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Prange is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Ashley Prange is a professional golfer and winner of the reality television program The Big Break V: Hawaii.

Eugene August Prange was an American coding theorist, a researcher at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory in Massachusetts who "introduced many of the early fundamental ideas of algebraic coding theory" and was the first to investigate cyclic codes in 1957. With Andrew Gleason, he is the namesake of the Gleason–Prange theorem on the symmetries of the extended quadratic residue code.

Gordon Prange American writer

Gordon William Prange was the author of several World War II historical manuscripts which were published by his co-workers after his death in 1980. Prange was a Professor of History at the University of Maryland from 1937 to 1980 with a break of nine years (1942–1951) of military service overseas, and in the postwar era of military occupation of Japan, when he was the Chief Historian in General Douglas MacArthur's staff. It was during this time that Prange collected material from and interviewed many Japanese military officers, enlisted men, and civilians, with the information later being used in the writing of his books. Several became New York Times bestsellers, including At Dawn We Slept and Miracle at Midway.

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