Crane

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Crane or cranes may be:

• Crane (bird), a large, long-necked bird
• Crane (machine), industrial machinery for lifting
• Crane (railroad), crane suited to use on railroads

Contents 1 People 1.1 Surname 1.2 Fictional characters 2 Places 3 Businesses 4 Martial arts 5 Military 6 Music 7 Other uses

[edit] People

[edit] Surname

See Crane (surname)

[edit] Fictional characters

• Alistair Crane, character on the soap opera Passions
• Denny Crane, lawyer on Boston Legal
• Fancy Crane, character on the soap opera Passions
• Fox Crane, character on the soap opera Passions
• Frasier Crane, title character of the sitcom Frasier
• the Graceful Crane, Japanese super-ninja in Bon Comics' "Duck-Girl & Crane" animation
• Ichabod Crane, protagonist in Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• Jonathan Crane, a.k.a Scarecrow (comics), a comic book villain in the Batman series by DC Comics
• Julian Crane, character on the soap opera Passions
• Martin Crane, character on the sitcom Frasier
• Niles Crane, character on the sitcom Frasier
• Pretty Crane, character on the soap opera Passions
• Sheridan Crane, character on the soap opera Passions
• Gareth Crane, 6th Beatle

[edit] Places

United States

• Crane, Indiana
• Crane, Missouri
• Crane, Oregon
• Crane, Texas
• Crane Beach, in Ipswich, Massachusetts
• Crane Island (Washington), one of the San Juan Islands

United Kingdom

• Crane, Hillingdon

[edit] Businesses

• Crane Co., an American industrial products company
• Crane Plumbing, a brand of plumbing fixtures made by American Standard Brands
• Crane & Co., supplier of paper for US banknotes

[edit] Martial arts

• Fujian White Crane, one of five animal-inspired constituent martial arts of the "Five Ancestors Fist" style
• Lama (martial art), which contains the practice of "Tibetan White Crane"
• Persatuan Gerak Badan, an Indonesian martial art whose symbol is a white crane (bird)

[edit] Military

• Cessna Crane, a British name for the United States built Cessna AT-17 Bobcat training aircraft
• USS Crane (DD-109), Wickes class destroyer, named after William M. Crane

[edit] Music

• Cranes (band), British dream rock band
• Dallas Crane, alternative rock band from Melbourne, Australia
• Crane School of Music, in Potsdam, New York

[edit] Other uses

• Crane Clan of samurai in the Legend of the Five Rings games
• Crane fly, a family of insects
• Crane shot, in motion pictures, a shot taken with a camera mounted on a crane
• "Crane", in the philosophy of Daniel Dennett, a material process which dispenses with the need for extrinsic explanations or 'skyhooks' (see Darwin's Dangerous Idea)
• Crane (TV series), British adventure show from 1963-1965