Cheney
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Cheney may refer to:
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[edit] People
- Ben Cheney, lumber businessman
- Benjamin Pierce Cheney, American businessman
- Chris Cheney, guitarist and lead singer of Australian rock band The Living End
- Dick Cheney, American politician and businessman, 46th Vice President of the United States
- Dorothy Cheney, tennis player
- Edwin Cheney, commissioned the Frank Lloyd Wright Cheney House
- Elizabeth Cheney, Dick Cheney's daughter
- Emily Cheney Neville, author and Newbury Medal winner
- Eric Cheney, an independent British motorcycle designer and manufacturer
- Lynne Cheney, Dick Cheney's wife
- Mary Cheney, Dick Cheney's daughter
- Mary Cheney Greeley, wife of Horace Greeley
- Oren B. Cheney, abolitionist, founder of Bates College
- Person C. Cheney, United States Senator, Governor of New Hampshire
- Thomas Cheney, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
- Tom Cheney (cartoonist), an award-winning cartoonist who writes for The New Yorker and MAD Magazine
- Tom Cheney (baseball player), a former Major League Baseball pitcher
- Wallace H. Cheney, former Assistant Director and General Counsel of the Beaureu of Prisons
[edit] Places
Cheney is also the name of two cities in the United States (the names of both are pronounced ['tʃi:ni]):
In France:
- Cheney, Yonne
[edit] Others
Cheney is often used to describe styles of garbage collection in computer science that are based upon
Cheney has homophones, including:
- Chanay, a commune in France
- Lon Chaney, a name shared by two motion picture performers
[edit] See
- James Earl Chaney, born, Meridian, Mississippi; murdered with Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, near Philadelphia, Mississippi, 1964
- James M. Chaney, Dallas Police Officer, 1963
- Janney (disambiguation)