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Kane (surname)

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Kane is a Celtic Irish surname and is an anglicisation of Cathan meaning war like (see Ó Catháin). It is also a noble Norwegian surname. Notable people with the name include:

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Actors

  • Adelaide 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

    • Artists

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

    • Authors

  • Ben Kane, is an English novelist, specialising in historical fiction.
  • Herb Kawainui Kane, artist-historian and author

    • Sportspeople

  • Rick Kane, NFL running back played for the Detroit Lions and Washington Redskins
  • Boyd Kane, hockey player for the AHL's Hershey Bears
  • Evander Kane, hockey player for the NHL's Buffalo Sabres
  • Harry Kane (baseball) (1883–1932), American baseball player
  • Harry Kane (footballer) (born 1993), English footballer
  • 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
  • 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

  • Big Daddy Kane, American rapper
  • Candye Kane (1965–2016), American blues and jazz performer
  • Kevin Kane, Canadian songwriter
  • Eden Kane, British singer
  • Miles Kane, British singer
  • Phil Kane, Scottish keyboard player of The Silencers
  • Ian Kane, Irish bass player of The Chakras and We Lived In Cities

    • 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, Pennsylvania lawyer and former attorney general
  • 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

  • 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
  • Charles L. Kane, American theoretical physicist

    • Science and medical

  • Evan O'Neill Kane (1861–1932), surgeon who performed several self-operations
  • Gordon L. Kane, an internationally recognized scientific leader in theoretical and phenomenological particle physics
  • Katherine Sophia Kane (1811-1886), Irish botanist
  • William T. Kane (1932–2008), a physicist who held patents in crystallography and heat-sensing

    • Other

  • Kane (noble family), a Norwegian noble family

    • Fictional

  • Charles Foster Kane from Citizen Kane
  • Barry Kane from Saboteur
  • Carter and Sadie Kane, protagonists from the series The Kane Chronicles by #1 New York Times and award-winning author Rick Riordan
  • Garrison Kane, comic book character from the Marvel Universe
  • Dr. Kane, the sin of "Envy": see Jack (webcomic)
  • Kathy/Kate Kane, Batwoman
  • Bette Kane, or Betty Kane, the DC Comics Pre-Crisis Bat-Girl
  • Executive Officer Kane, character in the film Alien
  • Solomon Kane, fictional 16th century Puritan adventurer created by Robert E. Howard
  • Reverend Henry Kane, fictional character from the Poltergeist film trilogy
  • John Michael Kane, one of the aliases of Jason Bourne in the Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
  • Lucas Kane, protagonist of the video game Fahrenheit a.k.a. Indigo Prophecy
  • Matthew Kane (Quake 4), the protagonist of the computer game Quake 4
  • Needles Kane, character in the video game series Twisted Metal originally developed by Singletrac
  • Billy Kane, a video game character created by SNK Playmore, appearing in the Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters series.

    • References

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