Langston is a name of

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origin. People with the name include:

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Langston Galloway Langston Galloway (born December 9, 1991) is an American professional basketball player for the College Park Skyhawks of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for Saint Joseph's University. High school career Galloway attended Christi ...

(born 1991), American basketball player * Langston Hall (born 1991), American basketball player *

Langston Hughes James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, H ...

(1902–1967), African-American poet, novelist, playwright, and newspaper columnist * Langston Walker (born 1979), American football player * Langston Moore (born 1981), American football player

People with the surname

Big E Langston Ettore Ewen (born March 1, 1986) is an American professional wrestler and former powerlifter. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Big E, but is currently inactive due to a broken neck. I ...

(born 1986), American professional wrestler * Charles Henry Langston (1817–1892), African-American abolitionist and political activist * Clinton Langston (born 1962), British Anglican priest and military chaplain * Dicey Langston (1766–1837), Patriot spy at the time of the American Revolution *

Grant Langston (motorcyclist) Grant Langston (born 17 June 1982), is a South African former professional motocross racer. He competed in the Motocross World Championships from 1998 to 2000 and in the AMA Motocross Championships from 2001 to 2008. He was the 2000 125cc mot ...

(born 1982), South African motocross champion * Grant Langston (musician) (born 1966), American singer-songwriter *

John Langston (MP) John Langston ( 1758 – 18 February 1812) was an English merchant banker and politician. He sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain and its successor the House of Commons of the United Kingdom for most of the years between 1784 and 180 ...

(–1812), English merchant banker and politician, Member of Parliament (MP) 1784–1807 *

John Mercer Langston John Mercer Langston (December 14, 1829 – November 15, 1897) was an American abolitionist, attorney, educator, activist, diplomat, and politician. He was the founding dean of the law school at Howard University and helped create the department. ...

(1829–1897), U.S. civil rights pioneer, first African-American member of Congress *

Mark Langston Mark Edward Langston (born August 20, 1960) is an American former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. He pitched for the Seattle Mariners (1984–1989), Montreal Expos (1989), California / Anaheim Angels (1990–1997), San Diego Padres (1 ...

(born 1960), Major League Baseball pitcher * Michael Langston, computer scientist in field of bioinformatics and computational biology * Murray Langston, Canadian-American known as

The Unknown Comic Murray Langston (born June 27, 1944), who frequently performed using the stage name "The Unknown Comic", is a Canadian actor and stand-up comedian best known for his performances on '' The Gong Show'', during which he usually appeared with a pa ...

Peter Langston Peter Langston (born 1946) is a computer programmer who wrote and distributed for free several games for Unix systems in the 1970s, including one of the earliest text adventure video games ''Wander'', the original version of ''Empire'' and the prog ...

(born 1946), computer programmer * Wann Langston, Jr. (1921–2013), American paleontologist *

William Langston J. William Langston is the Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Movement Disorder Specialist, and Chief Executive Officer of the Parkinson's Institute and Clinical Center in Sunnyvale, California, the founding member of the Scientific Advisory Bo ...

, American neurologist

People with the middle name

John Langston Gwaltney John Langston Gwaltney (September 25, 1928 – August 29, 1998) was an African-American writer and anthropologist focused on African-American culture, best known for his book '' Drylongso: A Self Portrait of Black America''. Early life Gwaltney lo ...

(1928–1998), African-American writer and anthropologist *

Jamie Langston Turner Jamie Langston Turner (born 1949) is a Christian novelist. Biography Jamie Turner was born in Mississippi and taught writing and poetry at Bob Jones University. She has written eight novels: ''Suncatchers'' (1995), ''Some Wildflower in My Heart' ...

(born 1949), American novelist

Fictional characters

*Howard Langston, a fictional character from the 1996 film '' Jingle All the Way'' *

Langston Wilde Langston Wilde is a fictional character from ABC soap opera ''One Life to Live'' portrayed by Brittany Underwood from May 17, 2006, to April 12, 2011. Langston is Dorian Lord's adoptive daughter and very similar to her. In January 2011, it was an ...

Cramer, a fictional character from the American soap opera ''One Life to Live'' * Langston Field, a fictional technology found in the book ''The Mote in God's Eye'' *

Langston Graham Langston Graham is a fictional recurring character in the NBC television series '' Chuck''. Graham was the director of the CIA, and oversaw Operation Bartowski, a fictional top-secret project to guard Chuck Bartowski ( Zachary Levi) and the Int ...

, a fictional character from the television series ''Chuck'' * Raymond Langston, a fictional character from the television series ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' *Sally Langston, a fictional character from the television series ''Scandal'' *Baby Langston, "Sugarland Express"

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