• a lake
  Lake
  A lake is a body of relatively still fresh or salt water of considerable size, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land. Lakes are inland and not part of the ocean and therefore are distinct from lagoons, and are larger and deeper than ponds. Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams,...
  
  , an enclosed geographical body of fresh water

People

• Alan Lake
  Alan Lake
  Alan Lake was an English actor, best known as the third husband of Diana Dors.-Biography:Lake was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire on 24 November 1940...
  
  , British actor
• Alice Lake
  Alice Lake
  Alice Lake was an American film actress. She began her career during the silent film era and often appeared in comedy shorts opposite Roscoe Arbuckle.-Career:...
  
  , American actress
• Anthony Lake
  Anthony Lake
  William Anthony Kirsopp Lake, best known as Tony Lake, is the Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund , author, academic, and former American diplomat, Foreign Service Officer, and political advisor. He has been a foreign policy advisor to many Democratic U.S...
  
  , former US National Security Advisor
• Arthur Lake (actor)
  Arthur Lake (actor)
  Arthur Lake was an American actor known best for bringing Dagwood Bumstead, the bumbling husband of Blondie, to life in film, radio and television.-Early life and career:...
  
   (1905–1987), American film actor
• Bill Lake
  Bill Lake
  Bill Lake is a Canadian actor whose career began in Vancouver and who has appeared in many movies, television movies and series, stage plays and commercials....
  
  , Canadian actor
• Carnell Lake
  Carnell Lake
  Carnell Augustino Lake is a former professional American football player who was a member of the NFL 1990s All-Decade Team. He was the Cornerbacks Coach for the UCLA Bruins under head coach Rick Neuheisel in 2009 before leaving after one season for family reasons.-College career:Lake played for...
  
  , American football player
• Chris Lake
  Chris Lake
  Chris Lake is a Scottish House music DJ/producer who lives in West London. Lake first became recognized for his bootleg remixes of The Prodigy's "Climbatize", Leftfield's "Phat Planet", and Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams". which he did under the alias "Cristophe D'Abuc". His 2006 track with vocals from...
  
  , English House music DJ and producer
• Florence Lake
  Florence Lake
  For the reservoir in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, see Florence Lake .Florence Lake was an American actress best known as the leading lady in most of the Edgar Kennedy comedy shorts.-Early life:In the early 1900s, her father and uncle toured with a circus in an aerial act known as...
  
   (1904-1980), American actress and sister of Arthur Lake
• Greg Lake
  Greg Lake
  Gregory Stuart "Greg" Lake is an English musician, songwriter and producer, best known as a vocalist and bassist of King Crimson, and the bassist, guitarist, vocalist, and lyricist of Emerson, Lake & Palmer.-1960s: King Crimson:...
  
  , British bassist and singer
• Handsome Lake
  Handsome Lake
  Handsome Lake was a Seneca religious leader of the Iroquois people. He was also half-brother to Cornplanter....
  
  , Iroquois religious leader
• John Lake (bishop)
  John Lake (bishop)
  John Lake was a 17th century Bishop of Sodor and Man, Bishop of Bristol and Bishop of Chichester in the British Isles.-Life:He was born in Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire and educated at St John's College, Cambridge...
  
   (1624–1689), a 17th century bishop in the British Isles
• John Lake (cyclist), American cyclist who won a bronze medal at the 1900 Summer Olympics
• John Lake (journalist) (b. 1932), former sports editor of Newsweek who disappeared in 1967
• John G. Lake
  John G. Lake
  John Graham Lake , usually known as John G. Lake, was a businessman who became known for his ministry as a missionary, faith healer, and founder of the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa...
  
   (1870–1935), a businessman, missionary, and faith healer
• Kirsopp Lake
  Kirsopp Lake
  Kirsopp Lake was a New Testament scholar and Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard Divinity School. He had an uncommon breadth of interests, publishing definitive monographs in New Testament textual criticism, Greek palaeography, theology, and archaeology...
  
   (1872–1946), British New Testament scholar
• Lake Bell
  Lake Bell
  -Early life:Bell was born in New York City, the daughter of Robin Bell, owner of the design firm Robin Bell Design, Inc. in New York, and Harvey Siegel. Her father is Jewish and her mother is Protestant, and Bell has stated that she was raised in a "comically dysfunctional family".Bell attended The...
  
   (b. 1979), American actress
• Lake Speed
  Lake Speed
  -Background:Lake was named after the best friend of his father, Bob Lake. Lake's father Leland L. Speed took office as the Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi in 1948, the same year that he was born. He started his racing career at the age of thirteen racing karts, much to the displeasure of his family...
  
  , former NASCAR driver
• Leonard Lake
  Leonard Lake
  Leonard Lake was an American serial killer. He often used the alias Leonard Hill. The crimes he committed with Charles Ng became known when Lake committed suicide by taking a cyanide pill shortly after being arrested for a firearms offense.-Life:Lake was born in San Francisco, California...
  
