Lanyon is a surname which originates from the hamlet of

Lanyon (Madron) Lanyon is a Hamlet (place), hamlet in the parish of Madron in Cornwall, England, UK. It is situated on a north facing slope on the Madron to Morvah road. The nearest town is Penzance to the south. Toponymy Lanyon derives from ''Lyn yeyn'' in t ...

Cornwall Cornwall (; or ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is also one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, ...

, and may refer to: *

Charles Lanyon Sir Charles Lanyon Deputy Lieutenant, DL, Justice of the Peace, JP (6 January 1813 – 31 May 1889) was an English Architecture, architect of the 19th century. His work is most closely associated with Belfast, Northern Ireland. Biography Lanyo ...

(1813−1889), English architect * George Lanyon Hacker (born 1928), English Suffragan Bishop of Penrith *

Ellen Lanyon Ellen Lanyon (December 21, 1926 – October 7, 2013) was a painter and printmaker from Chicago, Illinois. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), her MFA from the University of Iowa School of Art and Art His ...

(1926–2013), American painter and printmaker * Hastie Lanyon, a fictional character in ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' * John Lanyon Whiting (1851–1922), Canadian lawyer and politician * Karen Lanyon, Australian senior career officer of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade *

Mike Lanyon Mike Lanyon (born 6 April 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by th ...

(born 1951), former Australian rules footballer *

Owen Lanyon Colonel Sir William Owen Lanyon Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George, KCMG Companion of the Order of the Bath, CB (21 July 1842 – 6 April 1887) was an Irish-born British Empire, British colonial administrator and British A ...

(1842−1887), British colonial administrator *

Peter Lanyon George Peter Lanyon (8 February 1918 – 31 August 1964) was a British painter of landscapes leaning heavily towards abstraction. Lanyon was one of the most important artists to emerge in post-war Britain. Despite his early death at the ag ...

(1918−1964), Cornish painter *

Ted Lanyon Edward George Lanyon (June 11, 1939 – May 21, 2008) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played five games in the National Hockey League for the Pittsburgh Penguins The Pittsburgh Penguins (colloquially known as the Pens) are a ...

(1939–2008), Canadian retired professional ice hockey player * Walter C. Lanyon (1887−1967), English religious writer * Wesley E. Lanyon (1926–2017), American ornithologist and museum curator * William Carlton Lanyon Dawe, generally known as Carlton Dawe (1865–1935), Australian author * William James Lanyon Smith (1922–2018), New Zealand naval officer

Places

In Antarctica * Lanyon Peak, a sharp rock peak in Victoria Land * Mount Lanyon, a large mountain in the Prince Charles Mountains In Australia *

Lanyon High School Lanyon High School is a secondary school located in Conder, Australian Capital Territory. It serves the Lanyon Valley and surrounding rural areas in the Tuggeranong district of Canberra, Australia. The school was established in 1996 by the ACT ...

, a school in Canberra *

Lanyon Homestead Lanyon is an historic homestead and grazing property located on the southern outskirts of Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. History The site was first occupied following white settlement by Timothy Beard, who depastured cattle on th ...

, an historic site in Canberra *

Lanyon Valley Lanyon Valley () is a district located at the southeast end of Canberra, Australia, including the suburbs of Gordon, Conder, and Banks. Region The Lanyon Valley is a small community containing five schools: Lanyon High School, Covenant College, C ...

, a suburb of Canberra In the United Kingdom *

, a farm and hamlet in Cornwall *

Lanyon Place railway station Belfast Lanyon Place (formerly Belfast Central) is a railway station serving the city of Belfast in Northern Ireland. Located on East Bridge Street in the Laganside area of central Belfast, it is one of four stations in the city centre, the ot ...

, a railway station in Belfast *

Lanyon Quoit Lanyon Quoit is a dolmen in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, 2 miles southeast of Morvah. It collapsed in a storm in 1815 and was re-erected nine years later, and as a result the dolmen is now very different from its original appearance. Locat ...

, a dolmen in Cornwall * West Lanyon Quoit, a dolmen in Cornwall * Lanyon Manor, a manor house in Gwinear Cornwall In the United States of America *

Lanyon, Iowa Lanyon is an unincorporated community in Lost Grove Township in Webster County, Iowa. Geography It is located 17 miles south of the county seat of Fort Dodge, 2.65 miles south and one mile west of Harcourt (on U.S. Route 169), and 3.3 miles ...

, an unincorporated area

Arts and entertainment

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The Spectre of Lanyon Moor ''Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures'', formerly subtitled as the ''Main Range'', is a series that consists of full-cast audio dramas based on the British science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who''. They are produced by Big Finish Prod ...

'', a Big Finish Productions audio drama

Companies

* Lanyon, Lynn and Lanyon, a 19th-century firm of Civil Engineers and Architects in Ireland *

Lanyon Solutions Lanyon Solutions, Inc. was a privately owned, software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that provided cloud-based software to manage meetings, events and travel. Lanyon's software supported a range of clients including corporations, hotels, associa ...

, a software company {{disambiguation, geo, surname