Kane (surname)
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Kane is an Irish surname and is an anglicisation of Cathan meaning war like (see Ó Catháin
). It was also a Norwegian name. Notable people with the name include:
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). It was also a Norwegian name. Notable people with the name include:
Actors
- Carol KaneCarol KaneCarolyn Laurie "Carol" Kane is an American actress. Kane has worked on the stage, on the screen and in television. She appeared on the television series Taxi in the early 1980s, as the wife of the character played by Andy Kaufman. She received two Emmy Awards for her work...
, American actress - Chelsea Kane, American actress and singer, originally known as Chelsea Staub
- Christian KaneChristian KaneChristian Kane is an American actor and singer/songwriter of Native American descent. He currently stars as Eliot Spencer on the TNT series Leverage. He is best known for his roles in the television shows Angel and Into the West, and the movies Just Married and Secondhand Lions.He is the lead...
, American actor and country musician - Joseph KaneJoseph KaneJasper Joseph Inman Kane was a prolific American film director, film producer, film editor and screenwriter...
, U.S. film director and producer - Justin KaneJustin KaneJustin Stewart Kane is a bantamweight boxer from Australia, who won the gold medal in the men's bantamweight division at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, United Kingdom...
, American actor - Samuel KaneSamuel KaneSamuel Kane is a British actor, who has appeared in the soap operas Brookside, Coronation Street and Emmerdale.Kane was born in Huyton; his father is Ken McGlashan, a local Labour Councillor...
(born 1968), British actor
Artists
- Art KaneArt KaneArt Kane , born Arthur Kanofsky in New York City, was a fashion and music photographer active from the 1950s through early 1990s...
, fashion and music photographer (who created the 1958 portrait of 57 jazz musicians, A Great Day in HarlemA Great Day in HarlemA Great Day in Harlem or Harlem 1958 is a 1958 black and white group portrait of 57 notable jazz musicians photographed on a street in Harlem, New York City. The photo has remained an important object in the study of the history of jazz....
) - Herb Kawainui KaneHerb Kawainui KaneHerbert "Herb" Kawainui Kāne , considered one of the principal figures in the renaissance of Hawaiian culture in the 1970s, was a celebrated artist-historian and author with a special interest in the seafaring traditions of the ancestral peoples of Hawaii...
, artist-historian and author - John KaneJohn KaneJohn Kane was an American painter celebrated for his skill in Naïve art.He was the first self-taught American painter in the 20th century to be recognized by a museum...
, Scottish painter - Sarah KaneSarah KaneSarah Kane was an English playwright. Her plays deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture — both physical and psychological — and death. They are characterised by a poetic intensity, pared-down language, exploration of theatrical form and, in her earlier work, the use of...
, English playwright
Sportspeople
- Boyd KaneBoyd KaneBoyd Kane is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who plays for the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League .-Playing career:...
, hockey player for the AHL's Hershey Bears - Evander KaneEvander KaneEvander Kane is a Canadian professional ice hockey left wing with the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League . Selected fourth overall in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft by the Thrashers, he was drafted from the Vancouver Giants of the Western Hockey League .During his major junior career, he won...
, hockey player for the NHL's Atlanta Thrashers - Justin KaneJustin KaneJustin Stewart Kane is a bantamweight boxer from Australia, who won the gold medal in the men's bantamweight division at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, United Kingdom...
, Australian boxer - Tony KaneTony KaneAnthony Michael 'Tony' Kane is a Northern Irish footballer who plays for Ballymena United. As an international, Kane has played for both for the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland at under-21 level.-Club career:...
, Irish footballer - Patrick KanePatrick KanePatrick Timothy Kane, Jr. is an American professional ice hockey right winger currently playing for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League . The Blackhawks selected him with the first overall pick in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft.-Minor and junior:Kane attended the St...
, hockey player for the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks
Comics artists
- Bob KaneBob KaneBob Kane was an American comic book artist and writer, credited as the creator of the DC Comics superhero Batman...
, most famous as the creator of Batman - Gil KaneGil KaneEli Katz who worked under the name Gil Kane and in one instance Scott Edward, was a comic book artist whose career spanned the 1940s to 1990s and every major comics company and character.Kane co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes Green Lantern and the Atom for DC Comics, and...
, comic book artist
Musicians and performers
- Big Daddy KaneBig Daddy KaneAntonio Hardy better known by his stage name Big Daddy Kane, is an American rapper who started his career in 1986 as a member of the rap group the Juice Crew. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential and skilled MC's in Hip Hop...
, American rapper - Candye KaneCandye KaneCandye Kane is an American singer, songwriter and performer best known in the blues and jazz genre. She has been included in the Rolling Stone Guide to Jazz and Blues, Elwoods Blues by Dan Aykroyd, The Blueshound Guide to Blues, Allmusic and other blues books and periodicals...
, American blues and jazz performer - Kevin KaneKevin KaneNot to be confused with the drummer for the band Bad City.Kevin Kane is a Canadian songwriter, musician, and record producer.He was a founding member of The Grapes of Wrath in 1983, but was ejected from that band in 1992...
, Canadian songwriter - Eden KaneEden KaneEden Kane is an early 1960s British pop singer.-Life and career:Like Cliff Richard, Pete Best, and Engelbert Humperdinck, Eden Kane was born in India, but returned to Britain as a child...
