Lanchester
# Lanchester

Lanchester may refer to:

## Places

* Lanchester, County Durham, a village in England
* Lanchester Polytechnic, former name of Coventry University

## People

* Ann Margaret Lanchester (fl. 1803), British fashion designer
* Edith Lanchester (1871-1966), English socialist and suffragette
* Elsa Lanchester (1902–1986), Oscar-nominated English character actress
* Frederick W. Lanchester (1868–1946), engineer who devised Lanchester's laws and founded Lanchester Motor Company
   * Lanchester's laws, mathematical formulae for calculating the strength of military forces
* Henry Jones Lanchester (1834-1914), English architect
* Henry Vaughan Lanchester (1863–1953), architect and brother of Frederick W
* John Lanchester (born 1962), British journalist and novelist
* Waldo Lanchester (1897–1978), British puppeteer
* William Forster Lanchester (1875–1953), British zoologist

## Other uses

* Lanchester Motor Company, a now defunct Birmingham car manufacturer
   * Lanchester armoured car, of World War I
   * Lanchester 6×4 armoured car, post World War I
* Lanchester submachine gun, used primarily by the Royal Navy in the Second World War
