Kane (surname)

Kane is an Irish surname and is an anglicisation of Cathan meaning war like (see Ó Catháin) or a sept of Scottish Clan MacMillan.

Actors

• Adelaide Victoria Kane, Australian actress
• Carol Kane, American actress
• Chelsea Kane, American actress and singer, originally known as Chelsea Staub
• Christian Kane, American actor and country musician
• Joseph Kane, U.S. film director and producer
• Justin Kane, American actor
• Kimberly Kane, American pornographic actress
• Samuel Kane (born 1968), British actor
• Tom Kane, American voice actor

Artists

• Art Kane, fashion and music photographer (who created the 1958 portrait of 57 jazz musicians, A Great Day in Harlem)
• Barbara Sanchez-Kane, Mexican fashion designer
• Christopher Kane, Scottish fashion designer
• Harry Kane (illustrator) (1912–1988), American illustrator and artist
• John Kane (artist), Scottish painter
• Sarah Kane, English playwright

Authors

• Ben Kane, is an English novelist, specialising in historical fiction.
• Herb Kawainui Kane, artist-historian and author
• William Terence Kane (1880-1946) The Story of Saint Stanislaus Kostka
• William Terence Kane (unk.) A memoir of William A.Stanton, S.J. Pub 2015

Sportspeople

• Boyd Kane, hockey player for the AHL's Hershey Bears
• Evander Kane, hockey player for the NHL's San Jose Sharks
• George Francis Kane (born 1948), American chess master
• Harry Kane (born 1993), English footballer
• Harry Kane (baseball) (1883–1932), American baseball player
• Harry Kane (hurdler) (born 1933), British hurdler
• Jim Kane (disambiguation), multiple people
• Justin Kane, Australian boxer
• Patrick Kane, hockey player for the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks
• Rick Kane, NFL running back played for the Detroit Lions and Washington Redskins
• Stanley Kane, English footballer
• Todd Kane, English footballer
• Tony Kane, Irish footballer

Comics artists

• Bob Kane, most famous as the creator of Batman
• Gil Kane, comic book artist

Musicians and performers

• Arthur Kane, American bassist of the New York Dolls
• Big Daddy Kane, American rapper
• Candye Kane (1965–2016), American blues and jazz performer
• David Kane (pianist), US/Scottish composer and jazz pianist
• Eden Kane, British singer
• Kevin Kane (musician), Canadian songwriter
• Miles Kane, British singer
• Phil Kane, Scottish keyboard player of The Silencers

Politicians and military people

• Elisha Kent Kane, medical officer in the United States Navy during the first half of the 19th century, member of two arctic expeditions.
• James Kane (1895–1964), Australian politician
• Kathleen Kane (born 1966), Pennsylvania lawyer and former attorney general convicted of felony perjury
• Richard Rutledge Kane, Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate
• Thomas L. Kane (1822–1883), American Civil War general and founder of Kane, Pennsylvania

Scholars

• Charles L. Kane, American theoretical physicist
• Daniel Kane (linguist), Australian linguist, expert on Jurchen and Khitan languages
• Daniel Kane (mathematician) (born 1986), American graduate student
• Harnett Kane (1910-1984), American author
• Pandurang Vaman Kane (1880–1972), Sanskrit scholar and an awardee of the Bharat Ratna
• Thomas R. Kane, American academic

Science and medical

• Evan O'Neill Kane (1861–1932), surgeon who performed several self-operations
• Gordon L. Kane, scientific leader in theoretical and phenomenological particle physics
• Jasper H. Kane, (1903–2004), American biochemist
• Katherine Sophia Kane (1811-1886), Irish botanist
• Shanley Kane, American technology writer
• Suzanne Amador Kane, American scientist
• William T. Kane (1932–2008), physicist who held patents in crystallography and heat-sensing

Other

• Agnes Kane Callum (1925-2015), American genealogist
• Carol Kane (businesswoman), co-founder and joint CEO of Boohoo.com
• Kane (noble family), a Norwegian noble family

Fictional

• Bailey Lawrence Kane, fictional character from Bittersweet Symphony by Rebecca McNutt
• Barry Kane from Saboteur
• Bette Kane, or Betty Kane, the DC Comics Pre-Crisis Bat-Girl
• Billy Kane, a video game character created by SNK Playmore, appearing in the Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters series
• Carter and Sadie Kane, protagonists from the series The Kane Chronicles by #1 New York Times and award-winning author Rick Riordan
• Charles Foster Kane from Citizen Kane
• Dr. Kane, the sin of "Envy": see Jack (webcomic)
• Fergus K. Kane from Lady in the Lake
• Garrison Kane, comic book character from the Marvel Universe
• Gilbert Kane, character in the film Alien
• Reverend Henry Kane, fictional character from the Poltergeist film trilogy
• John Kane, a fictional character who appeared in a number of episodes of "So Weird", portrayed by Canadian-British actor Mackenzie Gray
• John Michael Kane, one of the aliases of Jason Bourne in the Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
• Kathy/Kate Kane, Batwoman
• Lucas Kane, protagonist of the video game Fahrenheit a.k.a. Indigo Prophecy
• Marcus Kane from The 100 (TV series)
• Matthew Kane, the protagonist of the computer game Quake 4
• Needles Kane, character in the video game series Twisted Metal originally developed by Singletrac
• Solomon Kane, fictional 16th century Puritan adventurer created by Robert E. Howard
• Will Kane from High Noon