Laing may refer to:
People
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Laing (surname) Laing () is a Scottish surname, a variant of Lang (surname), Lang.
Notable people with the surname include:
*Alex Laing (footballer), New Zealand footballer
*Alexander Laing (architect), Scottish architect
*Alexander Gordon Laing (1794–1826), Sc ...
, a Scottish surname
Companies
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Arriva UK Trains
Arriva UK Trains Limited is the company that oversees Arriva's Train operating company, train operating companies in the United Kingdom. It gained its first Rail franchising in Great Britain, franchises in February 2000. These were later lost, ...
, a British transport company formerly known as Laing Rail
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John Laing Group
John Laing Group is a British investor, developer and operator of privately financed, public sector infrastructure projects such as roads, railways, hospitals and schools through public-private partnership (PPP) and private finance initiative (PF ...
, a British construction company
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Laing O'Rourke
Laing O'Rourke is a multinational construction company headquartered in Dartford, England. It was founded in 1978 by Ray O'Rourke. It is the largest privately owned construction company in the United Kingdom.
History
The company was founded by ...
, a British construction company, formerly part of the John Laing Group
*MTR Laing, former name of
London Overground Rail Operations
London Overground Rail Operations Limited was a train operating company contracted to operate the London Overground train service on the National Rail network, under the franchise control of Transport for London. The company was a 50/50 joint ...
Places
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Laing, West Virginia
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Laing Art Gallery
The Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, is located on New Bridge Street West. The gallery was designed in the Baroque style with Art Nouveau elements by architects Cackett & Burns Dick and is now a Grade II listed building. It ...
, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
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Laing Dam
Laing Dam is a gravity type dam located on the Buffalo River, near East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1938 and has been renovated in 1950. The main purpose of the dam is to serve for irrigation and domestic use and it ...
, South Africa
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Laing Middle School, South Carolina
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Laing's Nek
Laing's Nek, or Lang's Nek is a mountain pass, pass through the Drakensberg mountain range in South Africa, south of Charlestown, South Africa, Charlestown, at at an elevation of 5400 to . It is the lowest part of a ridge that slopes from Majub ...
, a South African mountain pass
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Battle of Laing's Nek
The Battle of Laing's Nek was a major battle fought at Laing's Nek during the First Boer War on 28 January 1881.
Background
Following the Boer declaration of independence for the Transvaal in 1880 the British suffered a series of disastrous d ...
, a Boer War battle at the pass
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Mount Laing
Mount Laing is a mountain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, located east of Gold River and northeast of Mount Filberg.Laing (band)
Laing is a German band currently consisting of Nicola Rost, Josefine Werner, Johanna Marshall, and Marisa Akeny.
Career
Laing was founded in 2007 by lead vocalist, songwriter, and producer Nicola Rost, vocalists Johanna Marshall and Larissa Pesch ...
, a German girl group
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Laing (food)
''Laing'' ( ), is a Philippine cuisine, Filipino dish of shredded or whole taro leaves with meat or seafood cooked in thick coconut milk spiced with siling labuyo, labuyo chili, lemongrass, garlic, shallots, ginger, and bagoong alamang, shrimp ...
, a Philippine dish made from taro leaves and coconut milk
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Philip Laing
The ''Philip Laing'' was a 19th-century sailing ship best known as the second immigrant ship to arrive in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 15 April 1848. Chartered by the New Zealand Company for this voyage the ship was carrying Scottish settlers, unde ...
'', 19th century ship
*Laing, a brand of water pump made by Goulds Water Technology aka Laing Thermotech, a subsidiary of
Xylem Inc., a spin-off of
ITT Inc.
ITT Inc., formerly ITT Corporation, is an American worldwide manufacturing company based in Stamford, Connecticut. The company produces specialty components for the aerospace, transportation, energy and industrial markets. ITT's three businesses ...
See also
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Lang (disambiguation)
Lang may refer to:
*Lang (surname), a surname of independent Germanic or Chinese origin
Places
* Lang Island (Antarctica), East Antarctica
* Lang Nunatak, Antarctica
* Lang Sound, Antarctica
* Lang Park, a stadium in Brisbane, Australia
* La ...
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Laings
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Lange (disambiguation)
Lange may refer to:
People
*Lange (surname), a German surname
*David Lange (1942–2005), 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand
*Lange (musician) (born 1974), British DJ
*Lange (Brazilian footballer) (born 1966), Brazilian footballer
Companies
* La ...
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Laingsburg (disambiguation) Laingsburg may refer to:
South Africa
* Laingsburg Local Municipality, in the Western Cape province
* Laingsburg, Western Cape, a town in the Laingsburg Local Municipality, Western Cape
United States
* Laingsburg, Michigan, a city in Shiawasse ...
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