McCandless may refer to:
People
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McCandless (surname)
McCandless (, ) is a Gaels, Gaelic surname, both Irish people, Irish (Ulster)The data can be visualised with maps provided here: and occasionally Scottish people, Scottish. It is the Anglicized form of the Middle Irish (among other spellings) ' ...
Places
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McCandless, Pennsylvania
McCandless is a township with home rule status in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 29,709 at the 2020 census. Though McCandless no longer operates under the First Class Township Code, it is classified as a first- ...
, US, a home-rule municipality of 29,000 people
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McCandless Archeological Site
The McCandless Archeological Site is an archeological site located near Elkton, Cecil County, Maryland. The site is one of a group of interrelated sites illustrating the various phases of stone tool production and living area activities.
It wa ...
, near Elkton, Maryland, US
Other uses
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McCandless method
Stanley Russell McCandless (May 9, 1897 – August 4, 1967) is considered to be the father of modern lighting design. He paved the way for future lighting designers by making contributions to almost all aspects of theatrical lighting, from t ...
for stage lighting, authored by Stanley McCandless
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USS ''McCandless'' (FF-1084), a US Navy frigate named for Byron McCandless and Bruce McCandless I
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McCandless Lunar Lander
''McCandless Lunar Lander'' is a concept for a robotic lunar lander proposed as one of the commercial cargo vehicles for NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS). The lander was proposed to NASA for funding by the aerospace company Lockh ...
, named for Bruce McCandless II
See also
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McCandlish
McCandlish (, is Scottish surname (and rarely also a given name), derived from Scottish Gaelic and Middle Irish (among other spellings), meaning 'son of Cuindleas', an Old Irish given name of uncertain meaning. A newer edition of this book exi ...
, a less common form of the name
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McCanles Gang
The McCanles Gang (later changed to McCandless) was an alleged outlaw gang active in the early 1860s that was accused of train robbery, bank robbery, cattle rustling, horse theft, and murder. On July 12, 1861, some of its supposed members, inclu ...
(sometimes also rendered McCandless), an alleged outlaw gang in the American West of the early 1860s
* "Mac" McCandless, antagonist (played by Anthony Hopkins) in the film ''
Freejack
''Freejack'' is a 1992 American science fiction cyberpunk action film directed by Geoff Murphy and starring Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo, and Anthony Hopkins. The screenplay was written by Steven Pressfield, Ronald Shusett (who also pr ...
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* McCandles, protagonist family in the 1971 western film ''
Big Jake
''Big Jake'' is a 1971 American Technicolor Western film starring John Wayne, Richard Boone and Maureen O'Hara. The picture was the final film for George Sherman in a directing career of more than 30 years. It grossed $7.5 million in the ...
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* McCanles, protagonist family in the 1946 western film ''
Duel in the Sun'' and the Niven Busch novel on which it was based
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