Lorne
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Lorne is a given name and place name especially popular in Canada, due to the Marquess of Lorne
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll
John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll KG, KT, GCMG, GCVO, VD, PC , usually better known by the courtesy title Marquess of Lorne, by which he was known between 1847 and 1900, was a British nobleman and was the fourth Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883...

, who was Governor-General of Canada (1878-1883). Lorne may refer to:

Given name

  • Lorne Anderson
    Lorne Anderson
    Lorne Robert Anderson was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League. Born in Renfrew, Ontario, he played with the New York Rangers. He gave up the fastest hat trick in NHL history, in 21 seconds, to Bill Mosienko on March 23, 1952.- External links :* at...

     (1931-1984), Canadian hockey player
  • Lorne Babiuk
    Lorne Babiuk
    Lorne Allan Babiuk, is a Canadian scientist specializing in immunology, pathogenesis, virology, molecular virology, and vaccinology. He is the Vice-President of Research at the University of Alberta and the former Director of the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of...

     (born 1946), Canadian scientist
  • Lorne Bonnell (1923-2006), Canadian politician
  • Lorne Calvert
    Lorne Calvert
    Lorne Albert Calvert, MLA was the 13th Premier of Saskatchewan, from 2001 to 2007. Calvert, was the leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party from 2001 to June 6, 2009, when he was succeeded by Dwain Lingenfelter.In 1975, Calvert married Betty Sluzalo of Perdue, Saskatchewan. After attending...

     (born 1954), Canadian politician
  • Lorne Campbell
    Lorne Campbell
    Lorne Campbell was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 140 games in various professional leagues, including the National Hockey Association and International Professional Hockey League . Amongst the teams he played for were the Cobalt Silver Kings.-Playing career:Campbell first...

    , Canadian hockey player
  • Lorne Cardinal
    Lorne Cardinal
    Lorne Cardinal is a stage, television and film actor, best known for portraying character Davis Quinton on the Canadian television series Corner Gas.-Personal life:...

     (born 1964), Canadian actor
  • Lorne Carr
    Lorne Carr
    Lorne William Bell Carr was a professional ice hockey player in the National Hockey League.-Profession career:Carr began his career in 1930 with the Vancouver Lions of the Pacific Coast Hockey League. He next played for the Buffalo Bisons of the International Hockey League. In 1934 Carr signed...

     (1910-2007), Canadian hockey player
  • Lorne Chabot
    Lorne Chabot
    Lorne "Chabotsky" Chabot was a Canadian ice hockey goaltender.-Playing career:Lorne played in the National Hockey League from 1926 to 1937. During this time, he played for the New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks, Montreal Maroons, and New York Americans...

     (1900-1946), Canadian hockey player
  • Lorne Clarke
    Lorne Clarke
    Lorne O. Clarke, is a Canadian lawyer and former Chief Justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court.Born in Malagash, Nova Scotia, he graduated from Dalhousie University with a B.A. in 1949 and an LL.B. in 1951. In 1955, he received an LL.M. from Harvard University...

     (born 1928) Canadian judge
  • Lorne Currie
    Lorne Currie
    Lorne Campbell Currie was a British sailor who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. His father, John Martin Currie, was a younger brother of Donald Currie, the ship owner, and acted as agent for the firm in Le Havre, where Lorne Currie was born and raised.He was a member of the British boat...

     (1871-1926), British sailor
  • Lorne Davis
    Lorne Davis
    Lorne Austin Davis was an ice hockey scout for the National Hockey League's Edmonton Oilers, and a former right winger with four NHL teams...

     (1930-2007), Canadian hockey player and scout
  • Lorne Duguid
    Lorne Duguid
    Lorne Wallace Duguid was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 135 games in the National Hockey League. Born in Bolton, Ontario, he played for the Montreal Maroons, Detroit Red Wings, and Boston Bruins....

