Lon

Lon or LON may refer to:

• Launch on Need, a Space Shuttle rescue mission which would have been mounted to rescue the crew of a Space Shuttle if needed
• League of Nations, the first permanent international organization for maintaining world peace, predecessor of the United Nations
• Legends of Norrath, an online trading-card game by Sony Online Entertainment
• Local oxidation nanolithography, a nanofabrication technique
• LonTalk, protocol for electronic automation networks
• LonWorks, a control network protocol
• LON, the IATA airport code covering all airports within the London area of the United Kingdom, see Airports of London
• Lon protease family
• Longitude

People

• Alice Lon (1926-1981), singer and dancer on the Lawrence Welk Show
• Lon Boyett (born 1953), American football player
• Lon Chaney, Jr. (1906-1973), American character actor
• Lon Chaney, Sr. (1883-1930), American actor during the age of silent films
• Lon Fuller (1902-1978), American legal philosopher
• Lon Milo Duquette (born 1948), American writer, lecturer, and occultist
• Lon Horiuchi (born 1954), accused sniper in the Ruby Ridge shootings and the Waco standoff
• Lon McCallister (1923-2005), American actor
• Lon McEachern, poker analyst on The World Series of Poker
• Lon Myers (1858-99), American world-record-setting runner
• Lon Nol (1913-1985), Cambodian politician, served as Prime Minister of Cambodia and Defence Minister
• Lon Simmons, American baseball and football broadcaster
• Lon Warneke (1909-1976), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Lon ろん, Utaite (Web singer) on Nico Nico Douga
• [[Simeon "Lon" Oyeyemi]] (born 1979), African American Aerosol (graffiti) Artist/Producer (on permanent display in the Stivers School of Art collection Dayton, Ohio also see ( whopa Rock Steady Crew Beatstreet)

Fictional characters

• Lon Cohen, a character in the Nero Wolfe novels by Rex Stout
• Lon Suder, a character on the television series Star Trek: Voyager