Lancaster (surname)

Last updated June 18, 2023

Lancaster is an English surname. Notable People with the surname include:

Alan Lancaster (1949–2021), English bassist
Amber Lancaster (born 1980), American actress and model
Benjamin Lancaster (1801–1887), British pharmacist
Bill Lancaster (aviator) (1898–1933), British aviator
Bill Lancaster (1947–1997), American screenwriter
Brett Lancaster, professional cyclist
Burt Lancaster (1913–1994), American actor
Callum Lancaster, English rugby league footballer
Cameron Lancaster, English football player
David Lancaster (disambiguation), multiple people
Don Lancaster, American author and inventor
Ernie Lancaster (1953–2014), American blues guitarist and songwriter
Geoffrey Lancaster, Australian classical pianist and conductor
Harry Lancaster, American basketball and baseball coach
Jack Lancaster, British Rally Driver 2020-
James Lancaster, prominent Elizabethan trader and privateer in India
Jason Lancaster, American musician
John L. Lancaster, a mathematical economist and professor of economics at Columbia University
Joseph Lancaster (1778–1838), English Quaker and public education innovator
Kelvin Lancaster (1924–1999), Australian economist
Les Lancaster, professional baseball player in the Major Leagues
Mark Lancaster (disambiguation), multiple people
Marshall Lancaster (born 1974), English actor
Martin Lancaster (born 1943), American politician
Nancy Lancaster, 20th-century tastemaker and owner of a British decorating firm
Osbert Lancaster (1908–1986), English cartoonist, author, art critic and stage designer
Penny Lancaster (born 1971), English model
Robert S. Lancaster (1958–2019), American skeptic
Ron Lancaster, football player, coach and general manager in the CFL
Roy Lancaster, UK TV gardener, author and plant hunter
Sarah Lancaster (born 1980), American actress
Sophie Lancaster (1986–2007), British murder victim
Spear Lancaster, American politician
Stuart Lancaster (born 1969), rugby union coach
Tyler Lancaster (born 1994), American football player
William Lancaster, pseudonym for John Byrne Leicester Warren, 3rd Baron De Tabley, poet and author
William Lancaster (anthropologist) (1938–2022), British anthropologist
William Lancaster (cricketer) (1873–1938), English cricketer
William de Lancaster I (died c.1170), English nobleman

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