     (1910-1981), Canadian hockey player
  • Lorne Elliott
    Lorne Elliott
    Lorne Elliott is a Canadian comedian, musician, and award-winning playwright.Elliott first began performing in 1974, as a folk musician, under his full name of Chris Lorne Elliott; he later truncated his name so as to avoid being confused with Chris Elliott. He soon teamed up with Kevin Blackmore...

     (born 1974), Canadian comedian
  • Lorne Entress
    Lorne Entress
    Lorne Entress is an American drummer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer currently living in Glastonbury, Connecticut.Entress has worked with a wide range of artists in folk, blues and jazz styles. Perhaps the artist with whom he has worked with most closely is singer-songwriter Mark Erelli...

    , American musician
  • Lorne Ferguson
    Lorne Ferguson
    Lorne Ferguson was professional ice hockey left winger who played 422 games in the National Hockey League. Born in Palmerston, Ontario, he played for the Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings, and Chicago Black Hawks....

     (born 1930), Canadian hockey player
  • Lorne Frohman
    Lorne Frohman
    Lorne Frohman is a television comedy writer/producer. He created Pryor's Place starring Richard Pryor. He also created, wrote and produced the syndicated series D. C...

    , Canadian comedy writer and producer
  • Lorne Greenaway
    Lorne Greenaway
    Lorne Everett Greenaway was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a rancher and veterinarian by career.Greenaway was born in Bella Coola, British Columbia in 1933...

     (born 1933), Canadian politician
  • Lorne Greene
    Lorne Greene
    Lorne Greene , was the stage name of Lyon Himan Green, OC, a Canadian actor.His television roles include Ben Cartwright on the western Bonanza, and Commander Adama in the science fiction movie and subsequent TV Series Battlestar Galactica...

     (1915-1987), Canadian-born television actor
  • Lorne Henderson
    Lorne Henderson
    Lorne Henderson was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1963 to 1985, and was a cabinet minister in the government of William Davis. Henderson was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.He was born in Enniskillen Township, and received a...

     (1920-2002), Canadian politician
  • Lorne Henning
    Lorne Henning
    Lorne Henning is a Canadian hockey executive. He currently serves as Director of Player Personnel and Assistant General Manager for the NHL's Vancouver Canucks...

     (born 1952), Canadian hockey executive
  • Lorne Kusugak
    Lorne Kusugak
    Lorne Kusugak is a Canadian politician, who is Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut for the electoral district of Rankin Inlet South/Whale Cove, having won the seat in the 2008 Nunavut election. Prior to becoming an MLA, Kusugak was the mayor of Rankin Inlet...

    , Canadian politician
  • Lorne Lanning
    Lorne Lanning
    Lorne Lanning is an American game designer, writer and voice actor. He is also co-founder and president of the video game developer, Oddworld Inhabitants...

     (born 1964), American game designer
  • Lorne Lofsky
    Lorne Lofsky
    Lorne Lofsky is a jazz guitarist in Toronto, Canada. He is currently teaching at York University.Lofsky started off playing rock music but took an interest in jazz upon hearing the Miles Davis album "Kind of Blue". Hearing this record was, for Lofsky, a musical revelation that led to a dramatic...

     (born 1954), Canadian jazz musician
  • Lorne Loomer
    Lorne Loomer
    Lorne Loomer is a Canadian competition rower and Olympic champion.He received a gold medal in coxless fours at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, together with Archibald McKinnon, Walter D'Hondt and Donald Arnold....

     (born 1937), Canadian rower
  • Lorne Mayencourt
    Lorne Mayencourt
    Lorne Mayencourt is a Canadian politician, who formerly represented the electoral district of Vancouver-Burrard in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a member of the BC Liberal party....

     (born 1957), Canadian politician
  • Lorne Michaels
    Lorne Michaels
    Lorne Michaels, CM is a Canadian-American television producer, writer, and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it.-Early life:...

     (born 1944), Canadian-born television producer
  • Lorne Molleken
    Lorne Molleken
    Lorne Molleken is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach. Molleken was head coach of the Chicago Blackhawks at the end of the 1999 and the beginning of the 2000 season...

