Lysander (disambiguation)
Lysander may refer to:
People
- Albert Lysander (1875–1956), Swedish Lutheran priest; one of the early pioneers of the Swedish High Church movement
- Lysander, military general of ancient Sparta
- Lysander Button ( 1810–1898), American inventor
- Lysander Farrar (1812–1876), New York politician
- Lysander Spooner (1808–1887), American political activist and legal theorist
Military
- HMS Lysander, several ships of the British Royal Navy
- Westland Lysander, British military aircraft of the 1930s and 1940s
Places
Literature
- Lysander I and IV, monarchs in the fictional CoDominium universe
- Lysander (Shakespeare), character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Etymology
From the Greek name Λυσανδρος (Lysandros) which meant "a release of a man" from Greek λυσις (lysis) "a release" and ανδρος (andros) "of a man".
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