McCandless

McCandless can refer to:

People

• Al McCandless (born 1927), U.S. Congressman
• Billy McCandless (1894-1955), former Northern Irish professional footballer
• Christopher McCandless (1968-1992), American hiker who died in Alaska; subject of the non-fiction book Into the Wild
• Bruce McCandless (1911-1968), a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy and Medal of Honor recipient
• Bruce McCandless II (born 1937), astronaut who made the first untethered spacewalk
• Byron McCandless (1881-1967), a vexillologist and commodore in the U.S. Navy
• Lincoln Loy McCandless (1859–1940), American cattle rancher, industrialist and politician from Hawaii
• Paul McCandless (born 1947), American jazz woodwind player and composer
• Stanley McCandless, widely considered to be the first theatrical lighting educator
• William McCandless (1834-1884), Union Army officer in the American Civil War and later member of the Pennsylvania State Senate

Places

• McCandless, Pennsylvania, USA, a township of 29,000
• McCandless Archeological Site, near Elkton, Maryland, USA

Other uses

• The McCandless Method for stage lighting, authored by Stanley McCandless
• USS McCandless (FF-1084), a U.S. Navy frigate named for Byron and Bruce McCandless

See also

• McCanless or McCanles Gang, a possibly fictional outlaw gang in the American West of the early 1860s
• McCandles, protagonist family in the film Big Jake

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