     (born 1956), Canadian hockey player
  • Lorne Nystrom
    Lorne Nystrom
    Lorne Edmund Nystrom, PC a Canadian politician, was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1993 when he lost his reelection bid. He returned to parliament in 1997 and served until 2004...

     (born 1946), Canadian politician
  • Lorne Reznowski
    Lorne Reznowski
    Lorne Reznowski was a professor of English at the University of Manitoba and leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada.A one-time national secretary of the Social Credit Party, Reznowski once worked for former Socred leader Robert N...

     (1929-2002), Canadian politician
  • Robert Lorne Richardson
    Robert Lorne Richardson
    Robert Lorne Richardson was a Canadian journalist, editor, newspaper owner, author, and politician.Born in Balderson, Lanark County, Upper Canada, the son of Joseph Richardson and Harriet Thompson, Richardson was educated at the Balderson Public School and in 1879 became a journalist working for...

     (1860-1912), Canadian journalist
  • Lorne Rubenstein
    Lorne Rubenstein
    Lorne Rubenstein is a Canadian golf journalist and author. He writes columns for The Globe and Mail and was the first editor of Scoregolf magazine...

    , Canadian sports journalist
  • Lorne Sam
    Lorne Sam
    Lorne Wallace Sam is a professional American and Canadian football quarterback who is currently a member of the Sioux Falls Storm. He was signed by the Denver Broncos as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He played college football at Texas-El Paso...

     (born 1984), American football player
  • Lorne Saxberg
    Lorne Saxberg
    Lorne Saxberg was a Canadian television journalist and one of many on-air anchors on CBC Newsworld.Saxberg was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario and joined the CBC's radio arm. As host of Ontario Morning in the late 1980s, he was known for his keen mind, calm demeanour, and melodious voice...

     (1958-2006), Canadian television anchorman
  • Lorne Spicer
    Lorne Spicer
    Lorne Spicer is an English television presenter best known for presenting reality shows on the BBC's current daytime output....

     (born 1965), British television presenter
  • Lorne Stamler
    Lorne Stamler
    Lorne Alexander Joseph Stamler is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played 116 games in the National Hockey League for the Los Angeles Kings, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Winnipeg Jets....

     (born 1951), Canadian hockey player
  • Lorne Taylor
    Lorne Taylor
    Lorne Taylor is a former tenured professor and member of the provincial legislature of Alberta, Canada.-Political career:Taylor was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1993 Alberta general election. He defeated three other candidates including Al Strom of the Social Credit with a...

     (born 1944), Canadian politician
  • Lorne Trottier
    Lorne Trottier
    Lorne M. Trottier, CM is a co-founder of Matrox, a computer corporation that specializes in computer graphics.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Trottier graduated from Baron Byng High School and thereafter received a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering in 1970 and a Masters of Engineering in...

     (born 1948), Canadian businessman
  • Lorne Welch
    Lorne Welch
    Patrick Palles Lorne Elphinstone Welch, , known as Lorne Welch, was a British engineer, pilot and Colditz prisoner of war....

     (1916-1988), British engineer and pilot
  • Lorne Worsley
    Gump Worsley
    Lorne John "Gump" Worsley was a professional ice hockey goaltender. Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, he was given his nickname due to friends deciding he looked like comic-strip character Andy Gump.-Career:...

     (1929-2007), Canadian hockey player

Surname

  • John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne
    John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll
    John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll KG, KT, GCMG, GCVO, VD, PC , usually better known by the courtesy title Marquess of Lorne, by which he was known between 1847 and 1900, was a British nobleman and was the fourth Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883...

     (1845-1914), Governor General of Canada
  • Dúghall of Lorne (died 1403), Scottish prelate
  • Marion Lorne
    Marion Lorne
    Marion Lorne MacDougall was an American actress. After a career in theatre in New York and London, Lorne made her first film in 1951, and for the remainder of her life, played small roles in films and television...

     (1883-1968), American actress
  • Tommy Lorne
    Tommy Lorne
    Tommy Lorne was a Scottish music hall comedian of the 1920s.Born Hugh Gallagher Corcoran in Kirkintilloch, he grew up in Glasgow....

