Kurland may refer to:

People

Abraham Kurland Abraham Kurland (10 June 1912 – 14 March 1999) was a Danish Olympic silver medalist wrestler. Kurland won 12 Denmark championships from 1932-49, won a silver medal in lightweight Greco Roman wrestling at the 1932 Olympics and a gold medal i ...

(1912-1999), Danish Olympic medalist in wrestling *

Ben Kurland Benjamin David Kurland (born May 1, 1984) is an American actor and entrepreneur, best known for his role in the Academy Award-winning film ‘’ The Artist’’. Early life and education Kurland was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and raised ...

, American actor *

Bob Kurland Robert Albert Kurland (December 23, 1924 – September 29, 2013) was an American basketball center, who played for the two-time NCAA champion Oklahoma A&M Aggies (now Oklahoma State Cowboys). Standing tall, he has been credited as the first pe ...

, American basketball center *

Charles Kurland Charles Gabriel Kurland (born 14 January 1936) is an American-born Swedish biochemist. Kurland earned a doctorate in 1961 at Harvard University, advised by James D. Watson. Kurland accepted a postdoctoral research position at the Microbiology In ...

, American and Swedish biochemist *

Cys Kurland Laicy Cecil "Cys" Kurland was a South African international footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American footba ...

, South African footballer *

Gilbert Kurland Gilbert Kurland (November 28, 1904 – February 26, 1978) was an American sound engineer and production manager. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the films '' Imitation of Life'' (1934) and ''Bride o ...

, American sound engineer and production manager *

Justine Kurland Justine Kurland (born 1969) is an American fine art photographer, based in New York City. Early life and education Kurland was born in Warsaw, New York. She earned her B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in 1996. She went on to study with Greg ...

, American fine art photographer *

Lynn Kurland Lynn Kurland is an American author of historical, time travel, and fantasy romance novels. The characters in most of her books all belong to one of three extended families (MacLeod, McKinnon, de Piaget). She is a recipient of the RITA Award. B ...

, American author *

Michael Kurland Michael Joseph Kurland (born March 1, 1938) is an American author, best known for his works of science fiction and detective fiction. Kurland lives in San Luis Obispo, California. Writing career Kurland's early career was devoted to works of sc ...

, American author *

Peter Kurland Peter Franklin Kurland (born 1958) is an American production sound mixer. Kurland has done Boom operator (media), boom operation work along with Audio mixing (film and television), sound mixing on many films, such as ''Walk the Line'', ''The Lad ...

, American motion picture sound mixer *

Sheldon Kurland Sheldon "Shelly" Kurland (June 9, 1928 – January 6, 2010) was a violinist and musical arranger who worked as a session musician in Nashville and provided arrangements for a number of prominent country musicians. Life and career Sheldon Kurland ...

, American violinist and musical arranger

Places

Courland Courland is one of the Historical Latvian Lands in western Latvia. Courland's largest city is Liepāja, which is the third largest city in Latvia. The regions of Semigallia and Selonia are sometimes considered as part of Courland as they were ...

(German: ''Kurland''), a region of Latvia *

Curland Curland is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated south of Taunton. The village has a population of 225. The parish includes the hamlet of Abbey Hill. Curland is home of a thriving equestrian centre. History The name Curl ...

, a village and civil parish in Somerset, England *

Duchy of Courland and Semigallia The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia was a duchy in the Baltic states, Baltic region, then known as Livonia, that existed from 1561 to 1569 as a nominal vassal state of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and subsequently made part of the Crown of th ...

, a former duchy in the Baltic region * Kurland, Norway, village in Akershus, Norway

People

Places

See also