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Laing may refer to:


People

* Laing (surname), a Scottish surname


Companies

* Arriva UK Trains, a British transport company formerly known as Laing Rail *
John Laing Group John Laing Group plc 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 ...
, a British construction company *
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 b ...
, 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

* Laing, West Virginia *
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 * Laing Dam, South Africa *
Laing Middle School Mount Pleasant is a large suburban town in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States. In the Low Country, it is the fourth largest municipality and largest town in South Carolina, and for several years was one of the state's fastest-growin ...
, South Carolina *
Laing's Nek Laing's Nek, or Lang's Nek is a pass through the Drakensberg mountain range, South Africa, immediately north of Majuba, at at an elevation of 5400 to . It is the lowest part of a ridge which slopes from Majuba to the Buffalo River, and before ...
, a South African mountain pass **
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 de ...
, a Boer War battle at the pass * Mount Laing, British Columbia


Other uses

* Laing (band), a German girl group *
Laing (food) ''Laing'' ( ), is a Filipino dish of shredded or whole taro leaves with meat or seafood cooked in thick coconut milk spiced with labuyo chili, lemongrass, garlic, shallots, ginger, and shrimp paste. It originates from the Bicol Region, where ...
, a Philippine dish made from taro leaves and coconut milk *''
Philip Laing ''Philip Laing'' is 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, under the ...
'', 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.


See also

* Lang (disambiguation) * Laings * Lange (disambiguation) * Laingsburg (disambiguation) {{disambiguation, geo