     (1890-1935), Scottish comedian

Fiction

  • Lorne (Angel), fictional character in the television series Angel
  • Evan Lorne
    Evan Lorne
    Evan Lorne is a fictional character in the Canadian–American Sci-Fi Channel television series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, two military science fiction shows about military teams exploring the galaxy via a network of alien transportation devices...

    , fictional character in the television series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis
  • Lorne Starling, fictional character in the video game Neverwinter Nights 2
    Neverwinter Nights 2
    Neverwinter Nights 2 is a computer role-playing game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Atari. It is the sequel to BioWare's Neverwinter Nights, based on the Dungeons & Dragons pencil and paper fantasy role-playing game...

  • Lorne de Havilland, assassination target in the video game Hitman: Blood Money
    Hitman: Blood Money
    Hitman: Blood Money is a stealth game developed by IO Interactive and published by Eidos Interactive. It is the fourth entry in the Hitman game series....


Places

Australia
  • Lake Lorne
    Lake Lorne
    Lake Lorne is a small freshwater lake on the Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria, Australia, immediately south-west of the township of Drysdale. It is a popular birdwatching site and is well known for its variety of waterbirds, many of which have been recorded as breeding there.Lake Lorne lies in a...

    , Victoria
  • Lorne, Victoria
    Lorne, Victoria
    Lorne is a seaside town on Louttit Bay in Victoria, Australia. It is situated about the Erskine River and is a popular destination on the Great Ocean Road tourist route...



Canada
  • Lorne, Manitoba
    Lorne, Manitoba
    Lorne is a rural municipality in the province of Manitoba in Western Canada. The separately administered village of Somerset is enclaved within the municipality, while the village of Notre Dame de Lourdes lies between it and the Rural Municipality of South Norfolk.-External links:*...

  • Lorne, New Brunswick
    Lorne, New Brunswick
    Lorne is an unincorporated Canadian community in Durham Parish, Restigouche County, New Brunswick.Lorne is named for the Marquis of Lorne, John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll....

  • Lorne (N.W.T. electoral district)
    Lorne (N.W.T. electoral district)
    Lorne was an electoral district that existed in the District of Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories from 1880 until 1888. The district was one of the first three created by Royal Proclamation in 1880...

    , Northwest Territories
  • Lorne Park, Ontario
  • Mount Lorne, Yukon
    Mount Lorne, Yukon
    Mount Lorne is an unincorporated hamlet in Canada's Yukon. Population in 2001 according to the Census was 379. It is located just south of Whitehorse, comprising rural residential areas along the South Klondike Highway, the Annie Lake Road and connecting sideroads. It is part of the Whitehorse...

  • Mount Lorne (electoral district)
    Mount Lorne (electoral district)
    Mount Lorne is a former electoral district which returns a member to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada....

    , Yukon Territory


Scotland
  • Firth of Lorne
    Firth of Lorne
    The Firth of Lorn is a body of water on Scotland's west coast, in Argyll and Bute. It lies between the Isle of Mull to the northwest and the Isles of Kerrera, Seil and Luing along with parts of the Scottish mainland southwest of Oban on the southeast side...

  • Lorne, Scotland

Other uses

  • Lorne plateau lavas
    Lorne plateau lavas
    The lorne plateau lavas are basaltic lava flows extruded in the late Silurian, , which are found today in the Oban - Kerrera area of Scotland. Peperite occurs where they flowed into Old Red Sandstone lakes....

  • Lorne's sausage or Sliced sausage
    Sliced sausage
    Sliced sausage, also known as Lorne sausage, flat sausage, square sausage or slice, it can also be referred to as slab as opposed to link, is a food product most often eaten in Scotland. Sausage meat – which may be pork or beef – is set into a square and sliced into pieces generally about square...

    , a large square sausage served in slices and popular in Scotland
  • Marquess of Lorne, courtesy title for the Duke of Argyll's eldest son and heir, currently Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Lorne
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