
Lyle Thomas Larson (born March 25, 1959) is a businessman from San Antonio, Texas, who is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 122 in his native northern Bexar County. He was first elected to the state House in 2 ...
(born 1959), American politician
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Lyle Lovett
Lyle Pearce Lovett (born November 1, 1957) Lyle Lovett Pageat Allmusic – Lovett's Genre and Styles. Retrieved February 2, 2007 is an American singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. Active since 1980, he has recorded 13 albums and relea ...
(born 1957), American singer-songwriter and actor
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Lyle Martin (born 1985), American soccer player for the Vancouver Whitecaps
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Lyle Mays (1953–2020), American jazz pianist and composer
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Lyle and Erik Menendez (born 1971), convicted for the shotgun murders in 1989 of their parents in Beverly Hills, California
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Lyle Mouton (born 1969), former professional baseball player
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Lyle Neff (born 1969), poet and journalist in Vancouver, British Columbia
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Lyle Oberg (born 1960), Albertan politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly
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Lyle Odelein (born 1968), retired hockey player in the National Hockey League
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Lyle Overbay
Lyle Stefan Overbay (born January 28, 1977) is an American former professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Toronto Blue Jays, Pittsburgh Pirates, Atlanta Braves, New York Yankees ...
(born 1977), American baseball player
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Lyle Owerko, filmmaker and photographer
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Lyle Preslar, American musician: guitar player and songwriter for the hardcore punk band Minor Threat
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Lyle Rains
Lyle Rains was a senior executive at the arcade game company Atari and is sometimes, with Ed Logg, listed as a co-developer of the video game ''Asteroids''. In fact, Rains called Logg into his office and said "Well, why don’t we have a game whe ...
, senior executive at the arcade game company Atari
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Lyle Reifsnider
Leif B. Reifsnider (August 11, 1901 – December 9, 1980) was an American set decorator who worked in Hollywood movies from 1946 to 1962. Nominated for an Academy Award for his work on the Errol Flynn swashbuckler ''Adventures of Don Juan'' in 194 ...
(1901–1980), set decorator who worked in Hollywood movies from 1946 to 1962
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Lyle Saxon
Lyle Saxon (18911946) was a writer and journalist who reported for ''The Times-Picayune'' in New Orleans, Louisiana. He directed the Federal Writers' Project Works Progress Administration (WPA) guide to Louisiana.
Life
Saxon was born on Septem ...
(1891–1946), New Orleans journalist who reported for ''The Times-Picayune''
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Lyle F. Schoenfeldt
Lyle Francis Schoenfeldt (born 1939) is an American business management professor best known for a standard textbook on human resources.
Life and career
Schoenfeldt earned his B.A. from Case Western Reserve University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. fro ...
(born 1939), American business management professor
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Lyle Sendlein
Lyle Sendlein (born March 16, 1984) is a former American football center. He was signed by the Arizona Cardinals as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He played college football at Texas.
Early years
Coached by Ron Estabrook at Chaparral High Sch ...
(born 1984), American football center for the Arizona Cardinals
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Lyle Smith
Lyle Hilton Smith (March 17, 1916 – July 26, 2017) was an American football and basketball player, coach, and college athletics administrator.
He served as the head football coach at Boise Junior College—now Boise State University&mdas ...
(1916–2017), assistant coach and head coach of the Boise State college football program
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Lyle M. Spencer
Lyle Manly Spencer (May 10, 1911 – August 21, 1968) was an American philanthropist. In 1938, he was a 27-year-old graduate student in sociology at the University of Chicago when he founded Science Research Associates (SRA), the educational p ...
(1911–1968), founder of Science Research Associates (SRA) and The Spencer Foundation
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Lyle Stewart
Lyle Eldon Stewart is a Canadian provincial politician. He is a current Saskatchewan Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.
Stewart has been involved in politics since the 1970's. He served as the executive assistant to disgr ...
(born 1951), Canadian provincial politician
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Lyle Stuart (1922–2006), American author and independent publisher of controversial books
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Lyle Talbot (1902–1996), American actor best known for playing Joe Randolph on ''The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet''
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Lyle Taylor
Lyle James Alfred Taylor (born 29 March 1990) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for club Nottingham Forest and for the Montserrat national team. Born in Greenwich, England, he internationally represents Montserrat.
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(born 1991), footballer
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Lyle Tayo
Lyle Tayo (born Lyle Minnie Shipman; January 19, 1889 – May 2, 1971), aka Lyle Barton, was an American film actress who appeared in more than 50 films between 1921 and 1948, appearing in many short comedies at the Hal Roach Studios, seve ...
(1889–1971), American film actress
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Lyle Tuttle (1931–2019), well-known American tattoo artist and historian of the medium
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Lyle Vanclief
Lyle Vanclief, (born September 19, 1943) is a former politician who served as Canada's Minister of Agriculture from 1997 to 2003.
Early life
Vanclief was born in Ameliasburg, Ontario. He graduated in the class of 1967 from the University of G ...
(born 1943), PC, Canada's Minister of Agriculture from 1997 to 2003
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Lyle Waggoner (born 1935), American actor and former model
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Lyle R. Wheeler
Lyle Reynolds Wheeler (February 2, 1905 – January 10, 1990) was an American motion picture art director. He received five Academy Awards — for ''Gone with the Wind'' (1939), '' Anna and the King of Siam'' (1946), ''The Robe'' (1953), ''The ...
(1905–1990), Academy Award-winning American motion picture art director
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Lyle Wicks (1912–2004), British Columbia politician
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Lyle Williams
Lyle Williams (August 23, 1942 – November 7, 2008) was an American politician who served three terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1979 to 1985.
