Sloane

Sloane

Sloane may refer to:

a surname:
* Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753), Scottish collector and physician
** Sloane Square, a location in London, named after Hans Sloane:
*** Sloane Street, which terminates at Sloane Square
*** Sloane Square tube station, a London Underground station near Sloane Square
*** Sloane Rangers, a slang term for young, upper-middle-class West Londoners
** signature of the British Library for manuscripts acquired from Hans Sloane
* John Sloane (1779–1856), American politician
* Lindsay Sloane, American actress
*Rick Sloane, American film director
* Neil Sloane, Australian-U.S. mathematician
** Neil Sloane's On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, often referred to as "Sloane"
* James "Tod" Sloane (1874–1933), U.S. jockey
* Harvey I. Sloane, mayor of Louisville, Kentucky and Jefferson County Judge-Executive

a given name:
* Sloane Momsen

in popular culture:
* Lily Sloane, a character in "Star Trek"
* "Entertaining Mr Sloane", a play by Joe Orton
* Arvin Sloane, a character in the TV series "Alias"
* "Sloane" (film), a 1984 action movie starring Robert Resnik
* Sloane Peterson, Ferris Bueller's girlfriend in the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"

a place:
* Sloane, New South Wales

See also

* Sloan (disambiguation)
* Slone (disambiguation)


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