L'Estrange is a surname of French origin which may refer to any of the following people or characters.
People
L'Estrange
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Alexander L'Estrange
Alexander Richard William L'Estrange (born 7 April 1974) is an English composer of choral music and music for television and an arranger for world-class vocal ensembles. He is also an accomplished jazz musician (piano and double bass), choral ...
(born 1974), English composer and jazz musician
* Charles James L'Estrange (1867–1947), children's fiction author who used the pen name
Herbert Strang along with George Herbert Ely (1866–1958)
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Francis L'Estrange
Francis L'Estrange (c. 1756 – 13 August 1836) was an Irish surgeon who served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in 1796. (c. 1756–1836), Irish surgeon, President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
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Gerry L'Estrange (1917–1996), Irish politician
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Heath L'Estrange (born 1985), Australian rugby league player
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Henri L'Estrange (c. 1842–c. 1900), Australian tightrope walker and balloonist
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Herbert L'Estrange Ewen (1876–1912), British philatelist
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Michael L'Estrange (born 1952), Australian academic and former public servant
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Nicholas L'Estrange (1511–1580), English Member of Parliament
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Peter L'Estrange, 20th-century Australian Jesuit priest
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Richard L'Estrange
Richard Lestrange (L'Estrange, Strange) (born before Aug 1517Inquisition Post Mortem of John le Strange held at Norwich 25 Oct 1518 - Exchequer Series) of Hunstanton and King's Lynn, Norfolk; later of Kilkenny, Ireland, was an English politicia ...
(1500s), English Member of Parliament
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Roger L'Estrange
Sir Roger L'Estrange (17 December 1616 – 11 December 1704) was an English pamphleteer, author, courtier, and press censor. Throughout his life L'Estrange was frequently mired in controversy and acted as a staunch ideological defender of Kin ...
(1616–1704), English pamphleteer and author
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Sean L'Estrange (born 1967), Australian politician
Lestrange or de Lestrange
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Augustin de Lestrange
Augustin de Lestrange ( secular name Louis-Henri de Lestrange) (born in 1754, in the Château de Colombier-le-Vieux, Ardèche, France; died at Lyon, 16 July 1827) was a French Trappist abbot, an exile from France after the French Revolution.
Li ...
(1754–1827), French
Trappist
The Trappists, officially known as the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance ( la, Ordo Cisterciensis Strictioris Observantiae, abbreviated as OCSO) and originally named the Order of Reformed Cistercians of Our Lady of La Trappe, are a ...
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Gisèle Lestrange (1927–1991), French graphic artist
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John Lestrange
John III Lestrange (died 1269), of Knockin in Shropshire, landowner, administrator and soldier, was a marcher lord defending England along its border with Wales.
Origins
The surname of this family indicates that they were "foreign" and therefore o ...
(died 1269), English landowner, administrator and soldier
Le Strange or le Strange
* some early bearers of the English title
Baron Strange, including:
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Eubulus le Strange, 1st Baron Strange
Eubulus le Strange, 1st Baron Strange (died 1335) was an English baron and an especially competent and trusted military officer for King Edward III.
He married Alice de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln (1281–1348) as her second husband in 1324, ...
(died 1335), an especially competent and trusted military officer for King Edward III
* some early bearers of the English title
Baron Strange of Blackmere, including:
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Fulk le Strange, 1st Baron Strange of Blackmere
Fulk le Strange, 1st Baron Strange of Blackmere (died 23 January 1324) was a 13th- and 14th-century English nobleman.
He was a younger son of Robert le Strange. After the death of his older brother John, Fulk inherited in 1289 lands in Wrockw ...
(died 1324)
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Guy Le Strange
Guy Le Strange (24 July 1854 – 24 December 1933) was a British Orientalist noted especially for his work in the field of the historical geography of the pre-modern Middle Eastern and Eastern Islamic lands, and his editing of Persian geographic ...
(1854–1933), English orientalist
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Hamon le Strange (1583–1654), English politician
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Sir Thomas Le Strange
Sir Thomas Le Strange (1494–1545) of Hunstanton, Norfolk, born in 1494, son of Robert le Strange (''d''. 1511), sixth in descent from Hamo le Strange, brother of John le Strange, 6th Baron of Knockyn, was Esquire of the Body to Henry VIII, and ...
(1494–1545), an Esquire of the Body to Henry VIII
Fictional characters
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Bellatrix Lestrange, in the
Harry Potter
''Harry Potter'' is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students a ...
series
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Gary Le Strange, created by comedian Waen Shepherd
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Leta Lestrange
This is a list of characters from the ''Fantastic Beasts'' films.
Introduced in ''Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them''
Newt Scamander
Newt Scamander is an introverted British wizard and magizoologist, as well as a noteworthy graduat ...
, a fictional witch in the
Wizarding World
The Wizarding World (previously known as J. K. Rowling's Wizarding World) is a fantasy media franchise and shared fictional universe centred on the ''Harry Potter'' novel series by J. K. Rowling. A series of films have been in production si ...
* Estelle Lestrange, a fictional character in
The Murder at the Vicarage
''The Murder at the Vicarage'' is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1930 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition ...
by Agatha Christie
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