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Lon (name)

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Lon is a given name, nickname, stage name and surname. It may refer to:

Given name, nickname or stage name

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  • Lon Bender (born 1959), American Oscar-winning sound editor, business executive and inventor
  • Lon Borgerson (born 1950), Canadian politician
  • Lonnie Lon Boyett (born 1953), American former National Football League player
  • Lon Burnam (born 1953), American politician
  • Leonidas Lon Chaney (1883–1930), American actor during the age of silent films
  • Lon Chaney Jr. (1906–1973), stage name of American character actor Creighton Tull Chaney
  • Lon Clark (1912–1998), American stage and radio actor
  • Lon Milo DuQuette (born 1948), American writer, lecturer and occultist
  • Lon Evans (1911–1992), American National Football League player
  • Lon L. Fuller (1902–1978), American legal philosopher
  • Lon Haldeman, American ultramarathon cyclist
  • Lon Hanagan (1911–1999), physique photographer also known as "Lon of New York" or simply "Lon"
  • William Ian Lon Hatherell (born 1930), Australian former rugby union player
  • Lon Hinkle (born 1949), American golfer
  • Lon Horiuchi (born 1954), accused FBI sniper in the Ruby Ridge shootings and the Waco standoff
  • Lon Jourdet (1888–89 – 1959), head men's basketball coach for the University of Pennsylvania, credited with inventing an early version of the zone defense
  • Alonzo Lon Knight (1853–1932), American Major League Baseball player and manager
  • Lonnie Lon Kruger (born 1952), American college basketball head coach and former player and former National Basketball Association head coach
  • Herbert Alonzo Lon McCallister (1923–2005), American actor
  • Lon McEachern, poker analyst on The World Series of Poker
  • Laurence Lon Myers (1858–1899), American world-record-setting runner
  • Lon Oden (1863–1910), Texas Ranger of the American Old West
  • Leonardus Lon Pennock (1945–2020), Dutch sculptor, environmental and monumental artist and photographer
  • Alonzo Lon Poff (1870–1952), American film actor
  • Lon A. Scott (1888–1931), American politician
  • Lonnie Lon Simmons (1923–2015), American baseball and football broadcaster
  • Alonzo Lon Stiner (1903–1985), American college football player and head coach
  • Lon Tinkle (1906–1980), American historian, author, book critic and professor
  • half of the Lon & Derrek Van Eaton American vocal and multi-instrumentalist duo
  • Lawrence Lon Vest Stephens (1858–1923), American politician, 29th Governor of Missouri
  • Lonnie Lon Warneke (1909–1976), American Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Lon Williams (1890–1978), American pulp western writer

Surname

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  • Alice Lon (1926–1981), singer and dancer on The Lawrence Welk Show
  • Lon Nil (died 1970), Cambodian police commissioner, brother of Lon Nol
  • Lon Nol (1913–1985), Cambodian politician, Prime Minister and Defence Minister of Cambodia
  • Lon Non (1930-1975), Cambodian politician and soldier, brother of Lon Nol

See also

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