Lysander (disambiguation)
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Lysander may refer to:
- People
- Lysander, a military general of ancient Sparta
- Lysander (Shakespeare), a character in the William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Lysander Spooner, an American political activist and legal theorist of the 19th century
- Lysander Button, an inventor
- Albert Lysander, one of the early pioneers of the Swedish High Church movement
- Military
- HMS Lysander, several ships of the British Royal Navy
- Westland Lysander, a British military aircraft of the 1930s and 1940s
- Places
- Lysander, New York, a town in the United States named for the Spartan general
- Etymology
From the Greek name Λυσανδρος (Lysandros) which meant "a release of a man" from Greek λυσις (lysis) "a release" and ανδρος (andros) "of a man".
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