Lorcan () is male
given name
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, meaning 'little fierce one', and may refer to:
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Lorcan Allen (born 1940), Irish farmer and former Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála TD
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Lorcan Cranitch (born 1959), Irish actor
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Lorcan Dempsey (born 1958), the Vice President and Chief Strategist of the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
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Lorcán mac Cellaig (flourished 848), King of Leinster of the Uí Muiredaig sept of the Uí Dúnlainge branch of the Laigin
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Lorcán mac Fáelán, the seventh of ten Kings of Leinster to be inaugurated and based on Lyons Hill, Ardclough, County Kildare
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Lorcán Ó Muireadais (1883–1941), Irish Roman Catholic priest, Irish language educator and nationalist activist
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Lorcan O'Herlihy (born 1959), architect
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Lorcán Ua Tuathail (1128–1180), Saint Laurence O'Toole, canonized in 1225 by Pope Honorius III
See also
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List of Irish-language given names
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