Haldane
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Haldane (Half Dane) is a surname:
- Lewis Haldane, Welsh footballer
Haldane is the surname of an aristocratic Scottish family which includes various scientists and churchmen:
- Category:Haldane family
- Archibald R B Haldane, social historian and author
- Charlotte Haldane, British feminist writer
- Daniel Rutherford Haldane, Scottish physician
- Elizabeth Haldane, first female Justice of the Peace in Scotland
- Graeme Haldane, Scottish engineer
- James Alexander Haldane, Scottish independent church leader
- James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane, British soldier
- J. B. S. Haldane, British geneticist and evolutionary biologist, namesake of:
- Haldane's Dilemma, referring to the speed of evolution
- Haldane's Law, a statement about the universe
- Haldane's Rule, referring to interspecies mating
- John Scott Haldane, British physician, discoverer of:
- the Haldane Effect in hemoglobin
- Naomi Margaret Haldane (also Naomi Mitchison), Scottish writer
- Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, Lord Chancellor and 'Father of the Territorial Army'
- Robert Haldane, Scottish churchman
- Thomas Graeme Nelson Haldane, full name of Graeme Haldane
- William Stowell Haldane (also William Haldane), Crown Agent for Scotland
Haldane is the surname of a fictional family in the Deryni novels of Katherine Kurtz:
- Haldane (fictional)
- Aidan Haldane (Daniel Draper)
- Alroy Haldane (Royston Draper)
- Conall Haldane of Gwynedd
- Nigel Haldane of Gwynedd
There are (at least) two Haldane craters:
- Haldane (lunar crater)
- Haldane (crater on Mars)