, British singer - Miles KaneMiles KaneMiles Peter Kane is an English musician originally from Meols on the Wirral near Liverpool, best known as the co-frontman of The Last Shadow Puppets and former frontman of The Rascals...
, British singer of The Rascals
Politicians and military people
- Richard Rutledge KaneRichard Rutledge KaneCaptain Richard Rutledge Kane was the United Kingdom's fourth Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate, serving from 1921 to 1929....
, Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate - Elisha Kent Kane, medical officer in the United States Navy during the first half of the 19th century, member of two arctic expeditions.
- Thomas L. KaneThomas L. KaneThomas Leiper Kane was an American attorney, abolitionist, and military officer who was influential in the western migration of the Latter-day Saint movement and served as a Union Army colonel and general of volunteers in the American Civil War...
(1822–1883), American Civil War general and founder of Kane, Pennsylvania
Scholars
- Daniel Kane (linguist)Daniel Kane (linguist)Daniel Kane is an Australian linguist, one of the world's foremost authorities on the extinct Jurchen and Khitan languages and their scripts.-Biography:...
, Australian linguist, expert on Jurchen and Khitan languages - Daniel Kane (mathematician) (born 1986), American graduate student
- Pandurang Vaman KanePandurang Vaman KaneBharat Ratna Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane was a notable Indologist and Sanskrit scholar. He received India's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna in 1963. He was born in a conservative Chitpavan Brahmin family in the Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra, India. Eminent Historian Professor R.S...
(1880–1972), Sanskrit scholar and an awardee of the Bharat Ratna - Thomas R. KaneThomas R. KaneThomas R. Kane is a professor emeritus of applied mechanics at Stanford University. In the 1960s, Kane devised a "related formalism to derive equations of motion using virtual velocities".-References:...
, American academic
Science and medical
- Evan O'Neill KaneEvan O'Neill KaneEvan O'Neill Kane was a surgeon working in Pennsylvania, United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is most well known for removing his own appendix under local anaesthetic in 1921 at the age of 60...
(1861–1932), surgeon who performed several self-operations
Fictional
- Carter and Sadie Kane, protagonists from the series The Kane ChroniclesThe Kane ChroniclesThe Kane Chronicles is a fictional trilogy by Rick Riordan about the adventures undertaken by Carter and Sadie Kane, the two main characters, in their quest to awaken the sun god,Ra.He is the god of all the gods or the supreme god. It is set in the modern United States, in the same sort of universe...
by #1 New York Times and award-winning author Rick RiordanRick RiordanRichard Russell "Rick" Riordan, Jr. is an American author best known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. He also wrote the Tres Navarre mystery series for adults and helped to edit Demigods and Monsters, a collection of essays on the topic of his Percy Jackson series... - Garrison KaneGarrison KaneGarrison Kane, also known as Weapon X and Kane, is a fictional character from the Marvel Universe. He was created by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld, and debuted in X-Force vol. 1 #2 .-Fictional character biography:...
, comic book character from the Marvel Universe - Dr. Kane, the sin of "Envy": see Jack (webcomic)
- Kathy/Kate Kane, BatwomanBatwomanBatwoman is the name of several fictional characters, female counterparts to the superhero Batman. The original version was created by Bob Kane and Sheldon Moldoff. Her alter ego is Kathy Kane. This character appears in publications produced by DC Comics and related media beginning in Detective...
- Bette KaneBette KaneBette Kane is a fictional character in the . She first appeared in the sixties as "Betty Kane", the Bat-Girl. Later, her name was modified to "Bette Kane" and she took on the mantle of Flamebird.-Pre-Crisis:...
, or Betty Kane, the DC Comics Pre-Crisis Bat-Girl - Executive Officer Kane, character in the film Alien
- Solomon KaneSolomon KaneSolomon Kane is a fictional character created by the pulp-era writer Robert E. Howard. A late 16th / early 17th century Puritan, Solomon Kane is a sombre-looking man who wanders the world with no apparent goal other than to vanquish evil in all its forms...
, 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 BourneJason BourneJason Charles Bourne is a fictional character and the main protagonist in the novels of Robert Ludlum and subsequent film adaptations. He first appeared in the novel The Bourne Identity...
in the Bourne Identity by Robert LudlumRobert LudlumRobert Ludlum was an American author of 23 thriller novels. The number of his books in print is estimated between 290–500 million copies. They have been published in 33 languages and 40 countries. Ludlum also published books under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd.-Life and... - Lucas Kane, protagonist of the video game Fahrenheit a.k.a Indigo Prophecy
- Matthew Kane, the protagonist of the computer game Quake 4
- Needles Kane, character in the video game series Twisted Metal originally developed by Singletrac
- Billy KaneBilly Kaneis a video game character created by SNK Playmore . He makes first appearance in the fighting game Fatal Fury: King of Fighters as the sub-boss from the game. In the Fatal Fury series Billy is the right-hand man from Geese Howard, the crime lord from Southtown...
, a video game character created by SNK PlaymoreSNK PlaymoreSNK Playmore Corporation is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. SNK is an acronym of , which was SNK's original name. The company's legal and trading name became SNK in 1986....
, appearing in the Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters series.