Biography
Williams was born in Philippi, West Virginia to Dale and Frankie (Ice) William ...
(1942–2008), U.S. representative from Ohio
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Lyle Workman, American guitarist, composer and music producer
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Lyle Wright
Lyle Zealand Wright (September 28, 1898 – May 23, 1963) was a Canadian-American ice hockey executive and businessman. He managed the Minneapolis Millers for more than 20 seasons, was president of the Minneapolis Arena, and promoted entertainm ...
, (1898–1963), United States Hockey Hall of fame inductee
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Lyle Yorks
Lyle Yorks (born January 30, 1970) is a retired American soccer midfielder who played professionally in the Major Indoor Soccer League, USISL and Major League Soccer. He was the 1987 Gatorade National Player of the Year and was a member of the U ...
(born 1982), retired American soccer midfielder who played in the Major Indoor Soccer League, USISL and Major League Soccer
Places
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Lyle Hill
Lyle Hill stands at the West End of Greenock in Inverclyde, Scotland. It has scenic viewpoints accessible from Lyle Road, which was constructed in 1879–1880 and named after Provost Abram Lyle, well known as a sugar refiner. The hill's hi ...
, viewpoint in Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland
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Lyle, Kansas
Lyle is an unincorporated community in Decatur County, Kansas, United States.
History
A post office was opened in Lyle in 1877, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1907.
Education
The community is served by Oberlin USD 294
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Lyle, Minnesota
Lyle is a city in Mower County, Minnesota, United States. The city lies within a mile of the Iowa border, which also is its southern city limit. Lyle Township adjoins the city on its east, north, and west sides. The population was 551 at the 2 ...
, city in Mower County
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Lyle Township, Mower County, Minnesota
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Lyle, Washington
Lyle is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Klickitat County, Washington, United States. The population was 499 at the 2010 census.
History
Established around 1859, the community was originally called "Klickitat L ...
, census-designated place in Klickitat County
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Lord Lyle
The title Lord Lyle was a Lordship of Parliament in the Peerage of Scotland created for Sir Robert Lyle of Duchal, a Renfrewshire knight c. 1452. The title became extinct upon the death of the 4th Lord Lyle c. 1551.
Lords Lyle
* Robert Lyle, 1 ...
, an extinct Lordship of Parliament in the Peerage of Scotland
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Lyle baronets
There have been three baronetcies created for members of the Lyle family, all in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. One creation is extant as of 2010.
The Lyle Baronetcy, of Greenock in the County of Renfrew, was created in the Baronetage of ...
, three baronetcies in the Lyle family, all created in the Baronetage of the UK
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Lyle guitars
Lyle guitars were made in Japan between 1960 and the late 1970s in the Matsumoku guitar factory, which also produced Univox, Arai, Aria and other guitar brands. Some Lyle guitars were made in Korea, including the C-600 classical model.
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, made in Japan in the Matsumoku guitar factory
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Lyle gun
A Lyle gun was a line thrower powered by a short-barrelled cannon. It was invented by Captain David A. Lyle, US Army, a graduate of West Point and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and were used from the late 19th century to 1952, when ...
, used to shoot a line towards people in distress in order to rescue them and save their lives
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Lyle Lanley
Lyle may refer to:
People
Surname
* Lyle (surname)
Given name
* Lyle Alzado (1949–1992), American NFL All-Pro football player
* Lyle Beerbohm (born 1979), professional mixed martial arts fighter
* Lyle Bennett (1903–2005), head coach of th ...
, the villain in the Simpson's episode ''Marge vs. the Monorail''
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Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
''Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile'' is a children's book written by Bernard Waber first published in 1965. It is the sequel to ''The House on East 88th Street'', published in 1962.
The book is the second in the ''Lyle the Crocodile'' series, which follo ...
'', children's book written by Bernard Waber
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Lyle the Kindly Viking", 15th episode of the ''VeggieTales'' animated series
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Lyle & Scott, Scottish clothing brand, mainly known for their high quality knitwear
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Lyle's flying fox, species of bat in the family Pteropodidae
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Tate & Lyle, UK-based multinational agri-processor
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''Lyle'' (film), a 2014 American drama film
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Lyle, a character played by
Seth Green
Seth Benjamin Green ( ''né'' Gesshel-Green; born February 8, 1974) is an American actor, producer, and writer. Green's film debut came with a role in the comedy-drama film ''The Hotel New Hampshire'' (1984), and he went on to have supporting ...
in the 2003 film
The Italian Job
* Lyle, a character in the 2004 film
Napoleon Dynamite
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Lyall (disambiguation) Lyall may refer to:
* Lyall (name)
* Lyall (surname)
* Lyall Bay
Lyall Bay is a bay and suburb on the south side of the Rongotai isthmus in Wellington, New Zealand.
The bay is a popular surf beach, featuring a breakwater at the eastern end. I ...
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Lyell (disambiguation) Lyell is a surname of Scotland traced to Radulphus de Insula, 11th-century Lord of Duchal Castle. "De insula" was subsequently translated into the Old French "de l'isle" and developed into a number of variants ( eLyell; eLisle; eLyle; see below). ...
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Lile (disambiguation) Lile may refer to:
* Lile (fish), a genus of fish
* Adam Lile (), New Zealand rugby player
* Jimmy Lile (1933–1991), American knifemaker
* Robert Lile, defendant of the United States Supreme Court case '' McKune v. Lile''
* Lile Gibbons, 21st cen ...
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Lisle (disambiguation)
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Delisle (disambiguation)
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