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Chaney is an American surname of French origin, and may refer to:
  • Charles "Bubba" Chaney
    Charles "Bubba" Chaney
    Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney is a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 19, which includes his home city of Rayville in Richland Parish in northeastern Louisiana. He was elected in 2007, when he defeated Anita Mack-Tennant.The position opened when the long-term Democratic...

     (1946- ), Louisiana politician
  • Chris Chaney
    Chris Chaney
    Chris Chaney is a rock bass player who has performed with artists including Jane's Addiction, Alanis Morissette, Slash, and many others. He was the bass player in the third incarnation of Jane's Addiction and a member of Morissette's touring and recording band for seven years...

    , US musician
  • Darrel Chaney
    Darrel Chaney
    Darrel Lee Chaney is an American former player/annnouncer in Major League Baseball who played for the Cincinnati Reds and Atlanta Braves from 1969 to 1979. In the early 1980s he worked for the Braves as an announcer on their TV and radio broadcasts along with Ernie Johnson Sr., Skip Caray and Pete...

    , US baseball player
  • Don Chaney
    Don Chaney
    Donald Ray Chaney is an American former professional basketball player and coach, most notable for his long stints as a player on the Boston Celtics.-Career as a player:...

    , US basketballer
  • Esty Chaney
    Esty Chaney
    Esty Clyon Chaney was a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox and Brooklyn Tip-Tops . Listed at 5'11", 170 lbs., Chaney batted and threw right-handed...

     (1891-1952), US baseballer
  • Fred Chaney
    Fred Chaney
    Frederick Michael Chaney, AO is a former Western Australian politician who, until April 2007, held the position of deputy chairman of the Australian Native Title Tribunal and is Chair of Desert Knowledge Australia and on the Board of Directors of Reconciliation Australia.Chaney was born in Perth,...

    , Australian Liberal Party politician and minister in the Fraser government (son of Fred snr)
  • Fred Chaney (senior), Australian Liberal Party politician and minister in the Menzies government
  • George Chaney
    George Chaney
    George "KO" Chaney was a hard punching featherweight and lightweight who fought from 1910 to 1928. Chaney was born George Henry Chaney in Baltimore, Maryland to Irish-American parents. In his time he was known as the "knockout king of Fistiana" He compiled a lifetime record in boxing of 127 wins...

     (1893-1958), US boxer
  • Jack London
    Jack London
    John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone...

    , born John Griffith Chaney
  • James Chaney
    James Chaney
    James Earl "J.E." Chaney , from Meridian, Mississippi, was one of three American civil rights workers who were murdered during Freedom Summer by members of the Ku Klux Klan near Philadelphia...

     (1943-1964), US civil rights activist
  • James M. Chaney
    James M. Chaney
    James M. Chaney was a witness and Dallas police motorcycle presidential escort riding only ten to fifteen feet away from President John F. Kennedy during his assassination on November 22, 1963 within Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. He is not to be confused with James E...

     (1921-1976), US police officer and witness to President Kennedy's assassination
  • James McDonald Chaney
    James McDonald Chaney
    Rev. James McDonald Chaney was a minister of the Lafayette Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. He had been an ordained minister for 53 years.-Birth and Early Life:...

    , US Presbyterian minister
  • John Chaney (disambiguation) (several entries)
  • Lindsay Chaney
    Lindsay Chaney
    Lindsay Chaney is a senior news editor at Variety.He joined Variety in 1999. Previously he was a business editor and writer at the Long Beach Press-Telegram, covering the aerospace industry and finance. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, New York Times and Los Angeles magazine...

    , US news editor
  • Lon Chaney, Jr.
    Lon Chaney, Jr.
    Lon Chaney, Jr. , born Creighton Tull Chaney, was an American character actor. He was best known for his roles in monster movies and as the son of famous silent film actor, Lon Chaney...

     (1906-1973), US actor
  • Lon Chaney, Sr.
    Lon Chaney, Sr.
    Lon Chaney , nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an American actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema...

     (1883-1930), US actor
  • Michael Chaney, businessman
  • Mike Chaney, Mississippi Commissioner of Insurance, State Fire Marshal, and businessman
  • Norman "Chubby" Chaney (1918-1936), US child actor
  • Tray Chaney
    Tray Chaney
    Tray Chaney is an American actor. He appeared on the HBO program The Wire as Poot Carr.Chaney began his entertainment career as a dancer at the age of four winning competitions at the Apollo Theater. He appeared in the 2003 music video "My Baby" by rap artist Bow Wow. He later appeared in The Wire...

    , US actor
  • Markoff Chaney, character from The Illuminatus! Trilogy
    The Illuminatus! Trilogy
    The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson first published in 1975. The trilogy is a satirical, postmodern, science fiction-influenced adventure story; a drug-, sex-, and magick-laden trek through a number of conspiracy theories, both...


See also

  • Chanay
    Chanay
    Chanay is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France.-Population:...

  • Cheney (surname)
    Cheney (surname)
    Cheney is a surname, and may refer to:*Ben Cheney, lumber businessman*Benjamin Pierce Cheney, American businessman*Chris Cheney, guitarist and lead singer of Australian rock band The Living End*Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States...

  • Chaney High School (Youngstown, Ohio)
    Chaney High School (Youngstown, Ohio)
    Chaney High School was one of two traditional public high schools in the city of Youngstown, Ohio. It is a part of the Youngstown City School District system...

  • Chesney
    Chesney
    Chesney is a surname or given name of French origin. The name first reached England following its conquest by the Normans in 1066. Notable persons with the name include:As a surname:* Charles Cornwallis Chesney, soldier and military writer* Dennis K...

    , a surname and given name
  • Janney (disambiguation)
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