  , serial killer
• Patricia Lake
  Patricia Lake
  Patricia Van Cleeve Lake , known as Patricia Lake, was an American socialite, actress, and radio comedienne, who was suspected of being and, just before she died, claimed to be the illegitimate daughter of actress Marion Davies and publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst.-Parentage:In the 1920s,...
  
   (1923–1993), wife of Arthur Lake
• Paul Lake
  Paul Lake
  Paul Andrew Lake is an English former footballer, who played for Manchester City.-Early life:Raised in the Denton area of Manchester, he attended St Thomas More School Denton. Lake was spotted by Manchester City scout Ken Barnes as a ten year old, playing against boys two or three years older...
  
  , English football player
• Ricki Lake
  Ricki Lake
  Ricki Pamela Lake is an American actress, producer, and television host. She is best known for her starring role as Tracy Turnblad in the original Hairspray, her ground-breaking documentary film The Business of Being Born, and her talk show which was broadcasted internationally from...
  
  , actress and television personality
• Sam Lake
  Sam Lake
  Sami Järvi , better known by his artist name Sam Lake , is a Finnish writer who is mostly known for his work on the popular Max Payne video game series. Lake is good friends with Petri Järvilehto, a founding member of Remedy Entertainment, the company behind Max Payne...
  
  , Finnish writer
• Simon Lake
  Simon Lake
  Simon Lake was a Quaker American mechanical engineer and naval architect who obtained over two hundred patents for advances in naval design and competed with John Philip Holland to build the first submarines for the United States Navy.Born in Pleasantville, New Jersey, Lake joined his father's...
  
  , American Naval engineer and inventor
• Steve Lake
  Steve Lake
  Steven "Steve" Michael Lake batted and threw right-handed, and is a former professional baseball backup catcher. He played Major League Baseball from 1983-93 for the following teams: Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies, and finishing his career with the Cubs...
  
  , former baseball catcher
• Veronica Lake
  Veronica Lake
  Veronica Lake was an American film actress and pin-up model. She received both popular and critical acclaim, most notably for her role in Sullivan's Travels and her femme fatale roles in film noir with Alan Ladd during the 1940s, and was well-known for her peek-a-boo hairstyle...
  
   (1922–1973), American film actress
• Wells Lake (politician)
  Wells Lake (politician)
  -Life:He lived in that part of the Town of New Paltz which was separated in 1845 as the Town of Lloyd, in Ulster County, New York.He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1820-21; and in 1823...
  
   (b. ca. 1773), New York politician
• Lake, a.k.a. Lakey The Kid
  Lakey The Kid
  Lakey The Kid or Lake is a rapper from Queensbridge, New York. In 1999, Lake was released from prison after serving a seven year sentence For according to him "shooting a guy in the stomach" who is said to have reported him to the police....
  
  , a hip-hop artist from Queensbridge

Places

• Lakes (state)
  Lakes (state)
  Lakes is one of the 10 states of South Sudan. It has an area of 40,235 km². Rumbek is the capital of the state. Lakes is in the Bahr el Ghazal region of South Sudan, in addition to Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Western Bahr el Ghazal, and Warrap states. Bahr el Ghazal itself was a former province...
  
  , also known as Al Buhayrat

• Lake, Isle of Wight
  Lake, Isle of Wight
  Lake is a village and civil parish located on Sandown Bay, on the Isle of Wight, England.Lake is named after the Old English "Lacu" referring to the creek that ran along what is now Scotchells Brook, which is between the Isle of Wight Airport and the Morrisons Superstore and the Spithead Industrial...
  
  
• The Lakes, another name for the Lake District
  Lake District
  The Lake District, also commonly known as The Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous not only for its lakes and its mountains but also for its associations with the early 19th century poetry and writings of William Wordsworth...
  
  
• Lakes, Cumbria
  Lakes, Cumbria
  Lakes is a large civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England, with a population of 5,127 according to the 2001 census. It covers the small town of Ambleside, and the villages and hamlets of Clappersgate, Rydal, Grasmere, Troutbeck, Chapel Stile, Elterwater, Little Langdale, and...
  
  , a civil parish

• Lakes, Alaska
  Lakes, Alaska
  Lakes is a census-designated place in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area...
  
  
• Lake, Idaho
  Lake, Idaho
  Lake is an unincorporated place located in Fremont County in the U.S. state of Idaho. It is located at .Lake is part of the Rexburg, Idaho Micropolitan Statistical Area....
  
  
• Lake, Kentucky
  Lake, Kentucky
  Lake is an unincorporated community in Laurel County, Kentucky, United States. It is located at latitude 37°5'22" North, longitude 83°53'8" West....
  
  
• Lake, Louisiana
  Lake, Louisiana
  Lake is a place located in Ascension Parish in the State of Louisiana in the United States of America. It is located at latitude 30°17'59" North, longitude 90°51'10" West....
  
  
• Lake, Maryland
  Lake, Maryland
  Lake is an unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It is located at latitude 39°23'29" North, longitude 76°38'28" West....
  
