Lovelace
Lovelace is a surname. Notable people named Lovelace are:Surname
- Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace, English noblewoman, daughter of Lord Byron, computer pioneer
- Alan M. Lovelace, former deputy administrator of NASA
- Claud Lovelace, theoretical physicist and a founder of string theory
- Creighton Lovelace, American pastor
- Earl Lovelace, Trinidadian writer
- Eldridge Lovelace, American city planner and author
- Francis Lovelace, second governor of New York Colony
- James J. Lovelace, American general
- Linda Lovelace, pornographic film star and later spokesperson for an anti-pornography movement
- Maud Hart Lovelace, American writer
- Richard Lovelace, English poet and gentleman
- Tom Lovelace, American baseball player
- William Randolph Lovelace II, American physician
Peerage
There have been two Lovelace peerages. First were the Barons Lovelace:
- Richard Lovelace, 1st Baron Lovelace
- John Lovelace, 2nd Baron Lovelace
- John Lovelace, 3rd Baron Lovelace
- John Lovelace, 4th Baron Lovelace
- John Lovelace, 5th Baron Lovelace
- Nevill Lovelace, 6th Baron Lovelace
after which the title was extinct
Later the title was reused as an Earldom:
- William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace
- Ralph Gordon Noel King, 2nd Earl of Lovelace
- Major Lionel Fortescue King, 3rd Earl of Lovelace
- Peter Malcolm King, 4th Earl of Lovelace
- Peter Axel William Locke King, 5th Earl of Lovelace
The title is now extinct.Given name
- Lovelace Watkins, American singer
- Sandra Lovelace Nicholas, Canadian senator and aboriginal rights activist
Fictional characters
- Lovelace, a character in the canon world of My Little Pony
- Lovelace, a character in the film Happy Feet
- Lovelace, a character in the novel Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
- Simon Lovelace, a character in the Bartimaeus book series by Jonathan Stroud
- The Lovelace Cartel, a drug cartel featured in the Black Lagoon manga series
- Doctor Loveless, a midget villain/antagonist character on the 1960s TV show Wild Wild West
Other uses
- Lovelace, a biopic about Linda Lovelace
- Baron Lovelace
- Earl of Lovelace
- The Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, a non-profit biomedical research organization
- , about the life of Linda Lovelace
- The Lovelace Medal, named for Ada Lovelace
- Lovelace, a crater on the far side of the Moon
