Lysander (disambiguation)

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Lysander may refer to:

People
  • Albert Lysander (1875–1956), Swedish Lutheran priest; one of the early pioneers of the Swedish High Church movement
  • Lysander, military general of ancient Sparta
  • Lysander (Shakespeare), character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Lysander Button ( 1810–1898), American inventor
  • Lysander Farrar (1812–1876), New York politician
  • Lysander Spooner (1808–1887), American political activist and legal theorist
Military
Places
Literature
  • Lysander I and IV, monarchs in the fictional CoDominium universe
Etymology

From the Greek name Λυσανδρος (Lysandros) which meant "a release of a man" from Greek λυσις (lysis) "a release" and ανδρος (andros) "of a man".

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