  
• Lake, Michigan (disambiguation)
• Lake, Mississippi
  Lake, Mississippi
  Lake is a town in Newton and Scott Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The population was 408 at the 2000 census. Lake is the birthplace of country music singer, Randy Houser.-Geography:...
  
  
• Lake, Missouri
  Lake, Missouri
  Lake is a place located in St. Louis County in the State of Missouri in the United States of America. It is located at latitude 38°40'46" North, longitude 90°31'12" West....
  
  
• Lake, Oklahoma
  Lake, Oklahoma
  Lake is an unincorporated community in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States. It is located at latitude 36°8'24" North, longitude 96°4'54" West....
  
  
• Lake, Virginia
  Lake, Virginia
  Lake is an unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia, United States. Lake is situated along the Coan River, a tidal tributary of the Potomac River....
  
  
• Lake, West Virginia
  Lake, West Virginia
  Lake is an unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia, United States. Lake is east-northeast of Mitchell Heights. Lake has a post office with ZIP code 25121....
  
  
• Lake, Wisconsin (disambiguation)

Entertainment

• Lake (band)
  Lake (band)
  Lake is a German rock music band that formed in the early 1970s under the name Tornados, changing their name to Lake in 1973. They mostly covered material by other bands in their early years, but released three singles, Come Down/We're Gonna Rock, King Of The Rock'n Roll Party, and Sailor...
  
  , a music group from Germany in the 1970s and 1980s
• Lake (American band)
  Lake (American band)
  Lake is an American indie pop band signed to the influential record label K Records, based in Olympia, WA. They are also known for composing the ending song to the popular Cartoon Network show Adventure Time, entitled "Christmas Island"...
  
  , Olympia, WA lo-fi pop band
• Lakes (band)
  Lakes (band)
  Lakes is a band formed in June 2006 in Atascadero, California, consisting mainly of the former band members of Watashi Wa. They are signed to The Militia Group and on September 5, 2006 released a 5 song EP named Photographs EP....
  
  , a band from Central California
• WLKK
  WLKK
  WLKK is an American radio station located in Wethersfield, New York. Broadcasting on the frequency of 107.7 MHz, the station is currently owned by Entercom Communications and is operated out of the company's studios in Amherst, New York, a suburb of Buffalo...
  
  , "107.7 (FM) The Lake", a Buffalo, New York radio station
• The Lake
  The Lake
  The Lake was a British play written by Dorothy Massingham and Murray MacDonald. It debuted on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on December 26, 1933 and was one of acting legend Katharine Hepburn's first major Broadway roles....
  
  , 1933 Broadway play with Katharine Hepburn
• The Lake, 1993 Radio play by Ellen Dryden directed by Ned Chaillet
• The Lake (film)
  The Lake (film)
  The Lake was a 1998 made-for-TV movie, a science fiction thriller starring Yasmine Bleeth.-Plot:Jackie Ivers is a Los Angeles nurse who returns home to the small town of San Vicente to find that her friends and family have taken on bizarrely different personalities. Jackie notices that everyone...
  
  , 1998 TV film with Yasmine Bleeth
• The Lake, a piece of music by Mike Oldfield on his album Discovery
  Discovery (Mike Oldfield album)
  Discovery is the ninth album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1984. It was recorded at Oldfield's then-home in Villars-sur-Ollon in the Swiss Alps where he was living for tax reasons...
  
  
• The Lake, a 2009 Warner Bros. web series starring Elisa Donovan
  Elisa Donovan
  Elisa Donovan is an American actress.-Early life:Donovan was born Lisa Adaline Donovan in Poughkeepsie, New York, the daughter of Charlotte and Jack Donovan, who was a business executive. She later changed her first name to "Elisa" when she had to join the stage union, Actor's Equity, because...
  
  
• The Lake (school production), a 2010 musical production by The Lakes South Morang P-9 School

Other uses

• The Sinixt
  Sinixt
  The Sinixt are a First Nations People...
  
   or Lakes tribe, Native Americans in Washington state and the Kootenay region of British Columbia
• Lake pigment
  Lake pigment
  A lake pigment is a pigment manufactured by precipitating a dye with an inert binder, usually a metallic salt. The word lake is a homonym of lake as body of water and does not refer to it....
  
  
• Lake Aircraft
  Lake Aircraft
  Lake Aircraft was a manufacturer of amphibious aircraft. Their factory was in Sanford, Maine, USA, and their sales offices were located at Laconia / Gilford, New Hampshire and Kissimmee, Florida....
  
  
• Lake (dialect), used by locals in the Nonatum area of Newton, Massachusetts
  Newton, Massachusetts
  Newton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States bordered to the east by Boston. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the population of Newton was 85,146, making it the eleventh largest city in the state.-Villages:...
  
  

See also

• Lake City (disambiguation)
• Lake County (disambiguation)
• Lake Creek (disambiguation)
• Lake Forest (disambiguation)
• Lake Township (disambiguation)
• Lake Park (disambiguation)