Langston
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Langston is the name of two places in the United States:
Langston is a name of English
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- Langston, AlabamaLangston, AlabamaLangston is a town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, the population of the town is 254.-Geography:Langston is located at .According to the U.S...
- Langston, OklahomaLangston, OklahomaLangston is a town in Logan County, Oklahoma, United States, and is part of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,670 at the 2000 census...
Langston is a name of English
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
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- John Langston GwaltneyJohn Langston GwaltneyJohn Langston Gwaltney was an African-American writer and anthropologist focused on African American culture, best known for his book Drylongso: A Self Portrait of Black America.-Academic background:...
, African-American writer and anthropologist - Langston HughesLangston HughesJames Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance...
(1902–1967), African-American poet, novelist, playwright, and newspaper columnist - Charles Henry LangstonCharles Henry LangstonCharles Henry Langston , an American abolitionist and political activist born free in Louisa County, Virginia, was one of two men tried after the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, a cause célèbre in 1858 Ohio that helped gain impetus for abolition. In 1835 he was one of the first blacks admitted to...
, African-American abolitionist and political activist - Grant Langston (motorcyclist)Grant Langston (motorcyclist)Grant Langston , is a former Grand Prix motocross world champion.Langston began competing in the world championships in 1998, and by 2000, he had won the F.I.M. 125cc world championship as a member of the KTM factory racing team. He moved to the United States in 2001 to compete in the A.M.A...
, South African motocross champion - Grant Langston (musician), American singer-songwriter
- John Mercer LangstonJohn Mercer LangstonJohn Mercer Langston was an American abolitionist, attorney, educator, and political activist. He was the first dean of the law school at Howard University and helped create the department. He was the first president of what is now Virginia State University. In 1888 he was the first African...
(1829–1897), U.S. civil rights pioneer, first African-American member of Congress - Mark LangstonMark LangstonMark Edward Langston is an American former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. He pitched for the Seattle Mariners , Montreal Expos , California and Anaheim Angels , San Diego Padres , and Cleveland Indians...
(1960– ), Major League Baseball pitcher - Michael LangstonMichael LangstonDr. Michael Allen Langston is a computer science professor at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is one of the leading researchers in the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology, and has extensive research history in graph theory, parallel computing, analysis of algorithms,...
, computer scientist in field of bioinformatics and computational biology - Murray Langston, Canadian-American known as The Unknown ComicThe Unknown ComicThe Unknown Comic is the stage name of Canadian-American actor and stand-up comic Murray Langston , best known for his comic performances on The Gong Show, usually appearing with a paper bag over his head....
- Peter LangstonPeter LangstonPeter Langston is a computer programmer who wrote and distributed for free several games for Unix systems in the 1970s, including the original version of Empire and the program "Oracle" upon which the later net-wide Oracle was modeled. He is also an experienced jazz, rock, and folk musician.In...
, computer programmer - Wann Langston, Jr.Wann Langston, Jr.Wann Langston, Jr. is an American paleontologist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He has worked on a number of different reptiles and amphibians in his long career, beginning with the 1950 description of the theropod dinosaur Acrocanthosaurus...
, American paleontologist - William LangstonWilliam LangstonDr. J. William Langston is the founder, CEO, and Scientific Director of the Parkinson's Institute. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Medicine and was formerly a faculty member at Stanford University and chairman of neurology at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose,...
, American neurologist - Langston MooreLangston MooreLangston Moore is an American football defensive tackle for the Florida Tuskers of the United Football League. He was drafted by the Bengals in the sixth round of the 2003 NFL Draft...
, American football player - Jamie Langston TurnerJamie Langston Turner-Biography:Turner was born in Mississippi and currently teaches writing and poetry at Bob Jones University. Her novel A Garden to Keep won a 2002 Christy Award; her Winter Birds was named one of the "one hundred best books" of 2006 by Publishers Weekly....
, American novelist - Langston WalkerLangston WalkerLangston Branden Walker is an American football offensive tackle for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Raiders in the second round of the 2002 NFL Draft. He played college football at California...
, American football player
Fictional characters
- Langston Wilde CramerLangston WildeLangston Wilde Cramer is a fictional character on ABC's daytime drama One Life to Live. She has been played by Brittany Underwood from May 17, 2006 til April 12, 2011...
, a character from the American soap opera One Life to LiveOne Life to LiveOne Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social... - Langston GrahamLangston GrahamLangston Graham is a fictional recurring character in the NBC television series Chuck. Graham was the director of the CIA, and oversaw Operation Bartowski, a fictional top-secret project to guard Chuck Bartowski and the Intersect...
, a character from the television series ChuckChuck (TV series)Chuck is an action-comedy/spy-drama television program from the United States created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. The series is about an "average computer-whiz-next-door" named Chuck, played by Zachary Levi, who receives an encoded e-mail from an old college friend now working for the Central... - Raymond LangstonRaymond LangstonRaymond "Ray" Langston, M.D. is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, portrayed by Laurence Fishburne. He joined the show in the ninth season, after the departure of Gil Grissom, played by William Petersen...
, a character from the television series CSI: Crime Scene InvestigationCSI: Crime Scene InvestigationCSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...
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- Langston FieldLangston FieldThe Langston Field is a fictional device featured in the CoDominium series of science-fiction novels, initiated by SF writer Jerry Pournelle....
, a fictional technology found in the book The Mote in God's EyeThe Mote in God's EyeThe Mote in God's Eye is a science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, first published in 1974. The story is set in the distant future of Pournelle's CoDominium universe, and charts the first contact between humanity and an alien species. The title of the novel is a... - Langston Terrace DwellingsLangston Terrace DwellingsLangston Terrace Dwellings are historic structures located in the Kingman Park neighborhood in the Northeast quadrant of Washington, D.C. The apartments were built between 1935 and 1938 and they were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987....
, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington, D.C.This is a list of properties and districts in the District of Columbia on the National Register of Historic Places. There are more than 500 listings, including 74 National Historic Landmarks of the United States and another 13 places otherwise designated as historic sites of national importance by... - Langston UniversityLangston UniversityLangston University is an institution of higher learning located in Langston, Oklahoma, USA. It is the only historically black college in the state, and the westernmost historically black college in the United States...
- Looking for LangstonLooking For LangstonLooking for Langston is a 1989 British black-and-white film directed by Isaac Julien. It combines authentic archival newsreel footage of Harlem in the 1920s with scripted scenes to produce a non-linear impressionistic story line celebrating black gay identity and desire during the artistic and...
, a 1989 film