Lancaster (surname)

Lancaster is an

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surname. Notable People with the surname include: *

Alan Lancaster Alan Charles Lancaster (7 February 1949 – 26 September 2021) was an English musician, best known as a founding member and bassist of the rock band Status Quo, playing with the band from 1967 to 1985, with brief reunions in 2013 and 2014. As we ...

(1949–2021), English bassist *

Amber Lancaster Amber Leigh Lancaster (born September 19, 1980) is an American model, actress and interior designer. She is best known for playing Jenny Swanson on MTVs ''The Hard Times of RJ Berger'', as well as being a model on ''The Price Is Right''. Early ...

(born 1980), American actress and model *

Benjamin Lancaster Benjamin Lancaster (1 December 1801 – 16 March 1887) was a 19th-century businessman and philanthropist. He was born in 1801, married Rosamira Bellairs on 5 June 1851 at Bedworth, Warwickshire, and died in Bournemouth in 1887 leaving an estate ...

(1801–1887), British pharmacist *

Bill Lancaster (aviator) Captain William Newton Lancaster (14 February 1898 – 20 April 1933) was a pioneering British aviator. Early life Born in Birmingham, England, Lancaster emigrated to Australia prior to World War I. In 1916, he joined first the Australian Arm ...

(1898–1933), British aviator *

Bill Lancaster William Henry Lancaster (November 17, 1947 – January 4, 1997) was an American screenwriter and actor. Early life He was born November 17, 1947, in Los Angeles, California, the son of Burt Lancaster (1913–1994) and Norma Anderson (1917–198 ...

(1947–1997), American screenwriter *

Brett Lancaster Brett Lancaster (born 15 November 1979) is an Australian former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2003 and 2016. Born in Shepparton, Victoria, Lancaster started cycle racing at the age of 14 in 1993. He spent four ye ...

, professional cyclist * Burt Lancaster (1913–1994), American actor *

Callum Lancaster Callum Lancaster (born 13 October 1996) was a professional rugby league footballer who played for Hull F.C. in the Super League. He is a . Career Lancaster made his Hull début on 23 May 2014 in a Super League away match against Leeds Lee ...

, English rugby league footballer *

Cameron Lancaster Cameron Paul Lancaster (born 5 November 1992) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Louisville City in the USL Championship. Early life Lancaster was born in Camden and raised in Muswell Hill. He attended East Barn ...

, English football player * David Lancaster (disambiguation), multiple people *

Don Lancaster Donald E. Lancaster is an American author, inventor, and microcomputer pioneer. Background Lancaster is a writer and engineer, who authored multiple articles for computer and electronics magazines of the 1970s, including ''Popular Electronics' ...

, American author and inventor * Ernie Lancaster (1953–2014), American blues guitarist and songwriter *

Geoffrey Lancaster Geoffrey Lancaster (born 20 August 1954) is an Australian classical pianist and conductor. Born in Sydney, he was raised in Dubbo, New South Wales before moving to Canberra. He attended the Canberra School of Music where he studied piano with ...

, Australian classical pianist and conductor * Harry Lancaster, American basketball and baseball coach *

Jack Lancaster Jack Lancaster is a British composer, record producer and musician. In the late 1960s, Lancaster co-founded the British rock group Blodwyn Pig with Jethro Tull guitarist Mick Abrahams and in the late 1970s he was a member of the British progres ...

, British Rally Driver 2020- *

James Lancaster Sir James Lancaster (c. 1554 – 6 June 1618) was an English privateer and trader of the Elizabethan era. Life and work Lancaster came from Basingstoke in Hampshire. In his early life, he was a soldier and a trader in Portugal. On 10 April 1 ...

, prominent Elizabethan trader and privateer in India *

Jason Lancaster Jason Lancaster is a singer-songwriter born in Tallahassee, Florida. He was the co-lead vocalist/rhythm guitarist in Mayday Parade as well as the lead vocalist/guitarist/pianist in Go Radio. Since Go Radio's breakup shortly after their particip ...

, American musician * John L. Lancaster, a mathematical economist and professor of economics at Columbia University *

Joseph Lancaster Joseph Lancaster (25 November 1778 – 23 October 1838) was an English Quaker and public education innovator. He developed, and propagated on the grounds both of economy and efficacy, a monitorial system of primary education. In the first de ...

(1778–1838), English Quaker and public education innovator * Kelvin Lancaster (1924–1999), Australian economist * Les Lancaster, professional baseball player in the Major Leagues * Mark Lancaster (disambiguation), multiple people * Marshall Lancaster (born 1974), English actor * Martin Lancaster (born 1943), American politician *

Nancy Lancaster Nancy Lancaster (10 September 1897 – 19 August 1994) was a 20th-century tastemaker and the owner of Colefax & Fowler, an influential British decorating firm that codified what is known as the English country house look. Biography She was ...

, 20th-century tastemaker and owner of a British decorating firm *

Osbert Lancaster Sir Osbert Lancaster, CBE (4 August 1908 – 27 July 1986) was an English cartoonist, architectural historian, stage designer and author. He was known for his cartoons in the British press, and for his lifelong work to inform the general p ...

(1908–1986), English cartoonist, author, art critic and stage designer *

Penny Lancaster Penelope Claire Lancaster, Lady Stewart (born 15 March 1971) is an English model and television personality. She is married to rock singer Rod Stewart. In 2014, she joined the ITV lunchtime show '' Loose Women''. Early life Lancaster was bor ...

(born 1971), English model * Robert S. Lancaster (1958–2019), American skeptic *

Ron Lancaster Ronald Lancaster (October 14, 1938 – September 18, 2008) was an American-Canadian professional football player and coach in the Canadian Football League (CFL). As the starting quarterback for the Saskatchewan Roughriders for 16 seasons, he ...

, football player, coach and general manager in the

CFL The Canadian Football League (CFL; french: Ligue canadienne de football—LCF) is a professional sports league in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football. The league consists of nine teams, each located in a ci ...

* Roy Lancaster, UK TV gardener, author and plant hunter *

Sarah Lancaster Sarah Lancaster (born February 12, 1980) is an American actress. She is known for her long-running roles as Rachel Meyers in the NBC series '' Saved by the Bell: The New Class'' and Ellie Bartowski in the NBC comedy-spy series '' Chuck'', a ...

(born 1980), American actress * Sophie Lancaster (1986–2007), British murder victim * Spear Lancaster, American politician * Stuart Lancaster (born 1969), rugby union coach * Tyler Lancaster (born 1994), American football player * William Lancaster, pseudonym for John Byrne Leicester Warren, 3rd Baron De Tabley, poet and author *

William Lancaster (anthropologist) William ('Willie') Osbert Lancaster (13 March 1938 – 19 May 2022) was a British social anthropologist who specialised in the study of the Arab world, particularly the bedouin tribes in the Levant and Middle East. Life and work Lancaster was t ...

(born 1938), British anthropologist * William Lancaster (cricketer) (1873–1938), English cricketer * William de Lancaster I (died c.1170), English nobleman {{surname, Lancaster English-language surnames English toponymic surnames