Lanchester
Lanchester may refer to:
Places
- Lanchester, County Durham, a village in England
- Lanchester Polytechnic, former name of Coventry University
People
- Elsa Lanchester (1902–86), Oscar-nominated English character actress
- Frederick W. Lanchester, engineer who devised Lanchester's laws and founded Lanchester Motor Company
- Lanchester's laws, mathematical formulae for calculating the strength of military forces
- Henry Vaughan Lanchester, architect and brother of Frederick W.
- John Lanchester (born 1962), British journalist and novelist
- William Forster Lanchester, British zoologist.
Other uses
- Lanchester Motor Company, a now defunct Birmingham car manufacturer
- Lanchester submachine gun, used primarily by the Royal Navy in the Second World War
See also
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