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